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by diego 15y ago
I want to believe that my own post is more interesting than the TC article :) http://blog.indextank.com/1221/indextank-linkedin-acquires-i...
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by diego 15y ago
The problem is that Yahoo was born as a product that became obsolete quickly. It has no DNA anymore, it's just a collection of various media services. It's not a computer, or a piece of software, or a social network. It was a directory of
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by diego 15y ago
Thanks. I updated the post and credited you. I posted this example (a Vevo video): curl -s https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/eAfyFTzZDMM?v=2 | xmllint --format - | grep media:restriction shows: <media:restriction type="countr
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Youtube, please let me know the country availability of a given video.(dbasch.posterous.com)
63 points by diego 15y ago|21 comments
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by diego 15y ago
Relevant, my blog post from a couple of weeks ago. http://blog.indextank.com/1030/interviewing-engineers-enough... TLDR: Most companies put too much emphasis on testing IQ and don't know how to evaluate what makes people great at building
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by diego 15y ago
In case anyone is interested, EOF in C is "out of band" in a sense. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1437241/endoffile-in-c-eo...
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by diego 15y ago
Coding on the whiteboard is something that you never do in real life (unless you're a CS teacher, in which case you're not really making it up). It can throw people for a loop. Back in the 80s I couldn't write code without a copy of the pro
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by diego 15y ago
You're missing the point. The most value I get from Twitter comes from interacting with other people, especially in serendipitous ways. It's not about being followed by random people at all; it's about following (and being followed by) peop
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by diego 15y ago
First off, no reason to downvote me because you disagreed with my comment. My point is that if Twitter is trying to get past the point of people who do the things you say (savvy social media people) and cross into the Facebook mainstream, t
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by diego 15y ago
There's a difference between having 180k followers and having 0. Having 0 is painful because you tweet into nothingness. My observation comes from trying to get many of my friends started with Twitter, only to see that their tweets get lots
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If you're not famous, joining Twitter is painful(dbasch.posterous.com)
90 points by diego 15y ago|75 comments
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Instant Search for any WordPress blog w/ IndexTank Plugin(wordpress.org)
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by diego 15y ago
Brian Pinkerton from Webcrawler / A9 and Jon Gifford from Loggly / LookSmart now speaking.
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San Francisco Information Retrieval Meetup live now(justin.tv)
3 points by diego 15y ago|1 comments
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by diego 15y ago
What people don't seem to remember is that Google came out of the last bubble and became what it is today. It captured and hoarded a significant chunk of the value that existed back then. The value of the Google of 2020 could be split acros
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by diego 15y ago
What's ironic is that the very tools she's using to complain are a product of the Silicon Valley. The blog itself runs on WordPress and pushes all its posts on Twitter. If it wasn't for the Silicon Valley model we may not be hearing her.
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by diego 15y ago
Congrats James. Leave some Ruby luminaries for other companies :)
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by diego 15y ago
BTW, this is running on an AWS micro instance (cpu and memory comparable to a cellphone) but it doesn't matter because it's just a static html page using a jsonp API.
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by diego 15y ago
Thanks sgrove. It's probably because we're all engineers and only now starting to understand that focusing on building a great product is not enough. You have to learn how to make it known to the world :)
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by diego 15y ago
Thanks!
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Show HN: Instant Crunchbase Search(loqix.com)
37 points by diego 15y ago|5 comments
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by diego 15y ago
No, the main incentive for living in SF for me is not driving . I work at Dolores Labs and live 5' away. Not worrying about driving makes a huge difference in lifestyle. It leaves more time for fun / productivity. It also makes it much eas
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Indextank Search now available as an add-on on AppHarbor(appharbor.com)
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IndexTank/80legs contest deadline extended. Now 7/5(blog.indextank.com)
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by diego 15y ago
Finding awesome developers is easy. For example, look at popular and respected projects on GitHub. Search Google. Attend conferences. Go to meetups. I could go on, there are countless ways. Hiring those developers is hard unless they think
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by diego 15y ago
I can confirm this. My email is in the leaked db. Both my mtgox and gmail passwords are unique, hard to guess by a dictionary attack and not shared with anything else. I received Google's message to change my password. As an aside, seeing t
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by diego 15y ago
Yes you can! Our indexes are persisted in Lucene format internally. Nobody has asked to download an index but if they asked we'd make it available.
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by diego 15y ago
It should be pretty straightforward: - run a crawl at 80legs - download the results as a csv or xml - feed them to IndexTank using your client of choice Over the weekend I'll put on my (rusty) hacker hat, do an example and blog about it.
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by diego 15y ago
Create a small web search engine. Crawl stuff with 80 legs, index it with IndexTank. Example: - Crawl everything you can find about bitcoin and do a bitcoin search engine (just popped up in my mind, may not be the most interesting idea).
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IndexTank / 80legs Crawlathon (developer contest)(blog.indextank.com)
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