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It's actually quite difficult to disagree with what Seth says, because there's usually not enough substance there to actually disagree with. Sometimes he's contrarian, but more often he's just superficial.
> People often feel like they wasted their youth regardless of how they spent it.

I wasted my youth on a a variety of physical, mental, and social pursuits; all for the purpose of improving my life. :~/
(Not so) Scary terms in offer letters.
lmfao... office space ftw
probably start 700 seed fund firms
Yeah, Revision3 is going blue next January. 100% home-made porn.

Incoming slander lawsuit.
LSC: "Life has no meaning, you have the choice of giving it one, or let others give it for you."

BSOD
I know you're trying to be cute, but our current situation has too many confounding variables: cultural makeup, history, terrain advantages, economic baggage... We'd need a more laboratory like situation where the city-states are more alike, save for the variables we want to test.
The concurrent portion of Reia isn't yet supported. They're still working on getting the sequential part 'rock solid'.
They want to encourage Flash Player proliferation and discourage fragmentation, so they're letting people write Flash Player clones? It appears that Adobe is about to re-learn some of Sun's painful lessons from Java.
Hi all, I would really appreciate any feedback. Here is some more info: http://duckduckgo.com/about.html
First, there is this weird thing of programs in the */bin folders versus application structures in .app directories. The next problem is the Terminal - Even xterm is more comfortable to work with, specially when you have a three-button mouse. Then there is the less than stellar X support (I always had lots of problems piping X clients from a beefier computer to my Mac). I also dislike the fact many settings are stored not in files under /etc, but in a database. And, finally, there is no package manager (but that's not a non-Unix thing, it's more a non-Linux thing).

For those reasons, I prefer a Debian-based OS. I keep reading OpenSolaris has a nice package manager that can do rollbacks and may consider it in the future. As for OSX, it's not for me.
That's a great idea! I sincerely think that you should do it.
Post this as a comment in the other rebuttal, it belongs there. And it's a good point.
Hire 70 trillion people to draw me a $700 billion bill.
Santa Clara's University Buys 11,256 Megawatt-Hours of Clean Energy
The "agile software principles" look fairly similar to what I know of other creative cooperative endeavors, like filmmaking or modern music.

Is it a fault that programming turns out to be more like a creative cooperative art rather than a hard science? This seems far less ridiculous than pretending it has the rigor of "engineering". My old manager would seriously tell Oliver Stone he needed to be CMMI level 5 by the end of the year.

P.S., try to keep your comments on-topic: agile methods, not the intelligence of those who agree or disagree with them.
That bugged me too. For my own language, I put the link in the second paragraph here: http://www.hecl.org because, as I wrote "I personally can't stand web pages for new programming languages without a quick link to some examples."
Yeah, I saw that. I commented on his site that I think CLRS and TAOCP are two very different types of books, and shouldn't be viewed as substitutes for each other.
State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names
Looks like one of those fake copycat google co-op search engines you see spammed all over ebay for sale at first.

pretty interesting functionality - i like how vague searches ask for categorization. i searched a band name and got specific info and links.

but most searches produce way too little broad results.

interesting but needs more work i'd say.
Point taken :-)
This is oh-so-true, and applies to me quite well -- but I wouldn't, on a whole, say it's a bad thing. While being able to stay "on track" is (of course) very useful, if you do get distracted so easily then perhaps you just need some temporary distance from what you're working on. Or, perhaps, you're working on the wrong thing altogether.

As in my case, I got distracted by a whole new idea while working on one of my other concepts. Was it a good idea to get distracted? Perhaps, perhaps not. Regardless, after some evaluation, I felt as though I needed to take a step away from my other project, and I don't see anything particularly wrong with that.
Impressed so far, but not impressed with the [load more results]->web2.0 spinner
I'd rather just have normal pagination there.

Seems to give some good results back in a useful way.
>People often feel like they wasted their youth regardless of how they spent it.

