bryanh

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   by bryanh 16y ago

   It seems he used Mechanical Turks ( https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome ).
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   by bryanh 16y ago

   Thanks a bunch for the detailed examples. I've noticed this is a huge problem in my code: too many nested for loops. I've generally gotten better about using built in functions like set (in Python at least): Out = list(set(A+B)) # rig
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   by bryanh 16y ago

   You could tell that these guys were having a blast making the games, and the games showed it. That, in my opinion, tends to highlight the big problem with a lot of sterile games nowadays: designed by committee and handed off to underpaid de
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   by bryanh 16y ago

   My brother had an internship at a nuclear power plant and used Sketchup to model the new reactor core head (just for fun, you know). The rendering itself blew everyone away, but I think the fact that he did it in just a couple hours was rea
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   by bryanh 16y ago

   Seems to be a fleeting effect. Impressive temporary bump though.
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   by bryanh 16y ago

   I believe it's 200.
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   by bryanh 16y ago

   I love their response to Feynmen's desire to "do something real".... "So we sent him out to buy some office supplies."
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   by bryanh 16y ago

   I love the follow-up question to engage his audience: "Did you ever have a similar experience with McDonald's?" If only I had a dollar for every time that has happened!
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   by bryanh 16y ago

   I think it's fun to think about how Watson type intelligence will be at the average consumer's figertips (and affordable, to boot) in less that 20 years. A quick look at the TOP500 supercomputers puts about a 10,000x increase in raw flops s
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    I don't know... Hearing you say that you expect a drastically reduced cut for in-app purchases sounds like a move Facebook might make to become a ubiquitous PayPal type entity. I really don't think Apple would let people get away with such
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    I'm sure someone will take the abandoned content, slap it on a server with some Adsense and call it a day.
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    Let's hope it doesn't come to that. Any violence on either side means many, many people will be killed in the struggle.
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    Awesome app, would be even more awesome decoupled into a true webapp.
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    Ah, thanks for the lengthy description. Your reminder that usernames can only be 30 chars led me to a fix [1]. It's definitely monkey patching, but it works fairly well. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2610088/can-djangos-auth-...
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    Why couldn't they use SHA2 and make it go around X times? The bcrypt plugin [1] maintains backwards compatibility with old passwords just fine. Also, if you are cool with rolling your own registration forms/etc. you can easily just set the
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    I haven't had a chance to try it, but if it gracefully handles every jQuery plug-ins' use of the .ajax() method, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    A bothersome change, especially for all those employing jQuery plugins that don't have a quick method to add the CSRF token to AJAX requests. I think I might just add @csrf_exempt, as long as we aren't changing vital info via the request...
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    Apparently Niagra Falls is the only option at any price point for me.
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    Of course by manicuring search results I mean blacklisting domains.
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    I did something similar with EveryMentor.com. There have been quite a few fruitful matches so far (one was 2 wedding planners! how that happened I've no clue).
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    DDG is supplanting labor intensive algorithmic improvements with manually manicured search results. Compared to Google's vast network of resources, it is a logical step for DDG to take. It is, essentially, a fast fix to a real problem. Goog
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    Why no mention of standard caching and turning off KeepAlive during an onslaught?
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    That's 380 pages every second consecutively. The reality is probably much grimmer, say, 1000+ page a second during peak usage. Very, very impressive.
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    They should create large tax write-offs based on how complicated your tax return was. That should simplify things! I think...
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    Absolutely, these "initiatives" simply give lip service to the idea of fostering true entrepreneurship. Too bad they are passed off as legitimate actions in most media outlets.
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    Doesn't seem like too hard of an accomplishment (compared to traditional spam detection), I mean, all of the spammers in this case are registered and accounted for by Facebook. Granted, the end effect is actually quite nice. I block every a
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    I'm sure we're all guilty of that. X idea gets in our head. What a silly idea!. X idea sticks around. X idea still sticking around. Maybe X idea isn't so bad...
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    I'm currently managing approx 50 (?) units and I thought I'd drop my opinion: Make me understand the pain I am in. Real estate is painful, but as you have undoubtedly noticed, people think the pain is a natural part of the package and they
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    I don't know about that... In preparing to launch a high volume email startup, I have a few problems: * How reputable are Amazon's IP's? Will my emails get flagged as spam due to reuse and general abuse? * Another cranky API to use. Why not
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    by bryanh 16y ago

    That may be true, but from what I remember, the transition past 2000 was very difficult with Google Apps. In the end you'll have to go with a email provider like SES (or the now troubled PostmarkApp).