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by sgk284 17y ago
When I was working at Google in 2007 the DNS in China would redirect Google to Baidu every now and then. Can't point fingers at who was making the changes... but it usually coincided with the U.S. doing something China didn't like. Talk abo
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by sgk284 17y ago
I don't know about Chris, but I know Guido van Rossum wasn't allowed to sign-off on code reviews involving python until he passed Google's style test. To put this into context, Google (at least as of 2007 when I was there) takes the style o
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by sgk284 17y ago
Agreed. Aesthetics > Reality. I wrote a fun little web app to draw snowflakes a few weeks ago: http://www.create-a-snowflake.com/ . I settled on 8 sides, although the first version had an option to have anywhere from 4 to 20 sides.
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by sgk284 17y ago
Is this just an anti-microsoft rant? I don't see your justification. OEMs update the software that they ship all of the time. Microsoft products (i.e. Office, Windows, etc...) are typically the things consumers want , not bonzai buddy or w
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by sgk284 17y ago
Right, but I'm sure that will change with time. The economic issue is a temporary problem that will go away, just as it did with images.
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by sgk284 17y ago
The argument seems kind of silly. In 1993 when people started using images in their content, I'm sure people were making similar points. "My browser shouldn't download an image until I tell it to, it uses my bandwidth!" or "Don't download t
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by sgk284 17y ago
We already have functioning quantum cryptography. In theory it should be unbreakable, but there are practical problems with it (distance... it doesn't work around the world) and still relies on humans to implement the systems. Current quant
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by sgk284 17y ago
Yea, but the PB library doesn't actually handle sending requests over the network, etc... It literally just encodes data. If you like protocol buffers, check out Thrift. Thrift was designed based off of protocol buffers, but handles everyth
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by sgk284 17y ago
The announcement doesn't state what DRBD is. It turns out that it is effectively RAID-1 running over the network. It looks fairly impressive and will make setting up mirrored servers easy as cake. Personally though I'd like to see networked
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by sgk284 17y ago
I doubt it will ever be cheaper. Faster perhaps, but not cheaper. Sending energy around space isn't all that expensive.
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by sgk284 17y ago
When I was working at Google in 2007, D-Wave's CEO came by and gave a talk about their chips. It was interesting and he was immediately interested in getting Google on board with access to resources that most of the world doesn't have. I re
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by sgk284 17y ago
http://www.pictranslator.com/ I attended their launch party last month in Seattle. Works surprisingly well.
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by sgk284 17y ago
Eh, I don't know if they'll be able to do that too effectively because of NAT and whatnot, but they can certainly use this information in their PageRank calculation. Knowing what pages people visit is an even bigger vote of confidence for t
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by sgk284 17y ago
Because, with all do respect do my fellow men, most guys out there really are assholes... and unfortunately many social norms reinforce they're actions. I've spoken with quite a few females who hope to find someone who isn't an asshole thro
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by sgk284 17y ago
Most of the fiasco, as most fiascos are, is caused by ignorance and not understanding that PolicyKit gives this privilege only to people that are on the machine locally. These are the same people that could reboot the machine into single us
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by sgk284 17y ago
It's worth noting that every single quote is from 2005, 2006 or 2007. A lot has changed in the past 2 to 4 years.
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by sgk284 17y ago
I feel like the bigger challenge is finding the smallest piece of text that isn't considered stupid. I hypothesized that this would be difficult, but it turns out 'a' isn't likely to be stupid.
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by sgk284 17y ago
What about parents who don't want filtered sites on their own computers, just on their kids? I think Google's approach is really reasonable. If you know how to clear cookies, you know how to go to a different search engine to find what you
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by sgk284 17y ago
Hey ajross, See my reply to axod: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=928267
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by sgk284 17y ago
Hey axod, I joined the Windows Update team at Microsoft around two months ago. While I can't give exact figures, a standard non-SSIRP update costs Microsoft around 6 figures to code, test, and ship. October was our biggest release in histor
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by sgk284 17y ago
Are you sure this isn't just due to load balancing? You might be hitting a different node everytime, they probably don't sync too quickly, and with the amount of traffic digg gets, the numbers could easily vary by that much in a fairly shor
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by sgk284 17y ago
I believe he means that if they come across a potential competitor, they'll respect their application and stop reading. This implies that someone else would then be tasked with reading it. Someone without a conflict of interest.
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by sgk284 17y ago
I run multiple servers off of rackspace's cloud, at their lowest tier which costs 1.5 cents per hour, or roughly $11.00/mo +bandwidth. It's such a cheap solution and is more than sufficient for the hosting that I use them for. They've surpa
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by sgk284 17y ago
Perhaps it's more telling that Bing thought they had one up on Google, only to find out that Google was already there.
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by sgk284 17y ago
Suppose I came up with an idea that I absolutely knew was brilliant, let's say edible shoelaces. Unfortunately these edible shoelaces aren't cheap to produce. I'm a one man shop and have almost no money. I make a fully functional website to
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by sgk284 17y ago
I think you've hit on some good points, but missed a big one. Running ad words drives traffic to a site that currently has no traffic, better yet that traffic has shown some interest in the product you're claiming to have. If some of those
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by sgk284 17y ago
The NoSQL movement is in direct support of the central tenet: do the simplest thing that could possibly work. Relational databases are complex beasts that have a lot more configuration and administration overhead. They are overkill for most
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by sgk284 17y ago
There is a nice way to define randomness by determining if given a string generated by the process (i.e. 010101011110101)can you write a program smaller than the string that will output that string for any string generated by the process. T
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by sgk284 17y ago
Wow, this is great to see. The fact that they're self-reflecting and thinking "Let's fight the urge to clutter things, how can we make this even simpler?" is amazing and rare for a large company. As a for-profit corporation it must be tempt
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by sgk284 17y ago
When I was at Google the sheer number of crazy projects being worked on internally, whether or not for profit, was insane. Literally thousands upon thousands of projects. They are working on anything and everything, I think that is somethin

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