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by adgar 15y ago
> In 30 years: "Indexing all of the individual web pages in the world used to be a tough challenge." Eh, that needs qualification to make sense. Just crawling and trivially tokenizing the web counts as "indexing all the individual web p
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by adgar 15y ago
> Is it that difficult to replicate what Apple does, provided that you have enough resources? I don't think so. But, still, companies fail to do so. Replicating Apple's brand/image is what's hard. That brand has taken years of focusing
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by adgar 15y ago
And what makes those companies so successful in those areas is that it is very difficult to replicate what they do. It is not as difficult to replicate what Dropbox does, as noted by what your parent poster said.
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by adgar 15y ago
> Technically, search is a feature too. Google seems to be doing alright. That's because they were able to monetize search enormously through ads. How precisely does Dropbox plan to monetize storage to the same extent? > If it's suc
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by adgar 15y ago
... I'd be embarrassed, but given the context in which I brought it up...
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by adgar 15y ago
> The right of free speech, as recognized by the First Amendment, precedes and predates the constitution. This is the exact interpretation of such rights that one arrives at under John Locke's view of the state of nature which he ar
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by adgar 15y ago
You say "No." so defiantly, but the reality for Java - which is what everybody else was talking about in this thread and the article - the answer is quite often "Yes."
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by adgar 15y ago
> the United States especially lags behind in teaching mathematics to its most advanced students. When I was in 8th grade at the best private day school I could find that would bus me (just under an hour away, but I lived in the sticks
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by adgar 15y ago
I'm not commenting one way or another on the overall story, but when I read (paraphrasing) "tried to upsell a domain name" I got very suspicious. Domain names are pretty near zero-margin... unless you're scamming uneducated and unconnected
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by adgar 15y ago
I hate to be that guy, but are you sure you don't have adblock on? I'm logged in, tried encrypted.google.com, and saw the expected ad results for all of those queries.
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by adgar 15y ago
> I've been speaking out about the Secure Boot brouhaha because there was effectively no evidence that they were actually attempting to lock anyone out No evidence, just history. Lots and lots of history.
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by adgar 15y ago
One of my absolute favorite iOS features in iOS5 before I switched to Android was the new "take a photo from the lock screen" button. I felt understood when they added that.
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by adgar 15y ago
> Yes, but it would be just as easy to write an "assembly compiler" that did the same optimizations on your program text. While there are ways to optimize machine code without extra debug information, no, what you've said is not true. I
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by adgar 15y ago
> But Android is not an open source project. Because Google does not open its development to external contributors, nor do they develop it in the open. They only do code drops. They don't take patches. Ignoring for a moment the fact tha
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by adgar 15y ago
There are some well-publicized LL parsers - C# for example - but I'm not convinced by "most production compilers and interpreters."
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by adgar 15y ago
> I'm thinking it may possibly respond immediately with cached results. Just because nobody explicitly said it - a 301 redirect is actually cacheable per §10.3.2 of RFC 2616. But google doesn't set a long cache duration - another one o
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by adgar 15y ago
> To be fair the slides never really makes any comparisons with Erlang instead just used an inflammatory title, so it is understandable if responses are a little hand-wavy. Totally true - the Erlang too-dumb-to-be-a-cheap-shot was unwar
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by adgar 15y ago
> So suddenly I need to worry about mutexs and two processes accessing the same data. Only if you're implementing higher-level concurrency primitives and want to maximize performance. Did you completely ignore the context in which mutex
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by adgar 15y ago
It's almost as if they think RTTs are free.
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by adgar 15y ago
The people who knew they were going to be CS majors before they got to college didn't have their spirits crushed. When I TA'd the haskell-based course, they comprised about 25-30% of the students in the class. The students who were trying o
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by adgar 15y ago
> The reason Haskell is viewed as hard is that it takes basically nothing from languages you already know. If you don't know any languages, it's actually a great starting point. At my undergrad program, Haskell was used for the second C
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by adgar 15y ago
> If you're just going to extract the values once, why not just write the code to actually do that instead of trying to play tricks with memcpy()? Because it's more expressive, doesn't cost performance, and is less error-prone than writ
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by adgar 15y ago
> Simple expressions like x.y++ could end up being much more expensive than expected. He's talking about pulling protocol packets off the wire - who increments values in a packet like that? Typically all you ever do is pull the relevant
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by adgar 15y ago
The AIM comment really stuck out to me as strange. AIM is fine, but hardly special relative to its many competitors. His link goes to a preview page for (I guess) a new version of AIM with fancy things like twitter integration, but I don'
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by adgar 15y ago
Current laws, maybe - I'm no lawyer, and won't pretend to know the answer. But I asked if people actually expect that it reasonably should stay that way. I see many people indignant about the idea of collecting sales tax for internet purc
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by adgar 15y ago
I got distracted typing my response so I ended up responding 22 minutes after you. Damn.
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by adgar 15y ago
> I seriously doubt all of them have the manpower or money to properly collect sales tax. Isn't this usually when someone pipes in and says "seems like a good opportunity for a startup"? It's a complex but well-defined domain - perfect
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by adgar 15y ago
Go runs on a single core if you use channels anyway unless you specify an environment variable (something like GO_MAX_PROCS). Not sure about threading libraries since I haven't really considered using them in Go. I'm actually curious what p
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by adgar 15y ago
Under that legal framework, how does Stephen King make money selling his book? I see an enormous race to the bottom in terms of prices, especially with ebooks. The official ebook comes out and within minutes it can and will be sold for less
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by adgar 15y ago
I assume you mean "COPPA-compliant account providers that allow children under 13". If so, scroll up in the thread - they all require either faxing, mailing, or credit card payments.

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