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by sgk284 17y ago
From using it, it seems it's not so much smart as it is a whole bunch of hard coded solutions.
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by sgk284 17y ago
Sharding has nothing to do with MySQL, and everything to do with scaling.
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by sgk284 17y ago
A lot of people don't like changing passwords.
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by sgk284 17y ago
The thing is, they let him use their site for a while. They even opened a line of communication with him and requested that he include "Unofficial Version" on the site. Their only communication to the poster should have been to stop using t
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The Power of Nice(stevekrenzel.com)
19 points by sgk284 18y ago|12 comments
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by sgk284 18y ago
None taken, we all have our off-moments ;)
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by sgk284 18y ago
The point of my post was that coincidences happen. I had an off day (which we all have) that also happened to coincide with an interview. I usually don't need energy drinks or the afternoon (although many software engineers perform better i
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by sgk284 18y ago
I'm the author of the post and if people take one thing away from it, I hope that's what they take.
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by sgk284 18y ago
I'm the author. Yes, all that happened during my undergrad (Except my experience at the lawfirm, which started in high school and continued through college. I handled all of their technology related stuff. I wound up doing a lot of consulti
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by sgk284 18y ago
Still working on it! Just went to the entrepreneur expo in Philly and did a lot of great networking. Talked to some great people and made great connections. Will probably pursue funding sometime this year because bootstrapping has been slow
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by sgk284 18y ago
The main developer of BRL-CAD also works on BZFlag, or at least he did back when I was contributing to the project. You can usually find him on Freenode as brlcad.
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by sgk284 18y ago
Interesting points you bring up and Google effectively came to the same conclusion when they were smaller (low hundreds instead of tens of thousands of employees). Everything at Google is data driven, including the hiring, but things have
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Reminder: Philly Entrepreneur Expo Today(expo.phillystartupleaders.org)
2 points by sgk284 18y ago|0 comments
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by sgk284 18y ago
I've had wonderful success with 99designs.com. Great work that is crowd-sourced for amazing prices. If you use them my one recommendation is to guarantee the action (you'll see what that means when you create it). You'll get a lot more subm
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by sgk284 18y ago
You can combine the face search with color: http://images.google.com/images?imgcolor=purple&hl=en&#3...
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by sgk284 18y ago
I don't know... the more business experiences I have the more I realize how significantly more important marketing is than any other aspect of business. Same thing with selling yourself. It feels like a stretch, and it's hard to swallow con
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by sgk284 18y ago
Because when they do that, they get burned badly. For instance, when I was working there Larry Page said that they had never used yellow as the background color for ads becsuse it reminded them of "piss". This decision lasted a a long time
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by sgk284 18y ago
Kurzweil is one of the few guys whose predictions I take serious, simply because his track record is solid... in fact quite a few of is predictions he's directly made happen. If you look at the claims made in "The Age of Intelligent Machine
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by sgk284 18y ago
Chiffonade, this is simply not the forum for that. It contributed nothing to the discussion and actually took away from it in some regards. This forum is for intellectual discussion, it'd be really appreciated if you respect that in the fut
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by sgk284 18y ago
Me and my co-founder flew out last summer for YC interviews and weren't accepted. This is my advice. We had been accepted for the interview and for a good two or three weeks we dropped just about everything. Stopped going to class, stopped
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by sgk284 18y ago
Whn I interviewed at Facebook I was kind of thrown back by the lack of engineering discipline. If I remember the quote accurately (this was about 1.5 years ago), they averaged 1 hour of downtime per subdomain (i.e. <college>.faceboo
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by sgk284 18y ago
Nice improvements.
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by sgk284 18y ago
I'd argue that there is nothing crippling about it. You can define functions anywhere, if you need a multi-line lambda just define a function and be done with it. Multi-line lambdas are messy... this constraint keeps your code sane. You can
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by sgk284 18y ago
Eh... it's mediocre at best. Use mobile google reader on safari to see a great experience.
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by sgk284 18y ago
I think you may have a fundamental misunderstanding of life, the universe, and everything. Suppose we can simulate interactions between atoms nearly perfectly on a computer... then it's just a matter of making an atom-for-atom digital repli
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by sgk284 18y ago
I used to work on Google Translator, and the GMail team was very close in proximity to us. It's more than 10 engineers but probably less than 30... can't give you an actual count. But I do remember a whole bunch of them crazies running aro
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by sgk284 18y ago
I know of at least one working-class friend in the Manhattan area that has raised a family and sent a kid to college (with another one going soon) and he's making around $55,000 a year in a good year (being a plumber). People need to start
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by sgk284 18y ago
I don't think not having sex outside of marriage is all about self-control. Your statement assumes that it is outright wrong to have sex before you're married, when in reality there is nothing wrong with it other than the false construct th
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by sgk284 18y ago
That's the same reasoning everyone used for y2k. There was no way that the same software and hardware being used in 1980 would still be used in 2000... and then it was.
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by sgk284 18y ago
I don't have exact numbers, but well over 99% of searchers never click (and generally won't even look past) the 3rd result.

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