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His argument about of long tail item's value for sell of mass market items, is also true for any other market.

Amazon uses this in a clever way. For long tail items , it lets merchants sell their wares at it's site , with little cost to amazon.This lets amazon control the mass market sales.

But this can go further:now amazon controls the customer , and the data of the niche market sales. If amazon find a scalable way into niche market sales , it could easily disrupt all it's merchants.
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Goddamn do I hate specs that try and write code in English. Specifications are for WHAT I have to implement, not HOW.

For another offender, see ECMA-262, the Javascript specification.
Perhaps even more generally, the range ADT should include a method to locate the midpoint of a range, in addition to the endpoints.
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Pertinent issue, but in future please note the date of publication in the title if the article is more than a year old. I wish people started standardizing the way articles are published to the web so that this sort of metadata could be derived as easily as the page title.
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I think I didn't so much mean that the full metaphysical model must be accepted without question. Rather there are certain core facets that are necessitated. If certain aspects of your Catholic belief went away your belief in that particular religion would change (e.g. if you couldn't believe in the Trinity, you wouldn't quite be able to consider yourself a Catholic, I think). As I should have qualified my original statements more, I'll qualify I don't think any religion is a monolithic set of beliefs, I'm quite aware it's rather fluid and flexible as you describe.

I'm also not discounting someone discovering new tenets via that same type of self-investigation.

I'd be quite interested to learn more about such self-questioning, as well as what limitations if any you impose on yourself.
Go for it. Just make sure you are not violating the copyright.
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These are all interesting but don't prove you're a good software guy. I don't like the way how some companies try to look "cool" and do the opposite of corporates where you have to get your certifications and grades right opposed to your Brain Academy or the like highscore.

It's an interesting exercise but I think the questions should be focused around what the company's needs are for that role in particular not to test your "genius". f you're a genius and have the good attitude you already created something great that speaks for you.

Maybe it was the case, don't know.
I prefer EWD's take on the question of AI:

>The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Go for it, just do it! If it's an useful service, you'll make people in France happy. They are your customers. No reason to feel bad because the US services don't want to provide their services locally in European countries (and no, translation does not equal localization).
I often think about that many times. But I believe the best solution is to get in touch for a collaboration.
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The difference is that the constraint of using a signed int as the length of the array is known and available to users of the function. What happens when you try to do that is you get a compiler error, because it won't implicitly cast from, say, bigint or unsigned int down to signed int, for example. That's not necessarily a defect, that's just a constraint.

This contrasts with the overflow defect which would cause the mergesort routine to fail when given an otherwise perfectly valid input.
It can work but you need to evaluate the local market and see the differences. I had a few projects were this strategy failed because the market was different and I ignored it because was so convinced it must work. Also, I have one project which I still think will work but will take time (maybe years) before it can start to be profitable as the market is not mature enough.
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I had my own run in with Twitter usernames and the publisher Apress, I ran @apress and hooked it up to the book release feed, I never got an email from Twitter, they just handed it over, I tweeted and got a very apologetic email from apress (and some free books!)

I'm not upset about them taking the subdomain, more the response from the employee who states things as facts that just aren't true (and comes off as very aggressive).
Please don't sign your posts. It's against the guidelines. If people want to know more about you they can click on your username.

See: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't sign comments, especially with your url. They're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click on it to see your profile.
I know about the flow but I never heard "dump shock" until now. I think I'll keep on using "breaking the flow", it sounds better.
Bravo, Apress. I love reading great examples of companies doing the right thing (alas, they're not good linkbait). While no one can call me a fan of digg, they rightly recognized you as someone who genuinely liked their company and were only doing them a favor. Thanks for sharing this.
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He might enjoy making a fuss about it more than the tumblr account itself.
The "Is my husband a cheat" riddle is actually very well known. It's just the Blue Eyed Islander puzzle in disguise: (http://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html) also known as the Muddy Children puzzle. Discussed here too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic)

and here:
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/the-blue-eyed-islan...

In fact, a whole book has been written about it and related issues:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...

It's a fascinating riddle because it introduces the subtle concept of "what somebody knows about what someone else knows about what someone else knows about X".

But such a well discussed and complicated puzzle therefore also makes a bad, or at least "unfair", interview question. If you've heard it before, read that book, read Terence Tao's post on it... etc.. you'll easily ace this riddle.

If you haven't heard of it before, it's going to take you way longer than just a few minutes to get your head around it.

So as an interview question, it's testing what you "know", not how well you think.
What if users could specify their own SLAs?
watch Fabrice Grinda at TedXParis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJK3_vpfoQc (in French) - implementing ideas taken from one country into another is what he does for a living.
I think there is far more to it than that. Take for example the question of creation. It could be possible that our Universe was created, but not designed (http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2006/08/5027.ars). Under those conditions, the creator would not be able to intervene in our actions (unless he/she/they destroy the Universe), so they couldn't really be classified as evil or immoral. Which also leads to some interesting questions: If this Universe was created by beings in a laboratory, and they somehow managed to convey this information to us and threatened to destroy the Universe unless we worshipped them, how many people would actually do it? Etc etc.

