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by candybar 13y ago
You can't roll out regular ads on their porn/nsfw blogs. That will destroy their relationship with advertisers or result in steep pricing discounts.
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by candybar 13y ago
I don't see a problem here - given that NSFW/porn traffic is worth much less than other traffic and even less to a generalized blogging platform like Tumblr, what's going on is that they are presently subsidized. This is an
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by candybar 13y ago
Except almost no one has any idea what the American median is, or the Brazillian median is. These are large diverse countries with huge internal variation to which you have not been exposed. New York is a lot more like London than Silicon
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by candybar 13y ago
This is what I mean - these are things that completely vary from one person to another and one company to another and somehow this is being attributed to countries. Within any country, there are rule-oriented structured companies and indiv
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by candybar 13y ago
Thanks!
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by candybar 13y ago
Your second paragraph is, quite unintentionally, a great anecdote for why culturalism is a problem. You've somehow managed to blame your boss's quite idiosyncratic issues on his Korean-ness and connect it to another, completely u
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by candybar 13y ago
Most comments seem to be missing the point. Why did Gladwell make such egregious mistakes and resort to lazy, analysis? Why did most readers lazily accept such explanations without asking relevant questions? Why do journalists immediately
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by candybar 13y ago
Grandiosity aside, what's pioneering about Ember.js? AngularJS, Backbone, Meteor and even Dojo and YUI I think all have better claims to being pioneers. As much as people hate Rails and the Rails community for having this attitude, a
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by candybar 13y ago
I would go even further - performance is relevant even if your margin is high, because high baseline performance means you can trade off performance for speed of development and/or business considerations elsewhere. Scaling also doesn
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by candybar 13y ago
I think there's a great deal of truth here, but it seems unfair to use the tendencies of Zuckerberg, after he already became successful and has had years of positive reinforcement of his abilities, as an example of why he was destined to be
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by candybar 13y ago
What's clear to me from these articles and studies is that there's no silver bullet - if you want to raise your child well, you have to spend a lot of energy understanding your child and guide him, but from his perspective, not your own. B
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by candybar 13y ago
I completely disagree that Ruby's slowness is rarely the bottleneck. In this benchmark, we have reasonably simple requests on decent hardware in the realm of 1 second latency, where faster frameworks are 10+ times faster. We have Sinatra
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by candybar 13y ago
There are a bunch of languages that are about as expressive that are much faster, like Scala, Haskell or even Javascript.
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by candybar 13y ago
Would it make sense to submit a rails-optimized pull request for this benchmark that replaces some key performance bottlenecks with appropriate C gems? I'd be curious to see how fast rails can go out of the box without doing your own hand
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by candybar 13y ago
I guess my point is that it seems disingenuous to point out "you can write that bit in C" as a way to mitigate performance problems with Ruby, when in practice it's so costly compared to available alternatives (throw more hardware, write ma
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by candybar 13y ago
I keep hearing about this, but do people really rewrite performance-critical parts of their web apps in C? Even if it happens to be part of some third-party library? And maintain a fork? What if that performance-critical part is dependen
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by candybar 13y ago
Raw comparisons are quite misleading - ridiculous setups or slow interpreted languages aside, full stacks with ORM are going to be slower than micro stacks with raw DB access. Play! does fairly well compared to other frameworks of its kind
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by candybar 13y ago
Palantir is worth multiple billions of dollars (based on secondary market trading).
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by candybar 13y ago
You're severely overestimating the ability of Harvard admissions officers to evaluate those traits based on college applications. You can at least narrow the scope to a single professional area in which the candidate must excel to do the j
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by candybar 13y ago
The problem with this view is that there are tons of Asian kids who don't fit this mold and it's even harder for them to get into top schools.
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by candybar 13y ago
What's interesting to me is that elite colleges are doing this under the pretense that qualifications other than SAT and grades, like life experiences, character, community involvement, etc, matter greatly, but statistics suggest that Asian
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by candybar 13y ago
There's really just one major reason - people used facebook API to get access to people's contacts but now mobile apps can do the same thing simply by crawling people's contacts list. This obviates the need for apps to play within Facebook
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by candybar 13y ago
Because the ubiquity of Java means people are forced to use it.
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by candybar 13y ago
People have mentioned type system, performance and closer semantics equivalence with Java, but the real advantage in the wild is that Clojure's syntax (or lack thereof) is alienating to most people.
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by candybar 14y ago
Very sad, RIP. His story, to me, reminds me as to why the most successful entrepreneurs are not gregarious salespeople who are good at connecting with people, but focused, dorky introverts. Connection leads to social pressure and being goo
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by candybar 14y ago
Gratuitous use of POST breaks the back button.
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by candybar 14y ago
I'd be much more interested in the same study without adjusting for BMI, because adding muscular strength would increase one's weight when not accomplished by reduction in body fat. As it stands, it's not controversial or surprising, becau
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by candybar 14y ago
Isn't WebKit2 as much a fork of WebKit as Blink is? And it's not production ready?
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by candybar 14y ago
If you let me touch your dongle, I'll let you fork my repo
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by candybar 14y ago
This is a weird tangent - is this not true where you're from? Every single country treats its citizens differently than non-citizens.

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