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Facebook is relatively new to the advertising game and probably doesn't have the sort of experience that Google, MSN and Yahoo have in dealing with the immense amount of click frau…

Groupon actually has substantially changed their payout terms, from their 10-Q http://investor.groupon.com/financials.cfm > Our current merchant partner arrangements are structured…

Thank you Dr. Obvious.

http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting is a similiar resource for php, perl, python and ruby only.

I use http://sugarsync.com personally which provides versioning and also lets you arbitrarily sync directories, not just the 'dropbox' one.

He already told you, they are good with the goddamn customers. They have people skills, they are good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with…

I don't disagree nor do I use heroku, it's moot for myself. I was just commenting how row-limitations were a very NoSQL way of enforcing data limits and inappropriate for an RDBMS.…

I like that you guys pointed out more efficient ways to do stupid things :)

I disagree. By restricting the number of rows I think you're just going to end up with folks creating sloppy schemas specifically to avoid going over the limit. post.categories (va…

Is making otherwise innocuous changes which have a substantial impact on user behavior important to the startup culture? No, no at all.

I fantasize about computers too. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like …

Took about 45 seconds of Google+Yelp to determine it's http://www.yelp.com/biz/mirai-chicago

Nice try, overpriced US universities and for-profit degree mills.

Awesome response from Spolsky but that's not Quora. You can tell because it has users and content :)

Why do you think you'd only get paid $33k? If that's the case, that's suggesting the compensation and ownership is: Co-Founder: $33k Salary, 45% Equity Co-Founder: $33k Salary, 45%…

Yes. In 2008/2009, another engineer and myself built an ad-platform that received around 500M impressions per day, 5M clicks per day. And it wasn't just recording a tweet or publis…

What unit suffix is 'l'

Twitter's attitude is laughable. Yes, you have a decent amount of traffic but you're also only dealing with ~160 uncompressed bytes (plus whatever overhead) per event. The hurdles …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem

Yeah, just not cutting it for me. I understand the workarounds but the reality is they shouldn't be required. I should be able to right-click a directory and "Add to Dropbox"

I use droplr for quick screen-sharing, pastes, file-transfers, etc. I do not use it for anything sensitive whatsoever.

They really should have more intelligent individuals manning public-facing support channels.

Redis is a key-value store. S3 is a distributed file system. Can we stop labeling the set of "not a rdbms" data storage mechanisms with the stupid fucking "NoSQL" moniker.

Hrm, so for a proximity search it basically has to take a combination of all potential encompassing geohashes and then do a second-pass (substantially reduced data set) using a hav…

So you make the r-tree 3 dimensions (lat,lng,time). PostgreSQL supports this. I dunno I can't envision Solr being more efficient than a properly designed RDBMS for these situations…