Either way, as far as "God" goes, colour me apathetically agnostic. Nothing meaningful can be said about the existence (or lack thereof) of undetectable entities, so I don't concern myself with them. But unlike many atheists, I don't care enough about the topic to proclaim this view.
Please clone mint.com :-)
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It's interesting to consider the same situation in JavaScript, where integers tend to be represented internally as doubles, meaning they don't overflow, they just lose precision somewhere around 2^52. But this is unlikely to be a problem if you're counting things.
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Yeah, allmost all AUPs say "we can fuck you and there is nothing you can do about it" - but most of the time, you expect the company to behave reasonably.

Speaking as someone who has to write AUPs, this is something I spend some time thinking about.

Sometimes it's pretty obvious, like the guy is selling fake rolexes, etc... but sometimes it's more subtle. I mean, I don't want to be a haven for people breaking the laws, but I also don't want to be a pushover that kicks off legitimate users who have just pissed off people who like to file abuse reports.

This is, I think, why a reasonable AUP and set of policies is important. It should be simple for me, or for someone who works for me who reads the policy do decide how they should react to a particular abuse report.
"[...] Exxon, who has been accused in the past of being too conservative in terms of exploration and development, has been finding more oil than it produces for each of the last 16 years, to the dismay of peak oil proponents."

Will the Limit to Growth crowd ever give up?
If you sign up for an address on a platform you don't control, whether a service subdomain or a username, there's always a possibility that the platform owner will give it to someone else. Especially as their terms and conditions will always say they can, just to protect themselves in these situations.

Fortunately, there are these newfangled things called domain names, which have an actual concept of ownership with real contracts and everything. These can go a long way to solving the sudden revocation of 'ownership' problem. I wonder why they haven't taken off?
Illustration of the concept:
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Let's start an online petition! That'll sort it.
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there are two interviews that talk about Andrew's career:
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http://mixergy.com/christel-hyden-bradford-reed/ Andrew talks to the first person he hired.
yeah..just use yoodlee and go bust in year or two like kublax did :)
I find it sad that many restaurants are so bad at SEO, or maybe they just can't compete with Yelp and their spammier friends.

Often, it's nearly impossible to find the one authoritative website on a restaurant, bar, or store - the one owned by that business. Instead, search engine result pages tend to be dominated by crappy Yellow pages entries that may or may not include the correct phone number of the place, but never photos, the menu or the hours.
For this I would need an equivalent of Yodlee in France ;)
Nice! Good luck with it - its always good to see some viable alternatives :)
(I think mbubb might have been responding to the common usage of the word atheism, which is a conclusion that "There is no God.")

If one can't prove that God does not exist, then Being Certain (without proof) therefore requires faith.
It would please me to no end if we had a crowdsourced database grading the terms of service and practices of sites. Or some version of AUP that was created with CreativeCommons-like elegance and simplicity...
Which is exactly how it is in many parts of Canada. I can choose between cable and DSL, and both have bandwidth caps. While mine is a fairly generous 100 GB/month (good enough for me), I still keep a watch over my current totals, so I stay a little bit paranoid.
About time! I've just been too lazy to port it myself.
Thank you very very much!
I wish I could understand that. The math and all. If I could, I would be such an awesome programmer.

And incredibly smart.

Hat's off for this guy at least.
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I (and a friend of mine) cloned digg/reddit (it's something like a mix between the two) about 4 years ago, as there was nothing alike in the Italian market. It worked very well and the product (called Oknotizie, http://oknotizie.virgilio.it) did a successful deal with Telecom Italia.
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> All of this high-tech kitchen tinkering feeds another of Dr. Myhrvold’s projects: a cookbook.

The book, still untitled, intends to be the authoritative reference for chefs wishing to employ so-called molecular gastronomy — adapting food industry technologies to restaurant cooking.

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"The decision to go with Microsoft was based on overall value - it was also predicated upon their endorsement of and agreement to help promote MySQL. Stay tuned for more details on what we'll be doing together."

From: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blow...

This has always been my favourite example of Shwartz' inability to grasp reality. Perhaps I am interpreting this incorrectly but Microsoft "help[ing] promote MySQL?" This deal didn't sound sane in January 2008 and it looks even more ludicrous to me in 2010.

By early 2008 the company had lost most of its value despite having a strong brand and a talented pool of engineers. What was going on at Sun? Deals to ship dinky browser bars with Java, JavaFX (which stood no chance in a market dominated by Adobe with Microsoft nipping at their ankles), no roadmap for JAVA 7, inability to see the potential benefits of ZFS on Linux - really, we could be here all evening.

You don't "save" a company - You run a company and you should be "saving" it every day with every decision you make.
just wondering for this question("how strong is an egg"), i think binary search will be the minimum tries, so its quite useful.
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BBC has always inspired me with the amount of thought an effort that goes in each redesign. See this document on a previous redesign they did, featuring the patina effect on the home page: http://www.liamdelahunty.com/blog/media/theglasswall.pdf
Uff, congrats on going for the standard internet atheist vs. christians blather.

