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by axod 16y ago
I wasn't saying that you can't use different algorithms based on inputs/data/circumstances. The issue I have is articles like this always try to make things stupidly configurable and general - like "I want to be able to hot swap this algori
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by axod 16y ago
Perhaps the difference then, was that I read through the article thinking "WTF would you do that" and "eugh that code looks rubbish". I'm guessing some other people were thinking "Oh how true! Java is such a bad language" which I think is a
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by axod 16y ago
Only if you don't know what you're doing and need to write several algorithms that you can try out at runtime :/ It's an absurd use case IMHO
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by axod 16y ago
> "Culture exists and can't be ignored" Yeah it can, why can't I ignore culture? I download a tool, and use it as I wish to within my company.
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by axod 16y ago
I have never cared about, or taken notice of any 'culture'. I agree that some programmers do, but I think you only pay attention to 'culture' if you don't really know what you're doing. These are the programmers that copy and paste code fro
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by axod 16y ago
It gets absurd very quickly. Anyone who programs like that is a bad programmer. That's the fact. It's nothing to do with the language being used.
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by axod 16y ago
There were also several startups that gave out shares to their users during the last boom. I read it as suggesting the above - just give each facebook user a few shares in facebook.
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by axod 16y ago
bubblicious
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by axod 16y ago
Fitting a model to "predict" events that have already happened, isn't anywhere as hard as actually predicting events that have yet to happen.
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by axod 16y ago
"and I don't know if its intentional" Surely you jest :) If there's one thing 37signals do extremely well it's getting people to talk/write about them.
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by axod 16y ago
I'd assume they measured it with real user usage. You're much more likely to close recently opened tabs though.
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by axod 16y ago
That's a better comparison. 3D is like smell-o-vision would be - a gimmick, distracting, and adding nothing to the story.
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by axod 16y ago
The comparison isn't even worth bringing up. Talkies = NO SOUND vs SOUND. It's binary. 3D = "20 visual cues about 3D" vs "19 visual cues about 3D" We already see movies in 3D without adding the rather crude stereoscopy effect.
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by axod 16y ago
BTW, DDG still leaks search terms: * Disable javascript * Do a search * Click on an https result Your search terms are sent to the website as referrer. Referer https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=https If you're going to claim t
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by axod 16y ago
Looking forward to some posts from you on improved UI, removal of infinite scroll, and improved search results :)
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by axod 16y ago
Privacy is dead. People are posting intimate details of their lives on the net. Sending naked pics around their phones. They killed privacy off themselves because it gives them freedom in other ways.
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by axod 16y ago
If they break the way HTTP_REFERER etc work, I would stop using them and find something else. Stop trying to spin this as "something that needs fixing".
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by axod 16y ago
Not sure that worked so well for Diaspora. Can you give some examples of companies that have successfully "smeared" the market leader with FUD and ended up ahead?
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by axod 16y ago
Have you worked with Google and had a bad experience? The people I've worked with there have been extremely helpful and refreshingly 'good'. It's very easy to wrongly assume that a big company that makes profit will treat everyone poorly, b
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by axod 16y ago
You haven't begun to establish people want it "solved". There are already solutions for the people who want them (stop sending referer, adblock, etc). FWIW, I do not want Google to change their behavior in this area.
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by axod 16y ago
how many search engine results are https?
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by axod 16y ago
If the js is running on the main page itself, yes. If it's in an iframe then no.
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by axod 16y ago
I agree. Attacking the market leader seems desperate to me, and I think it'll lose a lot of goodwill. You don't win customers/users by saying "Our competitor is rubbish and here's why". You win them by saying "Our product is awesome and her
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by axod 16y ago
Constantly attacking Google over something the vast majority of users don't care about seems like a bad idea. I was ready to try duckduckgo if it could give me the results I wanted (Despite the hugely irritating UI and infinite scroll). But
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by axod 16y ago
pretty sure there was 1 success in 50s and 80s as well.
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by axod 16y ago
If you can't notice the 3d, what's the point. If you can notice it, it distracts from what is going on. It's a no-win situation. Of course it's a win-win situation for the studios selling people 3d.
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by axod 16y ago
Surely 3d only makes any sense if you can move around the environment - a holo-deck. 3d movies, where we're all sat down in a fixed chair makes absolutely no sense. It's a gimmick that adds nothing - apart from headaches, crappy dark image
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by axod 16y ago
Adding sound isn't anywhere near the same as adding crappy pseudo-3d effects.
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by axod 16y ago
interesting article indeed... http://www.inc.com/magazine/19890701/5713.html
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by axod 16y ago
Certainly not. Despite the fact that irc.com would be blocking yourself into a specific protocol and not building a brand, I doubt anyone here has ever thought to go to irc.com. I think building it around irc.com would have actually worked

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