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Context is important here. Bruno was saying that Google are the gatekeepers of V8 and that if they didn't plan to support server side use of V8 that it'd be hard to contribute to the official codebase. Jason said that not only did Joyent ha
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There are a few interesting discussion points being thrown back and forth between the Yahoo developer Bruno and Joyent founder Jason. The most interesting question raised in my opinion is Bruno essentially saying that thread-per-request blo
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I always wondered why an Nginx module that was about generating a circle had such prominence on the Nginx website and now I can say I understand =] Although this was premature optimization I still find it a beautiful hack. The author was st
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This is a pretty fun example of how to run a PR story when the product is hard to sell =] Samsung memory cards are just one of many products that can't necessarily push PR pieces by the product itself. Trying to get coverage for a new manuf
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Whilst I don't quite agree with the message of the page (primarily as "Don't Make Me Steal" seems somewhat more apt for people in an actual desperate situation) I do appreciate the site. The major advantage to a site like this is to be able
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I won't comment too much on Wikileaks in particular, there's enough discussion on next to every other part of the internet. As an Australian however I will note how appalling the federal support from Australia has been. Our Prime Minister J
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Every single student at my university would cheer for joy upon hearing this news. Blackboard is as stunted a piece of development as they come and additionally is an incredibly expensive piece of software, especially considering the quality
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Fuck you money indeed, but I think it means more than just indulging. Giving the YC companies $150k means they're likely on better terms for the first investment round. It moves the discussion from "we need money to survive and grow" to "we
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I'd love to see the effect that these ads have on the users of Gmail, both from Google's statistical end and also from a customer sentiment angle. Gmail has touted the clean and simple feel as one of their main features for so long that use
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The same tactic was used by Google for Google App Engine - "if it doesn't scale then we're not including it as a feature". This is why so much of Google App Engine's documentation focuses on scaling [1]. Depending on who you ask this is gen
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Your confusion is the exact problem my friend had. After some nudging the interviewer rephrased it to be a linked list of finite but unknown length. The issue was more that when my friend didn't get it within about a minute the interviewer
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I applied for a summer internship with Google between 2009-2010 (remember: Australian summer!). I ended up making it through but even for an intern there were four rounds of phone interviews. To be honest I actually enjoyed those interviews
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I was spoiled as my internship January last year with Google was my first introduction to the world of corporate IT. Google as a culture really encourages engineers to follow best practices - "Testing on the Toilet"[1] was always a highligh
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I must say I have a great deal of respect for Armin and thought he represents a good viewpoint. The convergence of some of Python's web frameworks is great and the fact that WSGI has become such a central specification is great. In relation
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This is hugely exciting news. I previously used Google's Web1T corpus in NLP experiments and the restrictive license limited a number of potential uses. This new corpus has a temporal aspect (as it keeps the track of a word's usage over a g
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Just as we have compilers for programming languages the same now applies to databases queries and database abstractions, for better or worse. Hopefully SQLAlchemy's speed trend will continue and merely by upgrading to the next version your
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He may be complaining about all the overhead that goes with teaching rather than the teaching itself. I'm tutoring this semester for a Data Structures course and a painfully large portion of the time is spent dealing with things that real
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Thanks! This opens up a number of really interesting possibilities when mixed with people's expertise in search and machine learning / natural language processing. A long time ago I got hold of a large chunk of Slashdot's stories and commen
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I personally think that Python fills the goal of instant validation quite well for children. There's an interactive interpreter and very little setup for your first program (as opposed to Java's public static void main(String[] args) before
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This turns out to be incredibly true for when I'm tutoring subjects at university. As a tutor you're of course worried a student will stump you with a question from left field but the thing that worries me the most is either telling them th
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It's probably too late to do it this semester but certainly consider it for next year! The fact you're reading Hacker News automatically places you in the top 5 to 10 places in the course and in fact this year the class didn't get more than
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I meant that I hope by the time that I graduate that the general startup atmosphere around Sydney and/or Australia has improved. One of the most common sentiments from the founders I've had the chance to talk to was that they said Australia
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I'm incredibly excited about this as a uni student in Sydney. I'm hopeful that by the time I graduate that the concept of the Silicon Beach will take off. The University of Sydney have recently introduced a course focusing on Tech Venture C
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I'm a student at the University of Sydney focused primarily on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. My largest regret is not doing more math and that's something I plan on fixing after Honours (either in PhD or in my spare time
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Just a bit of background, TVC is a tech venture creation course at the University of Sydney, where we have notable guest speakers (such as the founders of Atlassian[1] and Omnisio[2]) coming in to share their experiences with us. We'd like
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I'm interested how this came about. They usually either try to match people who know common languages or they do more generic problems which don't depend on language. One important thing is if you said you knew C well (or even only "working
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The most important detail noted is training over more data gets higher results than using a better algorithm. One of the recent pushes in the field of machine learning and natural language processing has been trying to bootstrap larger tra
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I'm glad to hear they're continuing to do so well. Atlassian is one of the great Australian IT success stories - I really hope the government and people see them as a shining example of IT in Australia and why the industry should be further
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Another notable startup coming from Sydney is Atlassian [1]. I live near the University of Sydney (currently an undergraduate student there) and they're quite a good force in the IT industry down here as the founders do a number of speaking

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