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by powera 14y ago
October 16, 2006 (article date) is also not to be confused with October 16, 2012.
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by powera 14y ago
Just from reading the blog posts, it seems like this is a bit of an overreaction to some mild criticism of a mediocre blog post. Then I looked at Twitter. If there are multiple people tweeting basically "you're stupid" dozens of times ( ht
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The City from the Valley - private bus routes SF to South Bay(stamen.com)
98 points by powera 14y ago|79 comments
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by powera 14y ago
"But unlike a technical interview, give the candidate a few days’ time to come up with a plan. This will involve researching the market, doing some preliminary analysis and would require some back and forth for the candidate to understand h
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by powera 14y ago
Well, perhaps most people want to use a website that gives some sort of sense that a large portion of their projects aren't over-hyped vaporware.
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by powera 14y ago
People have been predicting catastrophe for thousands of years. Without some reason to believe these people (and "a graph that shows correlation between some points that might well be cherrypicked" doesn't count), I see no reason to give t
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by powera 14y ago
Second edit: The article reads much better now with commentary about the lawsuit. As it stands, this article is mostly linkbait/self-promotion. The title is very misleading; this article isn't about a trend, it's really about one startup (t
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by powera 14y ago
Possibly, but those people probably don't talk to reporters about exactly what was going on there.
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by powera 14y ago
Now here’s the strangest part: having discovered this blatant fraud my friend walked away from the deal but did nothing to bust the offending web site. His lawyer advised that because he signed a non-disclosure agreement with the crooks m
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by powera 14y ago
Because as there's no evidence (and since all your claims are "allegedly", there's no way to reproduce this or to explain how it behaves, and this quote from the Wikipedia article: "Typically during demonstrations the device is covered up."
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by powera 14y ago
It sounds to me like you're unhappy with Thunderbird, not email. You seem to refuse to use other email clients (Outlook, Gmail, Mail.app) for various reasons entirely unrelated to sending or receiving email.
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by powera 14y ago
I don't see any evidence the linked article is actually Open Access. It seems possible that the response just had the wrong link, and they article they are charging for isn't open access. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S
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by powera 14y ago
The work week in Israel is Sunday through Thursday, so there probably were people in Yahoo! offices there.
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by powera 14y ago
Some other points from the linked-to article that back up that the criticism here is a bit ridiculous: 1) This was in 1986. That's about 4 lifetimes ago in computer programming. 2) This was an article specifically to demonstrate literate p
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by powera 14y ago
The official launch announcement is going to be at I/O today.
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by powera 14y ago
This guy is a moron. Anybody who believes the stock would be at $70 if "the market" worked better doesn't understand how markets work in theory or practice. If there are people who really believe the stock is worth $70, there would have b
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by powera 14y ago
Also, the article's description of the traveling salesman problem is a completely different problem of finding a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_path . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem
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by powera 14y ago
Why are you using all-caps? The tax and credit card implications are irrelevant to the point of the linked article, which is about the framing / convenience aspect of having suggested tip percentages. Whether taxi drivers are making more m
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Full Text Search API Launch For Google App Engine(googleappengine.blogspot.com)
9 points by powera 14y ago|1 comments
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by powera 15y ago
Definitely sounds like a bit of a racket. There doesn't seem to be any reason to need all these studies to get diagnosed here. However, if you go too far the other way, you end up with Kevin Trudeau and other scam artists selling you snake
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Google Unveils New Revenue Option for Web Publishers (Customer Surveys)(adweek.com)
2 points by powera 15y ago|0 comments
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by powera 15y ago
This entire argument is just stupidity. Nobody disputes that there have ALREADY been tens of thousands of these electronic devices left on in the past year with no noticeable interference. No expert (and your friend that heard someone say
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by powera 15y ago
There are two problems with this: 1) The mugger is obviously lying. 100% chance. The "you must admit there's a small probability, because anything is possible" is irrelevant because there is an equally small probability the opposite of wh
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by powera 15y ago
Just saying "accounting is hard" doesn't mean anything about Groupon. Groupon's valuation is a bubble at best, and a scam at worst. Every accounting other than their own cherry-picked numbers supports this.
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by powera 15y ago
I'm sorry, but justifying a $15 Billion (with a B) valuation on a business that Groupon isn't even in yet is pointless. It smacks of Enron, to be honest.
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by powera 16y ago
This is pointless. It's impossible to create two pages that link to each other, for one. Also, as noted, most browsers won't allow URLs greater than 2k in size.
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by powera 16y ago
I can't give any current numbers, but last year we did a blog post about Gigya who had an app that peaked at 1600QPS: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/02/scalability-mean...
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by powera 16y ago
The geomodel stuff is what I'm referring to here; it's efficient enough that you can actually execute the queries, but it's not necessarily fast (or cheap) to do so.
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by powera 16y ago
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html The 's~' prefix as an internal detail isn't going to go away, but we're trying to smooth out any of the situations where you have to see/deal with it.
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by powera 16y ago
A few points (disclaimer: I work at Google on projects including App Engine) 1) It's not fair at all to say that Google "continue to ignore the two critical issues of uptime and data store latency". The HR datastore is specifically designe

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