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by angusgr 16y ago
It has nothing to do with coding, software, or any other facets of tech startups I'd be quite interested if it turns out you had a hand in making the product yourself, as opposed to just branding someone else's product. Did you? My notes:
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How Facebook uses data to design(lukew.com)
1 points by angusgr 16y ago|0 comments
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Ignoring tsunami records: hubris, complacency, or just human nature?(throughthesandglass.typepad.com)
2 points by angusgr 16y ago|0 comments
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by angusgr 16y ago
FWIW, Josef Oehman has posted some explanation on the original blog post: http://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-wo... I think the primary problems here are insufficient concrete information, and also masses of confirma
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'm glad. Somewhere on my mental "code I'd like to read list" is the busybox code, because I don't understand how it does so much with so little. If it does it and looks good, I'm doubly impressed. :)
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by angusgr 16y ago
Are you trying to make a point apart from refute-by-vague-association? What does a cherry-picked list of headlines have to do with the content of the linked article?
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by angusgr 16y ago
This is a nicely written tribute, but there are two generalisations that I feel are worth pointing out. Many parts of Linux kernel are really, really nice C code. Sadly, in my experience most C code is not especially nice. I don't know how
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by angusgr 16y ago
If you respond in the way given under "what to do instead", doesn't the troll fail to get the rise?
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by angusgr 16y ago
Also, that there's no transmission of the results page. There's a URL with a search query in it, and any URLs that the user clicks on from that page. So any copyright would have to apply to the string showing in the user's browser address b
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by angusgr 16y ago
The problem with using an analogy to prove a point is that the analogy is nearly always a poor fit for the actual situation. In this case, I think a better (still flawed) analogy would be where "TeacherSoft" records only everything the stud
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by angusgr 16y ago
Finally, I'm sorry I forgot to give you credit. Ah, that's no problem. If you'd copied it to your domain and linked it there I might have minded, but if you're posting a link to my site I consider that plenty of credit.
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by angusgr 16y ago
I think the problem wasn't so much the hypothesis, but the spin on the conclusions.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Good points. I'm the one who took the packet capture you've linked, and I'd be really interested to see what happens if someone runs the test you describe. That said, I'd say that the fact that they weight Google highly enough that they'd
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by angusgr 16y ago
I hope the day eventually comes when "The X is a killer for me. I think I'll hold out for Y" is not the prevailing pattern of existing vs. future Android devices.
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by angusgr 16y ago
A similar throwaway email forwarding service I've been using for a while is spamgourmet: http://spamgourmet.com/ Spamgourmet has two advatanges I can see: one is that it's dead easy to create aliases, the other is that it's small enough t
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by angusgr 16y ago
search behvior of toolbar users (presumably ALL search engines) The situation is even less compelling than this. There's no evidence to suggest it's not the complete navigation behaviour of toolbar users, not just when they're on search e
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'd suggest that they're indirectly relevant, because they all address the question of what constitutes fair indexing and what constitutes "copying" or theft of innovative/valuable information. The evidence suggests Bing is scraping clickst
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by angusgr 16y ago
That's not how the AFP felt about Google News when it launched: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_News#News_agencies or how some publishers felt about Google Books when it launched: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books#Copyright_i
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by angusgr 16y ago
Set up some other dynamic sites (not indexed or linked anywhere) with random nonsense words in their URL strings, and a single link to some unrelated site. Click the link. Repeat, wait two weeks. Same as what google did, just not on google.
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by angusgr 16y ago
The part that seems interesting to me is that Google scrapes other entities' data (Reader, News, Books, Scholar) in dozens of other ways, and that behaviour is generally regarded as totally justifiable.
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by angusgr 16y ago
The difference is that Google has proven that the results of certain queries are being directly fed as Bing results. If Microsoft does the same with Google rankings, I'd see your point, but right now the evidence only points in one directi
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'd start with the fact that they both have the keywords of the search string in the page title and in the URL string. Look, I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying that two different algorithms can yield the same results without on
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by angusgr 16y ago
How is that telling, exactly? The top 4 results (including one which has the domain name of the query) are the same but in a different order. The rest of the results appear totally different. Even if one random query you ran returned an ide
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by angusgr 16y ago
I agree with you. Particularly, why not just stop using those clicks and reduce the negative coverage and perception of this seems like a very biased suggestion. All of the negative perception seems to come from Google deliberately insert
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by angusgr 16y ago
Matt's assertion about "Suggested Sites" sending this data seems to be conjecture. I ran some packet captures and didn't find anything of that kind. However, if you install the Bing Toolbar then it does send URL clickstream data. It explici
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by angusgr 16y ago
Thanks. There are honestly some much more important things going on in the world right now, so that doesn't bother me too much. It did bother me a lot that people were happy to "put the boot" in on Microsoft based on pretty slim evidence, a
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Bing & Google - Finding some facts(projectgus.com)
2 points by angusgr 16y ago|2 comments
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Al Jazeera in Egypt is cable’s ‘Sputnik moment’(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
3 points by angusgr 16y ago|1 comments
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by angusgr 16y ago
A lot of anxiety that I had apparently suppressed over the years came to a head, which was anything but pleasant I obviously don't know you or your situation, but is it possibly a good thing that these suppressed things are coming out now
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by angusgr 16y ago
I get the impression that this is for when you've forgotten to set up something like screen beforehand.

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