dreamfactory

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by dreamfactory 13y ago
> For starters, we built the entire Bing stack from scratch. No OSS. No common platforms like the JVM. Nothing like that. We started from nothing, and invented the server infrastructure, the data pipeline, the runtime that would support
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I wasn't talking about anyone outside google, just critiquing the game being rigged internally, but it's maybe interesting you brought that in. On the one hand that could be criticised as an illusion of choice in the market (behin
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
> what some bureaucrat has decided That is precisely my point. (And if you are looking for personalisation, an algorithm isn't necessarily counter to that but a global smack-ban on behaviours most certainly is.)
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Disagree. The sanctions that Google applies indicate that it is unable to effectively index a free web and is instead relying on editorial control and favouritism.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
As a user I care whether Google finds me the most relevant results from the biggest haystack or whether it editorialises those results - it's a big distinction. By that measure I'd say they definitely _shouldn't_ be penalisin
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
About a year ago I tried it for receipts due to the OCR but at least half the scanned images got lost (some in transit, some after they had been viewed in evernote). Shame as I'd have have gone for at least one paid account if it had w
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
google docs?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Seems the journalist and a lot of commenters here are saying that a service like this needs to be regulated so that there are consequences for negligence or carelessness. There's probably something in that, but in the absence of a regu
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
demographics and dwell time
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
That's precisely why they are usually legally worthless, where they act as a restraint on trade for the individual concerned.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
> every despot on the planet sees that and can say "Well America does it," and have firm ground to stand on. That's why we need people like Snowden, to keep the American government in line... Whether styled as a despot or
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Think about any big project you've been a part of. With the benefit of hindsight, is it not true to say that you might well not have taken them on in the first place if you'd known what would be involved?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I take management blaming here to mean that this is a systemic problem that can can only be solved at an organisational level (rather than blaming a caste within that org).
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
This whole light thing seems a bit out of proportion, like being paranoid of people wearing shades in case they are eyeing you up (which is more than half the reason anyone wears them in the first place).
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
How hard can it be to just stick them in some aviators? Plenty of people would be after a pair of those. You could be half geek and half Lou Reed circa Street Hassle.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I think there's maybe a distinction to be drawn between transactions between individuals, which could be made in virtual doughnuts if both parties agreed, and a currency used in trade. As far as I can see, btc is now two things - a pro
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
It may not be for all but as far as I'm aware most productive creative people are rigorous in their schedules. For example, I've read a number of artists and writers talking about the importance of developing the habit of creating
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
If it were me I'd also get together a consortium of competing civilian recruiters to back such a venture.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
There's no such thing as an unbiased report and you are being disingenuous here as the article is clearly a personal account. As such, it obviously wouldn't and shouldn't aim to be a broad survey on the pros and cons of the u
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I think you intended this as a reductio ad absurdum but a lot of people take this view, quite possibly the majority of Europeans and Buddhists for example.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
A related point is that we used to have conscription and it was much harder to get elected if you didn't have a good record of service. This meant that leaders thought much harder about going to war and there was a genuine political co
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
The usual argument is that such people 'occur naturally' and the army at least directs their activities outwards (it forms the distinction between grunt and officer class in the forces). I don't agree with the premise but it&
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Remember the official public NSA justification includes 'defending economic interests'.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Not to justify any of this business, but why on earth wouldn't they apply 'beyond reasonable doubt' in their own minds when summarily executing somebody in the first place?
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
It's already got a lot more political stories (though necessarily post-Snowden); HN feels pretty much like early reddit now. Though I do think Reddit morphed its community precisely to avoid just being another in this list (Digg exodus
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Modernism finished some time in the 80's (though I do wonder if Ballmer ever left that decade).
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
I have a sneaking suspicion that there is a big overlap of the early adopter core user bases from kuro4hin, slashdot, reddit, and HN - i.e. a lot of the same people moved from one to the other and created the editorial direction (so to spea
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
> What actually happens You have Digg as an example of what happens.
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Online display advertising is dead, even the biggest web publishers are trying to develop alternative streams and get off it. The money is now all in commerce and engagement (leading to commerce).
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by dreamfactory 13y ago
Isn't solutions/application architecture a kind of unicorn job by this definition?

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