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by elq 19y ago
> "we never had to deal with sharding the index across multiple servers or a hash table of words that wouldn’t fit in memory. Speaking of which, I’d love to read some papers on how internet-scale search engines actually do that. Does an
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by elq 19y ago
well... there is probably already a few teams with econometricians on board. based on my prior experience with that ilk - I'm sure their progress got held up by the insistence that all returns (err, ratings) follow a guassian distribution.
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This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize(wired.com)
70 points by elq 19y ago|24 comments
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by elq 19y ago
umm.. you'll have quite a learning curve ahead of you, but preserver. open up terminal.app and type - >ls .profile You should see a response like - eric@quark:~>ls .profile .profile eric@quark:~> this means tha
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by elq 19y ago
well... your shell is probably ignoring .profile. I think the default shell under osx is now bash, so look for a file called .bashrc, and if it exists add the settings from .profile in there (or you can just source .profile from your bashrc
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Portrait of a N00b(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
63 points by elq 19y ago|30 comments
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by elq 19y ago
One reason for news.yc to allow down voting stories. I cannot believe that (at the time of commenting) 4 people actually give a shit.
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by elq 19y ago
Will Shipley can be an ass... but this otherwise worthless blog post has one nugget of useful info - "My MacBook Air with 2GB of RAM and 1.8 GHz cores and the SSD compiles Delicious Library 2 from scratch in 1:59.4. My MacBook Pro with 3GB
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DTrace review at google (video.google.com)
2 points by elq 19y ago|1 comments
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by elq 19y ago
I've recently come across an interesting situation and would like to know how it would effect my company's chance at being accepted by YC. An investor I knew in a prior experience has expressed an interest in investing in my new endeavor.
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by elq 19y ago
it does for my potential co-founder. He's been working here for over 6 years with no GC. apparently you can't renew your H1B after X years, only stay with the same company.
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by elq 19y ago
What about co-founders who are H1B's and would face legal consequences for quiting their company?
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by elq 19y ago
it's not the browser based gmaps. it's a "native" app.
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Stevey's Blog Rants: Rhino on Rails (straight from the horse's mouth)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
32 points by elq 19y ago|14 comments
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by elq 19y ago
I certainly can't speak to pg's views about your content at large; I'm confident that I can provide an accurate representation of why he would disagree with this article. Quote from one of his essays - "My final test may be the most restr
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by elq 19y ago
While I agree with Godin's general premise, the obvious (at least to me) implication of this to hackers is to make "enterprise" software. This is rather unfortunate. The sales cycle for such systems tends to be very drawn out, and large com
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by elq 19y ago
No - Palo Alto and Mountain View were the focus. There was 4 of us, each working at very well known companies and making each over $100k/yr, so we wanted a nice 4-5 bedroom house preferably with a pool and plenty of parking. Those types of
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by elq 19y ago
A few years ago I attempted to do a very similar thing with a few friends from the goog. The issue that we ran into - owners really don't like renting large places (like a house) to non-families. So the four of us (including one woman!) wer
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by elq 19y ago
An interesting essay on competition - http://software.ericsink.com/Choose_Your_Competition.html All of Eric Sink's essays are valuable to a founder, at least as food for thought.
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by elq 19y ago
Engineers can be great at selling, given one major caveat. They must learn to communicate with people who are less sophisticated then they are without being condescending. I was (shockingly) successful at selling for 3 simple reasons. 1 - I
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Google Developers Day - Theorizing from Data (Norvig on large data sets)(youtube.com)
10 points by elq 19y ago|0 comments
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The Pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 3: "But I don't know any VCs!"(blog.pmarca.com)
20 points by elq 19y ago|2 comments
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John Lam on Software: Steve Yegge ported Rails to JavaScript(iunknown.com)
33 points by elq 19y ago|16 comments
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by elq 19y ago
Well... there's a broad spectrum of startup "types" - everything from "supplement my income, maybe replace it in the future" to full bore "VC funded, have to grow like cancer or we'll die". If your idea fits in the the former class of start
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by elq 19y ago
started off as an LLC, switched to a C corp 4 months later. we found it impossible (within the time frame we needed) to sign big ticket contracts, for things like 10k sq/ft in office space (yes, stupid in hindsight), or a cage in a datacen
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by elq 19y ago
to this list I can add a few more reasons: A fairly strong potential for financial ruin; an amazing amount of personal drama; and deep strain on friendships among the founders. After my last (also my first) company failed - my credit was he
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Why not to do a startup(blog.pmarca.com)
51 points by elq 19y ago|8 comments
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An emacs spotlight mode(emacs.wordpress.com)
2 points by elq 19y ago|0 comments
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by elq 19y ago
xtian The closest thing to a competitor that I know of (at least in the uni and arts market) is Paciolan; and after talking to them a bit about their architecture a few years ago - I don't think they pose much of a threat. TicketMaster on
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by elq 19y ago
Let me be a little more specific about what I mean - I'm not saying that raid is bad, it has its issues, but it most certainly has its places. The issue that I see as most significant with raid is the "brain shut down" effect - i.e. once y

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