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by mrgordon 14y ago
ZooKeeper is really the most accepted option here. It is used by many other important projects (Kafka, Storm, Hadoop) so adding it to your stack is likely to pay dividends later when you want to adopt some other cool technology that relies
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by mrgordon 14y ago
I agree, crowdsourcing is the way to go if you need to understand images. Image recognition is a very tough problem, especially if you're trying to detect anything nuanced. We've developed RTFM at CrowdFlower to handle the similar task of m
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by mrgordon 14y ago
I'll just point out that top security experts like Ronald Rivest (co-inventor of RSA) expressed extreme skepticism that we would be able to implement electronic voting without seriously endangering our elections during the MIT-Caltech votin
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by mrgordon 14y ago
From the article: "The company takes an average of 10% on every transaction, according to sources familiar with the business" Your numbers start to look a lot better at a 10% fee instead of a 3% fee.
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by mrgordon 14y ago
I agree with you overall but the sad state of Scala's build tools make it still "up-and-coming" in my eyes.
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Congrats to Adam and the team!
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Now when will we see a truly open standard for WebGL? The Khronos Group is dominated by industry heavyweights who are designing a non-open standard that benefits their interests. Soon we likely won't be able to implement competitive web bro
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by mrgordon 14y ago
You just got to the wrong page. We'll fix the link :) http://crowdflower.com/rtfm/pricing
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by mrgordon 14y ago
See the app at http://crowdflower.com/rtfm
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by mrgordon 15y ago
Yeah, people were booking for the holidays ahead of time during the summer. The holidays are peak time for Airbnb and other travel companies so I'm not sure what the original poster thinks this shows exactly. Certainly people weren't travel
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by mrgordon 15y ago
This is not true. The software Prey (which is designed to spy on people who have computers that have been stolen) takes covert photos and sends them without activating the light.
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by mrgordon 15y ago
We are so far beyond the constitutional basis of copyright. That clause only gives Congress the right to grant copyrights for a "limited time" to encourage creativity. Congress realized at some point that they could just keep extending the
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by mrgordon 15y ago
As someone who works at a software startup where the engineers use Macs, trust me we mind when we have to dig around to find the correct Xcode installer for Snow Leopard or whatever. Just because Apple has decided Xcode 4 should be in the a
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by mrgordon 15y ago
The full-screen mode is terrible. It leaves everything but your main monitor completely empty, making it essentially unusable for anyone with multiple monitors. Homebrew is awesome but it should be way easier to compile from source without
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by mrgordon 15y ago
It's only possible from trade commissions/fees they've generated in general, but not specifically from you. Some people definitely come out ahead. And yeah, you have to open a brokerage account but you can leave it with $0 and no positions
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by mrgordon 15y ago
Schwab rocks! Fidelity also has a similar account although it is a joint checking/brokerage account and the interface is tailored towards the brokerage side. Glad to see more competition in this space. Give me something even better than Sch
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by mrgordon 15y ago
San Francisco, CA - Full Time - http://www.crowdflower.com CrowdFlower is changing the way work gets done, and we want you to help. Our technology platform takes large, data-heavy projects and breaks them into small tasks that are distrib
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by mrgordon 15y ago
Do you remember when Amazon deleted books off of peoples' kindles? Remote control of your phone is one obvious way in which Apple owns it and you do not. And the average person might not think they would care but when their copy of 1984 dis
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by mrgordon 15y ago
Mongo 1.8 fixed a lot of the scalability issues. +1 to Mongo as an alternative to SQL. Redis is great for a simple app but I wouldn't want to scale it to handle everything for a large site.
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by mrgordon 15y ago
$1900 max? I see $2500+ 1 bedrooms in the Mission every day that aren't nice at all...
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by mrgordon 15y ago
Exactly. I've read sources that claim there are only 11,000 computer science graduates nationally per year. Here's the source: http://www.peacepowerlove.com/archives/5187
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by mrgordon 15y ago
I read something just yesterday that claimed there were 11,000 computer science graduates in the US every year so (even if the figure I read was somewhat off) it seems like most of those Michigan engineers are not writing software. I'd be i
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by mrgordon 15y ago
Thanks. Interesting data points. Surprised VRBO has nothing in Cambridge!
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by mrgordon 15y ago
I've ridden the driverless subway system in Copenhagen. Apparently the Danish don't mind being driven by a non-living thing.
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by mrgordon 15y ago
Huh. Thanks for pointing that out. I'd never actually used it but IIRC they always advertise that you can send money to any email address.
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by mrgordon 15y ago
It competes with PayPal, but they really just borrowed the feature from ING Direct. ING has let you send money to anybody with an email address for a while.
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by mrgordon 15y ago
Google cannot find people to hire fast enough even by its own admission. I have personally never applied to work at Google but I can understand why someone who never anything heard back from a company with over 20,000 people would be a litt
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by mrgordon 15y ago
To be fair, Google doesn't just interview guys.. People constantly using "guy" and "programmer"/"computer scientist" interchangeably might be part of the reason why so many women avoid computer science.
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by mrgordon 15y ago
False. Your landlord could have purchased the place at an advantageous time many years or decades before you would have been ready to purchase a home. Thus the landlord could charge less than a current or recent homebuyer could charge while
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by mrgordon 15y ago
Doesn't every Google user bring Google revenue through advertising..?

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