kapranoff

Joined 16 years ago

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Perl hacker from Moscow
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Comment · 13 years ago
The numbers look too sensational. They are probably very biased towards platforms/clients with default external image loading switched on.

Litmus claim they have a "secret sauce" that lets them detect email clients and user actions reliably. Sounds suspicious.

Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
I am from Yandex Mail team.

We've been having an influx of users for our mail for domains product because it is free compared to what Google provides now. We also have an importer from Gmail that works via IMAP.

BTW, there's an XMPP service too but I don't think we have English docs for that.

Comment · 13 years ago
Is there any Perl code inside by any chance? :)
Comment · 13 years ago
Some people here are confused about the business side of making a browser for Google. I even saw mentions that Google Chrome is just a good will project to make the Web a better palce.

While that is partially true, Google Chrome also has a very strong business strategy behind it.

Right now it is the main distribution channel for Google Search. Every download of the browser is converted (with a probability, of course) to more searches or to a switch-over from another search engine.

For quite a long time (several years) search engine quality has not been selling itself. Many people do not notice any real difference between Bing/Baidu/Yandex/Seznam and Google.

Google invented search distribution with Google Toolbar (which was a tremendous success from business side) and right now Google Chrome is the new Google Toolbar. One of the main KPIs for Google Chrome product is Google Search market share. Specifically they directly optimize for Google Search share from inside Google Chrome which when multiplied by the share of the browser converts into money.

Just wanted to clarify things, sorry if not mentioning Blink made this comment an off-topic one.

Comment · 14 years ago
One thing that jumped into my mind when I was thinking about using pedals at the computer is a pedal to switch the current shell into «su-mode». So that commands will be run as root while I'm holding the pedal.

Sadly, I don't think it will be trivial to implement.

Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
Actually, that's debatable. First, most 80 columns cards had the last 8 columns ignored (or used for metadata). Second, it is much more probable that 80 columns limit comes from 80x25 text resolution of EGA/VGA displays.
Comment · 16 years ago
CP866 is a very old standard, it was used in pre-Windows times. There are at least 3 more standards to encode cyrillics in 8 bits. Today, most Cyrillic letters on the web are encoded in either UTF-8 or CP1251.

All of them define the whole alphabete, though, so even the letters that look similar to some latin letters are always encoded differently.

Comment · 16 years ago
Also, since memoization is just another name for caching, dynamic progamming is actually very widely used.
Comment · 16 years ago
Could you please help me find some links on the GPL3 ban in Windows 7?

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