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akshayubhat

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    Comment #2016606

    I can only think of using 80legs as a crawler, since its distributed enough to make sure that you don't run into any IP address based rate limitation. But it's just a guess.

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    Comment #1978900

    So many upvotes, I find information cascade happening here.

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    Comment #1728651

    a harvard (or UIUC, stanford, cornell, MIT, UCB) CS grad can easily make 70k$ a year right out of college and much more in future. 100k$ tuition might be an issue for liberal arts …

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    Comment #1706739

    Interesting! There is an open source Apache Mahout project for doing machine learning via hadoop. Also have a look at Vowpal wabbit an open source framework for fast SGD for online…

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    Comment #1705523

    Interesting anyone knows which strategies they use to decide to buy/sell, once they have determined the expected price? do they use physics based techniques, like black scholes? or…

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    Comment #1689250

    Something like this wont happen to Google App Engine, thankfully.

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    Comment #1688359

    err HBASE is the database and not HDFS.

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    Comment #1685661

    I completely agree, I find it weird whenever someone mentions Hadoop as as NOSQL. Hadoop is a Distributed Computing system. While HDFS is the Database. Hadoop is more of an Distrib…

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    Comment #1683198

    Well he has Indianized English Grammatical style.

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    Comment #1681356

    On a side note, had this been a case with an MacOSX application or Windows application, would you have petitioned Apple or MSFT?

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    Comment #1676340

    oh are i-OS API and code cross platform compatible? Do any other companies except Apple create iOS devices? in fact Apple used 3.3.1 to make sure that code was not cross platform c…

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    Comment #1676136

    no because you can run programs on Acer netbook which will also run on say HP and Dell netbook's.

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    Comment #1676123

    no more 3.3.1 that's good. Finally sanity prevails over "interface decides programming paradigm/language argument".

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    Comment #1674832

    Evolution, why DDT wouldn't work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Mosquito_resistance

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    Comment #1668664

    People who use AMT for earning money may not necessarily be the right audience you are looking for.

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    Comment #1668264

    Entrepreneurship isn't the cure-all pill, good Ideas are hard to come by, even if you are looking for them continuously. Second Large Businesses have huge efficiency advantage due …

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    Comment #1668241

    Wow, Doctors are different case altogether Their supply is limited and controlled, anyone can come and say that they are "web programmer" after reading HTML/CSS/Ruby, Even Universi…

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