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931.
by mda 14y ago
Some other scientific terms of arabic origin: Algebra, Zero, Cipher, Azimuth, Zenith, Nadir, Chemistry, Alkali etc.
932.
by mda 14y ago
There is an interface for exploring prices on calendar, click on the "Lowest prices" icon next to the map icon. It shows changes in the prices when you change dates etc and its usually very fast.
933.
by mda 14y ago
Not exactly, this shows daily price changes through a few months, You cant see this in Kayak's interface.
934.
by mda 14y ago
May I ask which feature in Matrix you like is not available in Google Flights?
935.
by mda 14y ago
Depends on the definition of "someone else". Check the terms and conditions of all big/high quality map data providers.
936.
by mda 14y ago
2 problems here, first, can you use competitors data for comparison and making your data better? Second, calculating difference is very difficult and size of difference could be overwhelming. But first issue is the main problem.
937.
by mda 14y ago
LTE is very new and data plans are usually terrible in a lot of European countries.
938.
by mda 14y ago
To Phoronix people: Please do not use terrible link ads.
939.
by mda 14y ago
Google does not have a conflict of interest with better browsers/internet and its main revenue sources, Microsoft had this problem and resulted this mess.
940.
by mda 14y ago
Nowadays this sort of exploits in Chrome uses a chain of several bugs, (remember flash now runs in a strong sandbox as well); I would say it is probable that your exploit would be obsolete before you find a real buyer in the market. So I wo
941.
by mda 14y ago
Just a recruitment propaganda piece. And actually what #1 tells me: "Come to Facebook, and have your share of ever growing giant smoking unmaintainable pile of (php) code."
942.
by mda 14y ago
AFAIK cable internet profit margins are more than 90%. http://insidedigitalmedia.com/cable-operators-will-abandon-t...
943.
by mda 14y ago
No, Introsort is (Quicksort + Heapsort) designed to prevent algorithm to degenerate O(n^2) for particular input sets. Afaik v8 (and Java's pre Java 7 versions) quicksort algorithms are based on Jon Bentley's work.
944.
by mda 14y ago
V8 sort algorithm (Quicksort + Insertion Sort): http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/browse/trunk/src/array.js...
945.
by mda 14y ago
Google offers map maker ( http://www.google.com/mapmaker ) in many countries, so you can modify existing maps or add new data.
946.
by mda 14y ago
See my post for specs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4046998
947.
by mda 14y ago
See the spec links I posted above, Graphics technologies are also similar. Seems like Intel disabled some extras on Celeron's GPU.
948.
by mda 14y ago
They are both based on same sandybridge architecture, i5-2415M has 3MB L2 versus celeron B840's 2MB. i5 also has 4 threads. So Clock frequency IS the main differentiator here, 1.9Ghz vs 2.3-2.9Ghz (with turbo), which probably corresponds to
949.
by mda 14y ago
It is more like Adwords: 70% Adsense: 30% http://investor.google.com/earnings/2012/Q1_google_earnings....
950.
by mda 14y ago
I wonder what percentage of ddg results come from bing, is this information public?
951.
by mda 15y ago
Does anybody know what percentage of queries in DDG site is answered by bing?
952.
by mda 15y ago
How about you trust your own eyes and feelings about this sort of things?
953.
by mda 15y ago
You are so funny.
954.
by mda 15y ago
Can you show me a single example where Google did anything like this?
955.
by mda 15y ago
I guess this is the paper: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
956.
by mda 15y ago
99% of internet users uses none of the things you mentioned.
957.
by mda 15y ago
Your ISP knows all the sites you visit.
958.
by mda 15y ago
Designing a high quality and compact spell checker for agglutinative languages like Turkish or Hungarian is definitely a non trivial and challenging problem.
959.
by mda 15y ago
Most of the comments simply points to flaws in your arguments. I advise you to think carefully about the issues raised before calling them "apologists" and "not objective".
960.
by mda 15y ago
Then he is probably of the second type. His analysis reeks of bias and has glaring problems.

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