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331.
by catch23 16y ago
number can't be right -- otherwise there'd be more phones activated than phones manufactured.
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by catch23 16y ago
reminds me of 7 minute abs... I'll release a new website called designfor14bucks.com and take all your customers!
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by catch23 16y ago
Shouldn't that fall under the responsibility of the browser author then? It seems like this policy just makes it easier for individuals to file lawsuits.
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by catch23 16y ago
I'm guessing the title name was meant to complement the usual "Who's Hiring" posts that show up every month or so.
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by catch23 16y ago
that's great if all you're trying to do is HTTP GET. standard libs are supposed to make all use cases fairly easy. making an http post isn't too bad: Net::HTTP.new(host, port).start do |http| post = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url) po
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by catch23 16y ago
not much better in python either, or any language. How does one name an xml parser beautiful soup?
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by catch23 16y ago
Same goes for just about every library under the sun. The other day I was searching for redis libraries for nodejs, the first one from google by fictorial is maintained by someone who has gone for maternity leave where the current version
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by catch23 16y ago
delegates do make it a ton easier to write performant non-blocking code. It's almost like writing code for nodejs in a way, except without the deeply, deeply nested function calls.
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by catch23 16y ago
So enterprise means a macbook docking port?
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by catch23 16y ago
Wasn't rexml's original implementation completely replaced in Ruby 1.9, Rubinius, & JRuby? It seems like the only people who might complain about it are those who are still stuck in 1.8 land.
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by catch23 16y ago
Here's another data point: Googlers hate doing partner stuff. Google has lots of APIs they have to maintain -- everything from Android to GData and that puts a burden on SWEs who spend half the time writing new code, and the other half su
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by catch23 16y ago
Let's just say I know enough Googlers who are currently fed up with the influx of subpar nooglers. It's not just one data point -- at least 4 of my googler friends complained about the new employees. They mention that Google stopped hirin
343.
by catch23 16y ago
I think the title is pretty true based on the diffs though. In one example, the only difference was adding "true;" in the middle of the code somewhere -- essentially adding a no-op instruction causes vastly different benchmarks? definitel
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by catch23 16y ago
I think it could happen just as easily in Java, especially in continuous integration scripts, which are nearly fully automated. I've nearly done something in Hibernate before just by running ant scripts that looked at my environment variab
345.
by catch23 16y ago
However in this case, it happened on their continuous integration server -- which probably does more than just "rake test". On our hudson scripts, it does something like "rake db:reset" because some concurrent scripts require data to be pe
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by catch23 16y ago
YC has a history of funding companies with nearly identical ideas too. I remember asking PG about it, and he says it's more about the founders than the idea since the idea is likely to evolve.
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by catch23 16y ago
Here's one from a friend of mine: a hard drive just failed in the middle of a raid array. An OCD worker there decides that instead of just swapping out the dead drive, he's going to move all the drives up one slot and put the new drive at
348.
by catch23 16y ago
It's usually cash. They do it so that you'll actually spend it and be happy instead of just depositing it into your bank. Googler friends of mine say it happens every year a few weeks before christmas. This instance was unusual because t
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by catch23 16y ago
did a small biz startup sometime ago. doing cold calling sales pitches to small restaurants will make you immune to rejection in a week.
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by catch23 16y ago
Yeah, but it does make it easier and more accessible to those who don't hack with OpenCV every day. One could also argue that one can always build digital components from scratch instead of using something like an Arduino.
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by catch23 16y ago
what's your source that the radiation emitted from sitting in the airplane cabin is higher than a cat scan machine?
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by catch23 16y ago
I do colocation as well, but if you don't have someone there to babysit your server, sometimes it can be nightmarish. It's nice to not worry about if a disk fails and you need someone to swap out one of your raid spares and hopes he doesn'
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by catch23 16y ago
another +1. we moved to linode from rackspace. They don't have that crazy backup limitation that rackspace does, and they're always open to custom inquiries. Rackspace has the big company mentality -- if our interface doesn't have an opt
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by catch23 16y ago
Hate to steal EeePC's thunder, but this has been done in embedded PCs on mini-itx form factor computers since flash storage was available, pre-sata connectors. It looked like a 1-inch nub that fits in the IDE connector. It was perfect for
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by catch23 16y ago
I don't think 2-gram bayes uses any NLP at all. To my understanding, it's just like naive bayes, but can use word combinations to improve accuracy. In terms of complexity, bayes classification is not much more than O(N).
356.
by catch23 16y ago
Seems like the navigation history was intentional.
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by catch23 16y ago
Maybe they use a bloom filter to store who voted per comment, that would be an efficient way to prevent upvotes without needing to store much data.
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by catch23 16y ago
wouldn't something like 2-gram bayes be more accurate & faster?
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by catch23 16y ago
my adblock still works great on javascript ads!
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by catch23 16y ago
Palantir is a data-mining company. They make tools to analyze datasets, but in reality, you need to understand data in order to present it well. The skills involved here are all specialized to data-mining. Since you work there, I'm sure

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