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by ntoshev 17y ago
Evolution halts at the point where a single individual dooms the entire population. It cannot work with a step fitness function, with no margin for error. And by evolution I mean the abstract understanding for evolution that we have, which
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Facebook can have these features too, but they don't seem to go for them.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Nice promise in the title, but the article doesn't really try to estimate anything. Almost no content.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I'd like to have a default zoom depending on viewport center - it should be larger in cities than in the field. Should be relatively easy to interpolate if they log (lat, lon, zoom) tuples of how humans use the map.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Really? Why do you think this doesn't happen on Facebook for you and your friends? Being open is an advantage in the long run, but I simply cannot see a compelling reason to use Buzz over Facebook or Twitter now . Maybe because I don't hav
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by ntoshev 17y ago
They imitate ТРУД in cyrillic, meaning "labor". It looks like a newspaper of the ruling communist party in some Eastern European country. Who is the fourth guy after Eric/Bill/Steve?
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by ntoshev 17y ago
It doesn't diff the versions, charges you for total storage: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#How_am_I_charged_for_using_Ve...
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Yeah, same with Swirl for Tornado: http://code.naeseth.com/swirl/ However, if your async call actually happens somewhere in a library function, you have to yield also calling that function - it's not transparent for the caller whether the
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by ntoshev 17y ago
It seems to do geotargeting by IP address of the user. There should be an API that allows the publisher to pass latitude/longitude as retrieved from the GPS and get targeted ads as a result. Google AdWords allow targeting by proximity for l
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Where do you get location-targeted ads from? I don't think adsense allows you to target by location.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
The longest path in a 100 GHz chip would be 3 mm or a signal travelling at the speed of light won't have enough time to reach the other endpoint.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
We're hiring in Sofia, Bulgaria: http://blue-edge.bg/jobs
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Is advertisement a zero-sum game? I don't think so, if you figure out how to better match products with customers, you create value for everyone. This is what Google did in a big way.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Would you get a less paying job in a technology company that's not in advertising, compared to one that sells ads? Why?
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Propaganda for salary manipulation, really? I'd hate if HN started to upvote conspiracy theories.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
We should try to minimize the number of laws that are selectively applied though, because the more there are, the more powerful random officials get.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
It depends on your experience I guess. I'm reading it now, and up to Joe Armstrong's interview everything is very understandable. I was a bit disappointed the author didn't really ask Joshua Bloch about the non-Java JVM languages (in his an
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by ntoshev 17y ago
This argument also means poetry is better in languages spoken by lots of people, in countries with rich history, and later poetry is better than earlier one all other things being equal...
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I wonder if you can identify people using habitual patterns of mouse moving and pauses between keys when typing.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Something's wrong with the node.js vs Tornado benchmark: "total transfered" byte count is more than 2x bigger for Tornado. This should be headers as "HTML transfered" is about the same.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
After search, what is the most exciting application for machine learning that has not yet been implemented well?
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Comet with node.js and V8(slideshare.net)
16 points by ntoshev 17y ago|7 comments
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Same old story: a corrupt government invokes patriotic feelings to counter attacks against itself from abroad (or inside, associate the opposition with external forces and call them traitors). I'm so sick of this.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Sounds like a promotional opportunity for Justin.tv.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
The tone might have been better, but it's a valid argument that I have heard in conversations in person. Unlike football physics, society is a much more complex system and it's really hard to play what-if scenarios with any confidence about
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by ntoshev 17y ago
See the whole thread for details. This is the CPU time you get billed for, the requests themselves are quite fast.
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CPU time for trivial datastore roundtrip - Google App Engine(groups.google.com)
2 points by ntoshev 17y ago|1 comments
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I intended to write something like this myself, good thing I searched for it first.
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Swirl: some sugar for Tornado Web Server(code.naeseth.com)
4 points by ntoshev 17y ago|1 comments
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Why the downvotes? Practically everyone who sells SEO services has a blog explaining what is SEO, how it works and why you should hire him. These blogs are SEO'd to the maximum of the owner's ability, of course. What I hate about these arti

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