earl

56 ms·

481.
by earl 16y ago
The video on their home page is great .
482.
by earl 16y ago
If you don't want to be tracked, the single best thing to do is to disable 3rd party cookies.
483.
by earl 16y ago
Wow. If your goal is to butcher display advertising, this is how you do it. Retargeting, demographic targeting, and predictive targeting would all be gone -- you'd be left with top shelf inventory sold by salespeople, and remnant inventor
484.
by earl 16y ago
Anybody who works in the industry has heard of them -- they're the IAB in IAB standard ad sizes, etc. What do you mean by submarine?
485.
by earl 16y ago
First of all, as far as I am aware, Google has been a very friendly contributor to open source, releasing lots and lots of high quality code, including some really cool stuff that isn't available elsewhere such as GWT or Guice. I'm strongl
486.
by earl 16y ago
amazon's moat: cheap prices via the infrastructure they've built around efficient storage, warehousing, and delivery. Try finding most of the stuff they sell for materially less money once you take into account delivery costs. A deserved
487.
by earl 16y ago
Dude, I'm not hating, but when you are plugging accelereyes, maybe you should mention you're the CEO and cofounder. That being said, it looks like interesting tech.
488.
by earl 16y ago
But in 2005 -- or when the Y acquisition was being debated -- it wasn't obvious that fb would be able to monetize their enormous quantity of pageviews. In any case, the enormous email list groupon has is awesome... but I think LivingSocial
489.
by earl 16y ago
Yeah, but where's their moat? Contrast to FB -- the value of the network increases as more people are in it. How does groupon build a moat? Just because more people groupon, does it make competitors less valuable? Is it a barrier to hav
490.
by earl 16y ago
Lesson -- the 24 hour fitness gym in SOMA is a strangely small world. Hi Jason.
491.
by earl 16y ago
Do you actually use scipy? I tried briefly and was awfully disappointed. For starters, the documentation was crap. Followed closely by the fact that I wanted to take the norm of a vector and had to try 3 different norm functions before on
492.
by earl 16y ago
Standard police / prosecutor procedure: a witness up and "remembers" a damning detail immediately before trial. This isn't disclosed to the defense. The fact that the prosecutor felt comfortable acting this way even after the previous shi
493.
by earl 16y ago
You worked for epic too?
494.
by earl 16y ago
People can start by disabling 3rd party cookies in their browsers.
495.
by earl 16y ago
Perhaps I'm stupid, or maybe it's that I went to a state school, but I didn't recognize the quote.
496.
by earl 16y ago
Interesting -- cool job post. What I would really like to see, although of course you may not want to disclose this, is what sort of projects this person would work on in the first couple of months. For everybody else, I spent 2 years worki
497.
by earl 16y ago
Since Theodore brought this up: "(And those stories about Google paying $3.5 million and $7 million to keep an engineer from defecting to Facebook? As far as I know, total bull. I bet it’s something made up by some Facebook recruiter who
498.
by earl 16y ago
Hadoop is extremely complex to do anything requiring communication. My favorite example is ranking: say you have a set of <set (string), id (string), score (float in [0,1])> tuples and for each unique class, you want to rank ids by
499.
by earl 16y ago
Speaking only for myself: I strongly support people sharing as much music and whatever else as they want because the RIAA / MPAA are thieves. Those organizations have strongly supported making people pay per device they own which is just
500.
by earl 16y ago
Hadoop Every idiot out there wants to spray some "big data" retardation all over whatever they're doing, so they throw together a cluster -- if one were really generous -- of a handful of machines so they can use hadoop too! Meh. It's not
501.
by earl 16y ago
Apparently they also believe in super fucking annoying websites.
502.
by earl 16y ago
I use zotero to save full pages; I like it. It's software that runs locally in ff. If someone is interested, I'd love to talk about some improvements -- you could start with 1 - remove ads 2 - create a single file website archive format li
503.
by earl 16y ago
Hey DJN (Niyi?) -- if you're reading this, please email me, and consider putting your email in your profile.
504.
by earl 16y ago
A Real Demographics Ad Network quantcast? And since its inference, not regdata based, we can offer significantly more reach than eg blue kai or excelate NB: for jackasses -- all opinions are my own. My opinions are not endorsed or authori
505.
by earl 16y ago
Much more nefarious? Full browsing history, full access to email for many people, all unencrypted IM conversations, and your full search history unless your using https at google or duckduckgo? I can't imagine why people might be upset.
506.
by earl 16y ago
Quantcast is -- a huge amount of hadoop and performance sensitive code, and the majority of our external website. 1 - we self host 2 - the relevant performance issue when using java to develop web apps is it's slower to build. I'd be prett
507.
by earl 16y ago
The glibertarians' favorite experiment -- which is (btw) 30 years old and unreplicated despite attempts, and has methodological flaws. To name just one: a number of people dropped out of the study. The authors have dismissed this as a con
508.
by earl 16y ago
I can't believe people aren't tearing this asshole to threads. Between all the bullshit in his article, what he's really saying is this: let's pay less for health insurance by transferring more costs to the individual. I suppose you might
509.
by earl 16y ago
In the 2003 to 2007 period, a couple of blogs I follow (whatever.scalzi.com , Brad Delong) all had constant technical problems with MT. http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004350.html http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/15/ Or BradD, who has
510.
by earl 16y ago
Just use R -- the stats support is IMO the best in the world and it has very high adoption amongst stats grad departments and practitioners of statistics. The visualization tools work well -- I've written about basic plotting tools, but if

More ›