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edward_rolf

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    Yes because what we have always known about sarcasm and what this thread is a perfect example of is how you can define something as sarcastic/not sarcastic just by how it subjectiv…

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    >When a new technology matures I don't believe search is mature. We haven't seen a lot of innovations in web search for a while and what we know as web search is probably the best …

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    I came here to use my fav browser, IE 3. You could add bookmarks and it supported CSS I believe. :(

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    Show HN: Home-made database with log-structured writes

    Hi, I'm Marcus. I've spent the last 15 months or so home-coding on a document database, after work, on weekends (every waking hour). My plans for this particular weekend was to imp…

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    Comment #14513169

    That map is just awsome in so many ways. Where is Denmark and Sweden though? Romans just didn't think there was anything up there? Nothing? Way too cold up there for people to live…

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    Comment #14512805

    Having knowledge about legacy (Microsoft) tech is not bad if you're good. Many companies I know run their business on VB.Net/WebForms/Knockout/ELK/MSSQL. We do at my current gig. Y…

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    Comment #14512716

    >this "band-aid" approach I've been putting food on the table as a .net specialist for fifteen years. My impression is that .Net 4 is a band-aid of Windows-dependent implementation…

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    Hi, let me tell you a thing about building in-process document databases, competing with the works from FB, Google and MS: the codebase of a document database is very small. The si…

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    Comment #14477861

    Instead try to realize the truth. There is no data. Then you may realize it is not the data that is big... it is your head.

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    I see our tactics are strong. I'm firing up CS Ranked right now. Gonna hold a position with a team mate. Best game ever.

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    I was refering to the giganting corporations that were created during the dotcom era that investors threw money at but never became profitable.

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    Comment #14467730

    There was nothing wrong with letting commerce do their thing on the internet I suppose but since there was never a non-ad driven competitor to Google non-ad driven businesses now h…

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    Is that reasoning a way of solving the problem of doing good for the sake of evil perhaps? Edit: This and my previous posts are very toxic towards Google. I shall try to be more po…

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    >but to act like it was all lollipops and gumdrops in 1995 and its terrible today ignores a bunch of the improvements. Yes, the world was both worse and better than today. I agree.…

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    Hi, this is an early demo of searchpanels.com. You know those instant answers Google sometimes give you for certain types of queries? Those, but community-driven and with an attrac…

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