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by Wilya 14y ago
This article is rather low on substance, but it links to [0], which has been here before (can't find any discussion, though), and claimed exactly the opposite, namely that Facebook said you liked something you never liked. [0] http://readw
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by Wilya 14y ago
Did they have access to this, or did they have access to "show my ad to everyone who matches this query" ? I don't see why Facebook would allow advertisers to build databases of people when they can just force them to go through their own t
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by Wilya 14y ago
If you're trying to recruit Swombat when looking for a developer to build your idea, then yes, you probably won't be very successful. On the other hand, if you're bringing something to the table, and try to contact developers who are.. well
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by Wilya 14y ago
I don't refrain from doing that because someone told me that C is horrible and too low-level. I refrain from doing that because I have tried it in the past, and while it works perfectly fine, it is horribly slow to write . There isn't real
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by Wilya 14y ago
It's perfectly possible this "riddle" did its job perfectly well, by determining you weren't a good fit for them, and all it did cost them was a single email. I would have done it, because it seems fun. And solving it proves that you know h
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by Wilya 14y ago
Saying Office is irrelevant because bloggers don't need it is like saying Eclipse is irrelevant because painters don't need it. I'm more surprised by the fact that Microsoft would push for selling Office on iOS. Wouldn't they give up a sign
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by Wilya 14y ago
It failed in the same sense Myspace failed: didn't adapt, and something better/cooler/trendier came along. Facebook ate the market for teenagers instant messaging, and Gmail crushed hotmail. Besides, its popularity was, like everything else
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by Wilya 14y ago
Search on twitter in pretty useless, unless you are looking for something precise, like the hashtag for an event. It either returns very few things, lots of things in languages you don't know, or is spammed to death. You're probably better
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by Wilya 14y ago
If by "basic experience of programming", you mean 10+ years of experience or a Stanford/MIT/Berkeley degree, and by "western world" you mean Silicon Valley (and a few other very select areas, all of them within the US), yeah, I agree. Outsi
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by Wilya 14y ago
The comment was essentially a "Thanks everyone for the support, I will answer your emails" posted by (presumably) the OP with his real account. Nothing worth getting excited about censorship.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Tumblr has a JSON API [1] that is fairly usable, and provides access to the essential parts of blogs (and terms of use explicitly allow building data portability applications on it, which is a nice touch). It's not instant-export, and I get
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by Wilya 14y ago
The hypothetical analytics company in the article scares me, because I'm pretty convinced it will exist at some point. I mean, there are already quite a lot of people who try to do it, but at some point, someone will achieve non-garbage eno
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by Wilya 14y ago
The most obvious difference is that I know who are the users of these sites. Google+ might be popular in a geographic part of the world, or among a certain community I'm not part of, just like Baidu is in China, Rakuten is in Japan, Vkontak
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by Wilya 14y ago
It's beautiful. My browser struggles to scroll the wall of posters, but other than that, it could be very nice.
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by Wilya 14y ago
I'm leaving this comment from a computer that might crash on me sometime today. Or could decide to reboot to install its updates when I'm looking somewhere else. I'm leaving this comment on a site which technically could have existed 10 yea
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by Wilya 14y ago
From a purely educational perspective, going to the US doesn't make any sense. You can get the same thing in Europe for about 10 times cheaper. Of course, European universities don't have the marketing budget to compete, so it's not how thi
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by Wilya 14y ago
I find the conclusion dubious. The US compensates its bad education system by attracting external talent through other factors ? Yeah, I agree with that. But saying "we need not to be scared into trying to be like other countries" is a reci
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by Wilya 14y ago
The more mainstream news is, the easier it will reach you, whatever you do, whether you spend time looking for it or not. That's kind of obvious, in hindsight, that's why it's called mainstream. Consequently, watching and reading news is us
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by Wilya 14y ago
> This will eventually result in all those nice businesses shutting off their free wifi. I suspect it's too late to fix that. I've seen "Hadopi letters" in hotel lobbies and heard about people shutting down public wifis for this exact r
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by Wilya 14y ago
I don't see any way for him to give an answer to this that wouldn't cause hundreds of people to apply to the next YC with the exact same idea (or with the same idea with tiny meaningless variations). Not sure if that would benefit anyone.
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by Wilya 14y ago
The post seems rendered from markdown client-side. I fail to see how this even remotely makes sense, though.
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by Wilya 14y ago
From what I can guess, if you happen to be on a non-supported linux distribution (or any non-OSX OS with sh, really) and have clang installed, the script will go as far as running https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go which should fai
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by Wilya 14y ago
Because when writing client side js, you don't have a choice. On the server, you can do whatever you want, and you're free to choose something better.
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by Wilya 14y ago
That you can implement them isn't impressive. But most ML algorithms ("applying a pretrained neural network" being a notable exception to that) are compute-intensive, so in a language that doesn't have access to Lapack/Blas/etc, performance
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by Wilya 14y ago
Yeah, I thought about that just after writing it. I'm speaking of my all-time top playing artist, though. I think the numbers are still valid for most of the rest of my tracks. I'll have to look more in detail.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Looking at my lastfm stats, I have very few songs I listened to more than 99 times. My guess, if I try to estimate the tracks that are not counted, would be around 40 tracks making it to that level, with a distribution heavily skewed toward
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by Wilya 14y ago
Their conclusion is different from almost every report I've ever seen on Spotify. [0], for example, had some real world numbers and an interesting discussion. The example is probably heavily biased, but personally, when I see "iTunes/Bandca
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by Wilya 14y ago
> * Author has a small screen. Author has a big screen. His screenshot shows five results above the fold. I can barely see two on my 1280x800. The argument works both ways.
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by Wilya 14y ago
Depending on where you live, being the owner (or responsible, or whatever you may call it) of an IP used to pirate things can be enough to be condemned.
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by Wilya 14y ago
The fact that a government would want a Google-free tablet makes complete sense, yet a quick search tells me nothing about any other of this type of initiatives. Has any other country gone the same way, even without going as far as providin

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