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by melted 11y ago
Even just reverse proxy in front (written in C++, naturally) would have probably saved the situation.
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by melted 11y ago
Insane web traffic doesn't actually cost you much. Au contraire, my friend, it brings in the dough. What costs you money is the long tail, those deep, obscure searches which you have to answer to be perceived a worthwhile competitor to
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by melted 11y ago
Microsoft spends over $1B/yr on maintaining and improving Bing. So yeah, search does cost a fortune if you want to do it reasonably well without relying on others for results. Not only do you have to crawl the web (with different frequ
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by melted 11y ago
Looks like my information is either out of date or was incorrect all along. Bing seems to be the primary source. They seem to also have a crawler now, though it's not clear how much it really covers. Very cool. Slow and steady wins the
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by melted 11y ago
You seem to have forgotten to plug your product.
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by melted 11y ago
Google is one of DDGs backends, and the highest quality one at that. DDG does not have its own crawlers or index. Nor could it: those things cost hundreds of millions of dollars per year to run and maintain. [Edit: apparently this is not tr
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by melted 11y ago
And that's exactly my point. It doesn't have to be this way.
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by melted 11y ago
They should just switch to showing nothing but ads in the first page of results and be done with it. I'm sure they will find a way to justify how this is "good for the users", but for me, with my widescreen laptop, the 4th ad
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by melted 11y ago
At one point Microsoft had an option to buy Google for peanuts. Ballmer declined because he didn't see how it'd ever make money.
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by melted 11y ago
DDG exists because Google lets it exist. It's not really a full blown search engine.
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by melted 11y ago
Which, nevertheless, means that people aren't really ruling, and therefore it's not what one could legitimately call "people's rule". Their elected "representatives" (which, let me remind you, don't g
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by melted 11y ago
Prediction: within 2 years Apple will have iPhone 7s, on which no one can bypass the encryption no matter what. All they'd have to do is put secure enclave software into ROM burned at the factory, and make it self-destruct if it's
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by melted 11y ago
I'd rather they worked on improving IDE support for Clang and LLVM when it comes to "unmanaged" languages, as well as moved some of those compiler and optimization engineers to improving LLVM. LLVM still lags a bit behind GCC
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by melted 11y ago
Tried it a while back. Reverted to just using web UI. Not quite there yet.
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by melted 11y ago
Why "missing" though? On Windows 10, Mail is quite nice. On OSX there's Airmail. On Linux there's bupkis, but that's really not what Linux is for.
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by melted 11y ago
Well, it's more complicated than that though, economic considerations-wise. You can treat Hepatitis C now (and it's the rare case where the drug actually cures something like this with high probability), or you can treat liver dis
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by melted 11y ago
Probably depends on the cost of medication to begin with. My HBP medication is like 25 cents a pill even without insurance. I figure it can't really go much lower than that given that all those folks at the pharmacy need to be paid. No
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by melted 11y ago
Oh I'm well aware of that. I'm also very aware that: 0. There's no direct vote on laws. This alone makes the US not a democracy, but a republic at best. 1. There's no direct vote for president and vice president. 2. Elec
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by melted 11y ago
You need to read "People's History of the US" by Howard Zinn. There never was a democracy here. The only times when people had the actual power was during the many armed insurrections, most of which were simply suppressed by
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by melted 11y ago
Democracy is not really what we have though. We the people really don't have much say in what's going on.
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by melted 11y ago
You don't have to split, though. You can put all your code in the header file. Your compile times will suck mightily, but you can do it, if managing headers is such a burden.
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by melted 11y ago
On a more serious note, just take the Google coding style and strike out everything it says about exceptions. Boom! A relatively painless C++. You don't have to use every trick in the book.
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by melted 11y ago
Site is clearly not served with C++. :-)
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by melted 11y ago
No, I'm implying that one way or another developers need to be paid for what they do if you want them to continue to write apps. I pay them directly because I don't like ads. Others choose free versions of apps to pay indirectly b
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by melted 11y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=does+apple+pay+for+product+p...
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by melted 11y ago
Funny thing is, Apple doesn't pay a dime for product placement.
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by melted 11y ago
Well, people skilled in their art prefer to not work for free.
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by melted 11y ago
None of the apps I have on my phone have ads in them. And before you ask, no I don't have FB or any of the other "social" apps. I prefer to spend a buck or two to not see the ads.
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by melted 11y ago
There's no such thing as "prevailing market wage", at least not in software engineering. Your comp can vary by a factor of 3 or more, depending on where you work, for the exact same skill set.
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by melted 11y ago
They aren't underpaid wrt their nominal career level. Many of them definitely are underpaid if you consider their actual experience and what they'd get if they were in the market. That price point can only be established if you ca

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