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by ntoshev 17y ago
Different social networks have different feature sets and perhaps their popularity in different countries reflects how well they fit local customs and social protocols. For example, Orkut became popular in Brazil entirely unexpectedly, mayb
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Ok, the email in your profile requires a human to interpret it, but this is still most likely the case (I got that spam too). If someone got it on the non-public email used for YC submissions, it would be a different story (HN security comp
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Ok, you're right, the new title is probably better although it's also spicier.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
What was wrong with the original title? A woman wouldn't have changed it ;)
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Try Ctrl-F5 on pages where it seems your vote doesn't count. It's most likely stale cache.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Wow, thanks. I don't think this essay was intended to be a complete review and a last word of all philosophy. I read it as explanation of the motivation pg has for his essays. And I like the goal of seeking the "most general useful truth".
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by ntoshev 17y ago
He showed signs of stress, but I interpreted it as pressure not to say something he is not allowed to. Also he showed a lot of contempt for the Chinese government and some towards the journalist (after "I'm glad to be here"). Also he was ha
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by ntoshev 17y ago
To me top 10 SEO tips for bloggers is not about technology at all, it's about marketing. This is the category I feel is growing and it makes HN less interesting to me.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
"debated taking PG to task"? Why don't you just say what you disagree with, no need to make internet drama or necessarily get pg to respond to you. I have studied quite a bit of philosophy and I like this essay a lot, so I would be interest
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To me the real joy in programming comes when you integrate these two phases. Writing and debugging code should provide you the resistance of the medium to further shape your concept of what is it that you are implementing.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
You need the raw data in order to be able to calculate statistics in the future about relations you don't anticipate now. Also keeping only aggregated numbers would mean you give up on data mining. I don't know if this use of data is "insan
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Why don't you get a new username without the karma burden ;) You can keep yourself recognizable if you want, just use jacquesm2 and put a short comment in your profile.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
The facts that Facebook saves and keeps all interaction and user generated data and their engineers can access that data should be nothing new to you: Google, Amazon and every sane internet company do it too because they want to make decisi
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by ntoshev 17y ago
So the conclusion you think is obvious changes after you get more data, but you still think the data are not important for reaching that conclusion?
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I also feel it's a breach of trust when you mislead the users you have implemented something in order to test demand. Never mind the ethics, it seems it doesn't always work: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=960721
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by ntoshev 17y ago
This is like adwords without keyword targeting: does the marketplace by itself add enough value to be worth using?
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by ntoshev 17y ago
There are dual-core i7s with hyperthreading as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_microproc...
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Unlike the conversations in question, engineers have something to back their status - proficiency, domain expertise. It's one thing to establish the expert in the room, and totally different to see who will be able to project the hardest em
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by ntoshev 17y ago
You don't have to infer all semantically equivalent queries, comparing queries as linear streams of tokens should do.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Oracle should keep statistics on the queries it gets and infer which of the parameters should be treated as bound parameters in a reusable query plan. I wonder why it doesn't. It would still need to parse queries, but I believe making the q
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Well, in my opinion nothing is completely opaque or transparent, but to me ORMs (given their ability to fall back to arbitrary SQL, which their main task is to abstract away) are way more transparent than relational databases (that constrai
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Yes, the library designer have to anticipate what you could possibly need to alter and expose it as optional parameter. Just looking at how Python's urllib/urllib2 have evolved with versions shows this is no easy task (otherwise the develop
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I don't have experience with your specific example, but it seems you are complaining against the opacity of relational databases, not the ORM itself. I agree, relational databases are very opaque.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Let's take a library implementing http as an example. To be a good abstraction, it should let you retrieve a page in one line of code: page_string = urlopen('http://google.com') There are a lot of default choices made for you here:
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by ntoshev 17y ago
If you don't need to push technology to its limits, you don't need to understand the stack. Everything basically works, every program will work on both SSD and rotational disks, it will just have different performance characteristics. Some
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by ntoshev 17y ago
"Transparent" and "opaque" seem better terms than "good" and "bad". ORMs usually let you fall back to SQL if you need to (ActiveRecord does), so I would classify them as transparent. Relational databases themselves are opaque though, they b
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I believe transparent abstractions are a big part of what made Rails successful: e.g. you have a primitive for an input box in a form, but you can pass through arbitrary attributes to the generated HTML.
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I think a poll is a bad way to make such a decision. First, the poll options seem written in a way that would skew the answers towards "no precedence" (too many good sounding options towards that end of the continuum). Second, I have never
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by ntoshev 17y ago
What have you used Bloom filters for? The "secure" instant email addresses on http://mailop.com are implemented with bloom filters, I may write about it sometime.
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Do you see any value of it being "realtime"?

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