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Update! The entire keynote is now available on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJ5DBLSFe4 The discussion about Amazon Redshift begins at 52:50 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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by 23david 14y ago
Have to say that this is pretty amazing. The price is so low that it's a no-brainer to just give it a try. For the same 2TB capability, a Vertica license would run between $20-40K, with high annual subscription fees. The bigger question for
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Nice work. :-) This list is getting pretty comprehensive.
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There are some good things here, but on a systems level there are huge oversights that are absolute showstoppers on production systems. Maybe there is a level of Mongo proficiency above MongoDB Master? I hope so. 1) Make sure to permanently
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by 23david 14y ago
If your concern is to ensure that you're not getting a coding bozo, I think that your tests are designed incorrectly. Instead of having a 'simple test', just find some random, buggy sub-optimal code sample online (shouldn't be hard) and ask
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Sounds like a good move. It's important to signal to the entire Apple organization that nobody is untouchable if they screw up. Apple's culture is generally pretty tolerant of mistakes as long as people fix them quickly. I think in this ins
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I guess I'd do just like Google and hire an army of non-technical recruiters to interview my top prospects.
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IFTTT and Yahoo Pipes are completely different products with different business models. The customer excitement around IFTTT is great to see, but IFTTT is still figuring out their business model, and they need to finish development of their
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by 23david 14y ago
His presentation on slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/flaregames/keeping-your-company-ah...
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Thanks for the reference to Bob Sutton. I hadn't heard of his book before, and after some research I dug up some great info and articles. http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/the_no_asshole_rule/ http://blogs.hbr.org/sutton/2007/03/why
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If you guys are writing post-mortem blog posts due to running out of disk space, your solution should really be to hire a sysadmin or ops-focused engineer. Disk-related issues are among the easiest to diagnose, so take this experience as a
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At our company we have a much bigger MongoDB dataset in production. I can relate well to your comments, since it is the same stuff that I hear from our developers as they defend Mongo after yet another horrific situation. They have a tough
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It's really hard to change a person's character as they get older. In general I think that by the age of 18-21 most of our ideas of right/wrong and how to behave and treat other people are pretty much established. tl;dr It's hard to stop be
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by 23david 14y ago
Sounds like Digg but also like Stackexchange. The inmates are running the asylum. :-) I don't mind any of the sites, but that's just because I understand their limitations. I can definitely understand being frustrated however if I wanted to
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by 23david 14y ago
IMHO, HTML5 isn't the issue. It's just a convenient scapegoat to distract investors from the fact that they either lack technical prowess in mobile app development (fairly unlikely...) or simply have poor leadership, vision and direction to
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by 23david 14y ago
How do you build teamwork with both low eq and high eq employees? Seems to me that it's hard to have a team with people on both extremes since they'll continuously argue about what is important.
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by 23david 14y ago
As far as I know from various legal issues I've had to deal with, the general issue with unbounded contracts is that 'forever' or 'lifetime' in legal terms actually has a legal definition different from the common definition. So a 'lifetime
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by 23david 14y ago
Nice lol. If enough people cared about Microsoft Office, they'd make it run without windows. Tons of similar and true examples. What about: If enough people cared about java they'd make it run without the jvm.
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Well by this point most of those NDA's have probably expired. NDA's usually have an expiration date within a few years... Not sure how legal it is to make them arbitrary long.
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Isn't the point that the job offers amounts are supposed to go up for good developers because of the auction format? Don't necessarily blame developerauction. It's probably just some intern or SEO monkey at AOL/Techcrunch completely blowing
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Interesting articles. I read part I and part II. As a long-term mysql user who has dabbled with production Postgres machines I still don't see how Postgres really has any huge advantages that would cause me to want to run it for any new pro
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by 23david 14y ago
hey that's a good idea. the ferret industry clearly is ripe for market disruption.
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I agree. But as Scala gets more and more popular, they're going to become a whole ecosystem and platform unto themselves. But because they're on the JVM, all the new tools etc are going to be customized to handle unique JVM-only issues. It'
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I agree. Static typing is great. I don't know why all these scripting languages choose to throw out static typing. If a variable is always going to be an integer I don't know why its important to be able to stick characters, strings or obje
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by 23david 14y ago
If Scala can't survive without the JVM perhaps it's just not a good idea. If enough people care about Scala they'll make it work independently of the JVM. JVM-based Scala is perhaps a good way to bootstrap the language, but I don't see how
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by 23david 14y ago
So basically you're saying that they didn't want to do the hard work and used the JVM as a shortcut. Sounds like good engineering practice to me. When things get hard, just find a lazy shortcut. Marination is generally a good thing. Thing
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by 23david 14y ago
Bad idea. Better: Why Language Developers Should Stop Making Languages on Top of the JVM. Imagine if Ruby or Python were only available on top of the JVM... There may be a need for versions of a language that live in the JVM, but don't make
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by 23david 14y ago
That's definitely a classic article. It just doesn't apply here. Hard to explain why without going into a ton of details, but basically: Layervault in 2012 != Netscape in 1996 Netscape's crufty spaghetti C code != Layervault's elegan
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With every cloud service google launches I lose more and more respect for their technical prowess. Nothing that they seem to launch is significantly better than the respective AWS offerings, and most of them seem significantly worse. This S
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Congrats for successfully getting your rails site to load faster, but it's still slow. Honestly, what you're doing at this point is delaying the big rewrite. That's not a bad thing, but it will still be necessary at some point to offload yo

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