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by cantrevealname 14y ago
Interesting theories that have been advanced by commenters on Cringely's blog: 1. eliminating wildcards reduces load on eBay's fragile infrastructure 2. something equivalent to wildcards will become a paid service 3. without wildcards a mis
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Bug or feature? eBay drops wildcard search(cringely.com)
1 points by cantrevealname 14y ago|1 comments
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
IMO, letters of recommendation are useless way to judge a candidate. The only exception would be if you know the person making the recommendation, and you can phone them up for a private, candid opinion.
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Recommendation generator (useful on LinkedIn for example)(endorser.org)
1 points by cantrevealname 14y ago|1 comments
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
> there's no way our government is competent enough to keep a secret that big Counterexamples to refute the assertion that the US government cannot keep "big" secrets: (1) A US bomber accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb out of an air
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
> require 80% support to make a new law and 20% support to remove any law currently on the books That's simply brilliant. Did you come up with that yourself, by the way? I think that people could be persuaded that this should be a fun
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
At the bottom of the letter, Gandhi writes "I see that I must reserve the right hand for N.J." . And the caption at the bottom says "Left hand." Do you suppose that means that Gandhi deliberately wrote this letter with his left hand?
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
I'll get us started with a possible short list. This is a merged list of Google searches for "top media companies", "top web advertisers", and similar terms. I eliminated companies like Google and Sony that I know to be public or that are o
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
Cringely doesn't identify the culprit, but there's probably enough information here that we could do a crowdsourced deduction. We know that it is: - a "prominent web media company" - a major advertiser on the web - private, not public - loo
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Click fraud the old fashioned way(cringely.com)
39 points by cantrevealname 14y ago|22 comments
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
The author did all that work as a joke? I hardly think so. I looked at the source code. It's 5,575 lines of original C code. (I excluded the AES encryption, bzip2, Reed-Solomon, and CRC16 source code from my count.) I imagine that he wrote
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
I don't understand how that answers the valid points that the person above (slurgfest) raised. It seems impossible to me that any company could offer a policy such as yours (patio11) for 45 years. (Yes, I know that you said that yours is
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
Tip to anyone looking for a link to the Redefined Wikipedia so you can actually try it out: it doesn't exist . What they did is a design -- i.e., a document explaining their ideas. There is no working prototype that you can try out. (I was
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
Yes, you're right, I can see the blurring in certain cases now. If I go to the link you cited directly it is not blurred. But I if search for "How do Bayesian algorithms work" in Google, then click the link that Google finds, then it is b
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
I don't see missing or blurred text in your example, http://www.quora.com/Bayesian-Inference/How-do-Bayesian-algo... I checked with two different browsers (Opera and Firefox under Windows). Could this mean that the Quora PR machine is up
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
My friend was denied permission to use Quora for not revealing his ancestor name. Could you explain how it happened in this specific case, since it sounds like the name that your friend gave appeared to be real. That it, it wasn't someth
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
They do a lot of research and they push things forward Indeed, Kaspersky is superb. And if you're in the US, I have another reason to recommend Kaspersky: It is most unlikely that US law enforcement agencies such as the FBI could convince
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by cantrevealname 14y ago
> if I've got to make a choice between finishing a product or being a good parent/husband I'll take the latter And that's why most successful startups are founded by childless, unmarried, under 30s. Being young correlates to being energ
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by cantrevealname 15y ago
But the OP is speaking to all software developers, and I'm offering an alternative viewpoint. > no one should be whining about unpaid overtime Do I think that I and other programmers should be paid for overtime? Yes, of course I do. I w
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by cantrevealname 15y ago
This meme about how unfair it is that programmers work unpaid overtime is starting to drive me nuts. I've been in big stodgy software company where everyone worked exactly 8 hours, and the whole company filed out the door at 5pm as if a fac