"Youth is often wasted on the young" - George Bernard Shaw
Ummm...at first I thought it was a front using something like Yahoo! BOSS as a back end - until I saw you had a bot.

Would love to know more, like if you do crawl everything yourself... :)
pretty cool, seems to use wikipedia to seem semantic... which works most of the time. I just don't see how its possible to break into google's market share or for that sake, Yahoo's or MSN's ...

- I think companies like octopart, that are doing segmented search have a better chance.
Why "Try duck duck Google".

I found that confusing. Just say Google. Also you could use Yahoo BOSS to pull in results when you dont have any (if thats allowed)
Legitimate? That's debatable.
Thank you.

The reason why old people keep telling this BS is that they just don't understand what it is.

They can understand a person practicing musical instrument, they can understand a person working with canvas and brushes, they can understand the scientist sitting around his papers but they can't understand people doing the same behind their computers.

Computers are the whole new medium: we need at least two more generations to make it fully acceptable by average daddy and mommy.
Wow, I really like the results, especially the 'see also' section.

(Give a search for "pearl" a go for a good example.)

More focused searches also worked well ("javascript array split" got me the result I wanted).

I also liked the fall back to google domain specific search for "javascript aray split w3schools" although I'm not sure I understand exactly what made it do that.

The result layout needs some work, mostly to make long results easier to scan, but I will probably carry on using this provided I can remember the URL.
The Root of All Meeting Pain: The Battle for Authority Points
And there are geek girls, too.
I am using Yahoo BOSS as fallback. That message comes up when Yahoo BOSS times out (i.e. double fallback), which unfortunately happens more than it should.

Duck Duck Google is a remnant of earlier functionality that is currently not live. You're right, Google' is simpler than 'Duck Duck Google'.
This is definitely not a particularly _new_ idea (I can't recall the name of the service, but there was one -- "Web 1.0" service if you will -- that existed a number of years ago), but I like this implementation. The plug-in, as opposed to a web-proxy method (which is what others I've seen have used), definitely has a more solid look-and-feel. As well, it'll undoubtedly work a lot better since there is no processing of the page involved. This isn't the type of service I would particularly use, but I can see the appeal of it.

Congrats on launching, I'm curious to see how you guys do.
It is very useful for research-type queries. I like it better than hakia. Thanks very much for this.
What will you do with the rest? If they pass this bill, apparently it costs less than $700B to buy them out...
What motivated you to create this search engine? Google/other search engines did not come up with relevant results?
wow those questions they have for McCain are awful, they might as well have been asked by Shepard Smith!
Why Flowgram Beats SlideSHare Hands Down
you're not catastrophically bad or slow, unlike some others that have shown up lately. good work on avoiding negative points right off the bat.

if the first page doesn't have what i want, i find myself confused as to what my next course of action should be.

my first reaction to all the ajax stuff is "hey, thats kind of cool" my second reaction is "my expections about what should happen when i move my mouse (mostly nothing) are being violated! help!"

in summary: i think you need to do some real usability studies.
The second half of your second paragraph and the entirety of your last paragraph aren't correct. Or weren't until I left the company.
The name consists of three stressed syllables, which is hard to say fluidly. You can't turn it into a verb, like "google". This may cause problems with marketability. I am being totally serious.
Tesla's 'Bluestar' to be all-electric family car
Chess hold a special place in my heart, to bad that place isn't near rap ;)

- on the other hand I think it would be a great motivator for the black community to pick up and play some chess.
Super rich and a virgin? Is that even possible? ;)
Energy development (fusion and solar).

Compact self-contained hydroponic gardens (think shipping container).
I liked it, I think it has very impressive functionality; I think you won't have a problem selling it to some company. The search market is huge and doesn't end at Google.
It's because they decided to focus on their more profitable software business, where they are marginally competent, while their core competency, the one they are unanimously praised for, is hardware gizmos.
On these types of submissions I think the message is not aided by the site... so.....

