sylvinus

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   by sylvinus 9y ago

   https://dotai.io (Paris, May 31st) stands out because it is primarily targeted to developers building apps, not researchers or framework authors. Disclaimer: I'm the organizer, but don't take my word for it, watch the
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   Building the Most Annoying Website [video](dotconferences.com)

   3 points by sylvinus 9y ago|0 comments
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   by sylvinus 9y ago

   Pricing Assistant | https://www.pricingassistant.com | Paris, France | Full-time | Onsite | Python data engineers We're a young SaaS company that helps retailers optimize their pricing based on their competition. We are hir
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   by sylvinus 9y ago

   You can still use services like http://shipito.com to forward it to you in Canada. I'm using this to get Soylent to Europe and it works really well (it adds ~$3 per bottle for air freight, but we don't have any good re
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   by sylvinus 9y ago

   > If you're online in any way whatsoever, you likely know I'm talking about Bodega. I'm online in many ways, and no, I didn't know that. When writing an article on cultural ignorance, try to be mindful of your own ech
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   by sylvinus 9y ago

   Slightly off-topic, but for a good bit of fun on the USPIS, you should watch the TV Show "The Detour" ;-)
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   by sylvinus 9y ago

   I feel your way too. Colours can add valuable information when done right. Don't feel too let down by the comments on HN. Awesome work!
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   by sylvinus 10y ago

   Others have replied on the salary ranges, but don't forget to factor in free healthcare, excellent public schools, ...
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   by sylvinus 10y ago

   Pricing Assistant | Paris, France | Lead DevOps | Full Time | Onsite | https://www.pricingassistant.com Pricing Assistant is a pricing optimization tool for online retailers. We are a VC-funded, profitable startup of 20 people,
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    To be fair, Bruce has been worried (and very publicly so) about those things for a long time. I think what the post transpires is just a new sense of urgency.
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    Well those $77k are helping run CAH! They are making a huge profit on this, and they deserve every penny of it :)
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    I don't think it has anything to do with the actual cost of digging. IMHO the primary reason is they don't want to keep digging for weeks. By baking in an artificial cost increase they make sure this will stop after a couple days
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    Hey! We did start it a long time ago, but then someone aggressively took over the meetup page, so we're not in control anymore: http://www.meetup.com/parishackers/ We've since started "Paris Tech Talks&q
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    You should watch the TEDx talk of his daughter: https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kaminsky
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    What most people fail to understand (but was explained very well by Joel in some talks) is that SO is primarily optimized for Google & read-only users just looking for the answer to a common issue. By that metric they are extremely succ
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    Depends on your perspective! I think people working on the Ads Platform have much more interesting technical challenges than those working on G+, and that may be more appealing to many developers.
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    FYI, this is from 2015.
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    Common Search publishes host-level WebGraph and PageRank datasets(about.commonsearch.org)

    2 points by sylvinus 10y ago|0 comments
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    Are they claiming to have some new Clinton emails as well? https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/755501298687115264
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    Would you prefer her to work somewhere else for 3x that?
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    Completely false headline, please change it.
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    They mentioned multiple times that because the stage is empty, its center of gravity is much lower than what you'd expect.
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    by sylvinus 10y ago

    Something like http://commonsearch.org ?
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    GitHub has 880,114 open pull requests(github.com)

    2 points by sylvinus 10y ago|0 comments
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    by sylvinus 11y ago

    Oh no, one project at a time :) We used http://www.discourse.org/ , which I recommend.
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    by sylvinus 11y ago

    Thanks! We probably won't expose the underlying crawl data ourselves but being able to reference it just like [1] does is indeed important.
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    by sylvinus 11y ago

    Hey, you're welcome! Hackday Paris 2011 brings back some nice memories ;) One problem with what you'd like to do is the pagination. Because we have to send queries to all the shards and then re-rank them, it becomes increasingly h
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    by sylvinus 11y ago

    Right, there is no specific roadmap for infrastructure yet or view of what servers are currently running. I will add those things on our Operations page, thanks! https://about.commonsearch.org/developer/operations
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    by sylvinus 11y ago

    I definitely share your usage of "!g", which is why Common Search already supports it ;)
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    by sylvinus 11y ago

    It is very early so we are not yet incorporated. The issues you mention will definitely be taken into account! At scale, we'd probably have multiple legal entities in different countries anyway, like Wikimedia.