krade's comments

On: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

[krade]

UBO Lite doesn't support cosmetic filters or custom rules.

On: I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search

[krade]

yes? you either copied the code from somewhere and didn't bother fixing the comments or you write nonsensical comments. neither is great.

On: I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search

[krade]

so, the hiring manager should spent more time on formulating the rejection than the candidate spent on reading the actual requirements?

On: How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure with a 90% Discount

[krade]

I don't doubt that physical hardware would be cheaper than AWS at their scale, but their graph seems off: They are showing no difference between on demand and reserved pricing, with reserved pricing often even being more expensive. Are they actually taking the full 3-year up-front cost and comparing it to monthly on-demand pricing?

[mirochnik → krade]

> They are showing no difference between on demand and reserved pricing, with reserved pricing often even being more expensive.

That's exactly what is happening when you look at things without depreciation. You pay 3y all upfront. And it's a lot of money: a high step on the graph. On demand will grow steadily and in three years, it will surely be higher than 3y reserved instance. But we are not comparing one instance. We add more ever more powerful servers as they are added in any infrastructure. And we pay upfront. On demand price can't catch up to those all upfront costs on our period of time.

To see it clearly, we fix the infra on the 4th graph. And then on-demand becomes much more expensive. Also, you may look at the last paragraph in the Appendix to see why 3y all upfront is not horizontal between the steps.

> Are they actually taking the full 3-year up-front cost and comparing it to monthly on-demand pricing?

Yep.

On: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

[krade]

used to be possible around 2011-2012 but worked too well so was obviously removed.

On: Kagi and Wolfram

[krade]

this has probably been the first and only new features added to a product in years, that's actually been useful to me personally.

On: Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'

[krade]

this worker came to me, crying, tears in his eyes: Thank you Mr. Puchai for firing all these people.

On: Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival

[krade]

not only is this completely wrong, but you aren't taxed on assets, and capital has nothing to do with it either.

assuming you meant revenue and income, your example actually perfectly illustrates the problem. Company A has $1MM in revenue, spends $1MM on SE salaries and is taxed on $800k income. Company B has $1MM in revenue, spends $1MM on some AWS db service and has no income to be taxed on.

On: Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine

[krade]

Bad comparison. Ballmer launched Azure, Surface, Bing, Xbox and Office on iOS and Office365. He was also the one go all-in on the cloud and to start the shift towards embracing Open Source. Pretty much everything that people attribute to Nadella either launched or started under Ballmer.

On: Google dusts off the Google+ playbook to fight ChatGPT

[krade]

Analytics, AdSense, Doubleclick, Blogger, Google Groups, Google Voice, Picasa, AdMob, Postini, recaptcha, Nest. AdWords was stolen from Overture, after their ridiculous idea of a monthly, flat fee for a keyword failed. Afaik, Gmail is the only successful Google product that wasn't an acquisition.

[saurik → krade]

Oh yeah, duh: I normally lead with AdWords--as that's like their core business ;P--as the guy who founded DoubleClick lives right around here, but I forgot! Yeah: the reality is that Google really doesn't know how to start anything itself.