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by runarb 14y ago
DDG is mostly a front end for a bunch of search engines. Perl, PHP and Python are great to make front-ends like that. Because you are for the most part only dispatching queries, parsing xml feeds and build the gui for the end user. Writing
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DDG don't rely on Google. There results comes from there own systems and Yahoo (through BOSS), embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Bing, Yandex, and Blekko according to http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
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I even have a tattoo on my wrist to look at when in doubt–a huge green “you go girl!” dot. For real? That sounds pretty cool :)
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Many are mentioning the Chinese government, but are there any signs that they are involved? How do we know that this isn't just a hijack of a Chinese isps dns server or something similar? Maybe the same that happened to Goolge Morocco just
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"MySQL will continue to be available for at least one release, but MariaDB will become the default." One release? Replacing MySQL may be the correct move, but is't one Fedora release cycle only 5-6 months? That is't enough time... There is
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Seems find for me., but reported as down at http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter.com . Something most bee going on...
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Looks like this news is starting to go global. Even the local it newspaper her in Norway has an article about it: http://www.digi.no/909958/utvist-etter-aa-ha-varslet-om-saar... (in Norwegian). The Streisand effect has struck again :)
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She can save the "technically true" for the other lawyers, the rest of us are not amused. The fact remains that she was seeking a severe sentence, but now want to magically make up another truth... If she think she was right in the first pl
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"And if it were steel why would they bother painting the cartridge blue" Do distinguished them from other rounds. When I was in the Norwegian military we had at list bullets painted: Red: Blanks. Blu: Plastic bullets for training. Cheap and
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Thus are military training rounds. The bullet are plastic, but the cartridge is brass. They are generally not deadly, and are sometimes used to fire at people with (as a form of paintball, but that is ill advised). They are meant for traini
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Did you just installed it, or was it there all the time? I thought WP Super Cache was the trick to survive hn....
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I feel for you bro! VirtualBox may unfortunately also be an especially tough case if you are the developer of a 3-party extension, because it gets updated so often. It is tough to keep up. I run a 3-party extension ( http://www.vbox.me/ )
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Good idea! Draw them the "Thinking outside the box"[1] puzzle or something. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_outside_the_box
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When you think about all the time and care most developers will spend on there jobs one should be picky. It is literally one of your life's most important decisions.
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Unregulated Fracking Operations :)
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by runarb 14y ago
Agree! Can't see why only large corporations should benefit from outsourcing.
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Maybe you should showcase some of the press you are getting on you front page. This will help validate that you are serious and that it is a marked for your technology. Maybe make a section for possible use cases also? Reading your front pa
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by runarb 14y ago
This artificial mentions "I " 39 times. What about watering down the self-promotion, and give us some great examples instead? For example: "How do I look for intellectual horsepower in an interview? ... I’ll ask a discrete question that I e
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Malware from ad company + bug in Java or bug in IE. You are not safe even if you don't visit shady sites.
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Down for me, but Google has it cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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A friend of me had such a document. Both his grandfather and father died from a hart attach so he may have been more prepared then most for a young death. When the family opened his safe (!) there was an envelope with documents describing s
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by runarb 14y ago
Agree. Who would like to work there anyway? All your collages must have been pretty desperate sins they didn't tell the interviewer to shove it... If http://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/LivingSocial-Interview-RV... are to bee believed this
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"Data driven selection model" sounds nice and all, but it is hard to quantify something as abstract as an early stage start-up. Many companies are barely more than a couple of guys and an idea... Compared to Warren Buffett that mostly inves
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It may be cumbersome, but C has string handling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_string_handling
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Dos anybody knows if AWS has some special arrangement with Microsoft? For example do they collect licensing fees on behalf of Microsoft when you run the WM and thereby are except from the normal licensing rules? Or can I also make public av
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Unfortunately it looks like the interest in Perl may be fading a little according to Google trends: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl%2C%20python%2C%2... (Perl vs Python for comparison)
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Last.fm used to be one of my favorite website, but after the CBS acquired they somehow stagnated, and I drifter away... Stagnation like this seems to happen a lot when a fat and happy industry leader buys a young an innovative startup.
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Looks like we can add Last.fm to the list of companys that was neglected after an acquisition. This seems to happen a lot when a fat and happy industry leader buys a young an innovative startup.
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Agree. With Sams all you need is about an hour, and you could know all this: "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes" - http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourself-Minutes-Edition/dp... "Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes" - http://www.a
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More consolidation of consultants firms around Apache Lucene / Solr(enterprisesearchblog.com)
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