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by mayank 16y ago
Just a general comment about the site: I love your logo and headline styling, but why is the body text so unreadable? I know I can just ctrl+ it, but it seems that if you're building a better TechCrunch content-wise, why not shoot for bette
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by mayank 16y ago
Although these are drastic service cuts, at least one proposal might mean faster commutes to SV: -- Suspension of weekday service at up to seven of the following stations: Bayshore, South San Francisco, San Bruno, Burlingame, Hayward Park,
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by mayank 16y ago
Agreed, and if you're talking about an army , DJB is a wonderful example. Not only can he write iron code, but he can successfully sue the government when they try to restrict it, while representing himself : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by mayank 16y ago
His being Russian has no bearing on the issue. nginx and the pivot improvement to quicksort don't imply that Russian mathematicians no longer need to prove their claims. Not being an academic doesn't exempt you from having to do rigorous an
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by mayank 16y ago
Hmm...there's no mention of it being suited for a dynamic or "online" setting as another commenter notes (not sure why my other comment was downvoted for that). I don't know what to make of this from the description: "This algorithm especi
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by mayank 16y ago
Nevertheless, it's inexcusable to be proposing a string matching algorithm without at least mentioning why suffix trees can't do the job. At the very least, showing that your algorithm beats suffix trees in any instantiation does wonders fo
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by mayank 16y ago
I didn't say it did. On the other hand, unless the author of the algorithm is really clueless (edit: or knowingly making a probabilistic statement), I'm sure he meant amortized time.
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by mayank 16y ago
> Big O notation refers to boundary times. No it doesn't. You can have an O(N) amortized time. Big-O is a bounding function up to a constant factor, not necessarily a boundary (as in worst-case) time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amort
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by mayank 16y ago
No DBLP profile for the author, no proofs on site, fastest algorithm known "to me " qualifier, no results for "suffix tree" on page, not a good sign. EDIT: Am I missing something??? Complexity analysis according to the author: m = search t
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by mayank 16y ago
In fairness, those tax dollars could be used to "European-localize" WP7 as well.
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by mayank 16y ago
I tried to understand where the article is coming from, but there is no data, and the conclusion seems to be "SSL will increase load on your server when you use 2048 bit keys". Well, yeah. A couple of things smell fishy about the argument i
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by mayank 16y ago
The part where they put a giant white earbud in his ear is priceless, especially when he looks somewhat suspiciously at it. EDIT: direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDBiUemCSY&t=0m35s
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by mayank 16y ago
The rate at which it is being generated might. Edit: if you think of the logistic function as modeling the rate we create information, this is one possible "story": initially there's slow growth due to technology. Then the technology pick
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by mayank 16y ago
Other, less dramatic kinds of growth can appear exponential in its early stages. I'm always amazed at Internet growth data that are only fit to an exponential -- "at this rate, our startup is going to take over the universe in five years!
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by mayank 16y ago
I believe they're also used for verifying potential new compiler optimizations: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/247 Check out the SAT competition for state of the art solvers: http://www.satcompetition.org/
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by mayank 16y ago
Not to mention that their name (at least in the US) is phonetically synonymous with "doesn't work".
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by mayank 16y ago
I saw another Nigerian company for which an "exception" had been made. Overall, I think it's risky business right now, especially if you manage to snag a desirable .ng domain. I don't mean this as offensive, but it's not unimaginable in Nig
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by mayank 16y ago
I tried hunting through the government website, and it lists a large number of registrars, but none of them seem to offer an easy way to sign up for one. Keep in mind the following things though: (1) You need to have a business in Nigeria (
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by mayank 16y ago
Claiming that Bing is copying outlier results is still a fair claim that Bing is copying results, especially considering that outlier queries are hard in general for search engines to get right: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=12779
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by mayank 16y ago
Excellent analysis, thank you, especially in the distinction between "suggested sites" and the Bing toolbar's behavior. I can't argue with your methods. However, I do differ with some of your conclusions: > The behaviour I’ve seen expla
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by mayank 16y ago
I wrote EasyEXIF: http://code.google.com/p/easyexif/ About 120 lines of C++ [see 1] that parses basic EXIF information out of a JPEG image. I found all the other EXIF parsing tools and libraries a little too heavyweight for something as s
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by mayank 16y ago
I believe PageRank isn't as important as it was 10 years ago. Besides, you don't need explicit links to create links. Off the top of my head, the following could be used to link resumes: keywords, references, educational institutions, co-au
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by mayank 16y ago
> Some of these may work on FB but many topical, time and event based relationships would not work within the FB friend request structure. Could you explain why they wouldn't work with a public group, or a public event page, where there
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by mayank 16y ago
...the new facebook groups, I might add. The one that launched at the end of last summer [1]. [1] http://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=434700832130
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by mayank 16y ago
Skype uses a number of super-nodes that provide some guarantees on service level and has a set of central login servers: http://www.mjalali.com/blog/?p=10
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by mayank 16y ago
> IPv6 is already being deployed from top tier mobile carriers and that allows globally rout-able addresses even behind NATs. With all due respect, if your solution depends on the following developments in the real-world: (1) Everyone u
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by mayank 16y ago
There appear to be a number of problems with this proof of concept: 1. A requirement seems to be the ability to make and receive socket connections. How would you address the typically restrictive home firewalls/NATs that most people are li
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by mayank 16y ago
If we're on analogies, this is like the USPS deciding in the early 2000s that you have to pay to receive mail as well as to send it. eBay and Amazon have just made it big and resulted in a massive increase in package deliveries, so USPS dec
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by mayank 16y ago
Would you care to elaborate? Seriously, do you have any pointers or benchmarks for a Mongo vs Cassandra vs X comparison that isn't purely anecdotal, and which takes the relative strengths of each into account in a robust way? A lot of blog
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by mayank 16y ago
Incidentally, their notification emails routinely contain your password in cleartext as a "reminder". I signed up for an account several years ago but was put off by the incredibly ugly design. Here's an excerpt from an old email from them

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