lazyjones

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by lazyjones 14y ago
I'm (still) hoping that next-gen laptops and tablets won't need any fans (or "almost silent" coolers). My tablet is already completely fanless and quiet, and so is my Dell Mini 9 ...
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by lazyjones 14y ago
We still need to scrape many (several 100) clients' websites because they are unable to give us product feeds (adequate ones or any at all) for their stores. But hey, it gives us a small edge because we try harder than the competition.
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by lazyjones 14y ago
For Perl you can use Web::Query (but don't use the default HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath with it, it's extremely slow - use http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-TreeBuilder-LibXML/ ), or Mojo::DOM (part of Mojolicious: http://mojolicio.us/ ). Both
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Scraping could be made a lot harder by website publishers, but they all depend on the biggest scraper accessing their content so it can bring traffic: Google ... The biggest downside of scraping is that it often takes a long time for very l
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by lazyjones 14y ago
You'll need precise and complete documentation of the CPU and other hardware, which is not too hard to find nowdays (17 years ago it was mostly books and they were incomplete/wrong). You can probably go a long way just by programming by the
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by lazyjones 14y ago
To be fair to languages without such great parallelism support: you can do this using asynchronous/event-loop-based code because the parallelism will be limited by the nameserver anyway (the calling code does almost nothing, it mostly waits
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by lazyjones 14y ago
An academic career was my dream job while I was an undergrad, but it disappointed me later when I actually reached that goal. I'd say go for it if you feel it'll be rewarding, but don't stick with it out of stubbornness when it no longer ma
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Please ignore the "INTERN", it's due to a misunderstanding on my behalf (I don't write job offers in English often) - we're looking for full-time employees.
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Life: leaving the academic world and doing things that actually affect / matter to people. Programming: writing an Atari ST emulator (it landed me a job offer by a prestigious game company)
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Geizhals in Vienna, Austria is looking for senior and lead web/full-stack developers (INTERN). We currently use mostly Perl (mod_perl, PSGI/Plack and Mojolicious), PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache, Gearman, as well as JavaScript, C, Java/JSP, PHP
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by lazyjones 14y ago
> The good thing about machines is that once you tune them, they'll make the same exact burger, every single time. That's a huge benefit to consumers. Now I won't have to eat someone's bad day! OTOH, the robots will ignore your complain
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Robots in a restaurant benefit only the owner, not the customer (esp. when they burn the burgers like in the pictures). When robots are able to cook proper meals, they'll be in our homes to do so, because we'll want to save time and money a
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by lazyjones 14y ago
A TB of traffic will cost at least around €2-3 from most european (and other) ISPs with VPS so you basically claim to have enough spare change lying around at the age of 15 to pay €2000-3000/month just for Tor traffic because you're an idea
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by lazyjones 14y ago
I'd honestly like to know how he paid for all this stuff: up to 30TB/day traffic according to arstechnica (costs surely more than 1-2k euro/month), loads of servers - all with the salary of a 20 years old ISP employee?
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Here's a notorius austrian court-appointed linguistics "expert" who became infamous during the trial of animal rights activists accused of forming a terrorist group: http://images.derstandard.at/t/12/livebericht/1297818651208/... He claim
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by lazyjones 14y ago
> Is it reasonable for the police to investigate an exit node operator for traffic coming from his node, even if they know he's an exit node operator? In theory, you are right and the police would probably need to examine his servers to
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Other candidates: * Yahoo's Everest * Greenplum * Aster Data All mentioned here: http://www.cubrid.org/blog/dev-platform/database-technology-... The Register wrote that Amazon's solution is a column-oriented database possibly based on Pos
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by lazyjones 14y ago
This is great news, but it also makes me a bit sad - because all this innovation died down in the 80's when everyone lost interest in the space race. We could be 30 years further down the road already and many of us probably won't live to s
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by lazyjones 14y ago
> Chrome makes Google no money besides having Google as the default search. Firefox makes Google money in exactly the same way. Firefox is just as important to Google's revenue as Chrome is. You forget that Google pays Mozilla a lot of
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by lazyjones 14y ago
As long as Mozilla is 95% or so dependent on funding by Google, there's a conflict of interest present that will very likely not lead to Mozilla's Firefox being a competitive browser. If you think otherwise, you're a hopeless romantic... As
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by lazyjones 14y ago
/me open-mindedly wonders what's going to happen to HN and everyone else who links to the article in the age of "SafeSearch" filters, search engines sinking pages using sexually explicit content etc. ... We may still be open-minded, but we
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Most people definitely use whatever is preset in the browser, at least until someone shows them something better. But regarding the name, the situation is very similar to the one with Microsoft Word: if it isn't called that ("MS Word" ... o
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Online- and Software-centric startups are way overhyped right now. I believe that the commoditization of personal computing, smartphones and websites and the emergence of giants like Google, Apple, Facebook has made these much less interest
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Correction: a) when DuckDuckGo is the selected search engine. Changing the default search engine (from Firefox's perspective, not what the user thinks it is) apparently requires fiddling with about:config.
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by lazyjones 14y ago
> People aren't using DDG much not because of any difficulties in the browser, because they don't want to. You are wrong and you know it. Most people use whatever is the preset default search engine in their browser and that is why Goog
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Current Firefox Nightly uses Google for search when something is typed in the location bar even when a) DuckDuckGo is the default search engine, b) Google is removed from the search engines list completely. Go figure... I've lost all respec
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Are you talking about friction between carriage and liquid or walls and (moving) liquid? The liquid will move at the desired travel velocity, so I believe the latter will be important.
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by lazyjones 14y ago
> Consider: is it harder to push your hand through the air or a tub of water? Consider a tub of water moving at the desired speed...
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by lazyjones 14y ago
Why does everyone expect this "tube" to be filled with air? A liquid is more interesting and it also stores a lot more energy when it moves ...
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by lazyjones 14y ago
What if it isn't air, but an actual fluid, e.g. water? It cannot be compressed, so it's "crash proof" (carriages cannot hit other carriages with water in between). It also has plenty of mass, so once it has started moving, it will push carr

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