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by gibrown 7y ago
We don't have offices. 100% distributed. You should apply: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
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by gibrown 7y ago
We (Automattic) already run our own ads business: https://wordads.co/
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by gibrown 7y ago
Always! https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
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by gibrown 7y ago
Feels like the article was about more than that one issue. It also discussed creators slicing in frames of mickey mouse and other methods of gaming the alg. Most of the responses here seem to be buying into Google's hype around number
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by gibrown 7y ago
The total number of videos really doesn't matter, it is the total number of creators, which at least this site claims is a total of 50m for all time: https://mediakix.com/blog/youtuber-statistics-content-creato...
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by gibrown 7y ago
Those are interesting ideas thanks for the thoughts. FWIW I’ve seen users try to use even non-prominent search boxes like those as if they can do more than SQL LIKE. Most users have no idea how any of this works and just want answers. Mostl
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by gibrown 7y ago
Do you have an example of that that simple search bar could look like?
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by gibrown 8y ago
Automattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >60 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 30
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by gibrown 9y ago
It doesn't actually sound like he "solved" it. More like he put error bounds around it and can detect when the error is more than X. > When the calculated result is no longer sufficiently accurate the result is so marked,
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by gibrown 9y ago
> Cross data center replication is really a much needed feature. This works pretty well already if you are running on your own hardware and have a good network. We've been running a three data center setup across the US for four yea
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by gibrown 9y ago
Even a cursory look at some stats says that is completely untrue: - 6 of top 10 "DB-engines" are open source: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking - web servers are 83% nginx+apache: https://w3techs.c
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by gibrown 9y ago
This was my experience working on SoCs at Broadcom also where we didn't really use FPGAs at all. But at another employer that did not work on consumer designs, I did use a lot of large FPGAs in final shipped products, and in those case
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by gibrown 9y ago
They had doubled down on their licensing decision on Aug 18th specifically citing Apache: https://code.facebook.com/posts/112130496157735/explaining-r... This is very clearly a response to WordPress. Nicely played
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Real-Time Elasticsearch Indexing on WordPress.com(data.blog)
3 points by gibrown 9y ago|0 comments
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by gibrown 9y ago
I work at Automattic, and work out of my local coffee shop probably two times a week (rest of the time at home). It's a nice way to mix things up. Also, pretty efficient as they have great food that they will deliver to my table as I w
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by gibrown 9y ago
Algolia has done some terrific work on search latency (and written about it which is awesome https://stories.algolia.com/how-algolia-reduces-latency-for-... ). I think ES can get there, but depends a lot on what hardware you
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by gibrown 9y ago
Automattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 28
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by gibrown 9y ago
> ignored this issue I'm not sure the author would necessarily know that this is true. The author also didn't say whether they informed WP Core that they were going to publish it. Per the "revision history" the notes
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by gibrown 9y ago
This looks a lot like a 0day exploit posted to get traffic and exposure for their startup.
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by gibrown 9y ago
The thing that I've found that motivates me the most long term is to work on problems that I think are important to work on. Working on challenging problems is great, and motivating for a while (few years), but ultimately I need to wor
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by gibrown 9y ago
Automattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 27
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Welcoming New Colleagues – A Data-Based Story(data.blog)
1 points by gibrown 10y ago|0 comments
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by gibrown 10y ago
Thanks. Sorry about that.
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by gibrown 10y ago
Automattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 27
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by gibrown 10y ago
Gah, wrong thread... more coffee...
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by gibrown 10y ago
That's cool to see, although given the exploding Samsung Galaxy phone situation (probably completely unrelated) I'm not sure their engineering of power consumption/cooling is the best thing to cite. :)
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by gibrown 10y ago
This is what I've used them for. Low volume design as in thousands of chips a year rather than millions. Or cases where reprogrammability greatly improves the ability to provide fixes and improvements in the field as a part of very exp
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by gibrown 10y ago
I think it will still be a very uphill battle to get such chips integrated anywhere for some very basic reasons: power and heat. All those extra transistors that allow FPGAs to be reprogrammable also dissipate a lot of heat and use a lot of
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by gibrown 10y ago
So does this mean I'll soon be able to go and buy the internet history of all Republican lawmakers? Cause that sounds fun...
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by gibrown 10y ago
FYI: From my experience (on older ES versions) when you hit problems with it, they will be pretty bad, catastrophic problems. We run dedicated master nodes, but have the master servers running multiple ES instances, so they can serve as mas

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