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by alec 13y ago
It's likely a bad idea to use the Google cache of "jquery". It's likely a good tradeoff to use the Google cache of "jquery x.y.z" on the assumption that they won't change it. The Go convention is to the former.
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by alec 13y ago
v8 doesn't look abandoned to me: there have been 19 commits so far today to the public v8 repository. https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/list
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by alec 13y ago
I don't think it would be very useful to have RSS feeds in Google Now. I like Google Now because it tells me what I want to know right now , like that my flight is delayed or traffic is bad or here's how to get to that restaurant and you
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by alec 13y ago
At the time, 40-60% of Yahoo page views were done with an empty cache: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/04/performance-research-...
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by alec 14y ago
Google makes money by showing ads to people who want to buy things. If everyone goes to eBay and Amazon instead of Google to buy things, no one will buy ads from Google. If Google can provide a compelling alternative to eBay and Amazon, the
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by alec 14y ago
Evernote has taken hundreds of millions in funding over the course of five years. How they going to justify that investment with some portion of their 11 million users paying $45/year? Are they going to sell? If they sell, will the servi
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by alec 14y ago
I like "Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs)" for drowning out everything else: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPoqNeR3_UA
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by alec 14y ago
What about Go makes it easy to manage and refactor large codebases? I don't do much Java, but whenever I've watched someone use Eclipse for refactoring, I question why I'm still using vim, because it is just magic and does everything for y
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by alec 14y ago
I regularly use the SSH client. I wouldn't call it wonderful; it works, but that's about it. Highlight a wrapped line? GNOME Terminal will Do The Right Thing, Chrome's SSH client won't and gives you a newline. See a URL? GNOME Terminal
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by alec 14y ago
My bank knows about most of my purchases, but it is still considered private data. My health care provider knows about my medical history, but it is still considered private data. Why should a cell phone provider be any different?
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by alec 14y ago
I expect that the utility of this drops as more people use it - if a bunch of people get a notification about a cheap flight, and there are only two seats at that price, most people are going to be unhappy.
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by alec 14y ago
Completely off-topic to optimizing Go, but you may want to look at smem - it does what you implemented (including looking through a subset of processes) but includes a few more useful measures of memory usage that help in the presence of mu
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Profiling CSS for fun and profit: optimization notes(perfectionkills.com)
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by alec 14y ago
Both Hipmunk and Google Flight Search help you sort out bad flights in ways that other websites don't - Hipmunk calls this "agony". To see this in Google Flight Search, scroll down to the bottom of a results list, you'll see something like
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by alec 14y ago
If you do mileage runs, you probably know about matrix.itasoftware.com, but in case you don't - visit http://matrix.itasoftware.com/?showPricePerMile=true and then do your search to see and sort by price per mile.
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by alec 14y ago
When I'm mobile, I like to read with ihackernews.com because it has a button that uses viewtext.org to just show me the text of the article.
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by alec 14y ago
It does that now - click on the button that says 'round trip' and choose 'multi city'.
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by alec 14y ago
I have a Galaxy Nexus, last year's version of the Nexus 4. One thing I value about it is the Google/non-carrier-controlled experience, which I expect is similar to what you've had with an iPhone. There's not vendor crap on it and it gets
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by alec 14y ago
LevelDB is a sorted string table; cdb is a hash table. Without knowing anything more about the implementation, I expect that arbitrary lookups are slower in LevelDB than cdb.
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by alec 14y ago
If you're searching in the US, give Google Flight Search a try - it has a data/price graph that will let you filter by departure/arrival time, and it's instant.
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by alec 15y ago
Google Flight Search has a calendar view: it's hidden behind the button directly to the right of the return date and lets you play with different departure date and trip lengths.
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by alec 15y ago
I work at Google on flight search and was at ITA before that. We indeed continue to use Common Lisp. QPX, the flight search engine, uses SBCL.
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by alec 15y ago
gcc's error messages, especially for C++ templates, got much better in 4.5. They don't have pretty colors, but I didn't find a substantial benefit from clang 2.9's vs gcc 4.5's for C++ development when using both for a week. Note that if y
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by alec 15y ago
Check the first comment in the article - I can't believe that is actually good and idiomatic. The author uses the indexes, but the range command also supports returning the values. To be fair, I have a lot of difficulty figuring out what's
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by alec 15y ago
It says in the second paragraph he's an elected official.
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by alec 15y ago
Last I checked a few months ago, if you want to use a distribution's version of Go, you must install all later libraries as root - there's no place for "my local libraries".
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by alec 15y ago
If you leave the destination open and limit by price, you can answer questions like "Where can I go for $500"?
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by alec 15y ago
Trip length duration is currently limited to 14 days.
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by alec 15y ago
To see how the map is useful, put in an origin and then play with the price limit.
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by alec 15y ago
I tried a ~22" screen vertical for a while, primarily for coding, for exactly the same arguments you made. I switched back because I found I was still only using about as much of the screen as I was when it was vertical - I'm much better a

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