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thehal84··on Show HN: Wriber – Idea Generator
Well said landtco. If you are looking for data analysis tools to help you with your business in this regard my company can help to solve this problem. http://theenginuity.com/analytics
thehal84··on Carriers Are Making More from Mobile Ads Than Publishers Are
it is no different then cable TV. You pay to watch all those commercials. In Canada the largest Carriers also happen to be Cable providers.
thehal84··on Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth
Yep and sometime you just want the cliff notes on that trend without the spam.

This was why I put together our trending search feature @ http://theenginuity.com on the front-page.

We compile a list of social trends from our indexes of social data and make it easy to instantly figure out what's going on based on your language / region settings.

thehal84··on A Miserable Debt-Free Life
I think he is alluding to the fact that a separation or divorce is most likely what prompted all this and perhaps his wife was a driving factor in their mutual accumulation of material things back then.
thehal84··on Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement
Founder of Enginuity Analytics here. You can ingest RSS and Tweets into our platform where we apply machine learning to provide social data, sentiment analysis, rankings, filters and demographic analysis of all the content for 27 languages. And easily export the data to Excel and more. http://theenginuity.com
thehal84··on Why You Should Not Build a Recommendation Engine
I might be able to help with that. email: hello at theenginuity.com
thehal84··on Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster
A similar article that articulated this well.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html

thehal84··on Wikipedia on HHVM
Mobile Ads and Mobile Analytics for about 500 million devices world wide.
thehal84··on Quantifying the Clickbait and Linkbait in BuzzFeed Article Titles
Through my research I have found you can trick someone into clicking a link but a share not so much.

I built a search engine that ranks on social shares and the social comments.

It's great for avoiding click bait in results.

http://engu.me

thehal84··on Wikipedia on HHVM
This is great news to see. I have tested HHVM with our particular application load and I found it to be a bit tricky to tune just right. However PHP 5.6 has been solid in production for us handling 5 billion requests daily.
thehal84··on A Googler's Quest to Teach Machines How to Understand Emotions
Interesting stuff, I too taught a machine to understand emotion. It is challenging work for sure and fun. It's integrated into our Search Engine Enginuity which uses this as part of its ranking algorithms. http://theenginuity.com
thehal84··on From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
Remind me of the sentiment shared by Becker before his death when he wrote The Denial of Death.
thehal84··on Kim Dotcom: “I'm broke” (german article)
for anyone interested a doc done by Vice interviewing Kim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxhIfG0MpY

thehal84··on PostgreSQL is more popular than MySQL
I'll stick with MySQL, the features and stability just keep getting better. Replication, Memcache Plugin (with amazing write and read performance that supports replication), InnoDB Barracuda compression, JSON datatypes (in 5.7), it has scaled amazing well for us at Enginuity Search Engine. I should do a write up on our company blog sometime about all this.
thehal84··on BlackBerry, Under New Leadership, Unveils Its Newest Smartphone
Web performance is not very good with the built in browser. I ran comparative performance tests of it with Sunspider and found it was not much better then an IPhone 3GS
thehal84··on Lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr
Not suprising the story sounds similar to the pets.com failure.

Groceries distribution requires good experience and knowledge of logistics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com

thehal84··on Show HN: A social search engine with sentiment built using Perl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVCtkzIXYzQ
thehal84··on Show HN: A social search engine with sentiment built using Perl
Front-end is the only thing not using Perl. If I found Perl Dancer sooner I might have used it, but all backend work is Perl. Feedback is welcomed. I really enjoy working on AI stuff with Perl.
thehal84··on Open Source Email Templates
Nice, i missed that while glancing at it on git. I've starred the repo and appreciate the contributions everyone has made to it.
thehal84··on Open Source Email Templates
Very nice! Just a shame most of these will not work with gmail since it blocks internal style sheets.
thehal84··on Love People, Not Pleasure
Why not both. If your in tech and enjoy it you can do it.
thehal84··on Love People, Not Pleasure
The Alberta oil sands are hiring. They pay upwards of $100-$200 an hour and pay for all your housing and meal expenses if your willing to live on camp for 6 months of the year. Works if your single but puts a big strain on your relationships with friends and family.

A lot can happen in a year not to just you but your family and friends that you could miss out on. Look forward to the future but don't rely on it because it might not come.

thehal84··on The Developer's Dystopian Future
I share the same sentiment and thoughts. Have you ever read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? If not I recommend it, been a great book to read and think about over the summer.
thehal84··on Programmer excuses
looks like an Ad click generator since DoubleClick is hidden in the page.
thehal84··on Developers: stop re-AOLizing the web!
Perhaps the author fails to see that introducing more functionality is additional support. A developer or team has to now support and bugfix more then just Gmail and iCloud which already hits 80% of the market share for this use case. Just my $0.02.
thehal84··on Developers: stop re-AOLizing the web!
I concur. I had to test a new IMAP Server for a Linux distro years ago, a lot of complexity.
thehal84··on The Curse of Smart People
Google. I used to work with the author
thehal84··on Futurist Kurzweil Says He’s Building AI into Google Search
When we built Enginuity Search Engine to better understand and contextualize information the Bayesian approach simply does not work. We ended up building a different (and we think better) approach which works very well and used by top schools like Harvard.
thehal84··on Show HN: Enginuity Search – We taught a machine to understand human emotion.
Thanks jcr. Will get those fixed and lighten the mod security rules for no user agents.
thehal84··on Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites
I covered this a few months back while it all went down with the Verge and HuffPo and how our social search engine algorithm accounted for this while Google did not.

http://theenginuity.com/blog/how-a-copied-excerpt-of-a-story...