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by brianr 19y ago
Censorship usually is not associated with filtering true vs. false information. From wikipedia: Censorship is the suppression or deletion of material, which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor.
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Yeah, there does seem to be some confusion on that point. The Terms and Conditions say that it has to be written in Java, but the FAQ just says that it "should" be written in Java. Hopefully they'll change it...
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by brianr 19y ago
On the topic of deliverables--if you're adept at HTML and CSS, you can probably save money by asking the designer to just send you the Photoshop (.psd) or Illustrator (.ai) file, and maybe image slices if they can do it quickly. I've done i
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That calculation assumes that the risk-free rate is 5%, and that you will get $1 per year forever (i.e., considering the company to be an annuity that pays $1 per year forever). A more general formula is: Value = (Annual revenue) / (interes
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by brianr 19y ago
Existing extensions are a great source for example code... as long as they're written in JavaScript, extensions are as open source as HTML pages. Just download the extension and unzip it.
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by brianr 19y ago
This past summer I did a couple interviews for a position that sounds similar to this one. If the interviewer is like me, these tips will be helpful: -Do some of the Project Euler problems: http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problem
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by brianr 19y ago
In high school I wrote a simple web-based voting app for school elections (an election I was running in, no less)... had I wanted to rig the election, it would have been trivial to do so and cover my tracks. As downer articulated, there's a
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by brianr 19y ago
If you're going to be using PHP then I would strongly recommend finding a host that will let you install Fedora 7/8. I had to set up a PHP environment on 64-bit Ubuntu recently and it wa s a major pain. The PHP binary from apt-get was 5.1.
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by brianr 19y ago
Memory is important, but I wouldn't skimp on the CPU. In my experience (a rails app on mongrel/nginx and a php5 app on lighttpd/nginx), CPU has been the bottleneck, not memory. It's also a lot easier to add memory than to increase CPU power
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by brianr 19y ago
If subversion is already working ok then I guess there's no pressing reason to switch, but if you want to try something new, git ( http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html ) seems pretty cool so far (been using it for about a week). You can put the
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by brianr 19y ago
Any reason you're using Subversion instead of a distributed system like mercurial or git?
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by brianr 19y ago
works for me (ff2 on fedora)
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No complaints here either, I've been using Fedora 7 on a T60 for the past 5 months or so and it's been great. Hardware feels solid. Driver-wise everything works except hibernate.
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by brianr 19y ago
Maybe googlebot doesn't actually respect nofollow? hmmm....
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the biggest bottleneck is the speed of thinking, not the speed of typing. I agree, but I've had experiences where I get a glimpse of the solution in my mind and I struggle to get it down fast enough, afraid that I might lose it before I g
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by brianr 19y ago
Maybe it's been there for a couple days but this is the first time I've noticed it. It seems cool, but it makes the news feed look even more cluttered and I worry about what they'll do with my data--will one of my friends find out that I vo
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Facebook rolls out voting for news feed items(jumpfromairplane.com)
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by brianr 19y ago
It's technically a "row house" but it's not really on the row. It's up on the hill next to 680, kappa sig, and theta delt.
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by brianr 19y ago
how do you get a significant number of "friends" on those networks who are willing to watch/read your spam? One method I've seen work pretty well is to hire people to actually establish semi-legitimate personas on open social networks lik
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by brianr 19y ago
What makes you want to sell individual copies rather than collect a monthly fee by providing it as a hosted service? If it has to be hosted anyway, and unless it's going to be tightly integrated with the buyer's website/server, selling a ho
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by brianr 19y ago
For me, the main benefit of ORM is that it makes it easy to plug in caching (memcache) for just about everything, which you're probably going to want when your reach scale.
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by brianr 19y ago
$13 is an unbeatable price for a 4x8 sheet of whiteboard... do you have any complaints with it so far? Does it write and erase OK?
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by brianr 19y ago
You could: -password-protect it with .htaccess, or better yet: -make the repository only accessible via ssh, and -set up Trac or something similar if you want bug tracking and friendly svn browsing over http. I haven't set up either of the
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by brianr 19y ago
Would you expect the average Facebook user to be interested in interacting much with friends? Yes, definitely. But in general, at least among the largely growing high school contingent on Facebook, I generally wouldn't expect much sophist
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by brianr 19y ago
It's all HTML except for a couple of server-side includes that happen to use PHP to include HTML. In any case it's definitely a better example of HTML code than of PHP code :)
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by brianr 19y ago
On the topic of getting access to AdSense data--you can also get keyword prices from yahoo/overture, which are (I believe still) freely available once you sign up for an advertiser account. SEOs and domainers use Yahoo's keyword price data,
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by brianr 19y ago
From the page: ""C" named languages are something of a problem. Queries for "C" tend to return results for C# and C++ as well. One way of dealing with this would be to run queries like this: C -C# -C++, however, that unfairly penalizes page
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by brianr 19y ago
I'm not a huge fan of Eclipse. I've been using it (on linux) for c/c++ for syntax highlighting, code completion, and go-to-declaration, but it's been really unstable, and for some reason typing anything in double quotes causes the editor to
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by brianr 19y ago
You're probably already doing this, but make sure that you're using geotargeting with your adwords campaign so that the only people who see your ad are actually within driving distance.
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by brianr 19y ago
looks like that's fixed already. No doubt there will be many more of these fixes in the next few days/weeks...

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