"Wish more startups focused on what can we be AWESOME at rather than what can we be FIRST at. "First-mover advantage" can be a trap"

doesn't this conflict with "Release early and often" mantra?
I'm east indian but born and raised here. Both my parents were upper middle class workers. The 'puter wasn't just encouraged, it was my babysitter from when I was 9. I was friends with the cool kids and the geeks. I was some kind of mashed up co-eek. I spent tons of hours in front of my 486, but I also went to parties. One thing to note, back in those netscape/prodigy days, friends I met online seemed to get me more than friends I had in reality. Maybe because the online family and I always worked towards the same goal(s). Either way, I don't talk to anyone from high school. In fact, I came to realize I didn't like very many of them. Maybe cause I was smarter than 92% of them or I never had a fundamental reason for enjoying their company, outside of their company itself. All the friends I have now are from college. =)
Wow I was thinking the exact same thing. Put the money into an Apollo-scale project to perfect the 1st gen space elevator. Most of the money would go to research. The price of building it once you have the know-how is a trivially small amount of the total $700 billion.
Highly relevant results for the band I entered, but not enough to make me want to switch from Google.

It's not that you aren't good, it's just that you aren't great- there's nothing here that would make me want to purposefully break a habit formed over the past seven odd years. Namely, using Google.
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You mentioned Apollo, others mentioned the space shuttle.

NASA is a horrible organization to actually get things done. I wouldn't emulate them. Burt Rutan is a hero.
Most, if not all EU countries have provisions for obtaining citizenship after a certain number of years of residence. Or do you mean gaining citizenship after a certain number of years in any EU country?
My random query for "tears of a clown" worked well. How tied is this to the internet? There might be a market in the Enterprise search world if you are managing the index.
that is because whatever lulu entered the input, included whitespaces. garbage in, garbage out. my motto.
If there is a scarcity -- someone will start cloud@home and pay people a few cents for their computer hours. Supply should be quite elastic.
Pretty impressive results for the terms I searched for. Unfortunately, the design made me temporarily go blind.

In all seriousness, the name is pretty horrible and I "feel" as if I am using a website, not a tool. Google feels like a tool - I get in an out quickly, it doesn't invade my flow. Your application (and others, like Mahalo) are so visually invasive I would never use them, no matter the results that we returned.

Not really a design thing - although it stems from the design - more like a workflow thing... I dunno, hard to describe.
Sure as you say the math is bad and numbers are old and too basic.
But the IRS issued around 76.4M (as of June 2008)stimulus checks and expects to issue as many as 124M by year end. According to the irs.gov FAQs
The next bailout is now looking like $700B -- so $785B total - divide that by the IRS numbers and -- Tell me that isn't an even more interesting level.
I agree, pagination would be much better because then I wouldn't have to scroll to see all of the new results.
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Quite simply, I looked at the current state of search and saw a path through which I could add something useful to the space.

There are all sorts of issues with current search, most of which have been discussed on this forum elsewhere. Relevancy is certainly one of them, but there are others too, e.g. spam, clutter, discovery, and UI.
Your mother's doubt, and you subsequently proving it wrong... don't you think that prepared you for when you inevitably met those kind of doubts again in real life?

My point is that the world we present to children should be more representative of the real world. I think your mom was doing the right thing by giving you that honest evaluation, even though it was obviously wrong.
I've been using Macs my whole computing life, and I thought of them as Good until the first iPod worked with Windows. "But that's just business," you say, but in fact that represented a huge shift for Apple, and I recognized it immediately: Taking care of Mac customers was no longer Apple's chief concern, nor was creating great computers. Profit was the new obsession at company built by obsessions.

I watched 2002's July Keynote (MacWorld) from my local, brand-spankin'-new Apple store, and only a handful of us [all Mac geeks in attendance] were excited about the iPod. We came to see about OSX 10.1, and whatever cool software Apple might be brewing up, and this threw us for a loop.

