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by ntoshev 13y ago
My favorite for #4 is Google's +1. You need a Google Plus account. +1 is like Facebook like, only it boosts the ranking of that link whenever you are logged in and search. Not every page has a +1 button, but there is a chrome plugin for tha
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by ntoshev 13y ago
It may be a difficult client, but I can also see someone doing this out of curiosity: would it work? In a freelance relationship that is just beginning, there is not much to lose. Historically computers have made micromanagement easier. T
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by ntoshev 13y ago
A "review" from Luis Guzman, https://plus.google.com/u/0/103069458643902853500/posts/Jg8R... : So what is the movie about? "Travelling Salesman is an intellectual thriller about four mathematicians hired by the U.S. government to solve t
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by ntoshev 13y ago
Why would a browser use HEAD instead of conditional GET to re-request cached content? It would require one more round-trip if a refresh is actually required.
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by ntoshev 14y ago
It's off-topic, but could anyone critique a rule for (not) naming things I came up with recently: If something (an expression or function) is used more than once, give it a name. If it's used once, name it iff you would otherwise comment to
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by ntoshev 14y ago
Can you show some code that is the result from this process? It seems really interesting, although I've always consciously fought with the tendency to overformalize problems I don't yet understand well.
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by ntoshev 14y ago
Isn't Cloudflare pretty much a general purpose solution for DDoS? Is there any reason not to use them if you're often a target and don't want to deal with it yourself?
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The Tail at Scale (by Jeff Dean et al.)(cacm.acm.org)
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by ntoshev 14y ago
I think people choose DDG for its emotional appeal (they like that it's a small company, privacy benefits, all kind of reasons besides search quality). Later they rationalize about it being better. Frankly, I think this is morally wrong. Wh
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by ntoshev 14y ago
To make Google search for the exact word you type, put it in quotes.
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by ntoshev 14y ago
How do you decide whether to run a spot or on-demand instance to handle dynamic load? What happens if spot instance cost suddenly spikes? Also, how do you use regions/availability zones?
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by ntoshev 14y ago
Great advice, but I've heard it before. Any chance of an article describing what really happened for each of the problems listed, and how you solved it?
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by ntoshev 14y ago
That's pretty much what http://www.couchsurfing.org do, but for free. Clearly there is both supply and demand for such a marketplace. Were airbnbs or YC aware of couchsurfing?
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Yann LeCun - We are on the 22nd floor of a 30 floor tower in Manhattan…(plus.google.com)
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by ntoshev 14y ago
Trying to make sense of a power law distribution using average of the head is an interesting crutch, but a fairly crude one. What are other ways to intuitively understand power law distributions? Where are the raw data for this one?
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by ntoshev 14y ago
Even in Java you don't need the trivial getters/setters anymore. Everyone uses an IDE with refactoring capabilities, so the change can be done instantly when necessary. Why uglify your code in advance?
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by ntoshev 14y ago
I've played a bit with pattern matching as a DSL on top of JavaScript: http://jsfiddle.net/ntoshev/q8Ayw/1/
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by ntoshev 14y ago
Here's what Elon Musk has said about the book: The only negativity in recent years was due to a book called The PayPal Wars, written by a sycophantic jackass called Eric Jackson. This guy was one notch above an intern at PayPal in the firs
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by ntoshev 14y ago
I think he means 30-60% of the items listed sell, not 30-60% of the visitors sign up. Not sure how you count this when you expect repeated transactions - perhaps for AirBnb it means properties are booked 30-60% of the time. Liquidity is als
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by ntoshev 14y ago
It's a rehash of http://norvig.com/chomsky.html and the talk by Chomsky that led to it (both recent and relevant). I can't wait to read the continuation of that article that Norvig promised in comments.
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by ntoshev 14y ago
This is not helpful. Do you know the answer and if so, what is it?
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by ntoshev 14y ago
These particular instances are not multi-tenant at this time.
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by ntoshev 14y ago
These svbtle blogs render unfocused on iPad 1 in portrait orientation - how annoying.
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by ntoshev 14y ago
This was true for the competition I participated in, but it is a considerably weaker statement than grandparent.
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by ntoshev 14y ago
How is feature engineering not allowed?
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by ntoshev 14y ago
Resources that have been distributed among people in small quantities now can be aggregated and it's a big opportunity. The special case when the resource is people's skills is particularly interesting.
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by ntoshev 14y ago
Any links to such projects?
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by ntoshev 14y ago
Apparently this site is using CloudFlare, and it's failing: DNS Resolution Error You've requested a page on a website (sef.kloninger.com) that is on the CloudFlare network. Unfortunately, CloudFlare is currently unable to resolve your reque
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by ntoshev 14y ago
Thinking about Google Docs simply as an Office competitor is wrong. If you come to it expecting to do everything you do in Office, it is probably adequate but definitely much worse. However, Docs can do sharing of centralized data, use web
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by ntoshev 14y ago
The server environment is JVM-based since they expose GWT as the way to build UI. I think I remember seeing Rhino-specific error messages. The coding environment is not very good, but you can build ERPs, CRMs, document management and simila

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