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by rarestblog 16y ago
I have a friend who has a high position in a huge company that is Java-only. I asked him just the other day about the situation and pretty much he said there were no alternatives to Java in many sectors, especially banking. "If they make it
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by rarestblog 16y ago
...and also has 1 in 1 chance of automated recognition.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
I'm sorry, but "Semantics" is "the study of meaning" (at least according to Wikipedia). How's that possible that "Semantically related != meaningful"?
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by rarestblog 16y ago
I think the more fair comparison would be to show THE SAME random subset for each entry. I.e. same X words for all result sets. Otherwise, it might happen that a superior result would just show words that don't even have good results, while
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by rarestblog 16y ago
I think the challenge implies that the only data you can use is the provided dataset. Otherwise it's just make no sense - if you pull the similarity data from other place - then where's the challenge?
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Python
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by rarestblog 16y ago
robots.txt is malformed in this example: Disallow: /*/blackhole/* This line won't work even for good robots (robots.txt doesn't have wildcard characters).
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Actually a good idea, but a MUCH better idea would be to automatically post a direct message to that person (from your own account or from central Idiocy account) about the problem, rather than hijacking the session and basically hacking th
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by rarestblog 16y ago
I wrote my own async servers and having done that (and used Tornado), I'm back on threads :) Async is kind of cool in some cases (long polling for one), but for most cases it's pain. Right now mostly working on CherryPy's WSGI server.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Personally I'd go with simple Python WSGI app or node.js app. Actually even PHP can handle 150 reqs/sec (your load at 150 users with 1 req/s) if used as nginx+php-fpm+eaccelerator. By my measures it can actually do about 1000 reqs/sec.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
I'd probably go with node.js for this task - more manageable. Twisted has a huge learning curve.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
memcached doesn't do replication as far as I know. It will just have to do some requests second time. It still beats re-calculation on each request.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Why do you use AJAX to update countdown? Using AJAX for this would give you MUCH less accuracy than plain-old JavaScript with time delta of user time to server time: If you just need to time sync - you could receive server time once (rememb
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Memcached? Only vertically? Horizontal scaling is built-in in all memcached clients.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Clever idea! Although I prefer Chrome Dev Tools for this task - measuring page load time of people with different connection speeds, CPUs (for rendering), browsers seems a little weird. The graph about bounce rate caught my attention. Altho
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Basic VPS (on stable provider) + nginx + php-fpm + eaccelerator, barely noticing any kind of traffic spikes (handled SlashDot, HN, HabraHabr, Reddit, Delicious, many others). Of course it depends on how intensive your app is, but for modera
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by rarestblog 16y ago
(Russia) VKontakte.ru ("in contact") is incredibly popular in Russia (along with odnoklassniki.ru and my.mail.ru). VKontakte is basically a clone of Facebook, which was there long before FB had any russification and it was promoted heavily
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by rarestblog 16y ago
The worst (for me) current example of hover abuse comes from Google Images. Try searching for something on Google Images, then click the search field and try to refine your query. Didn't work? Well, that's because you moved the mouse away f
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by rarestblog 16y ago
> more page views over time = more income Advertisers are getting wise. If they'd see no return because their content was mostly displayed next to celebrity articles, instead of more attractive ones (let's say finance) - they'd leave, t
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Ok, I've got to ask. $15K for one text? Percentage? It's THREE orders of magnitude more other than other general text writing. How can this be justified? (Kind of looks like daylight robbery to me)
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Moscow, Russia typ. exp: ~600$ per each family member for food/clothes/utilities (no fancy stuff) 700-1200$ renting 1 room apt. 20$ internet (10MBit+ is common) extras: 60-100$ meal for 2 at *reasonably* priced restaurant 1
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by rarestblog 16y ago
It was. Thank you for noting that. It was your comment that made me look into window.onload and scrape it, replacing with more sophisticated browser-specific code. Thank you!
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by rarestblog 16y ago
UPDATE2. IE now works. Chrome works. Opera works. Firefox works. Test it and tell me if you can break it! :)
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by rarestblog 16y ago
UPDATE. Thanks for testing everybody, sadly there are serious problems that need fixing. So for now the project is closed.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
How many browsers support 'document.write.to'? It uses browser-specific event. onload is fallback. I've tested the slow image (20 second delay instead of image) - no, it doesn't require loading of images, scripts fire up as soon as HTML fin
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Thanks! Too early, need to polish out quite a few bugs with Opera/IE right now. UPD. Major bugs with Opera fixed. IE probably too, waiting for confirmation.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
It has. Look at the yellow blocks.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
From the looks of it - it means that you have to modify external scripts in ADW, right? FIXED loading time to browser-specific DOM ready events. Don't see the need to use actual DEFER. Any reasons to do it?
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Yesterday I wrote a topic "Your social widgets are losing you visitors right now". Today I present you solution to very old problem of scripts delaying page loads: just change src="" to extsrc="" and use 'extsrc.js': <script ex
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extsrc.js - make all your [script]s 'async' (works with document.write too)(whiteposts.com)
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