Then next-gen iPods were available for Windows. Then I couldn't use FireWire with new iPods, even to charge them! And things have really deteriorated for us old-school MacAddicts since then. For one, MacAddict became MacLife (lame). Jobs killed off the "Sad Mac" and took all of the color and life out of the company. OSX 10.0-3 were great, 10.4 was OK, and Leopard is a goddamn trainwreck, relatively speaking.

From that point on, it was all about the Benjamins in Cupertino. I was disgusted that Apple would so quickly switch to Intel processors after years of persuading us (proving, in my opinion) that PowerPC was the superior architecture. Having followed Apple for quite some time, I predicted back then that Apple would eventually just sell software, iPods, and other gizmos: Moving away from PowerPC would be the death-knell for Mac-exclusive software (specifically catering to Mac users), be it at the hands of Apple or Psystar. I could care less.
I also think that Java Web Start is a pretty good solution when you have control of the computers where it is going to run and you need dynamic behavior. But I saw the same problem, people wanted a webapp.

Since then, the best solution I've found is GWT.
What is OSDI?
Yes. Like in germany, where it takes about 16 years of living there to get a citizenship, and since you were not born there, you will always be a second class citizen, always. Plus in a typical racist/ethnocentric way, you have to renounce your motherland's country's citizenship. No, thanks.

There is a real good reason USA attracts smart immigrants in droves. Even with the latest problems after 2001, this country will be able to attract more foreigner than any other country in europe.
I'm actually pretty impressed. Searched for "Epigram" first and it came up with the programming language as the first result, along with Conor's homepage. Searched for "Arya Stark" and it came up with the Westeros fan wiki and Wikipedia entry. Searched for Hacker News, and the site was the first hit. Searched for my name (a tough one, since lots of people share it), and came up with my FriendFeed page, Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours, and a support question I left on the webfaction forum.

Couple comments:

What's with the Wink and PeopleFinder links? Partnerships? They're almost never what I want, and putting them up top is distracting.

The AJAX-load-more-results-on-scroll feature is cool, but I found it a little jerky and distracting. This could be because just hold down the down arrow, so I go really fast and often hit the end of the page while it's loading. Any way to make the transition a little smoother, maybe by preloading results and only displaying them as you scroll, maybe by a fade or slide transition?
A very large truck of cigarettes, enough to last my family for the rest of our lives. Then scream "I'm rich biatch!" and honk my truck's horn a couple times.
I can't imagine the logistics of such a thing, but it's intriguing enough that I'd visit home to try it!
Yeah I'd have to race them then.
I wonder if search has become a commodity, and the reason why Google dominates isn't because of its search engine, it's because of its brand name. Search actually seems a lot like the food industry in that you can't really judge the quality of the product beyond a certain level, yet you care deeply about that quality. Those industries usually tend to become branding plays, not technology plays.
5 Ways the Android is Better Than the iPhone and 5 ways it doesn't
Volunteer time/interest.. not enough people want to scratch the itch.

The need for multiple binaries - (OS X 10.4/10.5) x (PowerPC/Intel) x (32/64 bit, maybe) - is also a pain. You can cross build, and you can munge multiple builds into a "universal binary", but it's not obvious enough to avoid the same discussions happening on every open source project's mailing list.
Tech boom means China will run out of IP addresses by 2011
I would create a commercially viable, extremely useful version (versus just plastic doodads) of the self-replicating fabricator ( http://reprap.org ), design a decent computer & solar cell that could be easily manufactured by this fabricator and is easy to make into a cluster system (and have semi decent performance). And create some fabrication programs that can manufacture buildings, farming equipment and other such essentials.

Then I would fund a bunch of funding into cures for third world evils like malaria and such.
Microsoft just bought back stock with its cash. How about a down-payment on our national debt?
> I never even knew!

Exactly. And it seems you still don't understand what you missed. The essay probably should have ended there.

- Written as another person who also spent countless hours every single day with programming/engineering for entire youth.
I can see it now, synchronized space shuttles in the space olympics (http://www.hulu.com/watch/34464/saturday-night-live-digital-...)
If you want it to be yes.
Why not post the entire title?

