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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 subjectively "comes across".

>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 Google can do. It's probably not the best possible web search though. Just the best from Google.

The reason nobody is there to challenge Google is because noone has come up with a way to fund a web search engine other than through ads. Challenging Google probably also means challenging the whole ad industry. It's a rough climb.

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

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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?

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. You have to be its mother to love that stack.

>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 implementations and that .Net Core is some solid tech, using industry's best practises for streams, collections, GC and so on. How do you think they made it portable?

I started to get pissed off at MS at around the time MVC 3 came out. That was not the direction I would have taken. Oh the bloat. Asp.Net Core Mvc is a dream. You start out with nothing, basically. Invent your own conventions.

I'm happy to not touch .Net 4 again. Love Core.

Edit: as parent said though: Microsoft, your tooling has gone from best-of-breed to just-another-messed-up-ide. Please remove everything you copied from Resharper from Visual Studio. It just doesn't work. Try renaming a file. I have never had anything but near-fatal studio errors such as "the refactoring of the file name just didn't work, man, crashing soon...". I want my Resharper back. Can you disable your stuff? I mean, all of it? And please don't ask me to develop server applications on a javascript client such as VS Code. Nut gunna do it.

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 size of your team does not matter as much as the ideas they follow. Resin has been based solely on my ideas up to just recently when now PR's are starting to show up. Check it out.

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.

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.

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

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 have a hard time succeeding, which is a shame I think.

Before ad-driven internet business, remember what we had? I do very well. It was called non-profitable business. Are we that plain and narrow-minded that we therefore cannot have non-ad driven business on the web today?

The information you leak when you use ad-driven services, that's the product. I know of tons and tons of other type of products that could be driving an internet business where the product was something else entirely. But I don't see them around so much. Most buy in to the Google ad circus.

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 positive. Maybe they really are doing good for the world. I mean, how will we have selfdriving googlecars if we don't have ads?

>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. Today is different. Compared to 1995, not worse or better. That's depressing because as a planet, back in 1995, we really needed to improve, as a species.

I don't know how to make an influence in world politics other than to create a business built upon my values. That's what I'm looking for right now. A technical leader. I have given up on politics.

That technical leader is not Google. I personaly share none of the ideas behind ad networks. I like how they solved big data back in the day. And since they have great people they started to solve other problems as well, like mail. And maps. That's not evil.

Sucking the air out of the browser market the same way they did with the web search industry and then standardizing an ad-blocking mechanism is not just evil, it's vicious.

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 attractive gamification model for businesses. Does this idea sound good or just plain?

In nineteen ninetyfive, I was around 20, I started using the Internet. I was amazed and started looking for ways to communicate with others. I realized everyone wanted to communicate with everyone. I started subscribing to newsletters. When I opened my inbox I thought to myself "wow, the Internet is communicating with me".

Today my stomach turns when the internet communicates with me (ads, messages, pretend news). The original idea is lost. Newbies never get a glimps of what I saw, back in the day. I wonder if it's lost forever.

I blame Google. They solved big data. Made it queryable. And then implemented a business idea very far from "not evil".

Edit: spelling

You both make great points.

Can we find this conundrum in other domains, say, neural networks? Can a machine become creative when we teach it to adhere to common knowledge?

Can you describe your setup and your tech stack?

I like your ideas.

You say on your site you will never track me without permission. Can you describe in a sentence or two your privacy policy?

Very nice work. A couple of questions.

If I create a search bubble with my take on "everything tennis", will the contents of that bubble be available in your global web search when someone searches for tennis related concepts?

Can bubbles be composed of content not on the web?

I think if you made your site look less like a social platform and more like a cloud tool, businesses might become more interested.

Edited: thought I saw a bug but I was wrong so removed the bug report

Edit2: maybe you have a bug after all? Compare these results: [0][1].

[0] https://bubblehunt.com/@web?q=president%20donald%20trumq%20i...

[1] https://bubblehunt.com/@web?q=president%20donald%20trumq%20i...

No fuzzyness on "islam"?

Thx!

>Going from there to the notion that disabilities are good and it's the healthy people who have the real problems is devastatingly toxic.

I see the opposite as toxic. I am very creative but because of my creativity I have trouble, sometimes, keeping focus on things I do not deeply love to think about. I get very bored very fast doing things that does not fundamentaly engage or motivate me. I know this disabilitates me but I also know that the other side of that coin, my ability to dive in to a problem and go deep, for a long time, and after some time resurface with a solution, more than compensate, which shows in my pay-check I guess but also because I am well integrated in the team. Perhaps well-integrated because I know everyone is a little ADHD/schizo/gay/rasist/and so on. We all have a little bit of everything in us. That's why I struggle hard in every team I'm in to make us a well-functioning but heterogenous team. We all need to be our best selves but more imporantly, our selves. If not at work, when?

Very cool and a nice write-up, thank you.

I know absolutely nothing about the AltaVista software so this was interesting. I'm wondering, were there limitations in scale? Did the search engine have other types of technical limitations? If you had to choose from modern software, what would have been your choice?

>The system will never enter an inconsistent state (unless there is hardware failure), meaning that unexpected power-off won't ever damage the system.

What is the difference here between a hardware failure and a unexpected power failure?

Very good advise, apart from the "rather than".

This is very interesting to me. What's the other one?

Edit: no worries: found it [0]. So much to read today if you wanna stay ajour with indexing and compression.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04346

That's a very heterogeneous group you are addressing. Why are you grouping by a binary gender? What is it you think individuals in this group have in common?

Search is not hard. Microsoft are being lazy. Which is good for me. I'm building what I thought was a Elasticsearch killer. Seems it's also a DocumentDB killer. Search is first-class with Resin: https://github.com/kreeben/resin

Thank you, I agree and those suggestions are valuable to me. If you have more, let me know.

> it's database queries or nothing to most developers

Perhaps for some but not for most, I think.

I believe dotnet devs suffer from a lack of confidence and from identifying themselves as dotnet devs, instead of just devs.

I want to be on dotnet core because I want to be cross platform and code in C#. My options, if I cannot get a community around this piece of code, is to go to golang or java, because I really want to be cross-platform and code in a decent high-level lang.

But it seems silly that I should move from the preferred platform to one where I am less productive because Microsoft were being the Microsoft they were back then, when they put so much effort today into copying the success of java. Prior to an open-sourced dotnet core, that vision was unreachable. Now it is reachable, for real.

I don't trust Oracle or Google any more than I trust Microsoft. I trust they will be what they are.

I do think dotnet core, technically, outshines java, by miles and miles. Haven't tried go yet.

I need my tech to be built on the best tech in the world. Because I'm out to beat those who are not.

We'll see how much traction this project gets. Maybe none. I'll beat the Lucene team single-handed if I have to. That's not my vision, it's just the first step towards creating what I'm actually here to create: tech, open for everyone, powerful enough to beat Google with, if you just add the right business strategy to the mix.

This is not a Lucene-killer. It's a Google-killer.

Yeah, I'm megalomanic sometimes. What a dull world to live in though, where Google is unbeatable ;)