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by marcus 18y ago
You know what they say a billion here two billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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by marcus 18y ago
I'm not entirely sure disabling the personalization effect would have been the wrong thing to do from a user experience point-of-view. Supposed I let a friend browse on my computer, do I really want my search results to be personalized with
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by marcus 18y ago
Don't flatter yourself. The problem Google is having isn't with storing the links, its with the effect of the links on the personalization of your search results. Which is a problem WebMynd isn't facing. They can't precompute the eigenvecto
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by marcus 18y ago
Simple answer you don't have to, just don't use SQS. If Amazon did the check internally and queried all servers for you the cost of each request would have been much larger and they would have scaling problems. This approach is the most eas
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by marcus 18y ago
It can be, but then why the hell are you staying?
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by marcus 18y ago
If there is an industry that interests you, go to a few trade shows in that industry space, you can meet the key companies, see demos of all the latest things, learn the lingo and so on. Most professional trade shows aren't cheap (expect to
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by marcus 18y ago
I agree Vista is good -> for my bottom line, I charged a ton of money from companies to make their software UAC compliant.
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by marcus 18y ago
Oil prices will continue to rise in the long term because Oil reserves are finite, prices reflect cost to extract a barrel or oil not the cost to produce a barrel of oil. And people forget that oil has another important uses that aren't rel
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by marcus 18y ago
I once saw code that had factories that generated factories that generated factories. Yuck... Like the ancient world view, "it's turtles all the way down"
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by marcus 18y ago
Actually some of the most seminal work in machine learning and statistics for example was done on the most boring datasets, for example read Fishers work on classifying Iris sub-species.
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by marcus 18y ago
I use the same strategy when I look for an SEO expert, I just google SEO expert or some other relevant keyword and go to the #1 link.
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by marcus 18y ago
True, but on the other hand you've accumulated a ton of company specific knowledge, familiarity with the codebase and so on. And usually the exact skills are less important than the innate prowess of the programmer.
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by marcus 18y ago
Funny that Techcrunch can't do basic equity math... If their combined stakes we're 5% and they got 2.5M$ each then the valuation was 100M$ not 50M$...
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by marcus 18y ago
How about Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman the creators of RSA without which the entire online e-commerce thingy wouldn't have existed.
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by marcus 18y ago
We used to play a game in bars and other places, one friend picks a random person and you need to hold that persons attention for X minutes of conversation. Fail to do it and the next round is on you. Iterate until you are comfortable with
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by marcus 18y ago
I prefer the term, speed semian
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by marcus 18y ago
Luckily as the thing is choppy as hell right now.
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by marcus 18y ago
If there's one thing I learned it's that to drive people to better results you need to align their interests with yours as perfectly as possible. And I find it astonishing that there is an entire industry whose interests are so far removed
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by marcus 18y ago
Not entirely sure Amazon makes a profit on S3. They might be offering it at a price lower than cost too, to establish themselves trusting costs to go down.
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by marcus 18y ago
I just reran the numbers a bit through S3 calculator and came up with 780K per month at that traffic level, so costs are already dropping but still not a very big profit margin, and that is assuming you can put ads on all your videos and yo
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by marcus 18y ago
Unfortunately the estimated cost for the infrastructure was about 1$CPM http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/04/30/did-youtube-just-raise-... 35M daily videos watched = 1000M monthly videos watched monthly infrastructure cost was estimated to b
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by marcus 18y ago
Even post obvious one liner comments with no real substance
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by marcus 18y ago
At least search engines can be told not to touch a certain link, if a bored user did the same thing who would you blame?
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by marcus 18y ago
Science, Gadgets & Cogsci are not bad either.
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by marcus 18y ago
And the solution is simple, remove the annual fees, and/or require that the GP invest their own money into the fund.
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by marcus 18y ago
Yes there are a few natural born managers, but they are rare and far in between.
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by marcus 18y ago
To err is human, but to really foul things up, you need a computer for that.
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by marcus 18y ago
You're right that it will take a lot of education, but the point is that at $1000-$2000 range it is financially viable to add these to each village. If the average wage is $1 a day and a village has 100 people living in it, you just need to
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by marcus 18y ago
Actually because Google is an OpenId provider, I believe with just a bit of work you can export the application out of the GAE by adding support for OpenId

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