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by ntoshev 16y ago
What justifies a product management role separate from the developers? A PM that is also a developer understands better what is the cost of all these features. Maybe a separate PM would see the forest better as he is not looking at specific
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Data as a service(radar.oreilly.com)
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by ntoshev 16y ago
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." E. Dijkstra
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by ntoshev 16y ago
The founders he admires (Gates&Allen, Jobs&Wozniak, Page&Brin) probably wouldn't be able to articulate competitive advantages that this guy considers "real". They didn't have insider info or authority. They were passionate about
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by ntoshev 16y ago
WWII fits the stereotypes so well because it originated (a lot of) them. No intellectual curiosity was satisfied by the article.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
You should str(args), not just kwargs, to be able to use parameters like lists or dicts as keys for self.mem
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What kind of automated testing does Facebook do?(quora.com)
5 points by ntoshev 16y ago|0 comments
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by ntoshev 16y ago
You need to constantly validate your theories against the real world, what other people say is not enough. This means: solve a lot of problems after you learned a theory, try to feel out the problem space yourself by extending the theory or
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by ntoshev 16y ago
My iPhone 3GS (and probably all of them) have a somewhat similar problem: when I hold it at the bottom I cover the microphone with my palm and the other side can't hear me. When they start asking me to repeat, I change the way I hold it. No
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Rob Pike Interview On Software Engineering (2004)(interviews.slashdot.org)
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by ntoshev 16y ago
We're making a tool for scraping websites, http://siteparse.com As good web citizens we honor robots.txt, but these frivolous lawsuits make me think we shouldn't form a US corporation just to leave a much higher barrier to suing us. Which
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by ntoshev 16y ago
GMail still doesn't index attachments though... It's a pity.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Misleading title: it's only about Mail.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Python: sum(d.faceValue() for d in dice)
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Thank you for this. Photographing screens is pretty meaningless. If you look at the palm holding the phone in the original post, it is much better visible on the 4 picture than on 3GS, with papillary lines and everything. How can someone cl
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by ntoshev 16y ago
The answer may come from other places than neuropsychology. We as carriers of values live and evolve in an ecosystem where the values of those around us and how they fit with ours matters. Maybe we can derive some evolutionary stable stra
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by ntoshev 16y ago
I did't know how to take a screenshot on the iPhone but this would be useful. So I searched for other iPhone tips I'm missing, and here is a pretty nice collection: http://iphonetoolbox.com/news/ultimate-list-of-iphone-tips-a...
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by ntoshev 16y ago
This hypothesis makes a lot of sense. One should be able to test it on a Nehalem architecture: benchmark the program running on two cores, once choosing them to be different physical cores versus the same physical core. Your theory predicts
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by ntoshev 16y ago
You seem to think a hyperthreaded system exposes to the OS 4 "real" and 4 "virtual", slower cores. This is not true, if you have 2 threads executing on a single core at the same time each gets equal attention / performance. Also, hyperthrea
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by ntoshev 16y ago
The article does link source you can use to reproduce the problem: http://www.mailinator.com/VariableStorage.java
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Extensive use of analytics to guide their game design, I think.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Why not compare it to Redis instead? They are both in-memory snapshotting stores, sure Redis does less but it is still a closer solution. But, Redis would probably be faster.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Do you maintain full text indices for parts of the web and which parts, or does it all fall back to external services like Wikipedia search, Yahoo BOSS, etc? If you have some indices on your servers, how do you build and search them? Is it
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by ntoshev 16y ago
When you get ngrams from a dictionary as opposed to a real text, you do not account for the different frequencies of the words. You might get better results with ngrams calculated from plain text.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
If you are an app developer, you know what typical latency you get. This page serves its purpose: to let you know if there is something unusual. What's the big deal?
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Google Latitude API(code.google.com)
1 points by ntoshev 16y ago|0 comments
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Craig Venter is the future (the intellectual entrepreneur)(salon.com)
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by ntoshev 16y ago
What (if anything) would you ask Facebook to do to help with this problem? It seems to me that a paedophile using Facebook to contact kids will be very visible with certain statistical analysis of user behavior.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
I've tried hiring using Google Ads with keywords relevant to some advanced techs we use and if you are in my country, you get an ad. It didn't help much with our immediate hiring needs but it worked better as brand advertisement - it genera
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by ntoshev 16y ago
Wellbeing of conscious creatures sounds like a good fitness function to optimize for, but clearly many people disagree, most religions for example optimize for the afterlife.

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