ntoshev

108 ms·

1. 961.▲
   by ntoshev 18y ago

   PDFs actually load faster than the equivalent Scribd pages on my machine. Not sure why is this.
2. 962.▲
   by ntoshev 18y ago

   In my experience, for a typical website with a database backend, Rails is better. For more serious engineering where you do things yourself, Python is better than Ruby (in this case the framework is not that essential).
3. 963.▲
   by ntoshev 18y ago

   Psychohistory can work in a society very different from ours (and certainly not the one Azimov described). In our society randomness plays too big of a role. Some of the current sources of uncertainty (like technological progress, or the pe
4. 964.▲
   by ntoshev 18y ago

   Feynman: "Los Alamos from Bellow" speech, "You Must Be Joking Mr Feynman". The Teaching Company has "The Great Ideas of Philosophy/Psychology" series and courses in economics I'd recommend.
5. 965.▲
   by ntoshev 18y ago

   It's not a startup. It has been made for fun, although it may evolve into something else.
6. 966.▲
   by ntoshev 18y ago

   Cakes have layers. It ruins them to cut them horizontally. And it is not convenient - how do you even hold the knife to do that? It is a bad example.
7. 967.▲
   by ntoshev 19y ago

   Aren't you comparing what Google has to what TV networks might implement? This is not very useful.
8. 968.▲
   by ntoshev 19y ago

   He may be arrogant, I don't mind. His points are not minor; the choice whether to grow organically or try to make it big on steroids (funding) is a very important one. I saw almost all of your comments recently have been dedicated to dhh. M
9. 969.▲
   by ntoshev 19y ago

   Next step: WYSIWYG interface to the same functionality.
10. 970.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    Really? Can you say why? I haven't tried it, but link counts look like a reasonable first approximation of pagerank. I thought this is also the consensus among researchers, e.g.: http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/03/more-data-usual.h
11. 971.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    Perhaps "social graph" is a natural phrase only if you use the word "graph" naturally. It certainly feels natural to me.
12. 972.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    I think Paul overrates the value of the global view on such data. Simple link count works well for evaluation of the importance of the web page until the Heisenberg effect kicks in (people start to adapt their pages to score better in the a
13. 973.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    Sure, it does make a lot of sense. If you can do bigger things perfectly, this is likely to be very well rewarded, too.
14. 974.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    pg wants to make Google search technology de facto standard for news.yc.
15. 975.▲
    20 (Rare) Questions for Google Search Guru Udi Manber(popularmechanics.com)

    9 points by ntoshev 19y ago|1 comments
16. 976.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    So add another step: sign the pickled data and check that upon arrival.
17. 977.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    You have a point. I have less personal experience with social sites, but it seems to me that the more information about your relationships you build, the harder it becomes to leave. Think of leaving Facebook as losing your phone and the con
18. 978.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    Please explain. In what respect is Facebook unlike eBay? Is it better or worse?
19. 979.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    It is evil. A lot of the evil things out there are business decision (e.g. Microsoft monopoly practices). Even if this decision has a positive net effect on the community, as a result the world is likely to be worse off (all non-google sear
20. 980.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    At least two dimensions: - tying the site to specific products. pg may decide firefox browser is the best predictor for being a hacker and ban all other browsers. Would you like that? - introducing bias to the community. the search engine m
21. 981.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    I think it is a horrible idea. Blocking search engines is evil. This site helps the search engines(allowing them to rank other results better) and the search engines helps people (by providing the missing search functionality and allowing u
22. 982.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    Facebook is more like eBay than like Google in this respect. It is easy to replicate the computer technology, but not the social aspect of the site. Except that eBay has stopped innovating (in either the technical or the human/social part o
23. 983.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    I couldn't install XP on a new laptop that easily (problems with SATA disks when they are set in RAID mode): http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/01/21/install-xp-se...
24. 984.▲
    We don't know how to program...(blogs.azulsystems.com)

    26 points by ntoshev 19y ago|4 comments
25. 985.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    It makes for some discussion, but it doesn't start at a particularly high point. I have read much more interesting articles about social networks on this very site, stuff written by Marc Andreesen and Paul Buchheit. For example, the potenti
26. 986.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    More fluff from Matt Maroon. This is starting to irritate me. Matt is probably a nice guy, but does this article contain any insight for anyone? If not, why exactly is it the top story?
27. 987.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    Any thoughts on how to overcome this one? Perhaps try to achieve better ranking before interviews? You might do psychological profiles or tests to estimate technical ability.
28. 988.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    So this is the first scalability bottleneck you have hit?
29. 989.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    I have noticed there are much less programming/hacking stories recently and tried to upvote the few remaining even if they are not particularly interesting to me. If this site becomes exclusively about startups, I don't think it would be in
30. 990.▲
    by ntoshev 19y ago

    Targeting by IP adress with such granularity is interesting indeed... thanks!