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by adgar 15y ago
Paypal integrates with existing (non-Paypal-run) bank accounts, debit cards, credit cards, and more, and they have to work within the requirements of the integrated financial products, and those products all have fraud-related rules/claus
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by adgar 15y ago
You appear to be arguing that one anecdotal query "says nothing" but one anecdotal user experience says something. What is it about your anecdote that makes it meaningful in a discussion about services with hundreds of millions of users?
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by adgar 15y ago
I mean... depending on big the frames are... maybe the state of the art being advanced is designing really, really skinny and long high-end ARM chips down the arms. Only about 20% serious.
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by adgar 15y ago
> One other thing relating to the title: She asserts that the movie itself is illegal (and thus not copyrightable) due to the company engaging in “solicitation, conspiracy to commit prostitution, pimping and/or pandering,” during its pr
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by adgar 15y ago
> Git is used as a local cache for perforce where a branch roughly corresponds to a CL. Only subtrees of interest are checked out. That's a common use for git at Google, but not the only one (I'm a SWE). When I do use perforce I've got
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by adgar 15y ago
So you're saying that the FBI should be allowed to arrest a business's operators and seize equipment that they believe are violating the law... but leave the business (which they believe is illegal) to keep running somehow? The FBI will att
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by adgar 15y ago
> Also, don't underestimate how large log files can grow in a data-driven business (like AirBNB seems to be). I could easily believe that they have many terabytes of data just from logging actions their customers have taken. Logs don't
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by adgar 15y ago
Basic start to a rigorous solution: Input: A, B : integers Output: directed graph G(V, E, w) (V = vertices, E = edges, w = weight fn) V = {c1, c2, c3} E = {(c1, c2), (c2, c3), (c3, c1)} w(c1, c2) = A w(c2, c3) = B w(c3, c1) = 0 shortest tou
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by adgar 15y ago
To explain it even easier: every integer addition problem can be transformed into a TSP problem, but not vice-versa.
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by adgar 15y ago
> A lot of their pages are loading 1,000+ nested replies. Reddit only shows 200 comments by default. It also used to be you needed Reddit gold to even show 1,000 on the page when it first loads, not sure if you still do (my gold expired
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by adgar 15y ago
> A lot of their pages are loading 1,000+ nested replies. Reddit only shows 200 comments by default. It also used to be you needed Reddit gold to even show 1,000 on the page when it first loads.
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by adgar 15y ago
> As a bonus, some of them let you make it * paralleled* with the same syntax. JavaScript is single-threaded, so parallelism within a single JS VM is not possible.
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by adgar 15y ago
Thanks for posting this - I was having enough nostalgia for Sim Tower that I started looking around for this Tiny Tower. Unfortunately there's almost no information from the developer other than the iTunes download page, so I put it off. No
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by adgar 15y ago
> A fair argument may be made for compelling you to provide the key/combination to a safe, but only insofar as they CAN tear the safe apart with blowtorches & diamond saws if you don't cooperate. Interesting argument. Suppose I buil
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by adgar 15y ago
> The length of the new privacy policy still seems to counter the assertion that this is something people will find easy to read. What about relative to all the documents being replaced?
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by adgar 15y ago
That's because eyeballs are what matter, not accuracy or responsible journalism. TV journalism's decline in America took decades before we got to the current trash; the exact same process happened to journalist blogs over a couple years in
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by adgar 15y ago
> Do you remember in the beginning, when this case was new, and a self-described "expert" in the media was pushing the idea that Oracle would win billions and billions in damages? cough Florian Mueller cough
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by adgar 15y ago
> Yes. The latter motivation is not at all timely. I don't see any reason for Google to be more concerned about it than they have been for the last five years. So you're under the assumption that Google implemented every quality-related
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by adgar 15y ago
> But that's the most relevant motivation I can think of for this change. Really? You think "a sneaky way to penalize pirate sites" is a more relevant motivation than "help users find information more easily by trying to filter out site
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by adgar 15y ago
> My claim is that as long as recycling is a net gain, after you count all the costs, it doesn't matter what percentage of the total waste stream it is. Then you are ignoring the very existence of opportunity cost.
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by adgar 15y ago
> Of course you can promise types to the JS engine. Because a variable can always change types, it's actually trivially proven that in a dynamically-typed language, there will always be programs in which the type cannot be inferred.
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by adgar 15y ago
I'm saying somebody who blithely asserts that Google is just "about how I can get people to click more ads or make more money for some trendy corporation" is a troll and not a comment worth responding to.
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by adgar 15y ago
> Aggregating that info upwards whenever a file is created or renamed (let alone deleted) cannot come for free, can it? Not free, but it's not asymptotically significant.
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by adgar 15y ago
Hi, I just started at Google ~4 months ago in NYC. > Python: deprecated in production. I have no idea where this idea came from. > the legacy projects (what you'll be tasked on in your first 18 months) are in it. This is not an accu
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by adgar 15y ago
Don't feed the trolls.
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by adgar 15y ago
I think it's just a matter of numbers. HN links have, on average, always had relatively few comments, so growth is more obvious, even if there were no other difference but numbers. The comment counts number in the dozens to the low hundreds
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by adgar 15y ago
When I read that paragraph as a layman, I read two points: 1. A US entity does not have to redesign anything to slow or prevent infringing search results/credit card payments/etc in order to avoid liability 2. No particular type of te
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by adgar 15y ago
> But how many companies do you see really focusing on their image and consumer experience? Not many, because it's hard and risky and - drum roll - difficult to replicate! Which brings us back to why I feel a direct comparison between D
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by adgar 15y ago
Keep in mind that they use S3, so they pay for what they use, not what they have committed to their free users. But if they were, then for 50 million free users: 2gb * 50,000,000 = 100PB. That would qualify them for S3's over 5PB pricing of
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by adgar 15y ago
> Have you ever paid Google a dollar? Are you suggesting that Dropbox is going to hit multi-billions through advertising? To successfully complete your analogy, you need to fill in the gap between "hosting files for free for most of the

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