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by smanek 16y ago
The number of bits you need in a bloom filter varies as a function of the number of items you have (in addition to the desired error rate). Assuming a 100 items, a 1e-8 error rate only requires 480 bytes (= ~5 bytes per item). You also don'
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by smanek 16y ago
Yeah, the issue was that tech VCs (even non-technical ones) pride themselves on being able to find and recognize technical talent. You're really cutting to the core of their perceived value by telling them they're actually terrible at it. M
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by smanek 16y ago
One thing I take issue with, as an entrepreneur, is that he explains a 'tell' for a mediocre management team is that he'll send a talented member to a team and they say to me, “we don’t really have a role for that person.” Well, I'd often
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by smanek 16y ago
would just running iptables on the instance suffice?
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by smanek 16y ago
As the article mentions, Greplin (YCW10) is hiring across the board (front end, back end, ops, dev-ops, designers, etc). https://www.greplin.com/jobs
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by smanek 16y ago
In my experience, head hunters usually get paid a fee equal to N months of your salary (where, most often, 3<=N<=6). If they negotiate my monthly salary up to 12K instead of 10K they'll probably make 6K-12K extra, so they do have an
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by smanek 16y ago
What " silly quantity of math " did you do to reach your conclusion? I would have assumed that this sort of thing was simply an unquantifiable aesthetic preference (as long as you're below the char width of the screen, of course). I'm very
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by smanek 16y ago
I went through a length evaluation process of Riak recently, and came away with a generally positive impression. First of all, it's beautifully engineered, as long as you just need a KV store or a graph DB (I wasn't in love with the MapRedu
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by smanek 16y ago
I meant around $500K. I think that's the point where it's reasonably likely you have a secretary/personal-assistant to take care of those last little bits of outsourceable work.
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by smanek 16y ago
There's a (relatively low) upper bound on the price of water based on cost of desalinating water (turning ocean water into drinkable water). It looks like, today, water desalination can be done for about a $1000 per acre-foot, which is only
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by smanek 16y ago
you're absolutely right. Sorry - long day.
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by smanek 16y ago
What do you mean by '16 byte passwords'? 16 bytes is only 1 or two character under most encoding schemes ...
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by smanek 16y ago
To be fair, the money/time tradeoff breaks down pretty quickly - you've almost certainly used all the easy wins by the time you're even earning mid six-figures. Basically, there are only so many hours of outsourceable stuff in your day. Onc
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by smanek 16y ago
It's funny how quickly you get used to the mindset that it's a good decision to trade money for time. If I value my marginal time at $50/hr, and unconsciously always choose to pay to save time, the mindset becomes ingrained and is hard to r
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by smanek 16y ago
It's a pretty straightforward implication of bayes' law that the absence of evidence is evidence of absence. In fact, we can quite easily quantify just how strong the evidence it provides is. http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_
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by smanek 16y ago
Indeed. Because of the insanity of the rules, finding the cheapest fares is in EXPSPACE and (at least) in NP-HARD. http://www.itasoftware.com/pdf/ComplexityofArlineTravelPlann... is a really cool read if anyone's interested
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Why I Decided To Give Greplin (YC W10) Fifteen Dollars A Month(geekosaur.com)
1 points by smanek 16y ago|0 comments
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Greplin’s (YC W10) Social Search Opens Its Doors To All(techcrunch.com)
66 points by smanek 16y ago|21 comments
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by smanek 16y ago
It involved a lot of interesting work, including porting all the infrastructure from PHP to Python and Java. We were shooting to make the whole system less tightly coupled so that, for example, the machine fetching my GMail data, the machin
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by smanek 16y ago
Some of the main pieces of our stack include Lucene, Twisted, and Tornado. We're looking to do some more work with Hadoop and HBase coming up too.
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by smanek 16y ago
U.S. mobile users sent an average of 357 texts per month in the second quarter of 2008 versus an average of 204 calls, the report said. The average person sends ~ 10 text messages and makes 7 calls a day? Wow, I'm behind the curve ...
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by smanek 16y ago
Cash will never be obsolete until non-cash purchases can be made anonymous/paper-trailless. The black market is most likely 10%-50% of the market (depending on where you live, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market#Comparison_with_r
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by smanek 16y ago
Send me an email (address in profile) and we can chat offline if you're interested in more details. But to be brief, some of the bigger pieces include Lucene, Tornado, Twisted, and Hadoop.
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by smanek 16y ago
Can you name some of the mistakes/omissions he made in the last article? It didn't seem too far off my (admittedly extremely limited) experience.
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by smanek 16y ago
San Francisco, CA Greplin - We're a YC W10 company with interesting problems, smart people, cool tech, and huge data. What more could you want? We're hiring across the board right now - front-end/back-end/generalists/designers/ops/dev-ops:
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by smanek 16y ago
The obvious answer is for Google to charge for support plans, like AWS. E.g., $100/month for up to 3 hours of support a month with 4 hour response time, $500/month for up to 10 hrs/month with 15 minute response times, etc.
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by smanek 16y ago
It is amazingly arrogant to say that someone could be convinced to " buy crap that they didn't need or that was even harmful to them ." What possibly makes you think you have a better idea of what goods and services I need than you do? By w
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How (not) to write Factorial in Java(chaosinmotion.com)
387 points by smanek 16y ago|199 comments
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by smanek 16y ago
heh, epic alum?
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by smanek 16y ago
Just to clarify, although the CL spec doesn't require TCO, every CL implementation I've used has it anyways.

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