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by apathy 18y ago
Wow, it's a good thing that Xobni couldn't integrate with GMail or Yahoo! Mail and play off the monstrous business interests against each other. Also, it's a good thing that the information they mine from the social structure of your contac
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by apathy 18y ago
RescueTime has the data to prove it-- someday we'll publish some interesting stats) I see what you did there ;-) Your business model makes a lot more sense now.
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by apathy 19y ago
holy fucking shit. The fridge rack we installed in the Herndon datacenter is there, large as life, in one of the slides, with the entire (circa 2003) hwops team's signatures on it. I have trouble believing that it was in fact the optimal
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by apathy 19y ago
In my area the most recent terribly-interesting paper was by the deCode people re: genetics of gene expression and inferring network 'modules' from patterns of activity. There are more theoretically-interesting methods to deduce such graph
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by apathy 19y ago
Both. I prefer the former; the latter pays better at the moment, I'm sorry to say. That may just be a reflection of the fact that I'm not yet where I'd like to be WRT the former.
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by apathy 19y ago
Bugzilla must be better as it generally works. Mantis is supposedly good. I can't even explain to you how hard these two suck. If you think Trac is a PITA, try either of the above. I have. There's a reason Trac was written. Follow the
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by apathy 19y ago
Interesting about the 10KRPM 2.5" SCSI drives. How bad is the power consumption for equivalent SATA configurations? AdWords used pretty much the same rig for MySQL servers (RAID 10) although the drives were all 15K 3.5" SCSI drives.
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by apathy 19y ago
Beat me to it. Although I discovered recently that someone had written a Trac backend plugin for Git, which rules. Trac kicks the living shit out of every other issue tracker I have ever seen. You should look into Trac and/or Trac integra
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by apathy 19y ago
I liked both of the lists. As usual, both of the articles could be elided and the lists would do the trick (of communicating 99.9% of the information present) I'm tempted to hand Cringely's list (with "find yer best nerd" precaution prepen
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by apathy 19y ago
Having had to deal with shit like this before, I can aver that blackholing the offenders is the highest-performance option. In other words, you did right . Look into mod_dosevasive if you want to automate this sort of thing (and recheckin
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by apathy 19y ago
In all honesty, if you have ever wondered what to do about the cycles and storage that went unused or underused in your datacenters (and the effect of said on operating profit and loss), I have to wonder who wouldn't have come up with it ev
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by apathy 19y ago
is anyone on here hacking on cuda right now? I am not working on cuda (though I intend to now that I see what it can do), but have experience with LAM, MPI, etc. i don't know anyone who has a clue about working in a massively parallel en
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by apathy 19y ago
But since they went public, they do have a responsibility to justify on the basis of profit-and-loss. Sort of. Have you looked at the manner in which GOOG's shares are structured? Their responsibility is actually much greater to interna
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by apathy 19y ago
It’s too bad they couldn’t get Buchheit to take it with him when he left to found FriendFeed. Arrington is either a brilliant troll or an incredible asshole. Mayer was effectively pointing out that moral relativity gives even SEO spammer
555.
by apathy 19y ago
Does the funding rate go up a whole lot if you hire someone to rewrite your proposal? Depends on their name, the journals and review boards they sit on, and their current interests vice yours. The clever thing to do if you have good juic
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by apathy 19y ago
Marc <3 I, but here's an even more obvious reason: it looks like MSFT wants to use YHOO's infrastructure to launch its own cloud computing platform (that doesn't suck). That means more competition for AWS and GAE, and that would be a
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by apathy 19y ago
Oh look, an Xoogler who got burned out by working on ads when it seemed like everyone else was working on cool stuff. Who'dve thunk it? I'm not going to judge his choice of startup. I applaud this guy's resolution to do what makes him happ
558.
by apathy 19y ago
You're not old enough , it appears. I thought everyone knew how to use a template hacker and phreak all their LD calls back then :-)
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by apathy 19y ago
Furthermore, most cutting-edge research is expensive; you need the apprenticeship before anyone will take you seriously enough to give you the money needed to do interesting work. This is a key observation. One of my advisors put it thus
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by apathy 19y ago
I think the idea was that Google should provide everyone with 250K servers, dark fiber, and a pony, for free, forever; when it turned out there were some restrictions, all the jilted idealists immediately went ballistic.
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by apathy 19y ago
only 15 years ago. we're old. you know that, right? anyone who remembers Mosaic, Fetch, the WELL... we're all old. You just put a finer point on it (above), that's all...
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by apathy 19y ago
Good god, I'm dumber for having read that. (Why is the cover the same shape as the hole? Because otherwise it's a pretty shitty cover (i.e. gaps are bad)) It's astounding to me that people still care about these artifacts of another era wh
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by apathy 19y ago
This is cute, RPy is " the simplest thing that can possibly work " (and it does!), and most of all, it's awesome to see an R story high on the front page of YC.news. But I would encourage readers (of this article and of YC news) to try play
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by apathy 19y ago
This is just magical thinking. Not really -- this is "it's less effort for them to deploy everything on their existing, robust tools" thinking. I personally don't second-guess it, because once a tool proves itself worthy at the GOOG, it
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by apathy 19y ago
Done. With some edits to avoid the wrath of Lander, just in case. At least ESL isn't a vindictive bible thumper like some people in the field . Ahem. Anyways, I wanted to say 2 things about your site. 1) the registration is painless and
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by apathy 19y ago
The second is an idiot who doesn't know how to negotiate or use Google (to search for the thousands of citations to the precedent). Don't hire the guy. News flash: big companies will try to screw you, even when it's against the law. If yo
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by apathy 19y ago
Nice job. I particularly like that the Church lab's Personal Genome project is currently topping the charts. They spurred (re)sequencing-by-synthesis with their own padlock sequencing method; if Lander hadn't got a wild hair up his ass to
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by apathy 19y ago
* I dont imagine the more complex functionality google will introduce will align with the current standards either* Probably not, but again, you don't necessarily have to use the bits that lock you in :-) Nothing new under the sun here...
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by apathy 19y ago
Perhaps you'd enjoy this following article, then: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/experimenting-google-app-engin... ;-)
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by apathy 19y ago
cool, you wrote Visitors? thanks for saving me a lot of work! I used it from 2004-2005 for clicktrails... great idea and implementation. Graphviz makes everything better (corollary: anything that needs Graphviz is interesting enough to ge

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