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by groestl 8y ago
It's also that after bootstrapping with text search and page rank, they can incorporate a lot more useful signals in there ranking algorithm: the clickstream on the search results, and page visit time after the click. If the majority o
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by groestl 8y ago
> Our tools suck because... Oh, quite the opposite I'd say. Because we are software developers, and we can fix our problems with software, we accumulated quite a rich toolbox to solve our problems better. We're quick to dismiss
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by groestl 8y ago
Also, for creative work, I do believe this produces worse results. Too many breaks are bad as well, but the brain needs downtime between larger chunks of work to come up with better ideas.
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by groestl 8y ago
If they didn't back up the WAL files, point in time recovery wouldn't work at all (not even beetween full backups).
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by groestl 8y ago
I mean, a library is basically a B+-tree ;)
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by groestl 8y ago
You might want to edit your post and remove all the newlines, it's got a very weird formatting (at first I thought it was a poem).
817.
by groestl 8y ago
For 10% of the user group.
818.
by groestl 8y ago
But it's a good way to track who accidentially leaked your contact details.
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by groestl 8y ago
We (Austria) have up to 1063 days of paid parental leave (paid for by social security), if both parents decide to take it. It seems our companies manage :)
820.
by groestl 8y ago
That's one definition of liquidity (which applies here). In the context of companies liquidity can also mean: assets to pay short-term liabilities (based on the article, it seems Slack has no problems in that area).
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by groestl 8y ago
Let's just say conviction (in this case, it was also just a side effect).
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by groestl 8y ago
One real-world example is Coca Cola [0]. While most of the consumers probably don't care, influence of a small but committed minority made Coca Cola kosher, halal, and vegan. [0] https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillat
823.
by groestl 8y ago
> A privacy policy is not a contract Exactly. Why Atlas Obscura even uses language about "agreement" ("[...], you are agreeing to such modifications.") is beyond me. It might even result in more legal exposure and res
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by groestl 8y ago
This has very little to do with the GDPR. The GDPR allows the use of cookies under various provisions, and does not necessarily require user consent. These popups are about the ePrivacy directive (aka "cookie law"): https:/&
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by groestl 8y ago
In the context of distributed monetary transactions I think it's worth mentioning CRDTs - for readers of this thread who have not yet heard about them, and who might want to look into the topic if they have a similar problem to solve.
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by groestl 8y ago
If WhatsApp uses a version of libsignal whose copyright is solely in the hands of Open Whisper Systems, OWS can have a separate deal with WhatsApp which does not involve the GPL. AFAIK, this is already done to get Signal into the App Store
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by groestl 8y ago
> if you do everything, you do nothing well. Sometimes that's true, but I think that most often, these kind of transactions (M&A, spin-offs etc) are the result of political gaming on top of companies, rather than driven by actua
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by groestl 8y ago
Another option, assuming core Apple processes don't need more funding: they could pay out that cash as dividends, and let the market think about the future (getting the money to companies who's core actually is about automotive AI
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by groestl 8y ago
Or... we just found the governmentally sanctioned attack vector?
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by groestl 8y ago
It seems like he first ensured chaos for his competitors, and then executed well on that chaos by having a backup plan. Seems like a great capitalist. Lacking in ethics, as a human, but a great capitalist.
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by groestl 8y ago
Probably causes some customers to watch into some of the crappy search result titles, to see if it's the thing they wanted. Hence, the "hours watched" metric goes up.
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by groestl 8y ago
UTC adds little of value on top of TAI, except some headache for clock synchronization. So I argue for basing timezones directly on TAI, as I see TAI as the least impractical reference.
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by groestl 8y ago
> They’re political divisions Which I think is perfectly fine (if not necessary) for that layer. The human body doesn't care for extra seconds, and science doesn't either. So who do we do the "coordination" in UTC for
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by groestl 8y ago
> maybe this unit of time needed for scientific purposes doesn't need to be the same one used for daily life. Don't think the unit is the problem, it's the offset. And when it comes to that, we already have a virtualizatio
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by groestl 8y ago
People here dismiss the linear search, but for a small number of items (and yes, even thousands can be a small number), I wouldn't be so fast without testing it. Cache locality also has a say here, and depending on the exact circumstan
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by groestl 8y ago
I'm pretty sure it's number 2, as the prefix search requirement is probably the reason why they went with the linear search in the first place, and didn't just use a hash map.
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by groestl 8y ago
A handful of startups I've talked to have regretted their decision to host their application (or parts of their application) on a graph database. The ones who migrated away (to a traditional RDBMS) mentioned better tooling, higher stab
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by groestl 8y ago
Because the article is not much more than an elaborate wall of buzzword bingo and name-dropping. Nowhere does it answer the question it imposes on itself, and explains how a "yes" could be a serious answer to the question. Where t
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by groestl 8y ago
Nope [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
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by groestl 8y ago
The first part of your comment might be true, but regarding the newsworthiness of the post: there is always someone reading this from today's lucky 10000 [0]. It's generally great if complexity theory gets more coverage, here and

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