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by qeorge 17y ago
Agree, it sounds like most of their issues were solved in 1.2. Huge nested arrays definitely sounds like they aren't controlling the recursion level properly, which is quite simple in 1.2 as you mentioned. Caching is also quite painless in
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by qeorge 17y ago
AFAIK, Google Voice does not allow commercial use. But one could definitely use Skype, ribbit, Twilio, etc for the same purpose. Its a pretty good idea.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Yes, that's right. Your tracker has already been using the DHT to find peers for quite some time. Here's a brief explanation of trackers and DHT, hope its helpful: A tracker serves 2 purposes: 1) Hosting the .torrent file (which is basicall
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by qeorge 17y ago
Glad to help. I'll ask him on Monday if he has any interest in outsourcing, if it was automated enough I would think so. Of course it would fall on me to do said automation, so we'll have to see what the numbers look like. ;)
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by qeorge 17y ago
I've been frustrated with GA's new event tracking actually, and was going to try Mixpanel as an alternative. Here's my qualms with GA's events, maybe you've been able to work around them? 1) It doesn't tell me which page the event happened
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by qeorge 17y ago
I like this a lot. Nice job taking an idea and running with it. At $1/letter this doesn't work, at $3/letter its an enviable opportunity. I find most of the comments here to be quite pessimistic, so here's a few things to consider: There ar
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by qeorge 17y ago
Agree 100%. He has some good things to say, but its more anecdotes and bits of motivation than specific, actionable advice. Still valuable in its own right though. I personally get a lot out of Seth's perspective, but I can certainly unders
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by qeorge 17y ago
IANAL, but I think you're right. They really can't tell you what to do with public data even if they provided it to you, because as you said you can't copyright facts. Feist Publications vs. Rural Telephone Services is the most relevant cas
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by qeorge 17y ago
Great, thanks. I'll check these out.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Brilliant, thank you for the explanation and the Wikipedia link. I'm going to stop by the library this weekend to see if they have any books on compiler design, do you have any recommendations there? Thanks again, its great to learn somethi
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by qeorge 17y ago
Really interesting, thanks. I don't spend a lot of time with compiled languages these days. Question: how can the compiler be sure an array's length wouldn't have changed? I suppose it could examine the code within the loop, but then the sa
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by qeorge 17y ago
Checking the length of an array on each iteration of a loop is an amateur mistake, in any language. Some of these points were pretty nitpicky, but I thought this was a valid complaint.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Perhaps, but it does seem that the Google Closure developers are unaware of these optimizations. Unless the compiler was written by an entirely different group, I would be surprised. Of course, there's an easy way to find out. :)
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by qeorge 17y ago
That's wild. Drop me a line sometime, email's in my profile.
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by qeorge 17y ago
In-N-Out has the highest profit per location and one of the highest employee retention rates of any fast food restaurant. Their ability to expand is limited more by their refusal to ever freeze their ingredients than anything else (they mus
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by qeorge 17y ago
Done correctly, it can actually be a sort of partnership between the parents and the brand. The favorite cartoon can help the parents get their kids to eat stuff that might otherwise be difficult. Flintstones vitamins are a good example. It
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by qeorge 17y ago
Kids cereal marketing is fascinating, from the toys to the way the mascot's eyes tend to look down [1]. I didn't get to make a lot of decisions as a kid, but cereal was one of them. I was also exposed to another strange aspect of cereal mar
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Bing adds WolframAlpha's data to selected queries(bing.com)
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by qeorge 17y ago
I have a few close friends who attended Oberlin, and I was always impressed with the 5 week break in winter. IIRC, its not so much time off, but rather time you're expected to pursue something, anything. Is that correct? I wish other colleg
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by qeorge 17y ago
Grew up together, fell out of touch, reconnected during college (NCSU) and became good friends again. Later, after we'd both dropped out and were working shitty jobs (read: retail), we both decided that this wasn't going to be the way our s
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by qeorge 17y ago
I don't think Patrick read into anything there. He does not imply that Google did this intentionally at all. His point holds water for me, getting blocked by Google is a huge problem for any business, and its impossible to get in touch with
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by qeorge 17y ago
That's a great list, and very similar to the language in our standard NDA. I have no problem signing an NDA with those terms. We've never worked with a megacorp, so its nice to know they're handling this in a more professional manner than s
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by qeorge 17y ago
It might not cost as much as you think to have a lawyer generate an NDA for you. We've had our lawyer generate 10 or so general contracts that we can modify to use in most situations, which I would recommend to any business owner. Most lawy
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by qeorge 17y ago
It seemed to me that the reddit comments were equally supportive, have the trollish ones been removed? Awesome idea BTW. Sounds like a great girl.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Fair enough, good point.
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by qeorge 17y ago
For what it's worth, it's true that there are landmined NDA's that are really IP agreements in sheep's clothing, and yeah you shouldn't sign those --- but for the most part, a standard NDA isn't going to limit what you can work on in the f
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by qeorge 17y ago
From the article: "Rupert has got dealmaker's flu, a bug he acquired when he bought MySpace and sold the exclusive right to index it to Google." Is this a joke? If not, the author seems to grossly misunderstand search engines.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Respectfully, I disagree. I'm in the same business as the author (web design / development consulting) and this rings true. Clients have tried to get us to sign all manner of ridiculous NDAs, and are constantly trying to buffalo us with thr
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by qeorge 17y ago
I really like the idea, but there are some implementation problems I haven't yet seen addressed. I'm very much in the target market (web designer / developer), and I'd like very much for this to work, but I just don't see it. Here's my issu
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by qeorge 17y ago
I fundamentally disagree with this. If an existing solution exists, one shouldn't try to create his own? Then why did Linus build Linux? There's also a lot to be said for curiosity. I'm currently building an email client in my spare time, n

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