litewulf

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by litewulf 17y ago
But every time you tell people what they do wrong they can begin to figure out how the abuse detection works. What if the threshold is at 25 domains, so instead people start opening multiple accounts that run only 24 domains. By telling peo
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by litewulf 17y ago
Its possible that the argument is that all visitors at Google are recorded and thus those logs are the same as logging network users. Curious though, I glanced briefly at the wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_
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by litewulf 17y ago
Google public access is NOT the on-campus Google Wifi. On campus theres some Wifi network that is open and unrestricted. The public access one has a public portal (and vastly lower coverage in Mountain View last time I checked.)
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by litewulf 17y ago
Google has a JSON-based API: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje Its misleadingly named, hard to find, etc etc, but it exists. :/
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by litewulf 17y ago
Right. Lets return to my original Google Search analogy. Google Search costs Google a fortune to run, theres all this indexing and bandwidth and serving infrastructure thats just being wasted. Remember at the time most people were looking a
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by litewulf 17y ago
I find this a rather strange article. Flash back in time to before Google was All-About-Ads: Google can not keep subsidizing its search users! Clearly they work great, but the tech demo is over, and its not as effective at selling their cor
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by litewulf 17y ago
Just wondering, why is it important to have a viable competitor to Google? Are you worried about corporate shenanigans, or a single point of failure or something entirely else?
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by litewulf 17y ago
(Sidenote: Google search is not just PageRank. Many of the recent changes to search require more than just a better popularity metric. Obvious things are things like better stemming or stop wording which are quite tricky to get right.)
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by litewulf 17y ago
Sure, thats reasonable. I think I'm just a bit frustrated by the "so and so works at Google, therefore they must have chosen technology X or approach Y because of their presence!" when its very hard to know what everyone in (or formerly at)
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by litewulf 17y ago
I believe Udi Manber works in Search or online something or other, and not Apps. There are 10,000 engineers (in varying capacities) at Google, who have all done lots of disparate and random things. Sometimes, by sheer stroke of luck, people
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by litewulf 17y ago
Google recently published a bunch of specs on their server fleet, touting energy efficiency. The designs were somewhat old, but certainly its not withholding information solely to keep data centers expensive.
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by litewulf 17y ago
If you can run under the free quota, its free. Most blogs probably will run within that.
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by litewulf 17y ago
(Is this accounting for cost of living?)
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by litewulf 17y ago
Javascript has implicit semicolon insertion. This means that some lines of code will not do what you'd expect if you make a dumb mistake.
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by litewulf 17y ago
I just wanted to bring up a counterpoint. I work on Google Moderator, with a smattering of other 20%ers. My boss semi-discouraged me from putting time into it (he would prefer I spent my "20% time" on a project within my department), but it
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by litewulf 17y ago
(For my own curiosity+better editing-ness, how did you do that?) (And I swear the link looked fine when I typed that comment out. Not sure what happened. Thanks parent and grandparent!)
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by litewulf 17y ago
(Sidenote: You probably want the observer's paradox, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observers_Paradox which is basically identical, but specfically coined because it is something that comes up in social science realms.)
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by litewulf 17y ago
The only problem of course is that when your "more complex than a very simple project" hits the size where Eclipse just can't take it any more. A project I'm working on is pretty much at that scale, and random things basically stop working
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by litewulf 17y ago
Uh, when I say casual games, I really mean people playing scrabble on facebook or the games on yahoo, or things like bejeweled. I have a sneaking suspicion they enjoy a much broader demographic than half life 2 and its ilk.
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by litewulf 17y ago
Gaming by and large is dominated by casual games which do not require these "thousand dollar machines" (which outside of the true "enthusiasts" I doubt people are really buying anyway.) Most everyone has a computer, and I'm sure anyone that
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by litewulf 17y ago
I actually use Vista as a window manager for all my Linux tools. I kind of like it.
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by litewulf 17y ago
I work on a website and I use two 24" monitors. Firefox maximized on one (Firebug takes up tons of room you know!), and screen (with emacs/terminals/etc) on the other. I think this is more a personal preference thing than anything else. (An
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by litewulf 17y ago
I at least know someone who worked (tangentially) on the statistics thing, and it was in the pipeline for a long time. Similarly for things like searchwiki or longer snippets (I've heard of small UI changes sitting around for years ). I th
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by litewulf 17y ago
Indexing, in the trivial sense is easy. PageRank (which is old) is already a step beyond (How does one deal with spam? How does one handle redirects, or splash pages that forward you somewhere). Semantic analysis is a step further (what doe
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by litewulf 17y ago
I'm going to guess he asked "how much does solar cost, per watt..."
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by litewulf 17y ago
(Anecdote time: I'm at Google in a team full of engineers. We spend meetings arguing about the UI. We defer to people who actually get paid to think about UI when it comes to these situations. I'm sure it varies from team to team.)
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by litewulf 17y ago
GvR has better English proficiency?
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by litewulf 18y ago
I just left awhile ago. Wanted to say thanks to those that organized it and showed up.
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by litewulf 18y ago
(Theres a story about this being suggested as a hoax business idea somewhere...)
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by litewulf 18y ago
Yes. My phone is associated with my personal account and not my company one though. Besides, the system predates the phones.

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