"5 Ways Google's Android Beats the iPhone ... And 5 Ways It Doesn't"
I would also throw in K&R, Effective Java, and Concrete Math.

Not a bad list otherwise.
No, no. It's scorching hot in summer and freezing cold in winter. Not sure that's a selling point or not..
My point here is that linear improvements don't really improve your scaling or performance in any real sense. Linear improvements are equivalent to buying hardware (or sharding), whereas I think the kind of really nice improvement you want is say changing an exponential factor. Because thats the kind of improvement you can't compete with by buying hardware.

That being said, for a large enough server farm, yes, linear improvements are totally beneficial. (And a small enough server farm.) But its important to keep in perspective that not all betters are created equal ;)
I'll let them know.

And in general, I'm sure there are enough Googlers wandering around on the internet that if you post something, someone will eventually pass it on if its good ;)
I did something similar with Yahoo! BOSS APIs but I used terminal-liked console as the UI. Sometimes, I really think that it will be more useful for hackers to use a Terminal-liked search engine - http://geeky.siong1987.com. It is a bit slow because the whole application is not well-architectured. I sacrificed too much speed power for the developer feature.

About your application, I think the name of the search engine is really awkward. And, the logo is really too colorful. It seems like a side-project more than a serious project. Anyway, it displayed the results that I expected.
Germany 8 years ( with an immigration course 7 years - very good knowledge of german 6 years) - US 5 years. If you don't like germany got to the UK.
Thanks for the feedback. I would very much like it to be a "tool" as you describe. I've gone through many design iterations, and have tried to keep the "clutter" down to a minimum.

I would be interested to know what specific design elements you think are contributing to this problem. I know you said it isn't really a design problem, but there has to be more to say about it :) Colors? The results on the right?
it is a satire site - it just isn't good enough to be funny.
It produced pretty nice results for "linux" but was less impressive when I wanted to learn about the "hmmmv" acronym.
It's fun to read these, but I feel compelled to point out that the 700 Billion is not going to be spent, but rather it's the amount the US is on the hook for.

The last time the US did this they not only got all the money back, they even made a small profit.

To join along: if I had the money I'd spend all of it on as many nuclear reactors, to generate electricity, as I could. I'd standardize the design to keep the costs as low as possible.
Q: What do I get if my idea is chosen?

A: You get good karma and the satisfaction of knowing that your idea might truly help a lot of people.

I don't think I'm alone to say that I'll just develop my own ideas but thanks for the offer.
Getting laid and being lonely aren't mutually exclusive either.

Don't learn how to be interesting, learn how to be interested. Don't learn to be the norm, learn to appreciate others.

Don't talk about what you love, ask about what they love and share what you think might interest them. Discover their passions.

If you want good company, you have to be good company.
A vanity search turns up nothing, therefore my ego won't let me use your search engine. ;)

In all seriousness, I like the way you're going, but I didn't like the way the results are laid out - it just looked sloppy to me.
Google's brand does influence its search results. I recall the MSN Live team put the Google logo above their results and people automatically perceived them as more relevant even though the results had not changed.

After much Googling the closest I could come to finding the article was here (at the bottom): http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3601751
Compute time on random home PCs is essentially worthless, or at least worth less than the overhead cost of managing it. And for many users the cloud is about storage and bandwidth as much as about compute.
hehe

I would invest it. I would buy most of wall street and wait for it to bounce back. Turn that 700b to 10 trillion.
It's annoying. My train of thought when I got there:
Good, clean simple interface. Funny name.
This text box is huge. I don't know if that's good or bad
Everythings scrunched up at the top. I have plenty of vertical room, use it.
I'll search for something... alright why is there a loading bar for a search engine?
This is frusturating having to wait for my results
What? Only 4?
This 'load more results' thing is fairly annoying, just load them for me
I'll try something else... say 'blue wallpaper'
*Oh how handy, I'm at Google now.