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by pork 15y ago
A fairly large department here at Google in MV has "business Fridays", where people dress up in suits for a laugh.
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by pork 15y ago
About (1), your uuid is random with a good math.random() and a sufficiently long string with high probability (using that as a technical term from theoretical cs). So I assume that your gripe is that math.random() has bad implementations.
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by pork 15y ago
Um...what constitutional right is being violated there? You're not being forced to fly. You're free to rent a car, board a bus, take a train.
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by pork 15y ago
I love this little snippet: "wars produce generals for the next wars." It runs contrary to the idea that we may have in tech of producing a "general" by graduating from an elite MBA school, for example. Look for the quiet achievers and the
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by pork 15y ago
In HTTP, since it's stateless, you don't "tell" the client anything without it first asking. The usual way to bust the cache is to add a junk parameter to the end of a GET request.
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by pork 15y ago
Bullet bourbon, next time you're around
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by pork 15y ago
Sorry, that's utter bullshit. Blue Label is a perfectly delicious scotch.
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by pork 15y ago
But you've just had the exact opposite knee-jerk reaction to the one you were commenting on -- by assuming that we're all "sour grapes". Instead, you could consider that our criticism of Color is legitimate. I think a reason a lot of us are
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by pork 15y ago
I meant articles as parts of speech, like "the".
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by pork 15y ago
You keep saying that in this thread, but I can't for the life of me imagine why you would launch a live-video product without audio. It just doesn't make any sense, is likely to be taken as the site "being broken", and finally result in a "
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by pork 15y ago
I take your point, but the Twitter analogy would be a microblogging service that bans the use of articles in messages.
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by pork 15y ago
Wow! Video without audio, and I have to join to watch! They've just invented a less interesting Youtube, without audio, and non-public access. Well done on an ... interesting ... pivot. EDIT: this one is for the files of social networks tha
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by pork 15y ago
You do realize that not all of India, especially its politicians, are involved in call center activities, correct? I hope you also realize that life in India doesn't revolve around call centers, even though that's the most contact with Indi
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by pork 15y ago
To continue the analogy...do you feel that /. is wasting away, or is it just attracting a different demographic these days?
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by pork 15y ago
Rob, long-time /. fan who migrated over to HN when the signal-to-noise ratio exceeded my threshold. I just wanted to say thank you, and also that it's slightly ironic that you seem to be following the same path over to HN... :)
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by pork 15y ago
I'm sorry, I've read your comment twice, and I have no idea what you're talking about. Perhaps you could write out your conspiracy theory in more easily digestible points?
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by pork 15y ago
The Y Combinator and the pumping lemma seem a bit contrived on that list, especially the former. I would add the maximum margin separation equation, which underlies many modern machine learning methods like SVMs and MMMF, and the P=NP equal
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by pork 15y ago
What makes you think that IPC is the dominating cost?? It's usually network or disk bandwidth, not IPC. And once you scale past one machine, you can't avoid network chatter by definition.
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by pork 15y ago
Parent doesn't deserve to be downvoted. Multi-billion dollar businesses (revenue that is, not "valuation") have been built on targeted advertising. Isn't not a fad. Jeez.
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by pork 15y ago
The sad thing about this whole deal is that Grooveshark is awesome! Nevermind the fact that a simple Firefox plugin lets you download the MP3 for each song that you listen to for free... In retrospect, it's only a matter of time before the
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by pork 15y ago
For decentralized routing, Kleinberg has a wonderfully lucid paper in Science in 2000 that's one page long (something like "navigation in a small world"). Essentially, even though short paths may exist in a network, it's hard for any decent
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by pork 15y ago
Lars Backstrom works at Facebook, so it's not exactly an "outside" collaboration.
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by pork 15y ago
Here's a solution: grab the smallest Linode for $20/month, on Windows, set up Putty to SSH into your box and forward the relevant ports (Google for instructions), enjoy Netflix, Pandora, etc. anywhere in the world! I've used this method to
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by pork 15y ago
Um...ad networks have been doing the same thing with 1px images since the mid 90s. The social buttons are not a new concept in tracking; it's just visible to users now.
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by pork 15y ago
Easy solution: stitch it visibly into the fabric of your innermost garment. You want the TSA goons to see the dosimeter if it turns a nice bright mutant-alert color.
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by pork 15y ago
I would pay if I could see a sample of what I was getting, i.e., the finished polished first episode.
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by pork 15y ago
Non-story: Facebook has recanted.
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by pork 15y ago
On the contrary, they build specialized products for their clients; they just don't build consumer products. They build very complicated, extremely expensive products based on cutting edge research that they perform in their own labs, which
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by pork 15y ago
> isn't this how peer review is supposed to work? Someone makes a claim. The claim and the claimant are assessed. Generally, the claimant is irrelevant in peer review. That's a hard standard to hold up though.
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by pork 15y ago
Reading the comments below, I get the impression that all the "good" DB people hang out on HN, not like those "other" incompetent nits out there who don't know what a join is. Hubris, people.

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