dennyabraham

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by dennyabraham 16y ago
thanks, there's nothing too unexpected here.
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by dennyabraham 16y ago
Is the license mentioned in this blog post http://www.touchqode.com/blog/009_analytics_and_licence_expl... available on the website anywhere? If there are any onerous terms, I'd like to know what they are prior to installation.
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by dennyabraham 16y ago
interesting, but i'm not sure this is the whole story. google maps's stroke width for roads seems to be based on some measure of traffic or connectedness. from my experience, roads that see fewer cars and fewer intersections tend to show up
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by dennyabraham 16y ago
if i'm not mistaken, the majority of those organizations still rely heavily on relational datastores, except in the case of exceptional workloads. in addition, i believe facebook has since migrated away from cassandra to the hadoop stack fo
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by dennyabraham 16y ago
From working in extremely small things myself, I can recommend a few things: 1. Write tests around everything you have the time to. 2. Communicate frequently. 3. Try to write things in vertical (shippable) slices. 4. Work in short iteration
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by dennyabraham 16y ago
When I saw the 'personal appeal', I thought Wikipedia was to shut down if they didn't receive funds. After reading the letter, I realized they were in no more danger than any other nonprofit. I wonder if others who donated did so because of
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by dennyabraham 16y ago
The title is misleading. The abstract of the cited paper http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2010/10/18/jme.2010.038125 says that retracted papers from the US published in PubMed had a higher ratio fraudulent to erroneous retractions than th
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by dennyabraham 16y ago
I've heard that diapers.com's warehouses are fully automated. If this isn't already how amazon's warehouses are set up, is this infrastructure (and the know-how to reproduce it) part of the reason behind the acquisition?
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by dennyabraham 16y ago
I didn't realize all pages were cached. I figured they were indexed and either discarded or tossed into storage
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by dennyabraham 16y ago
There must be a mistranslation in the article or embellishment on the part of the involved companies. How can QQ have a billion active users? When last I saw, there were only 350M internet users in China. Is it possible that the majority of