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by ntoshev 17y ago
Please, please edit these TechCrunch titles to make them informative.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Or the eBook reader form Asus: http://www.liliputing.com/2009/09/more-details-on-the-asus-e... They are different though: e-Ink is way better than LCD for reading outside, in bright light settings. I bought a Sony reader couple of months
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I bet there are a lot of people here who like your writing and dislike TechCrunch (I am one). This can't be true if people dislike you both for the same reason. It is clear from your writing that you are after the truth, and it is clear fro
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Even with billing, GAE expects gradual ramp-up of traffic, as would happen in the real world. Your app will fail to scale if you hit it with an artificial blast of benchmarked requests because the back-end wouldn't know to fire up more inst
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by ntoshev 17y ago
True, but the world would probably be better off if Mint were an independent company headed for an IPO. I guess the question is why the existing system of incentives discourages this?
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by ntoshev 17y ago
You are right all brain processing is parallel, but the author doesn't base anything on serial vs parallel processing and in fact never even mentions these. He obviously uses the left/right brain thing as a metaphor for the emotional vs log
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by ntoshev 17y ago
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/PoweredBy 330GB per machine for Facebook's Cassandra cluster.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Any idea how much per machine can you serve when you use a bigtable/cassandra/dynamo/pnuts-like system instead of MySQL?
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by ntoshev 17y ago
ACtually the full page version highlights the results but doesn't navigate to them. Also it seems to be substring search, not an indexed one.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Very smooth, but why does it lack a search box?
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by ntoshev 17y ago
It's interesting what data structures would be optimal for the SSDs from the near future. If random writes are only a controller problem, it may be the good old btree again.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
This shouldn't be compared to a regular bike but to Segway. A popular electic bicycle would also be cheap and allow pedalling.
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ZFS RAID recommendations: space, performance, and MTTDL (mean time to data loss)(blogs.sun.com)
4 points by ntoshev 17y ago|0 comments
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Statistically it would be a rare case for a customer to request a backup restore from a failed unit even if you don't replicate. Bb could handle these with polite mails explaining your data will be available in 24 hours and offering you som
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I felt it received undeservedly little attention due to the time of the day it was submitted. Sorry for the redundancy.
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Python performance is a fool's errand(whoosh.ca)
18 points by ntoshev 17y ago|15 comments
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by ntoshev 17y ago
It's not Techcrunch that PG has in mind though - they have nothing to do with data mining. People paying directly for content suffers from another flaw - externalities. It makes no economic sense for any individual to sponsor public well be
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by ntoshev 17y ago
What less than a search engine can you build if you've got pagerank? in fact you can't even know if pagerank works unless you have a search engine.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
The bottleneck when I read is not the time it takes to recognize the words, but the time to understand the ideas and relate them to my experience. It can cost me an hour to read a page of a computer science research paper involving enough m
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by ntoshev 17y ago
All I'm saying is that it's possible with the right data structures. It's not more than what a typical search engine does.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
There is more than one, depending on the problem and what exactly do you want to improve. For example RMSE is the measurement used for the Netflix Prize.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
You are right, there is a continuum of possibilities between pure search and pure recommendation systems. The difference is in the input data that the search/recommendation engine considers: the input in classic search is only the few words
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by ntoshev 17y ago
There is no magic. I don't know what Directed Edge are doing, but simpler Amazon-style recommendations (people who bought X also bought...) doesn't need to precompute anything if you choose your data structures properly: get a list of thing
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Summary: Twilio is a voice service they integrated into an iPhone game. The player's phone receives automated phone calls.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I doubt the physical characteristics of "layered steel powder" are close to the real steel.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I thought you could type a URL executing a "flag" action, but pg uses continuations for these. So continuations on the web have some positive security implications.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Why edit the bit that contains actual information out of the the title? Official Google Voice App Blocked From App Store
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by ntoshev 17y ago
> am free to do virtually anything with the original including archive for all eternity You are not allowed to show to an audience a movie you bought on a dvd. There may be other examples.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I think most functional programmers don't use TDD. Instead, they write little functions (and macros) that do useful things and approach the problem bottom up, constantly trying things out on the REPL and rewriting the code they have already
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by ntoshev 17y ago
It used to be against the rules, but I don't see that particular text in the guidelines anymore.

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