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by babs474 13y ago
Very cool, I love this approach as it is very similar to how my (now defunct) unedditreddit app worked and how a clever app called socialfixer for facebook works. Two thoughts. 1. You are not unblockable. My app was removed from the chrome
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by babs474 13y ago
A single data point is too small to reason about. But lets say there was an ad campaign that was blocked at a high rate, or even just placed poorly where nobody was seeing it or something. Our scheme would assign those impressions a low val
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by babs474 13y ago
Facebook style ads CAN convert in a tight window, the problem is people are looking in the wrong place for them. Nobody checks out their timeline, sees a coke ad and immediately clicks to buy. Those ads don't "convert". What
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by babs474 13y ago
Sounds reasonable to me, especially the memory pressure thing. It seems like some of the criticism in this thread comes from people who haven't bothered to understand what you've done and summarily dismiss it as stupid. That attit
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by babs474 13y ago
I think the importance a generic coder or programmer will slowly fade away. Instead you will have people that are a something that uses programming or has the skill of coding. We are kind of seeing this with the data scientist phenomenon. I
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by babs474 13y ago
Man there is a lot of negative snark at the top of this thread. I'm not sure if this system is a good idea or not but I wish some commenters would spend more time comparing their proposed solutions (shared mem, local db, memmap...) to
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by babs474 13y ago
This paper was fascinating when I read it tomorrow. Unfortunately, I had to warn my former future self about their compelling results and prevent myself from posting all those really fun tweets.
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by babs474 13y ago
I find Jooq to be similiar in some ways. http://www.jooq.org
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by babs474 13y ago
Here are things I use for those 3 things that I find really helpful, maybe you will too. 1. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings 2. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeskTop 3. For 3 I
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by babs474 13y ago
One of the big features of erlang is intelligent hotswapping for building robust telecom systems that never go down, but can be bug fixed/upgraded on the fly. Just because something is not commonly done with current tools doesn't
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by babs474 13y ago
Yes, I think it is very much happening right now. I think that the sophistication will grow and grow as more ad dollars are converted to the digital world.
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by babs474 13y ago
It is interesting to see the complexity of strategies needed to play adwords increase over time. Big budget advertisers use predictive models and automated bidding to quickly react to changing conditions. I predict some years in the future
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by babs474 13y ago
No I think they are related but different. For instance with pdb or the clojure repl I"ll add entire new functions or classes and try them out. With gdb or jdb that might be theoretically possible but it certainly is not convenient or
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by babs474 13y ago
I always wonder why more languages don't have this, which I call repl at point, or repl with context. Not sure if there is a more standard name. Even clojure with its generally awesome repl support doesn't have it. I created a lib
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by babs474 13y ago
I dunno, I find the people who don't care about tone and think themselves above considering feelings are the most overly sensitive and easily outraged when criticized. Its easy to disregard tone when its somebody else's feelings a
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by babs474 13y ago
That is my experience too, but I blame it on hibernate which GORM is just a dsl wrapper for. Its fine when it works, but expect inscrutable session flushing errors when you try and flex it too hard.
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by babs474 13y ago
Groovy doesn't get enough love as a post java jvm language IMO. I agree that grails is a bit heavyweight. The people at my former place did some work on using groovy with dropwizard: https://speakerdeck.com/kyleboon&#x2
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by babs474 13y ago
mnsure.org was throwing springframework exceptions the day it launched
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by babs474 13y ago
I understand that strategy. But I would encourage you to instead keep an open mind. You might be surprised at the value you can get from an unexpected direction. If you have a number of people acting in the way you describe, you end up with
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by babs474 13y ago
I guess we will never know how the conversation could have developed since the stories were killed prematurely. Do you think the comments section of other types of HN stories are held to the same standard? Or do you think the promptness wit
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by babs474 13y ago
This is really an egregious pattern. Two examples below. One is an npr story. You can flag these stories all you want, but they still influence how the wider population views programmers and the field. Wouldn't it be interesting to dis
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by babs474 13y ago
The clojure community has great meme: libraries over frameworks. In my mind java is notorious for having frameworks that box you in. You have to think like the framework or you will have major problems. Think spring/hibernate. The libr
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by babs474 13y ago
I interpreted it (aurora), as the next gen instarepl. A tool that helps you introspect running code and intermediate results, but more ambitious than just textual substitution of variable values. It would fit right in as a component of ligh
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by babs474 13y ago
You might have a point about naming, I don't know. In my defense a bunch of reddit tools do the same thing: metareddit.com, uneddit.com, redditenhancementsuite.com But I'm really curious about what you said regarding sidestepping
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by babs474 13y ago
Reddit did not "force" google to remove it, but I know it was at least prompted by reddit. I know this from emails between myself and google.
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by babs474 13y ago
1. It wasn't disrespectful. The previous version which you refer to directly interacted with reddit servers. I said I would no longer crawl reddit and I do not. 2. There is nothing wrong with charging for something you have built, but
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by babs474 13y ago
What makes you say that?
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by babs474 13y ago
Watch out, when I ran into a similar situation with my extension, unedditreddit. Reddit, was able to convince google to simply remove the the extension from the webstore. Chrome makes it really difficult to install a non app store extension
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by babs474 13y ago
Spot on, about caring about conversions, not the click through rate. Also true that this seems like a nuclear grade weapon. We have a system at optimine that is similar in a lot of ways, but also a lot less complex. Of course we are represe
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by babs474 13y ago
Interesting that HN keeps killing threads on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360328 A stubborn refusal to confront the problem is what helps these attitudes fester.

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