drdoom

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by drdoom 9y ago
You know this is a special pet peeve of mine. I have stopped myself several times from complaining about this very For a period of a few years, a few years ago, I started shopping very frequently for pants, shirts, etc. I once caught myse
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by drdoom 10y ago
Here is an insider point of view of the reason Tim Cook missed his sales goals as an Apple engineer describes it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXuVAi2bHdA
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by drdoom 10y ago
Congratulations on seeing the opportunity and quickly moving to do something about it. It is unique enough at first sight that you got early coverage in the press, which is very helpful. Quick question: I did not see anything unique to &qu
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by drdoom 10y ago
Just curious: What kind of a demand is there for a pipes-kind of product or even a customizable/searchable rss/feed integrator? How much would a typical user be willing to pay for it?
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Google to train 2M Indian Android developers(thestack.com)
1 points by drdoom 10y ago|1 comments
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by drdoom 10y ago
A few days ago, in a moment of 6-degrees of youtube, I came across a flat earth video. Out of curisoity to see what their beef was, I watched one. It was interesting. One of the claims was that all of the earth images we have are not a
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by drdoom 10y ago
OK. But I am curious how it maps a phone number to a carrier. My understanding is that carriers do not publish the list of their customer phone numbers. It seems like textbelt does not know this information (or at least when you sign up o
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by drdoom 10y ago
Most of my Prolog experience was in academics - for my own research as well as for maintaining some existing packages. But I did get to use it outside as well. There are many cases where a controlled language is needed or comes in handy a
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by drdoom 10y ago
I have used Lisp, Scheme, Prolog (and multiple dialects of each) for extended periods in large projects. Each was a pleasure to work with. They all have their own advantages. I am not sure if there is value in arguing over x feature of o
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by drdoom 10y ago
Hello, I haven't read the book but I am planning to. I caught the last few minutes of your interview on NPR the other day. You said you built the FB Exchange. I made a mental note to look that up later and now serendipitously, it sho
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by drdoom 10y ago
This. I have given similar demos. You first explain what you are going to do. Before the demo, they go all go into "no, it is impossible. I have been in this business for 20 years. Blah blah." You demo it, and once in a while
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by drdoom 10y ago
There is no other dependency in the encoder/decoder functions so there is no point of failure there. Those functions were developed a long time ago and have not changed. They work with any stream of data and automatically chop off the
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by drdoom 10y ago
We have been doing this in all of our web applications for over a decade now. Essentially, whenever there is an error, we don't just display the error message as-is. All the technical or trace info it contains seems to scare users.
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by drdoom 10y ago
> My view, which I've held for many decades now, is that glib and frivolous invocations of Hitler, or Nazis, or the Holocaust, are a kind of forgetting. So true. I have myself observed / felt this several times. My experience
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by drdoom 10y ago
> When she was at Google, Mayer oversaw the approval of each daily homepage “doodle.” I love this new career path. Beats working years just to advance to manage your old team. Now I can see the logic behind all the attention on emojis
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by drdoom 10y ago
Some people caught on earlier to the direction she was going (i.e., down). It was so alarmingly clear that some journalists even floated the idea that she may in fact be an agent of a competitor to bring Yahoo down. In other words, she wa
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by drdoom 10y ago
Good points. I agree completely. Yahoo has also gone from a genuinely useful and relevant aggregator to a full-blown click-bait shop. Perhaps this is how she thought Google makes its billions and she wanted to emulate it. Sad but she will
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by drdoom 10y ago
New emojis !!! :-) I am looking forward to when they release the version where they are generated on the spot with their new GPU improvements.
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by drdoom 10y ago
Let's not go to what I think they should do. But for so much resources and combined talent, I would expect more than new sets of emojis. They way they were dishing it out was as if they brought peace on earth. Honestly, I would have
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by drdoom 10y ago
I didn't know about Google voice search, but I am betting it was just a voice interface to a normal search. Nothing like answering questions, keeping contexts, etc. like they were advertising today. Siri, however, started out like th
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by drdoom 10y ago
What? They can't wait to send it over later when you actually do use it?
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by drdoom 10y ago
Oh, no, Google Deflate has started... I watched the Goggle I/O event for 10 minutes. First, they talked about how they copied Siri. And now they are talking about how they copied Amazon Echo. Unlimited resources. Wasted...
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by drdoom 11y ago
Is there a way to get in touch with you?
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by drdoom 11y ago
What is with cb.vu? It takes you to the shell prompt...
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by drdoom 11y ago
That sucks. There was a time when being entrepreneurial was added to job descriptions as a nice to have. I went through something similar a long time ago; the reasoning was just as specious. Good luck.
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by drdoom 11y ago
Sorry to hear that. Do you remember what question or problem they asked you?
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A petition to remove Ellen Pao as Reddit CEO: 100,000 signatures in 3 days(finance.yahoo.com)
18 points by drdoom 11y ago|22 comments
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by drdoom 11y ago
But you realize that before they mock it, they first have to build a data lake for it.
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by drdoom 11y ago
Or shows that you watched months ago but Netflix does not know about. Or why you have 5 sreens of categories to choose from, but all categories have the same shows in them, anywhere around 60-75%.
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by drdoom 11y ago
I keep hearing praises of Netflix's recommendation engine. I wonder when they will roll that out! Because when I browse Netflix, I have 5 pages of categories, each with upto 75 shows. However, and this is the critical point, each of

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