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by robk 16y ago
this is much more readable font-wise :)
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by robk 16y ago
Many SMT systems are based on European Court, but Google's had people working on acquiring parallel texts for years now and has one of the largest corpora of parallel texts in existence digitally, as far as I know. Quality is logarithmicall
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by robk 16y ago
Absolutely - the binning process is 100% commercially driven now. Yields are so high there's no need for this from a yield-management perspective.
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by robk 16y ago
Intel has been doing this for years with 100% flawless chips. Crippling a chip is part of their business. Their yield management is fantastic such that they run entire wafers at the higher spec then choose what % to sell as lower-end SKUs
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by robk 16y ago
This is pretty serious and the fact it's turned into a story is one of the more damaging things you could expect to see about Google w.r.t. privacy. SREs are indeed very privileged and in many cases have carte blanche on their associated p
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by robk 16y ago
Maps engineering is vastly in California.
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by robk 16y ago
Vietnam ring a bell?
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Oracle & IBM failure leads to 8-day outage for American Eagle's ecommerce site(storefrontbacktalk.com)
6 points by robk 16y ago|3 comments
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by robk 16y ago
Were I an acquirer, I'd look down on such a shady posting. It seems rather manipulative and without knowing much context, I'd read it as a very inexperienced team. If you're trying to sell, there are plenty of backchannel methods to pass
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by robk 16y ago
Only one founder was ex-Google, Anna.
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by robk 16y ago
In a mobile client it just shows up as 5 links: http://t.co/kzORDJY http://t.co/jVaqnZY http://t.co/0Vc4sGd http://t.co/339Lg4T http://t.co/72heLf0 It seems to be a auto-expansion of t.co links into text Twitter content inside oth
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by robk 16y ago
Fee harvesting is one of the more annoying things about big funds. Most funds take their full 2% (or whatever) a year for the entire committed fund size, hence the motivation to raise larger and larger funds. At that point, the fee is rath
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by robk 16y ago
This is not always the case. In my experience, it's much more common to see recycling allowed up to a certain amount, then the capital would be returned to the LP after that point to provide liquidity back to the LP.
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by robk 16y ago
Yep - it's more common to see a multiple for recycling in the sense you can recycle money 1.25x, after which the money goes back to the investor. This is generally done to provide liquidity to investors. Many investors prefer liquidity, n
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by robk 16y ago
> Gmail, Maps and Android Those are very big exceptions.
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by robk 16y ago
This could easily be read that EY was acquired. Not many people quit their job and announce they're buying a house unless there is a liquidity event in their personal timeline.
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by robk 16y ago
The t-mob version works fine on Voda 3G here in the UK
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Redfin: it's still expensive to build a great product (McClure rebuttal)(blog.redfin.com)
4 points by robk 16y ago|0 comments
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by robk 16y ago
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=reddit.com%2Cdigg.com&#3... Google Trends implies Digg to be about 2.3x the size of Reddit.
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by robk 16y ago
Google Trends for Websites seems to have the most directionally relevant graphs: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=reddit.com&sa=N It isn't a direct comparison since Google tracks daily actives and their Analytics data posted is mo
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Post from "weev" (AT&T/ipad data hacker) on his arrest and treatment(security.goatse.fr)
176 points by robk 16y ago|78 comments
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by robk 16y ago
This seems like an exceptionally high amount of money to raise for a web tools company.
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by robk 16y ago
This was the best guide I found. It's a bit verbose but covers all the key parts you need. http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Ae8glDUXDsh9ZGR2eG43cjRfMz... There are definitely alternates to Gizmo5 as well, but none integrate with Google
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by robk 16y ago
Hence SIPSorcery and the related stack, which do let you take advantage to call over 3G/GPRS or Wifi
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by robk 16y ago
Guava looks cool, but seems to ( ) cost you outgoing call fees in Gizmo5. SipSorcery allows you to configure the routings back through Google Voice so your outbound is free in the domestic US as well as inbound. http://androinica.com/20
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by robk 16y ago
That's not true number porting, just auto-forwarding. It's like changing the email header on your email to say it originates elsewhere (and changing the reply-to). In the end, dialing in directly to your old PSTN number and having it go s
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by robk 16y ago
The combination of a Nexus One <-> SIPDroid <-> PBXes.org <-> SipSorcery <-> Gizmo5 <-> Google Voice is a complex one but pretty damn amazing. As long as I have a half decent wifi or 3g (or sometimes
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by robk 16y ago
Everyone in the United States only :(
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by robk 16y ago
Ssds aren't reliable enough for Google scale. The rater number of writes before failure for Flash would make replacement a constant effort for them and ruin any economy. You need Ram for the reliability as well as the random access speed.
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by robk 16y ago
For contextual ads, you don't have much more of a choice. The recent decline of Yahoo's YPN was sad in that it was the only real alternative. Chitika and Amazon are fine for product-oriented content but lousy on other kinds of content.

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