Wow, the Cuil buzz died quickly. In code...
{
case 1:
echo "All the rage!";
break;
case 2:
echo "Worst product e-v-e-r";
break;
case 3:
echo " ";
break;
}{
case 1:
echo "All the rage!";
break;
case 2:
echo "Worst product e-v-e-r";
break;
case 3:
echo " ";
break;
}The mandate is to prove:
1) That you can make an infrastructure capable of generating indices and hosting a search site that will get major traffic.
2) That your product is not vaporware.
3) That your product has room to grow in terms of technical capability, to justify why a company is seeing investment.
;; format magic
(format t "~[~;All the rage!~;Worst product e-v-e-r~; ~]" day)
;; a little less magic
(format t "~A" (case day
(1 "All the rage!")
(2 "Worst product e-v-e-r")
(3 " ")))
Yay for Common Lisp!Of course, each of these stats sources are somewhat unreliable, and combining them raises its own issues. Caveat emptor. ;-)
It's hard to argue that they didn't earn the money. Whether that money was well spent is another question.
I wonder why they didn't just show it to a few hundred people first... maybe they did, I don't know, it just seems like a bit of a bad way to release a product to me.
build product in a vacuum -> release it to the world!!! -> Oh... umm... they don't like it
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/cuil.com?s...
default:
tumbleweed();Brainfuck generated from:
,48i-:1i=["All the rage!"s[.]_10i.!]_:2i=["Worst product e-v-e-r"s[.]_10i.!]_:3i=[32i.10i.!]
Funny, I wrote the language yesterday to familiarize myself with Parsec, didn't know I'd find a use for it so fast. The day has to be entered manually. day = 15
case day
when 1 then puts "All the rage!"
when 2 then puts "Worst product e-v-e-r"
when 3..(1.0/0) then puts "...uhhh...nil, but Ruby still loves cuil, even if others dont!"
end cuilBuzz = {
'1': 'All the rage!',
'2': 'Worst product e-v-e-r",
'3': None
}
day = 3
cuilBuzz[day] cuilBuzz = {
'1': 'All the rage!',
'2': 'Worst product e-v-e-r',
'3': None
}
day = '3'
print cuilBuzz[day]
# Although the print isn't necessary...
Now what would be interesting would be an accurate version using the datetime module... cuil_buzz = {
1: 'All the rage!',
2: 'Worst product e-v-e-r.',
3: ' ... '
}.get(day, None){
case 1:
echo "All the rage!";
break;
case 2:
echo "Worst product e-v-e-r";
break;
case 3:
echo " ";
break;
default:
die('not cuil ... not cuil');
}most of you guys probably already have a very successful company by now too
I was trying to be sarcasstic with my 1st post, I guess it didn't work
i made the first post, and it certainly wasn't to make fun of them. apologies if that is what it sounded like.