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by _ques 13y ago
Every Yahoo workplace is wall-to-wall purple and yellow. Think about what it's like to work there!
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by _ques 14y ago
I can see this working out once this goes beyond the "initial critical mass of users" hump. Some high-level comments: * There are several organizations, agencies and committees with similar goals _inside_ each institution (university / high
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by _ques 14y ago
Not true. Padmapper has multiple DBs. Google can scan apartment listings and show them as results in their format. PadMapper cant. What's the difference? See http://www.craigslist.org/robots.txt .
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by _ques 14y ago
http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/15/burritob0t-hands-on-video...
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by _ques 15y ago
for i in `seq -w 19`; do echo "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip"; done | xargs wget
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by _ques 15y ago
I would really like at least _some_ part of the Internet to remain a collection of documents, and not a framework-based application.
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by _ques 15y ago
Codify these guidelines into a "Standard". Give it a name, say "Email Efficiency Specification". In your automated footer, add: "This email was composed to comply with the Email Efficiency Specification: http://eespec.org Once it gets som
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by _ques 15y ago
I think what he's trying to get across here is that there is a significant amount of overhead that is getting in the way of Google's own culture. Breaking it up into a conglomerate of smaller pieces would typically _increase_ this cruft --
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by _ques 16y ago
See: http://i.imgur.com/efj7m.png "Data provided by MS Academic Search"
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by _ques 16y ago
You want a story, here's a passionate story! MSR Asia is based in Beijing and is one of the fastest growing research outfits in the world. They're slowly showing up all over the place in the CS world, and this is just one of the examples. C
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by _ques 16y ago
It is important to differentiate between * Catastrophic failures: You fail so bad that you have no option but to trash everything and start again * Detectable / Manageable failures: You fail, but this failure is not central to your existenc
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by _ques 16y ago
These: http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?products_id=458
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by _ques 16y ago
Every employee has a right (and in some ways, a duty) to criticize his / her employer. This is how a company improves. I am just surprised that given the vibrant startup environment, TechCrunch hasn't been replaced by a decent news source i
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by _ques 16y ago
Google actually does do open-domain fact-based question answering for queries like: "what is the capital of china" which are probably closest to Jeopardy questions (technically speaking.) The team that does this is a lot more than seven Goo
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by _ques 16y ago
I think Ooyala is beautiful. It's a bunch of ex-googlers, I like to think the "oo" carries that. And it's an abstract name, which is ok given their business (not end-user). According to their materials, "Ooyala means cradle in Telugu, a Sou
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by _ques 16y ago
Personally, I feel this is the Achilles' heel of an otherwise splendid website. Their NIH syndrome forces them to implement everything in C++ ( http://www.okcupid.com/faq : 200K lines of C++ ). I don't know how to be agile with a system l
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Ask HN: If you had to pay ~5$ per month for an online service, what would it be?
14 points by _ques 16y ago|20 comments
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by _ques 16y ago
Neat! I was looking for something very much like this!! Two feature requests: 1) Discrete values: I want to track things say on a scale of 1 to 5, or 1 to 10. It shouldn't be too hard to implement this without cluttering the UI; you can hav
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by _ques 16y ago
"Peepli Live" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1447508/ , available on Netflix Streaming) is a satire about the state of farmers in debt in India, and is worth a watch.
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by _ques 16y ago
If you make an interface that automatically runs this on visitor's browsers and populates a form that users can hit "Submit" (or alternatively, simply make an AJAX call), you can get hundreds of diff OS / Browser Version / Hardware combinat
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by _ques 16y ago
Voice bank algo challenge: What is the shortest sentence (or set of sentences) you can construct that covers all the phonemes required for a voice bank? (Corollary: Convincing someone into saying these sentences now lets you impersonate the
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by _ques 16y ago
At least engadget is witty.
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by _ques 16y ago
Here are a few strategies to get by: 1. Double-count your startup as coursework. Enroll only in project-based classes. Spin off each module in your startup as a project -- e.g. Distributed Systems? Write the EC2 part. Databases? Write the L
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by _ques 16y ago
+1. I think what you should build is a layer over these websites, sort of like a Planet( http://www.planetplanet.org/ ).
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by _ques 16y ago
After turning Grayscale on, it took me 2x the time to go back and disable it, because i was looking for the "blue" icon and had a hard time distinguishing between all the icons. Color helps in _saving_ me time as well -- so let's not forget
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by _ques 16y ago
This article is over a year old.
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by _ques 16y ago
Gmail is hand coded, not Closure.
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Ask HN: How are Google's "Chrome webapps" different from IE-specific websites?
3 points by _ques 16y ago|3 comments
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by _ques 16y ago
"Google Appengine has a lot of limitations" Well, that is kind of exactly what this question is asking, right? "and is still sees frequent downtime." Ok, so downtime is a valid reason. "GAE is simply not a viable solution for a site with re
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Ask HN: Why does Reddit.com always complain about resources: Why not use GAE?
1 points by _ques 16y ago|4 comments

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