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Comment · 6 years ago
Are you sure there's a page on the web that has the stack trace you search for? Maybe there just isn't anything.
Comment · 6 years ago
Could it be that there just isn't a single page in the web with the exact error?
Comment · 6 years ago
And how do you determine which websites are good other than checking if they are doing seo? Is reddit.com good or bad? If a good site that does seo should it be taken out?

And what if what you're searching exists only in a non good website? Isn't it better to show a result from a non good website than showing nothing?

Comment · 6 years ago
>but the resilts he got were ireelevant and worse than the results that he would have got when searching reddit directly

Wrong. Internal reddit search has bad results too, and why even let you filter by last month.

Comment · 6 years ago
>my website zachvorhies.com doesn't show up on Google's search index, even when using the exact url as a query!

Just searched it and it's literally the first result.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
It's 3am so I'll read the article tomorrow.

In the mean time: I think it would be trivially easy to verify: just take a rooted phone and log accesses to the microphone. Somebody would've found that it's being activated when it shouldn't by now.

>I'll admit that it's quite likely that advertising algorithms are sophisticated enough to anticipate our needs based on previous behaviours with uncanny precision and timing.

Or it could be that among the hundreds of random ads we see online everyday one of two happen to be related to one of the dozens of conversations we had in the past days.

Comment · 6 years ago
>I can hardly think of anyone I know that can't attest to the experience of discussing something as a non-sequitur, only to receive ads about it shortly thereafter.

No way in hell that's true. Things are bad enough, you don't need to make stuff up.

Comment · 6 years ago
You can use hntoplinks.com
Comment · 6 years ago
It's intentional. Anti-tax republicans believe taxes should hurt. That's the main reason it's still not automatic.
Comment · 6 years ago
>My friends have switched from finance & medicine to CS majors - for the money Don't worry, something tells me they won't get very far.
Comment · 6 years ago
>Then DuckDuckGo would have access to rebrand googles search but keep its privacy benefits

Have you heard of startpage.com? It's literally that. Essentially it's to Google what DDG is to Bing.

Comment · 6 years ago
I suspect that every person commenting about how DDG has been improving is a person that doesn't know that DDG simply calls the Bing API.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm too late to comment, but my 2 cents: As long as there's something important at stake people will try to hack the test. There's no way around that.

The best that can be done is to try to keep the correlation between the "test" and what it's trying to measure add high as possible and to teach everyone how to hack it, that way everyone is on a level play field. If everyone hacks it then the difference in scores will be mostly about what is being measured and not about who hacked it and who didn't.

That's why big companies actually advice interview candidates to practice on leetcode and give them example interview questions.

But I agree with the main point that being good only at "hacking tests" in life instead of being good at your profession is very bad.

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