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Wow, this is the first site I've seen to use frames in about 10 years!

Its generally true, but I've developed systems that go sideways and fork into multiple versions, so the data structures get more complicated.

I said it in fewer words and didn't add any adsense junk.

I used to have this problem. Then I realized that if I want to really copy a file, I type $cp file_from file_to and that $ln -s link_from link_to has a very similar effect to the c…

Unless you're targeting a specialized market where you're really in demand, I'd have nothing to do with "web freelancing". A few years ago I worked at a job shop that did web sites…

I've got a rule that "If it's not impossible, it's not worth doing." If most people think that what you're doing is impossible, you've got less competition.

If it makes $30k of revenue a year and you don't think that revenue stream is about to stop, this is a good investment. Do it.

Domain age counts for something, as does the rich mat of links that a long-existing site has. On the other hand, the price looks high for a site that gets that much traffic. I can …

I've often been unhappy with off-the-shelf monitoring systems, because every major site I've worked on has had some unique kind of problem. For instance, there was one site where u…

This definitely sweetens the deal. AMZN's monitoring facilities have been expensive and not really all that good.

Halos around your text are quite important if you're trying to draw titles on television, particularly the old NTSC television. You see them all the time in video games too.

Yes, it is good, but not good enough for many applications. You're also left with the issue that one kind of "apple" is more common than the other kind of "apple" so the baseline a…

Sure, but the fact is that nobody actually needs a "word-sense disambiguator", they need a search system with better accuracy, or a classifier with better accuracy or an informatio…

92% accuracy, unfortunately, isn't good enough. Bag-of-words models perform pretty well at classification and search, and the main thing you need to improve search is to boost scor…

Heck, I'd like to see Facebook credits be more flexible than they are now. In particular, I'd like to be able to use FB credits to pay people for work... I've got a suspicion that …

I dunno. I took second semester Chemistry when I was a senior in college... I never showed up at class except to take the weekly quiz. The professor was not at all offended that I …

I've long believed that standardized tests are a better measure of what people know than grades.

I think we're going to see a lot of papers like this. In a quantum gravity universe, we know there's no singularity at the big bang. Therefore, scientists are going to be looking t…

I wonder if Web 3.0 will miss Silicon Valley. I've found that the less technical and "webby" people are, the more they understand Web 3.0 A lot of that is that, in Web 3.0, perhaps…

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image search that works. Look for something on Google image search and typically the same image will show up in 25% of the first page of results and precision can be anywhere betwe…

http://ookaboo.com/ did web and API simultaneously -- mobile will happen when revenue or investment comes in and I can hire a team to do it. The API has been a tough sell, however,…

Oh yeah, kids who get "You have to be a doctor" parenting have a 50-50 or so chance of succeeding when at least one "doctor" is a parent. Some have brilliant careers, and others sc…