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by pkteison 15y ago
Since comment scores aren't displayed anymore, I'm stuck replying 'ditto'.
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by pkteison 15y ago
Thanks, great example. It looks like they don't account for the importance of certain terms in tech searches well enough. Like they're far too willing to throw away the "16gb" part of "16gb sdhc" when sorting by price, and sorting by rele
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by pkteison 15y ago
Specific examples? It seems pretty good to me. Which shopping site has a better search, and what makes it better? Exact keyword match is obviously fine. "harry potter and the sorcerer's stone" gives me various options for buying that boo
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by pkteison 15y ago
I've seen some negative stories about working at Amazon. I don't recall seeing anybody write that it's a great place to program. Anybody have any stories or links about the upside?
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by pkteison 15y ago
Changing credit cards is a bit of a hassle because of recurring billing tied to the account, one time I missed changing my trash bill over (easier to miss because it wasn't monthly) so I'm hesitant to just change cards if I don't absolutely
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by pkteison 15y ago
Why on earth would I want to crowdsource weather prediction? Isn't this one field where we can all agree that an expert opinion backed up by some expensive measurement gear should be a heck of a lot more useful than polling random people?
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by pkteison 15y ago
I think it's like real estate agents. It's possible to luck into a payday even if you do a poor job because the quality of the product being purchased is divorced from the quality of the service you provide - luck into showing the right jo
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by pkteison 15y ago
I want to see an article about making use of not-perfectly-up-to-date backups databases in a different region. Why can't reddit dump a copy of their new articles and comments to the west coast every night, then if the east coast dies, fire
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by pkteison 15y ago
You need a picture. Two screenshots with a lightning-bolt-style network connection between them, maybe. Take a look at "How We Increased Conversions By 25% (Again) With Our Latest Redesign (carwoo.com)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by pkteison 15y ago
It seems to me like git and mercurial both solve this problem, but picking one is a big choice with lots of hard to evaluate impacts. Is doing a weekend project on each enough exposure to make a good decision? If not, any other suggestions
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by pkteison 15y ago
A blatant bug isn't a feature. Article is expressly discussing features. I don't see any situation where asking for a feature, being told no, then trying to find a way to argue with the no isn't rude.
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by pkteison 15y ago
Somebody has given you a gift, their time and talent, and your response was 'give me more'. They replied with 'I've given you all of my time that I want to', and now you are looking for ways to argue that point with them, which at best w
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by pkteison 15y ago
Currently, patents have worth well in excess of the application cost. Much of this is because patents are generally presumed valid - it's bloody hard to get a court to overturn one, for example. The article points out that this presumptio
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by pkteison 15y ago
Article should link to a page with actual info, like: http://www.google.com/support/analyticshelp/bin/answer.py?an... "Help articles › The New Version of Google Analytics The New Version of Google Analytics Share Comment Print Our new ve
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by pkteison 15y ago
I don't see the connection. The patent office isn't stopping you from doing business until you run into patent trolls.
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by pkteison 15y ago
Once again, reporter engages in static analysis to ignore a good solution. Article confidently states that they get so many inventions that a thorough review would cost too many billions for fees to support. But why isn't charging whateve
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by pkteison 15y ago
Board game designers are often happy to talk about the experiences they had getting their game made, and they frequently deal with decks. I would start with http://www.silcom.com/~tomjolly/design.htm Various threads on boardgamegeek, e.g
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by pkteison 16y ago
Yep, just a slide deck. But it's a very good slide deck presenting something interesting and worth thinking about - that the specificity of css has some fundamental issues, and that we currently work around them in a destined-to-break-and-
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by pkteison 16y ago
Large firms will do 'bonus targets' as some % of your base salary. Goals are established based on measurable metrics that you probably won't feel like you can directly do much about, such as average revenue per customer. If the company hi
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by pkteison 16y ago
The rules for hiring minimums are divorced from and can go up much faster than the rules for raises. I know at least one employer where the standard way to get a decent raise is to quit and come back a year later, because they are locked i
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by pkteison 16y ago
Why? One of my big problems with society these days is that honesty often doesn't appear to pay. Upside of successful coverup: Facebook saves billions. Downside of failed coverup: Facebook loses billions. Downside of being honest: Facebook
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by pkteison 16y ago
I came across http://carwoo.com/blog/design-tips/ the other day, I think on a post from here but not sure. I think it speaks directly to these specific questions.
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by pkteison 16y ago
Unimpressed with article. For example, it says prolog only returns true and false. Prolog only returns "i proved it is true" and "I couldn't prove true", which they mislabel as false - so false is not "not true". If you want to focus on
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by pkteison 16y ago
Yes, Google is using other people's work. They didn't invent the computer, for example. So what? If their part of it was negligible, somebody else would have given me a useful voice recognition system by now. Why doesn't notepad have a
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by pkteison 16y ago
I know MySQL has drunk the cool-aid with innodb, but 10 years ago their FAQ entry about why ACID was a bad idea convinced me I didn't ever want to rely on them for anything I might normally rely on a database for. I'm cool with intentional
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by pkteison 16y ago
Cons lists are massively oversimplified. What about the case reddit had recently, where their masters and slaves got out of sync (presumably because master didn't fully flush a commit to disk, e.g. write buffering was on somewhere)? Hot s
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by pkteison 16y ago
Why wait? Smart lights are DMX controlled, and computers control things easiest these days with USB, so google up DMX and USB and hit ebay and then write some code to have your laptop control lighting. Once you have a computer controller
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by pkteison 16y ago
I assume the problem is that you can't skip ahead X characters on multibyte data without parsing the bytes, because you don't know how big a character is. So you may have to read every byte.
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by pkteison 16y ago
I always hit bugs on 1.4.2. I'd say it's worth a cache miss to avoid a javascript exception. 143 bugs marked fixed in 1.4.3 alone. Why would you want to not have those fixes? http://bugs.jquery.com/query?resolution=fixed&milestone=...
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by pkteison 16y ago
Nope. Atlanta, GA, but the IP I was using doesn't show up right on geo ip lists if you were doing reverse lookups. Might show up as chicago, might not show up at all.

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