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by opinali 12y ago
One reason is that it's still beta. But it's not too low, a $3 budget will buy some 1000 impressions at average CPM rates for display ads.
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by opinali 12y ago
As you mention with the Wikipedia ref, there was controversy with Google's early attempts to work in China. What happens here is that Google tried to do a "best-effort" service for Chinese users, with the assumption that part
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by opinali 12y ago
Yahoo! is OK, but... Yandex and Baidu are not exactly recommended company for an organization that pretends to hold the Open Web's moral higher ground. They practice large-scale censorship, they are instruments of repressive regimes. H
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by opinali 12y ago
You may also want to check out the sibling project https://github.com/google/openrtb-doubleclick (relevant for Adx bidders, using OpenRTB or not).
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by opinali 12y ago
Because nobody likes Pi anymore, we need the Tau filesystem.
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by opinali 12y ago
s/paracetamol/acetaminophen for US readers, who wouldn't know what paracetamol is. (Both names for the same drug)
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by opinali 12y ago
> The comparison between GO and Java seems unfair, given they compare a primitive variable with an object... which has methods and a bunch of other things to increase it's size (for good reason) Nope, there's no "good reas
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by opinali 12y ago
I like how God has these really buff arms... He must bench-press at least 225lb.
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by opinali 12y ago
Old datacenter & cabling porn, too :)
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by opinali 13y ago
Also old news in Javaland; I'd nominate Eclipse's ECJ as the great innovator.
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by opinali 13y ago
Didn't read; disagreed.
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by opinali 13y ago
+1000 to this. I relate you comment to Neil deGrasse Tyson's quote: "There are people who say “I'll never need this math -- these trig identities from 10th grade or 11th grade.” Or maybe you never learned them. Here's th
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by opinali 13y ago
I stand corrected--I had understood the original comment as something that contradicted mneary's reply, and I knew the specific etymology of "to bid farewell" just didn't look at the full derivation.
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by opinali 13y ago
Here's my personal algorithm for handling commercial email that appears in my inbox: 1. If I'm highly confident it's spam, mark it as spam. (Very rare necessity singe gmail catches spam pretty well). 2. Otherwise it's so
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by opinali 13y ago
Yes, it means "to bid farewell", absolutely no relation with valere.
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by opinali 13y ago
Ha ha, comedy.
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by opinali 13y ago
The Death Star job would be almost impossible to turn down; space, lasers and stuff... but nope, working conditions suck, especially the boss who's a SERIOUS asshole.
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by opinali 13y ago
Well said; the problem is that worked hours is a useless metric of productivity. Even the horribly poor metric "lines of code written" is much better—at least I know that you have been producing work, not social media posts.
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by opinali 13y ago
I should add that the right way to count these hours is including both the "productive" work, and associated activities such as learning new tools or "working" on pet projects, i.e. things you do for fun/passion but
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by opinali 13y ago
Exactly. The thing is, people who make say $120k/year but work 80h weeks, are at exactly the same level of compensation / status / respect as people who work 40h but make $60k/year. This applies to salaried or consulting
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by opinali 13y ago
You don't need a G+ or any kind of Google account to do other non-Google things, say shop at Amazon or watch a Netflix video. This is the right way to compare. The major difference is that we're not a one-trick pony, we have dozen
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by opinali 13y ago
How exactly are they dead now? [Checks a 3-day old PewDiePie video. 15K comments.]
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by opinali 13y ago
Not really. Some products like YouTube used a separate account. Most products had incompatible ToS so any integration was difficult or impossible. Each product that had comments, like YouTube or Blogger, or a concept of marking something as
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by opinali 13y ago
It's easy to stand comfortably for hours: just use the Captain Morgan pose. (get a small box to rest one feet on; alternate feet every few minutes) This is recommended for example by Kelly Starrett. Works for me awesomely.
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by opinali 13y ago
> Way more likely ISPs will do a little deep packet inspection and re-write the page to have a message along the lines of "Netflix & Google are the reason your rates keep going up. Your video is buffering because Netflix & G
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by opinali 13y ago
Well said. Removing risk implies removing accountability.
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by opinali 13y ago
Drones, Napalm, B-52 bombing—all weapons for cowards. The problem with remote-control war is that there's no political cost; remember that the Vietnam war didn't end because the great public bought into the hippies' peace&amp
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by opinali 13y ago
Internet privacy becomes essential in the moment that people put their entire lives on the Internet. All mail is email, all financial transactions are electronic, medical records are in computers, credit scores are in data centers--- you na
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by opinali 13y ago
Yeah, old times when the press had balls. Good luck hoping Time will pick Snowden these days.
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by opinali 13y ago
I guess its just 1622 fields or message types.

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