Atheism makes a definitive statement for things which are outside the realm of the testable world. In that sense, it is like being religious. The term agnosticism, or simply not religious, as I more often use, is indicative of a lack of belief.

Second, morality and ethics are part of the same social evolution that has traditionally produced religions. Almost any citizen of a western country has ethics that are rooted in some vaguely judeo-christian notions, which themselves are rooted in socratic notions, and so on. The social fabric doesn't have clearly demarcated lines for "religious" and "areligious". Trying to imaging what western ethics would have been without the influence of religion is like trying to imagine the United States would have been without the influence of England. You just can't pull the two apart.
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It's not so simple, although I agree it's simpler.

There was a case in Denmark, where a private person had registered orango.dk in 1999 (IIRC) because that was his IRC-handle. He didn't have an active website on it, but used it for mail. In 2009-ish, a design-agency was established as orango.nu and claimed the .dk domain from the registrar, and was awarded it because it "would be put to better use".

Only after a veritable storm of unpleasantness from the community and threat of a lawsuit (the outcome of which wasn't clear, since private property isn't well established in the domain name space - it's all private contract law, and the contract basically allowed them to do what they did), orango.nu gave up the domain and passed it back. No procedures, rulesets or legislation is going to be revised over this incident.

Obviously the system needs to be able to deal with (actual!) trademark infringing squatting, phishing etc. effectively, so making everything a case of private property isn't viable, but admitting error would definitely make me trust the .dk registrar a lot more.

Finally, even if you use your own domain for e.g. tumblr, their TOS still allows them to kick you out for no reason. A domain allows you to take your content elsewhere, but follows/followers etc. are lost.
I'm french too, and currently involved in "cloning" (although there will of course be some differences) a US concept, so I just hope it's not the same one!
I hate that one. It seems to rely on these "pirates" being hardcore mathematical logicians and rule-followers. Can you imagine a pirate, one out of five, "suggesting" that a good distribution was him 98, two of the others 1 each, and the other two zero? WTF? I'd cut off his head on pure principle!

A better "real world" solution would be 40 + 30 + 15 + 10 + 5 or something.
> I see that the standard only requires 4 minimum

Oh really? What standard? C99 section 5.2.4.2.1 says 16 bits minimum for int, 32 bits for long, 64 for long long. There may not exist 64-bit architectures with 16-byte ints, but that's not prevented by the standard.
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Its funny: I can just barely follow a conversation in three languages but if I'm writing or coding in Japanese/English and you come up to me and speak the other my brain freezes for 5 ~ 10 seconds for the context switch. I won't be able to remember even the general shape of what you said, let alone parse it, and whatever I was just typing typically turns out as gibberish. (Strangely dyslexic gibberish: I've typed things like "tip a gully terms shout gerbil fish" into emails before when accosted in Japanese.)
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Just in case someone from the Dropbox team is reading this, I wanted to compliment on the web UI. Really, it kicks some serious ass. I'm usually very picky when it comes to websites and their design, but this one is just a piece of art.
It's not at all uncommon to have an array that big these days. But the API should use size_t for the array size (or whatever is available in your language of choice).
I do think there is some issue here, whether it's legal or not is irrelevant in my mind. Users' expectations have become that creating a <channel,twitter,tumbler,subdomain,account> is THEIRS, they put the work in, built it up, only to have it taken away. It's the little guy getting screwed and it's an emotional issue. The closer you get to brand squatting the less sympathy of course, but the issues like pitchfork or the last one I remember (can't remember exactly what it was - but it was his name that was taken by a big corp) are legitimate gripes. The internet is supposed to be a level playing field for individuals and fortune companies alike in many ways, and if users keep having their trust broken the whole notion of community and UGC could be threatened in the long run. Why work hard if companies are just going to steal it?
Thank you for pointing that clock out to me it brought back a lot of memories. It is a reference to the old mechanical clock that appeared on the BBC from the late 1960s. Throughout my childhood that clock was part of the cultural landscape with its futuristic look and the little bounce in the second hand.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/testcards/animation0.shtml
Go for it, some will view it as bad but just ignore them.

Interestingly enough we thought about offering localization services for international startups, the complete set (marketing, strategy, translation, management, sales, partnerships)as a package to get started at least far enough to make the market entry for clones unviable.

Any thoughts on that?
This classic essay always makes me chuckle. Especially when svn branching or mergeinfo goes awry

"If Version Control Systems were Airlines"

CVS:

"Watch out for layovers, though. It can take hours to merge new passengers into the formation properly, and it might take several attempts to take off afterwards."

SVN:

"At checkin time at the gate, if more than one person arrives with a copy of the same ticket, they are ushered into the “merging room” and each person is given a brick. The door is closed, something magical occurs, and the one person that emerges still able to walk is allowed to board the plane."

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$1 + 2.9% :
"Square can afford to give away the dongles because they will be banking 2.9% of each transaction."
Not so cheap.
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