I note that they've announced "work starting on a brand new supercomputer", so this is potentially backtracking on a very poor decision made last August to cancel a new exascale supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyx5x44vnyeo)
Has anyone ever heard of another case like this? I've been following search pretty closely for most of Google's existence and this is the only bug bounty payout I've ever heard of for a blackhat core algo exploit.
[Disclaimer: Tom's a colleague of mine at Distilled where I'm a founder]
"Almost everything looks like a graph. Almost nothing should be drawn as one."
It's really hard to make sense of full link graph visualisations. I'm talking about this in an upcoming conference presentation. We should share notes :)
Absolutely. In development we tried different ways to make the Crawl Map also represent link data, and they were all just unintelligible. Even the Crawl Maps on big sites are hard to get your head around, and that's with Sitebulb sampling quite heavily.
I'd love for us to come up with some sort of solution for it, I just don't know how we'd do it!
Distilled (www.distilled.net) is hiring in London (UK), New York City (NYC) and Seattle WA - all permanent, full-time roles.
We have a whole host of open positions: https://www.distilled.net/jobs/ - particularly looking for paid and organic search specialists.
We recently had an all-hands email thread where the whole team discussed what brought them to Distilled, and why they are still here. It got many great replies (including a number talking about how people's friends had typically had 2-3 jobs in the time they'd been with us), but this one stood out:
"A combination of an informal environment, freedom, and high expectations - I wanted a place where I could be myself and grow doing/learning things that I was passionate about, while having lots of smart people around me to collaborate with in doing so. I came from a huge, strictly regimented and siloed company, and was fed up with being told "that's a great idea, but it's not your job", and Distilled seemed to be the polar opposite."
In the UK we pay an annual tax [0] based on the engine size or CO2 emissions of the vehicle, in addition to tax on fuel.
I doubt the government will move affected cars up the price bands post-purchase as it would be politically unpopular.
We recently had an all-hands email thread where the whole team discussed what brought them to Distilled, and why they are still here. It got many great replies (including a number talking about how people's friends had typically had 2-3 jobs in the time they'd been with us), but this one stood out:
"A combination of an informal environment, freedom, and high expectations - I wanted a place where I could be myself and grow doing/learning things that I was passionate about, while having lots of smart people around me to collaborate with in doing so. I came from a huge, strictly regimented and siloed company, and was fed up with being told "that's a great idea, but it's not your job", and Distilled seemed to be the polar opposite."
