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by sylvinus 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback! What would be your usecase for that API?
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by sylvinus 11y ago
Well I actually share some of that anger so I'm sorry if I read too much into "destroy" and "sad". Common Search is forkable by design so it should hopefully stay on course one way or the other!
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by sylvinus 11y ago
One thing to consider is that we can build the index on AWS and then only do replication with other datacenters at the Elasticsearch level, which is ~50x smaller than the raw data.
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by sylvinus 11y ago
So much anger! I left Jamendo 6 years ago so I have limited influence on what they do now, unfortunately. Common Search is a nonprofit and 100% open source so it is fundamentally different.
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by sylvinus 11y ago
The current average size of documents in the index is 2kB, so we'll need ~3.5TB of storage. For 1 replica this could mean 5 i2.xlarge instances if we go for SSDs on AWS.
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by sylvinus 11y ago
Hi! I'm the founder of Common Search. I don't think search result quality is on a linear scale so it's hard to define "better". The results will definitely be less personalized, which will be a big plus for some peo
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by sylvinus 11y ago
Hi! Data is indeed as important as the algorithm. Common Crawl is a very good bootstrap but we will certainly need to go beyond once it proves to be the limiting factor. We also hope we can help them improve their data set in the short term
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by sylvinus 11y ago
Hah, sorry it was lost in translation :)
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by sylvinus 11y ago
Since when is a 4.4 GHz computer required to view a static presentation website?
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by sylvinus 11y ago
Well, that trick won't last long either. It's trivial to verify that an IP indeed belongs to Google: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en
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by sylvinus 11y ago
I just feel the risk of major projects moving (increasingly likely) seems much higher than the complexity of adding the couple very small features, that probably don't go against anything they might be doing Enterprise-side.
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by sylvinus 11y ago
I can't understand why GitHub isn't responding to the "Dear GitHub" people. They are not requesting huge political changes, it just boils down to a CONTRIBUTING.md and a basic voting system that many alternatives already
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by sylvinus 11y ago
Nice! Small nitpick: "-A" doesn't seem to be supported.
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by sylvinus 11y ago
For those wondering, the main trick is here: https://github.com/chinchang/hint.css/blob/master/hint.css#L... This creates a pseudo ":after" element with content set to the value of the data-hin
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by sylvinus 11y ago
That is probably true, but maybe this position stems more from the fact that they were never challenged than we think. I'm hoping some pride will be thrown into the mix and will make them care just a bit more than they currently do.
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by sylvinus 11y ago
Competition! Now both teams have one more incentive to innovate and we get better software in the end.
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by sylvinus 11y ago
This is not a useful article for many reasons: - Redis has no dependencies either - "weird responses" from Redis? Do you change your tools the minute they don't behave the way you expect, without investigation? - The title &q
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by sylvinus 11y ago
I don't think it was malicious on Google's side, though it's still definitely interesting enough to be on the homepage, as it's a situation where both parties had to deal with hard technical constraints.
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by sylvinus 11y ago
I think the point of the parent comment is that they would have done it right away even if Chrome usage had been at the same 3.5% share.
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by sylvinus 11y ago
From what he describes, it might be something like a quota service or an ad service that does consistency checks over the course of user sessions to fight spam/abuse/crawlers.
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Henrik Joreteg: Pocket-Sized JavaScript [video](thedotpost.com)
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Peter Bourgon at dotGo 2015: A case for microservices in Go [video](thedotpost.com)
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Conceptualizing Large Software Systems [video](thedotpost.com)
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by sylvinus 11y ago
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
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by sylvinus 11y ago
Great tool! How do you extend the grid?
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Rob Pike: Simplicity Is Complicated [video](thedotpost.com)
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Encounters of the random kind(sylvainzimmer.com)
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by sylvinus 11y ago
It's pretty easy to find reasonable multiples on your assumptions. It's London and they might not be average policemen: salary x2 ; Overtime/nighttime: x2, Administrative overhead (they must spend time reporting, at the preci
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by sylvinus 11y ago
... which makes the network less secure and thus less interesting?
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by sylvinus 11y ago
Can you share your thoughts on the downward pressure the miners put on the price of a bitcoin because they have to sell their rewards to pay for electricity? That seems to be compensated right now by some growth in public interest but won&#

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