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by boomzilla 11y ago
FB search is terrible because there is no incentive for an engineering team to work on it, and in fact maybe quietly discouraged from doing so. FB make money on from the news feed, so any feature that distract users from scrolling down thei
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Neat! It's been a while since I wrote Java code. Java8 lambda syntax looks quite reasonable. I'd recommend the author to make "Getting Started" section a bit more detailed. One of the gripes I've heard is that Java
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Square root of relevance signals to "smooth" them out? I worked a bit on tuning search results, not at Google scale though and it's long time ago, but taking square root, or even logarithm of out of scale signals is a very co
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Ok, wild guess here but Sundar is cleaning out the house? It's kind of hard to give direction to some who's been there forever, actually achieved more technologically and financially, and more critically would not listen to you. N
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Great points. One thing I would add is to pay a lot of attention to your team's dynamics. One bad (or just not as engaged) team member could derail the whole team's morale. Friction should be dealt with immediately, even if it&#x
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by boomzilla 11y ago
There is value in advertising: as an information source and a mechanism to establish trust. The former value has been diminished by the internet (which some people call the information age). Advertising is still valuable for establishing tr
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Can you share the requirements that you employer needs? Box has been trying to get into enterprise for a long time, and has many 'enterprise' features, but we all know how well Box is doing financially. I think the problem with Bo
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Well, for some people, myself included, the not-going-so-well recent IPOs (Square, Box, etc.) would help deflate the pressure on housing prices in SF/BA. I feel for the workers at these company, but it's becoming impossible to rai
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Square stock drops 10%, is now less than IPO price(google.com)
79 points by boomzilla 11y ago|116 comments
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by boomzilla 11y ago
which is OK, as long as there is a community to support the effort. I remember when Pidgin (or another IM client) had to keep up with not one, but three protocols: MSN, Yahoo and AOL. And that was done before the age of Github and pull requ
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Would it be suffice with an .edu email, or does one need a formal document from university officials? I tried to click through from the sandbox link, but a Yahoo account is required.
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Former Uber driver won a $15,000 legal settlement(businessinsider.com)
1 points by boomzilla 11y ago|0 comments
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Java has both int (32 bit) and long (64 bit) types. What did you refer to as 'native'? Lucene, the popular core search library, has always used int as internal document IDs. As a result, the number of documents in one Lucene index
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Shhtttt don't ask, the YC president never held a real job but that doesn't stop him from talking like he knows everything from astrophysics to socioeconomic stuff either.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
It's easy to pay lip service like "We are deeply sorry for those that are no longer part of Mixpanel". I would be interested more in "Show me the money" like talks.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
what package are you giving to the laid off?
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by boomzilla 11y ago
The Twitter engineering team is probably hating this decision. I bet a lot of their infrastructure is built around the assumption that tweet.txt is short :) This has huge implication on the data schema, caching, search, etc.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
I think she is already wealthy enough from the VMW IPO (if not even before that). At this time, she's probably more concerned with her long term legacy, so putting this money into a charity account (DAF) is probably the best decision.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
I think the novelty for Pinterest will wear off. There is only so much gratification in viewing beautiful pictures put together. I don't see any other value Pinterest is providing. Snapchat, on the other hand, at least provides a commu
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Actually the price tracked FB expected revenue very well. For some time after IPO, there was serious doubt on FB mobile ad revenue (as the desktop ad was not growing enough). They somehow grew the mobile add very well and that's when t
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Eh, many of the startups now are selling services for less than you'd pay for, with the difference subsidized by VCs. Granted, some services have close to zero costs, but one can also argues that many of them have close to zero values
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by boomzilla 11y ago
What are the downsides with SQS if you expect a small number of large massages (well, not larger than the 4K limit I think)? The bill should be a lot cheaper than running a broker your self. Are you worried about lock-in? SQS APIs are simpl
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by boomzilla 11y ago
I think he does. I believe that reading is one of the few things that Gates (and people like him) truly enjoy doing. It's like video games, exercising or playing music to some other people. It's really like a physical addiction.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Is the outsider not needed for this line of reasoning to work assuming that the total number of people doesn't change? All the 100 blue eyed would commit suicide after a hundred days after the creation of the island since they work out
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Thanks! This is an excellent reference.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Hi Mike, nice to see you here. In your opinion, what would be the best way to visualize a bipartie graph where the edges have weights and other properties? More background if you're interested: the graph is some result from an LDA (Lat
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by boomzilla 11y ago
You should put some effort on designing the key schema, especially the hash key. Don't do timestamp, or sequence. I had to do a 'encrypted' key schema on my sequence IDs so sequential records are spread into different partiti
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by boomzilla 11y ago
FTA even the chairman of the board who, by definition, is Jack's direct boss had to taxicab him to have their weekly one on one. I am not sure I buy this, unless Jack is avoiding these meetings. WTF else is Jack doing? For God's s
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Google search is actually the grand mother of all lists. Whatever one is thinking of, type it into a search box, then you get a list of 10 of them.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
And I used Lucene as the data backend for an inference engine recently :) If there is one library that keeps me in the Java world, it's Lucene. No other open source comes close to Lucene in its category.

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