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by eliben 13y ago
This is trivial to do in any modern browser without DDG.
602.
by eliben 13y ago
Yes, assuming that regexes are actually being used to parse real-world languages like C++ is charmingly naive.
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by eliben 13y ago
Because this plays on people's basic instinct to keep being fed meaningless, content-less pieces of the current "hot news". It's the bread and butter of modern media, and is not much different from what tabloid readers e
604.
by eliben 13y ago
Can we please stop this? If anyone wants to follow this story, she can go to cnn.com or news.google.com; let's please leave HN for interesting technical content. This is truly becoming tiring.
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by eliben 13y ago
Two common kinds of reactions by people who fail tech interviews at Google, Facebook, etc: 1. Think how to improve and practice for the next interview. 2. Bitch about how technical interviews are unfair, biased, miss the best people and ...
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by eliben 13y ago
Very good piece of writing. Describes a feeling that many people share without admitting, IMHO.
607.
by eliben 13y ago
No, because blaming Google is trendy lately and will bring more traffic to the site.
608.
by eliben 13y ago
If you're right then it's a sad situation. I hate it when terms start morphing into unrelated interpretations by means of public drift.
609.
by eliben 13y ago
I find the use of the term "Big Data" there bullshit. Even for the largest company like Walmart with 2 million employees - having some data about every one is hardly "big". Collect a whole deluge of data about each and y
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by eliben 13y ago
This is a deep fallacy. The amount of science and technology behind Google's prevalence is absolutely huge. Google prevailed through better search results, not through execution and marketing.
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by eliben 13y ago
"Just three companies—Google, Apple, and Facebook —generated most of the new ideas (at least the mainstream ones) and most of the business momentum. (If I had more room and time, I’d work Amazon into the argument, but as
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by eliben 13y ago
Precisely. When a smaller provider goes from 1000 to 50 users, it's a "ZOMG 95% drop!" while only 950 users left, line noise for bigger providers. You're adding another example to my point. Naturally I didn't say th
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by eliben 13y ago
I think Kahneman has a name for this common fallacy in this book -- it's the one wherein small samples always appear to change radically because they are... uhm... small.
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by eliben 13y ago
The idea of UML makes sense - why not have a common graphical language for the things programmers want to describe to each other all the time? Sometimes I think the implementation is just wrong - because programmers are obviously voting wit
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by eliben 13y ago
Note that it remains an open-source project, so folks for whom it's important can still use it.
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by eliben 13y ago
Because it's so easy?
617.
by eliben 13y ago
What is their business strategy?
618.
by eliben 13y ago
It seems that "pure web platform" is a foundational goal for Firefox OS; it's hard to see that changing in an update, but yeah, who knows.
619.
by eliben 13y ago
IMHO relying solely on the web platform (HTML5, etc) for your OS is a mistake. I don't see Firefox OS succeed in more than niche markets - it's just purely worse than stock android in every respect.
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FreeBase - open semantic database, by Google(freebase.com)
2 points by eliben 13y ago|0 comments
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Google Photo Search: A Step Across the Semantic Gap(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
3 points by eliben 13y ago|1 comments
622.
by eliben 13y ago
"For me as developer, Windows is my "home" operating system" This is your big problem. Liberate yourself - you won't look back.
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by eliben 13y ago
Upvoting it simply of out pure pleasure to see an interesting post on HN in the swarm of boring politics crap it's filled in recently.
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by eliben 13y ago
You know why your comment reeks of politics? Because technically it doesn't make any sense. If you're a user of Waze now, if anything then the situation can improve for you. Now being a purely Israeli company Waze is surely more s
625.
by eliben 13y ago
Seriously, what are you hiding?
626.
by eliben 13y ago
How are they immutable? Given some obj, is obj.prop immutable?
627.
by eliben 13y ago
Do source maps also support tracing values in variables, or do they only map line numbers in source to line numbers in output? Because the former (mapping values) is the hard part of implementing a debugger.
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by eliben 13y ago
Why, imagining is fun. There are tons of photos of these places online, many of them tagged ("breaking news from the dome of the rock", or "here's me and Sam at the western wall"). Collect enough of these and you can attach knowledge to ima
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by eliben 13y ago
Anyone's free to build that product. Of course, not anyone is capable of this - surely Google leverages immense computing power, complex software and its knowledge graph to do this analysis? You'd need to replicate all that in competition.
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by eliben 13y ago
Hmm, according to http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger Tesla now promises to charge 150 miles of range worth of battery in 30 minutes. This isn't bad, though of course far from perfect. But yes, parallel charging of sub-batteries sound

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