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lehmannro | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: FuckFuckAdblock

This is exactly what the website of BILD, a major German tabloid, is doing. They will not serve you content if they detect an ad blocker.

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Greplin: 1.5 Billion Documents Indexed, Six Engineers

I regularly hear that if I could install it on my own server argument and wonder if you think you can handle security and administration much better than someone who's paid to do it. I, for one, can't and would not want to waste my time on it.

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Questions you’ll (probably) get asked at your YC interview

If you solve an unknown problem (ie. an issue nobody is concerned about) you will have a very hard time to market it and show people how they need it.

There were solutions for this Internet thing 50 years ago, even if it's hardly imaginable today. If the problem you are speaking about is communication we had that 2000 years ago, in form of smoke signals. It sucked and was dog slow but it was not an unknown problem.

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Why I Like Google's Reorg and Why It's Only a Start

The author procures a scenario in which Google is going to collapse rather sooner than later. The last numbers I heard from Google reported an upwards trend in revenue [1] and with their recent additions like Google +1 [2] and Google Connect [3] I don't see them ‘miss the big picture’. Am I missing some serious tech scene scoop (genuine question)?

[1] http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

[2] http://www.google.com/+1/button/

[3] https://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answe...

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Always pay your web developers

I guess that caused more trouble for your dad than it did for the shop owner, economically at least. Plus he would probably brag about your dad to other shop owners. (I agree that just doing the job for free is no solution either, but do not have any better retaliation, except for proper contracts and court claims, in mind.)

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Study: Google “Favors” Itself Only 19% Of The Time

That search engine is still Google’s most important and profitable product, to my knowledge.

While I agree that its search engine is its most popular product it is not profitable in its own right. Google claims that "advertising revenues made up 97% of our revenues" in its Q3/2010 filings and that means advertising placed through AdSense/AdWords on other sites too:

We derive most of our additional revenues from offering display advertising management services to advertisers, ad agencies, and publishers, as well as licensing our enterprise products, search solutions, and web search technology.

-- http://investor.google.com/documents/20100930_google_10Q.htm...

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Looking for a open source project to contribute to

> I haven't came across anything I need them to do that hasn't been covered in some plugin somewhere.

If you cannot name at least 5 things you dislike about the tools and languages you use you're either in the honeymoon period, or irrational. --Jesse Noller

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Rejection Therapy - The Real Life Game

The ideas brought up on that site are frequently gamed in the pickup scene.

Crash 'n' Burn is the practice of trying impossible sets (ie. girls) with the assumption of being rejected. If you are sure you will blow it big time, you can as well do and learn something from it.

Another tangentially related technique against rejection angst is the Three Seconds Rule which mandates you talk to some stranger before thinking for too long (which is really a different, short-term approach to the Rejection Therapy game).

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Love Google. Hate Facebook. Here’s Why:

I believe your claims but is there any evidence to back it up (and is that possible on fuzzy metrics such as palpable sense of disconnect)?

From your other comments I understand you are from the US and I guess its a wholly different matter across the pond, but I for one cannot reproduce these effects here in Germany. Sure, most -- rough estimate: all -- of my contacts do have accounts on various social networks (me included) but we have never critically relied on it. It never gained quite as much traction as I always hear from Facebook.

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Love Google. Hate Facebook. Here’s Why:

I think you are overdramatizing Facebook's importance quite a little bit here. It's not like your friends will hate you when you quit and I have seen plenty of people quit online social networks while retaining their life just fine.

I could make up a similar argument the other way around: to me, services like Facebook provide little to no value; I can quit them just fine. I have communication details of a lifetime in Google, I store my documents with them, organize my calendar. (Note: I have heard Google's export features are quite okayish so that argument does not really hold.)

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Rouwam: An Ambitious Project

If I understand correctly, Ruby our universe with algo's and math's (Rouwam) tries to bundle all algorithms obtained from Wikipedia as a Ruby package.

I'm unsure about the handiness of that, given that I usually do not struggle do find a working implementation of an algorithm (think Rosettacode http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page) but rather which algorithm I actually want to use. I appreciate Python's standard library largely hiding the implementation details from me but rather concentrating on use cases.

Edited to clarify: the list of algorithms is fetched from Wikipedia. I think he wants to publish his algorithms in Wikipedia, not sure abut that though.

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Dealing with startup fears

He basically says: Do not let fear overwhelm you. Just do it. Listen to paying customers. Then just do it. And drugs.

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Python idiom for taking the single item from a list

A property which is exposed by the article's solution too:

   >>> x = (lambda: (yield 1))() # generator with one step
   >>> y = tuple(x)[0]
   >>> y
   1
   >>> list(x) # exhausted
   []

   >>> x = (lambda: (yield 1))()
   >>> y, = x
   >>> y
   1
   >>> list(x) # exhausted, too!
   []
Because that's just what you inevitably need to do to fetch a value from a generator. There is no peeking action or some such.

lehmannro | 15 years ago | on: Robust Programming

Assume that the caller or user is an idiot

I think this is not helpful at all, probably harmful. There might be use cases for my code I did not even think about and third-party programmers should well be able to use it as they wish. And if they feel like modifying internal state (which the author deems fragile in his article) -- oh well! We are all adults here.

NB. I agree that the library he's examining is sub-par quality and is well worth a look.

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