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by 23david 14y ago
"On average, less than 1% of Likes on any given Page will be removed" Since this 'likefraud' is concentrated on branded/corporate accounts, shouldn't Facebook disclose the average impact to likes on these important pages? Or at least break
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by 23david 14y ago
agreed. however, in the article it praises the mongodb defaults. but time and time again we've been bitten by open files issues that are easily solved by shipping better init.d scripts. I also feel that scaling out mongodb clusters is unnec
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by 23david 14y ago
Yep they sure are taking it nice and slow... at this pace, collection-level locking is probably only 2 more years away. Other nosql databases are nipping at their heels. David may use MongoDB at really high scale, but since when is that a r
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by 23david 14y ago
A very very interesting point to think about... I don't see this original post as having a difficult tone or serious grammar issues. Would be interested to hear more of your thoughts about this issue... I tend to feel that when someone gets
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by 23david 14y ago
lol. I don't think it's necessarily that extreme. 37Signals just has a counter-culture mindset that leads them to experiment where other people just accept the status quo. They're just trying to come up with solutions to intractable managem
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by 23david 14y ago
Good points. I wonder how they'll feel 6 months from now. Google isn't the best place for startup folks post-acquisition. With a little patience, I think that they could have done better for themselves as well as their customers. As it is,
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Amazon AWS Throttling Non-Elasticache Memcache Traffic
6 points by 23david 14y ago|2 comments
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by 23david 14y ago
You're awesome. I watched the full vid of that talk a month ago or so and it really hammered home what matters. What we do as developers matters. Our time on this world is short enough already. What reason is there to spend years of our liv
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by 23david 14y ago
Great idea. The platform is awesome. Great idea and amazing design/execution so far. I wasn't aware that I could create my own quizzes/training until I clicked on the upgrade link... Perhaps you can make that more clear to your visitors. I
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by 23david 14y ago
These issues have been known to Amazon and to serious AWS users for a long time. Why do you expect that this time they will actually do something? It will take more than a simple twitter response from the AWS team to believe that they actua
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by 23david 14y ago
Hm so that explains why it's so hard to debug rails apps. :-)
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by 23david 14y ago
I interpreted his statement as meaning that google searches replace the requirement to memorize minute details of things that aren't commonly used or necessary to commit to memory. For example, I may know about php's preg_match, but I haven
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by 23david 14y ago
Some good insights hm. I think that the tests are very important, but it's hard to do them efficiently and to create good tests that test skills that are important to the job at hand. The tests should have well-defined constraints and instr
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by 23david 14y ago
heh cool story...
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by 23david 14y ago
Jason, you have a good point... I think that if you want to be HAPPY at a job you should try as much as possible to be yourself when you are interviewing with potential future co-workers. But that said, there are also nuances of the intervi
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by 23david 14y ago
Interviewing skills and engineering skills are completely different. You should be an engineer if you want to interview other engineers, but it's likely that a great engineer isn't a great interviewer unless they've been specifically traine
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by 23david 14y ago
Maybe every company is unhappy with built-in string searching operations... :-) It's a rite of passage I think. Programming interviews remind me of rushing for fraternities in college. And once you get to the on-site, the hazing begins... T
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by 23david 14y ago
Some companies succeed in spite of their engineering teams, and some companies succeed because of their engineering teams. What exactly is a good company? Is a great engineering team backed by incompetent management a good company? Or w
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by 23david 14y ago
My feeling is that your diagnosis is spot-on. But I don't know enough about organizational psychology to know whether such a thing is really possible. I suppose that logically if one of the google founders had a similar approach to dealing
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by 23david 14y ago
I'm surprised that the google engineers and managers involved in the project were so stupid/arrogant/lazy that they deployed a program that seemed to just vacuum up payload data for later analysis instead of processing and sanitizing the da
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by 23david 14y ago
agreed. for those of us who feel that gmail is a necessary evil this definitely helps ease the pain. I just wish I could pay for a commercial service or install a server-side app that had similar functionality. the default settings in the n
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by 23david 15y ago
I'm definitely not the expert here and the suggestion to use honey as a sweetener was given to me by an Orthomolecular Psychiatrist. The context was that if I want to use a sweetener in my tea or coffee, I should use something like honey ov
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by 23david 15y ago
I think that the prevalence of manic-depressive (bipolar) illness among software entrepreneurs is many times greater than that of the general population. Many of the symptoms characterizing manic or hypomanic behavior are possibly extremely
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Moneybomb alert: Over $500,000 and counting...(libertypac.com)
3 points by 23david 16y ago|0 comments
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by 23david 16y ago
Will this new change impact the issue where scrapers that take videos and video descriptions from youtube and turn them into 'blog posts' show up higher than the youtube page that contains the actual original content? I worked for nearly a