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by bl4k 16y ago
In the scene ~10 years ago a lot of people talked about crunch being a creepy old guy who hung out at raves hitting on young guys who were high. He would offer backrubs, massages and 'energy transfers'. I only ever saw him at a single confe
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by bl4k 16y ago
VP of Marketing? I see what you mean now, you want to find somebody who can drive traffic, but most people who apply for jobs after grepping for marketing don't have the tech/dev skills that you are looking for. Hard role to fill - are the
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by bl4k 16y ago
And they should just use a normal job title, like 'VP of Biz Dev'
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by bl4k 16y ago
anybody else put 'emacs' for Guy Steele?
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by bl4k 16y ago
online ad spend: $12B p.a local ad spend: $170B (US only) /thread
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by bl4k 16y ago
ever googled for 'pizza delivery near me'? (where 'me' is suburb)
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Cutting Off Burners(nikcub.appspot.com)
1 points by bl4k 16y ago|1 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
say -v Fred Fitter, Happier, More productive
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by bl4k 16y ago
You mean you missed all the buzz about Google being behind on local? The local ad market is $170B a year in the USA alone. Online is 12, TV is 70. Doesn't take a genius.
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by bl4k 16y ago
it isn't legal in Afghanistan
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by bl4k 16y ago
not a declared war hence not prisoners of war besides prisoners of war have other rights (such as not being interrogated) under the Geneva Conventions - this all gets in the way of what we wanted from our prisoners at Gitmo
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by bl4k 16y ago
I am not agreeing or disagreeing, just pointing out the blatant hypocrisy.
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by bl4k 16y ago
I am more impressed by whoever came up with the challenge, although setting the second parameter of md5 to 'true' made it obvious what the solution to the puzzle was (nobody would ever have binary output on irl). The French team came up wit
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by bl4k 16y ago
because then they would have the right to a trial there is a reason Gitmo was established
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by bl4k 16y ago
the US and Britian have turned a blind eye to the opium trade and the associated corruption in Afghanistan in order to appease the local anti-Taliban population. I watched footage last week of British soldiers fighting to free large opium f
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by bl4k 16y ago
today it was confirmed that the US knows about everything, everywhere, in every corner of the world
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by bl4k 16y ago
most of it isn't true
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by bl4k 16y ago
even with innodb you will still find yourself running optimize. checkout what wordpress does (from wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php): if ( (mt_rand(1, 10) == 3) ) { // WP 2.0: run this one time in ten akismet_delete_old();
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by bl4k 16y ago
ye not much better there is a reason datacenters were built thinking about this after I left my comment, having all that data on your local machine is just crazy - you are one browser exploit or break-in away from having it fall into somebo
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by bl4k 16y ago
thats why I never have a DELETE in any query, only UPDATE and a state field (ie. deleted) performance advantage here as well since indexes aren't rebuilt and no table lock
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by bl4k 16y ago
I don't think backing up the entire db to a laptop is a good idea, since laptops can get both lost and stolen. As somebody who uses the service, I am not super-comfortable with knowing that a full copy of my account and everything I save is
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by bl4k 16y ago
the offset is there as a comment next to each declaration.
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by bl4k 16y ago
cliffs for those of us who don't have flash?
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by bl4k 16y ago
technically you aren't reversing it, you are calculating it through brute-force. best analogy for a hash is smashing a plate. you may be able to glue it back together but it is not the same plate btw I wonder how long before somebody calcs
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by bl4k 16y ago
why?
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by bl4k 16y ago
I agree. I couldn't work out how to add people - no import from Google or Facebook or whatever. While I do believe in release early, these guys may have blown it only because of how much attention they have (or had).
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On a Path to nowhere(gigaom.com)
1 points by bl4k 16y ago|0 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
So another photo sharing app but with some personal network theory wrapped around it in its limitations? These guys have been working on this for a long time, and atm the app looks like a prototype. In the interim instagram and a dozen othe
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by bl4k 16y ago
I would estimate 100-500k, or a stock deal at around 5% closest comparable I found is routes.com for 100k
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by bl4k 16y ago
If anybody is interested for a comparison, a lunch with Randi Zuckerberg recently sold for $10k at a charity auction. Mike Arrington was the winning bidder: http://twitter.com/randizuckerberg/status/2954716698906624

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