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by jsrfded 16y ago
Yes, being an HN reader is definitely a plus. :-) The best way to get an invite is hit us on twitter or facebook (see links from blekko.com). Then we can DM you an invite when we have them ready.
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by jsrfded 16y ago
Yes, blekko has a full web crawler, indexer, and some of the query processing code in perl. Some of the innards and query execution are in C++ for speed. Generally we tried to delay the conversion of a component to C++ as late as possible,
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by jsrfded 16y ago
Agree...the unrelated photo (stock?) doesn't help the credibility here. That plus the vague story made me think this was content from an article farm. Doesn't seem to be though.
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by jsrfded 16y ago
It's an answer to the thread about Mark Zuckerberg still writing code, where TechCrunch asked if Bill Gates still coded 5 years after Microsoft was founded. That's why it was (re)posted.
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Cuil launches auto-generated encyclopedia(cuil.com)
1 points by jsrfded 17y ago|0 comments
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by jsrfded 17y ago
Robot bans can render your archive.org records inaccessable, zap all your former code 200 urls out of the major search indices, and yes, kill your inclusion in the list of topical sites. Much better to set a temporary Crawl-Delay directive.
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by jsrfded 17y ago
Google indexes robots banned sites based on links. But notice that the snippet is gone. Google also won't be able to index HN posts and comments anymore.
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by jsrfded 17y ago
It's unfortunate because I often use site: to find old threads on ycombinator. especially since news.ycombinator.com doesn't have its own search facility, external search engines are the old way to comb through old posts here.
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Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines(news.ycombinator.com)
318 points by jsrfded 17y ago|120 comments
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by jsrfded 17y ago
At blekko we're building a web-scale search engine in perl. It includes a distributed platform (kind of like bigtable) currently running on ~200 machines (soon to be 700). The total datastore, containing several n-billion page crawls and a
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by jsrfded 17y ago
The vote counter is going up like crazy now, and Yahoo is now trumping both Google and Bing. Yahoo was in 3rd place earlier today when I looked. Seems like someone is hitting it with a robot to goose Yahoo's numbers. So much for the data
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by jsrfded 17y ago
They can take a phone number too; I give them nnn-555-1212. It's always registered and you get the discount. I use this on vacation - "What's the area code here?" "808..?" "My number is 808-555-1212". Bingo. But yeah, it's a hack.
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by jsrfded 17y ago
AP-style news can be dull, but I wish more bloggers would use a bit of the inverted pyramid [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid ] when writing. I wouldn't have clicked if I didn't want to see what the author had to say. But
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by jsrfded 17y ago
Agreed. Those numbers make no sense whatsoever.
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by jsrfded 17y ago
ditto...I have met Freeman, he is a good guy, and he's been through the startup grind and is entrepreneur-friendly. The area around his apartment is walking distance to a great complex with a ton of pan-asian restaurants... pho, korean, hug
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by jsrfded 17y ago
This data is from 2004.
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by jsrfded 18y ago
It's bad form to diss your employer, current or former, in public. Even more so for a senior guy like that. He's leaving one hot company to go work at another - he can talk about the great opportunity at Twitter. He doesn't need to gripe
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by jsrfded 18y ago
Trashing may be too strong a word, granted. But it's making public unflattering internal details about a company that employed him. I would be personally irritated if I was this guy's manager. Coming across material like that when researc
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by jsrfded 18y ago
It may be entertaining to read internal laundry gripes about a company. But trashing your employer on the way out the door is bad form.
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by jsrfded 18y ago
Please, HN people, stop linking to the print only versions. It takes me work to navigate back to the version that shows the publisher navigation conext, proper reading width, and makes the publisher happy that you linked to them. If I wan
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by jsrfded 18y ago
Cloud is a vague term, but like "web 2.0" is sorta does refer to some specific things. "Cloud" seems to be overloaded to mean both web services, outsourced virtual datacenters (e.g. EC2), and using virtualization/cluster technology in your
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by jsrfded 18y ago
After having run various html/xml/rss parsers against a 1B page web crawl, I'd have to say that it's pretty rare to find ones that can actually pass the web fuzz test. Most seem to have been written from a more spec-driven approach. This
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by jsrfded 18y ago
Mahalo was founded in 2007.
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by jsrfded 18y ago
Their employment page also lists jobs titles that they are hiring for: CNC Machinist / Senior Product Design / Outside Sales Engineer Clearly they have titles. Perhaps the vagueness of the article is actually indicative of it not being ver
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by jsrfded 18y ago
I saw that quote somewhere, I think marissa said it in one of her talks
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by jsrfded 18y ago
7 year olds are searching "darth vader rap" on youtube behind your back. They don't understand the web like you do but they figure out/share how to nav to stuff pretty quick.
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by jsrfded 18y ago
non-reg link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/technology/24obscene.html?...
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by jsrfded 18y ago
Wicked cool PR score... Glowing review in the LAT. Congrats Octopart guys!
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by jsrfded 18y ago
Ow. The triple arrow thing is over the top. The orig UI was nicely subtle and understated. Too much overthinking user experience sometimes isn't good. OTOH, users always bitch about change.
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7 people you hope you don't meet at your start-up(marksonland.com)
4 points by jsrfded 18y ago|0 comments

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