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by cdavid 16y ago
In Japan, consumptions taxes are very low (at least compared to Europe, I am not too familiar with comsuption tax rate in the US). If you don't have a family, you often don't need a car thanks to a great public transportation system (never
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by cdavid 16y ago
That's indeed a good idea. It does not solve one real issue with recommendation, though: the objective measure is whether people buy more stuff, which means running experiments not only on real data but in the real business environment.
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by cdavid 16y ago
he mentions traffic, which is slightly different than hits, but I agree this seems implausible nonetheless.
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by cdavid 16y ago
While this is true, I think Japanese culture mostly just makes this more obvious. A big part of it is based on perception (in western culture, change is much more accepted generally, and people tend to show/believe they change much more tha
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by cdavid 16y ago
Will show up this time too
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by cdavid 16y ago
I was not saying it was not required - I am sure there is a good reason (although there are big companies which do give feedback). But when you are in European or Asian market, where it is not common, it is a disadvantage for the company.
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by cdavid 16y ago
So your argument against false positive is one special case ? This happens everywhere, you cannot avoid it at scale. The only meaningful number in that aspect is the ratio of false positive compared to the number of hired people (they shoul
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by cdavid 16y ago
The rejection without rationale is frustrating. I understand it is common procedure in the US, but it isn't in most other countries.
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by cdavid 16y ago
I understand that what Steve Blank (and also Joel in his famous article) refer to is rewrite of existing applications with a lot of customers, something that brings a lot of cash to the company already. Also, it seems that you describe a re
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by cdavid 16y ago
Exactly, that's the core of the issue: it is very easy to overestimate the advantages of the new design/rewrite. But even worse very easy to underestimate the advantages of the old design. Because in a bad system (the ones you want to rewri
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by cdavid 16y ago
agreed, that's a significant pain point. That's also why I think using yield as "syntactic sugar" for asynchronous programming is a good looking but bad idea. It makes refactoring async code using yield even harder than it already is.
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by cdavid 16y ago
Where are you taking this five years number ? The roadmap has already changed, BTW. At some point, the plan was to have python 2.x such as to convert so that python 2.x will be very close to python 3, plan which was abandoned AFAIK (I can c
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by cdavid 16y ago
The rationale for supporting python < 2.6 goes much further than debian stable. Most "enterprise" linux distributions (e. g. RHEL) still require python 2.4. It is incredibly difficult to install your own python once you need some extra
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by cdavid 16y ago
While I don't follow your thinking about google, I think that the "special" algorithm for search, at least the original one (pageRank) is not that special. Other people had the same ideas even before - what really made it so successful is t
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by cdavid 16y ago
I am not aware of such resource, but the best thing to do IMO is to simply include 2t3 and running your test suite on both 2.x and 3.x code from day one.
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by cdavid 16y ago
This is a good article, of interest to people even outside web dev in the python community. I did not know that python 3.1 was that much slower than python 2.x (python 3.0 was, but this was well known from everyone). His point about writing
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by cdavid 16y ago
I was actually surprised as well - I bought a powerful machine like 16 months ago, when i7 became available exactly to get a lot of RAM. At that time, 300$ got you 12 Gb. Also, SO-DIM became quite cheap: it is really affordable to get 8 Gb
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by cdavid 16y ago
You are right that Islam is the official religion. But I don't think it means much. Tunisia encourages women working in official positions not to wear the hijab in public places. Same restrictions for men. Indeed, you could say that the ru
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by cdavid 16y ago
That's most likely an American bias. In Europe, it has been followed quite heavily, especially of course in France: Tunisia is very close to Europe, and there are strong ties between several European countries and Tunisia (political and eco
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by cdavid 16y ago
I have not used mongodb for anything sensitive (just log and test analysis), but my experience is that while at least the index stays in ram, things go relatively well, and degrade much worse than mysql once it does not.
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by cdavid 16y ago
1 really only works if you work in a big market for your native language. For example, you will not sell a lof of your software in English in Japan or France (where translation is mandatory by law, although not applied thoroughly). What wou
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by cdavid 16y ago
The OP is right: for any T, however large, you won't be guaranteed that you will get hamlet from a monkey. I don't understand what you mean by the law of large numbers not being the law of infinite: the theorem states the limit of a certain
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by cdavid 16y ago
I did not know the Japanese expression, thanks.
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by cdavid 16y ago
It is difficult to scale trust, for once: you would get people who keep submitting everything as spam, until overload of the "spamming" committee you are suggesting (if I understand you well). Many people are not that able to make the diffe
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by cdavid 16y ago
The culture is still there, although it depends a lot of the companies - corporate culture takes a whole new dimension in Japan, and someone working in Sony or Panasonic could as well work in different countries. To give an example of what
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by cdavid 16y ago
I think anything will be gamed until gaming it is more costly than its gains. There is enough cheap labour as of now who is willing to game the system - I wonder if there is a correlation between search quality decrease and increase of inte
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by cdavid 16y ago
Actually, the numbers I get are much lower than that (almost two orders of magnitude), but I suspect it is at least partly due to bad usage of couchdb. I am actually working on simple benchmarks representative of what we do to see if there
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by cdavid 16y ago
Well, sure, it is impossible to have 0 inequality if you consider pure equality, but that's a trivial remark. The notion of equality almost always makes sense only in a statistical sense (are two values statistically different), unless you
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by cdavid 16y ago
I cannot seem to edit my post, so here is the issue I am referring to w.r.t. couchdb and unused CPU: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@couchdb.apache.org/msg06520.... here is the interview of Damian Katz concerning couchdb: http://howsoftw
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by cdavid 16y ago
I use mongodb to record fine grained log for performance tests, where it works like a charm. It is fragile (in that I have lost full databases when VM were full, for example) I don't know about riak, but we are forced to use couchdb at work

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