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by seiji 11y ago
Just because it's easy doesn't make it right.
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by seiji 11y ago
You're looking for perceptual hashing: http://www.phash.org
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by seiji 11y ago
If you are watching something produced by a production company (anything on TV or any movie) every brand you see is paid placement. It's like how before a movie comes out, all the actors in the movie go on all the talk shows. Think it
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by seiji 11y ago
product placement != invasive advertising. advertorials blur the line a bit, but it's not the same as plastering animated "they hate this ohio school teacher for knowing the secret of eternal youth!" ads all over my news. (
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by seiji 11y ago
Postulate: there's no automated ad-injection platform that also can't be hidden or blocked by automation. Google could transcode ads directly into YouTube videos, but they don't. They preroll or popover and both can be blo
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by seiji 11y ago
You give them way too much credit. The simplest ad blocker is just a user stylesheet that hides "class='ad'". The complex ad blockers include variants of that as well as network-blocking bad domains, but publishers+adv
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by seiji 11y ago
Network-level blocking gets you a long way: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/60774597464404377... Publishers have been brainwashed that everything must have: an ad, a tracking widget, and a user survey.
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by seiji 11y ago
It's probably a pathological case centered around the mountain view office: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5534904 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3473308
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by seiji 11y ago
I'd guess that's because they have so many condidates to pick from. Exactly. It's the Big City Dating Problem. There are so many people to pick from, nobody wants to compromise to build a relationship. Just leave at the
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by seiji 11y ago
"not making as much money as I had hoped" is not the same thing as "lost money". It depends on how you account for it. Technically you shouldn't assume all your future interest is materialized (IANAA), but if you
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by seiji 11y ago
because I'm not good at other things they need. It's not that you're not _good_ at it, but you're not able to demonstrate under time constraints, lack of references, lack of iterative code/compiler/REPL feedb
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by seiji 11y ago
That's a great point. Infatuation with "coding competitions" and high flux intelligence tasks is often an anti signal. Sure, what they demonstrate looks good at face value, but unless you attach a micromanager over their ta
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by seiji 11y ago
If you take out a car loan or mortgage, the bank (or credit union (or government)) expects to make money off your interest for the next 5 to 30 years. If you pay off your loan/mortgage early then the bank won't get all the futur
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by seiji 11y ago
Education should cost tax payers in a society billions. But, the money should go to, you know, education. (and not be seen as an unlimited tap of free money for university administrators to double tuition rates and ancillary fees every te
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by seiji 11y ago
> https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608687283869503488 That is the killer right there. The 23 year old recruiter responds to your rejection with: "The interviewer thinks you'll be better if you get ano
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by seiji 11y ago
Often it's completely free-form too. So you have to pick the language, the data model, the data structures, the traversal mechanism (recursive vs. iterative), state to track (allow duplicates? prevent infinite loops?) and how to test
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by seiji 11y ago
People have previously mentioned hallway discussions at Google routinely devolve into bragging about SAT scores and GPAs. Nothing says Google must accept sub-par technical people, but Google fails to realize you don't have to be the to
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by seiji 11y ago
Interviews break most people's intellectual context. Talky/show-me interviews are designed around interviewing MBA "how well can you present yourself" roles, but it completely fails to evaluate a technical person. Doing
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by seiji 11y ago
Oh, odd. Are you manually opted into the "HTML5 YouTube" version (is that still even an option or just the default for everybody now)? I had to manually "click to enable Flash plugin" to watch their I/O stream a f
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by seiji 11y ago
Google live streams using Flash and doesn't support the open standard HTTP Live Streaming spec. So, it's really a bit weird. Apple is more open in this case, but not many things support the open standard (specifically: Chrome).
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by seiji 11y ago
There are options. I think it's disingenuous to think every open source software component should be a VC funded company operating off support contracts to get any reward. That's essentiality the only avenue to "greatnes
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by seiji 11y ago
> I'd be shocked if this happens in the next 100 years. 100 years ago it was 1915. How much has technologically progressed since then? Do you have a sense we have leveled-off (besides single-core frequencies)? Is technology like
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by seiji 11y ago
The paradox these days is "people who build applications by gluing libraries and APIs" are ending up more highly paid/rewarded/recognized than the developers who create the glue and APIs they are actually using. So, all
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by seiji 11y ago
> We'd either defeat ourselves first It's common knowledge that startups self-sabotage through either founder personality conflicts, running out of money, or not making something people want (then running out of money). Rarely
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by seiji 11y ago
If your company depends on controlling people's hours when they'd rather actually just leave, other more disastrous interpersonal issues are in play. I often get more work done walking around the park and thinking about better app
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by seiji 11y ago
Lumber Liquidators isn't exactly a global mover and shaker. You can always punish the little guy. You can always name a person to take the fall, but it doesn't restore balance to the force. Wake me up when HSBC sees meaningful f
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by seiji 11y ago
> managing the wealth of those who earned it. certainly an adorable point of view, but most wealth being transferred internationally these days is captured through exploiting natural resources (hundreds of millionaire Saudi Princes) or
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by seiji 11y ago
> Apple, in so many ways, is the exception not the rule. I think Apple follows traditional device manufacturing rules pretty closely. It takes 3-7 years to get a new hardware product market ready. The exceptions are startups or crowdfu
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by seiji 11y ago
> (it has largely been already designed). Did you read one of his interviews? For the campus, he's personally designing new doorways and new hallways and prototyping 50 kinds of cafeteria seating and two dozen other things... kinda
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by seiji 11y ago
> Works as marketing but I doubt marketing was his first thought. The fact anybody cares about this at all is a testament to Patrick's masterful manipulation of online audiences. The fact you believe "I doubt marketing was his

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