eirikref

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by eirikref 3y ago
Oh, absolutely not. They had no idea, and it wasn't really a thing outside of a few minutes of pranking one engineer visiting us + a bit of photoshopping for fun. The only ones to ever get in touch about this whole thing was, 1) The Y!
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by eirikref 3y ago
It had all started a bit earlier with a colleague (I assume that's you up there, jkb79 :) pulling the leg of a guy visiting us from the Bangalore office, about the polar bears roaming the streets of Trondheim. We just thought we'd
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by eirikref 10y ago
As a user who frequently opened the AppStore just to browse, discover new apps, and who used to buy a lot, I've just stopped opening the AppStore over the last three-four years. Browsing and discovery has become too hard for me, and I
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by eirikref 16y ago
Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... and watch for a few minutes. The whole video is really interesting, but that part is the really embarrassing one.
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by eirikref 16y ago
Those numbers alone really don't mean much. How many queries per second can they handle on those nodes, and with what latency? What kind of relevancy calculations were they able to do at query-time in their system with 1B documents per node
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by eirikref 16y ago
Just to confirm your arguments, I'm quoting from from http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article545833.ece : "Although stretching cable for about 3,000 kilometers from Andoeya to Longyearbyen seems inconvenient, the spot has been care
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by eirikref 16y ago
I'm looking at the Mozilla example on my laptop without a mouse, and I get a little bit annoyed when I'm hovering a certain node trying to click on it and the visualization keeps on moving and makes it hard to click on it. So maybe it coul
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by eirikref 16y ago
Personally I would have bought it, contacted Steve Jobs directly and right away (not called up Apple's support line, who of course cannot help with this issue), given him the phone without any questions or favors asked, and then just taken
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by eirikref 17y ago
Too bad you're leaving us, but good luck man :) Where did you get that Y! branded wizard's hat by the way?
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by eirikref 17y ago
To me this submission felt more like an ad for killerstartups.com than a story about creatly, and I'm not really sure I liked that. Linking directly to http://creately.com/ instead would have been much better, and that page is much more i
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by eirikref 17y ago
Yes, the people at Ludicorp ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludicorp ) were making Game Neverending ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Neverending ). And as pointed out in the Wikipedia article on GNE: "Occasional signs of this legacy are v
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by eirikref 17y ago
Crawling a few million pages, making some sort of searchable index, and building a simple frontend is a nice exercise for anyone, and building a new search engine as such is nothing special. Getting something up and running that has a good
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by eirikref 18y ago
I'm not quite sure I agree. If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google , you will see that they have often bought companies as well. In some cases you might argue that they have bought less known companies,