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Re:The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data Structures
on Monday October 08, 2012 @06:39AM (#4626239)
These questions are way too basic- the first 4 can be answered directly from the definition of each term, and there is no thinking involved. The 5th question can be answered with knowledge from 1 lesson in graph theory.
Leaving in a Huff
"Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of performance and reliability"
The Agonizing Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller
Is poker a game of chance or skill?
New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users' Ears
The story of a Russian spy for the CIA during the Cold War
Re:Faking Human Input While Interfacing with X11 Applications
on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @03:25PM (#1299369)
http://freddy1990.com/scar.php - Is a similar tool for Windows. It was originally built, and is wildly used today, to cheat on an online RPG called http://runescape.com/ (it does the boring, repetitive tasks of the game for you while your are sleeping).
Faking Human Input While Interfacing with X11 Applications
Peter Norvig answers reddit's questions (Ask Me Anything video interview)
Re:True Knowledge (AI question-answering platform) launches public beta
on Friday February 26, 2010 @05:43PM (#1154350)
The NLP engine isnt god though:
http://www.trueknowledge.com/q/was_jfk_killed_before_barack_...
True Knowledge (AI question-answering platform) launches public beta
Dubai murder suspects climb to 26
Re:Valve Software Battles Video-game Cheaters
on Thursday February 18, 2010 @11:16AM (#1134468)
This is wrong. There are many 'cracked' (no-steam) servers for all valve games ( http://css.setti.info/ ) and even though Ive played many hours on these servers (CSS and TF2) I have seen only 2 cheaters.
Remember- you still have admins on these servers, and they can ban IPs...
Re:Valve Software Battles Video-game Cheaters
on Thursday February 18, 2010 @10:58AM (#1134399)
Obtaining working free wallhacks/aimbots for most games is pretty easy.
Right now I can only remember http://www.mpcforum.com/ .
I "tested" one of their aimbots (on TF2) and not only did it work, but I also did not get banned.
Re:Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million
on Thursday February 11, 2010 @02:02PM (#1118437)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_W6Qbob2mg#t=0m16s
Really?
Pagerank doesnt have anything to do with twitter and facebook.
Its a great idea, and its probably one of the major factors that made google a success, but today it is not a very important factor in google being a bigger company than fb and twitter.
Re:I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA.
on Monday February 08, 2010 @08:28PM (#1111243)
Re:I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA.
on Monday February 08, 2010 @08:27PM (#1111240)
If we assume that everything that the OP has said is true, I dont think that this is Joshua:
1. Joshua works at Google, OP says that he does not have a job.
2. It looks like Joshua isnt married.
Re:I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA.
on Monday February 08, 2010 @08:19PM (#1111228)
1. He said that it was sold between 1 year ago and 4 years ago. In addition, his company is still going.
2. He said that before taxes he had 30 million dollars, so the startup was sold for >=30 million dollars.
3. He is married and has an 11 year old daughter (and at least one more kid). Him and his wife are at least 30 years old.
4. At least one newspaper reported on him selling his startup.
I tried using CrunchBase to search for his startup but the list of companies sold in the last 5 years is huge...
I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA.
Re:Apple Gestapo: How Apple Hunts Down Leaks
on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @06:32PM (#997699)
In Israel, because there is a fear from terrorists, before you go into any shop, restaurant, mall, or university, your bag is searched (for ~30 seconds) and sometimes a metal detector is used (a hand-held one).
I know nothing about Apple HQ, but it would be trivial to set something like this up.
Unrelated, but they (Gizmodo) shouldn't have used the word 'gestapo' or anything else related to nazis.
Re:Google Goggles
on Monday December 07, 2009 @05:51PM (#982422)
Where does the info for the landmark recognition feature come from? Is it from street view?
I dont see how the landmark recognition feature could be useful. If you have a camera + 3g on your phone, you have a GPS.
Re:Google Goggles
on Monday December 07, 2009 @05:47PM (#982409)
Ive talked with one of the guys from face.com . They have put a lot of effort into making their system very fast and scalable.
He told me that they built it from scratch and did not use OpenCV. Some parts were even written in assembly.
Im pretty sure that this is the only web application that I use that has had major parts of it written in assembly.
Re:High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook
on Monday December 07, 2009 @05:04PM (#982295)
A few days ago I sent a message to the FB developer that wrote the blog post about Haystack.
He told me that they are working on getting it open sourced and that it will be ready 'soon'.
Re:Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Servi...
on Thursday December 03, 2009 @06:55PM (#975492)
Does anyone know of payment gateways that work with merchants outside the U.S.?
We are based in Israel and are going to launch a subscription based web app soon.
Right now it looks like the only option is to use Google checkout/ Paypal (the basic plan). Both of these send the customer off site and this makes for a slow user experience.
Re:The End Of The CrunchPad
on Monday November 30, 2009 @01:30PM (#968367)
I agree with this comment from http://styleguidance.com/the-life-and-death-of-crunchpad:
" Is the CrunchPad really dead? Honestly? I'd put my money on no. Arrington is way too "powerful", and did too much, to just roll over for a few bad apples. My guess, is that, at this very moment, his mailbox is exploding with tons of emails from Fusion Garage competitors, offering to finish the project for him.
And if they aren't...then their CEOs need to be kicked out.
Where else, will you find a partner, who has the connections to have a major retail chain(most likely Best Buy) who not only are willing to help you with shipping costs by letting you use their planes, but will also sell your product with zero margin and will pay upfront?
Where else, will you find a partner, who has the connections to get your people advice from the guys at Intel? And a huge discount on pricing?
Where else, will you find a partner, that already has investors lined up for the project?
Where else, will you find a partner, that already has brand recognition, with millions of people? "
Re:Is Sarah Lacy Making Sponsored Posts on TechCrunch?
on Thursday July 30, 2009 @02:55PM (#732819)
Right, but while he still had money in Seesmic, there was a huge Seesmic widget on every page on TechCrunch.
Re:Poll: How many generations removed from immigration are you?
on Sunday July 05, 2009 @07:02AM (#688121)
Because Israel is a pretty young country most people living here are <= 2nd generation immigrants.
I'm a 4th generation immigrant. 5 generations ago my family immigrated from Russia and created at least a couple of cities, which still exist today.
Re:The Reality Of PR: Smile, Dial, Name Drop, Pray.
on Sunday July 05, 2009 @06:34AM (#688109)
Arrington writing about how great Arrington's blog is.
We all know how successful Cuil is today after being mentioned on almost every major newspaper/magazine/blog in the world. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/cuil.com/