CPlatypus

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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I was going to type this on my own Transformer, even got several paragraphs in, but I'm finishing on my Mac. See point 8 for why. (1) The battery life really is awesome. I get a full day of near-continuous use - including video and such -
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
There's little relationship between Dynamo and S3. Riak is based on the former but not the latter.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I just wonder which data-mining-software company paid Forbes to copy this from NYT.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Are you planning to use map/reduce within dotCloud? I ask because, otherwise, there'd be no reason to use HDFS instead of something with real filesystem semantics, comparable performance and better availability. Once such option is mentio
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Nobody's talking about interpretation. I was referring to mere verification that the source exists and says what it's claimed to. That can and should happen in an encyclopedia.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
The "no original research" policy is fine when it prevents self-citation, but when it prevents citation of little-read but thoroughly credible third-party sources such as court transcripts that's a different matter.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Comparing primary sources is indeed not straightforward, but this is primary vs. secondary. If a book makes a claim that is directly contradicted by the author's own source then not much expertise is required to see that preferring the "
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
There's nobody I'd trust less than a Wikipedia editor to act as the arbiter of truth, but they could still do better. Wikipedía could adopt a policy of preferring primary sources over secondary, which would still keep out the "teach the co
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"very nice to the line engineers but hard on people VP-level and above" That makes me wonder about a "sandwich" model of management - a leader at the top who has a lot in common with engineers at the bottom, together putting the squeeze on
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Let's do the math on that. 60 hours is twelve hours a day, plus three more with your daughter. Add a couple of hours for showering and dressing, food prep, and general housework. That's seventeen hours a day, leaving seven for sleep plus
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Maybe some people just don't have an infinite appetite for self-promotion. I've had a blog for over a decade - nearly 1700 articles worth. I refer to my posts sometimes when it's strictly in context for a particular conversation, but I do
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
As Silicon Valley salaries rise, they will eventually reach the point where more employers will decide to spend their personnel dollars elsewhere. Engineers in Austin or Ann Arbor or Cambridge (either one) can work out of local offices, or
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Right, the difference became more pronounced, but that doesn't really tell me what I as a planner would want to know. Consider two possible explanations. (1) Some workers who had previously produced defect-free code started producing code
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Unfortunately, this result might just mean that there's a correlation between noise tolerance and performance. It would have been better if they had studied objectively measurable noise levels instead of subjective acceptability of noise
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
The "2010 and later" section is empty. I guess it's possible that they stopped building new products which use GPL code in 2009, but somehow it seems unlikely that they stopped updating or patching old ones at the same time. If it takes t
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"doesn't this mean that there are perhaps tens of thousands of engineers who are on average producing $1m/year in revenue?" No. Just because total revenue divided by total headcount comes out to a million doesn't mean every engineer is con
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Well put, although I'm not quite sure "optimism" is the right term. Is it optimistic or egotistical for every SV engineer to believe that they are capable of creating a company worth a nine-figure IPO or acquisition - or, alternatively, th
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Thank you for (belatedly) having the balls to engage instead of just downvoting. "All over the map" doesn't count, or else half of the threads on HN would have zero comments, and "doesn't add to the discussion" is absurd. The very fact th
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I'd appreciate it if the downvote-abusing coward(s) would explain their objection to that comment. It's quite factual, and relevant, and IMO importantf for people to consider. Do you seriously believe that revenue for all employees divide
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"In proportion" merely means an optimal or expected ratio, which might be considerably greater than 1:1. Therefore, even if the value:salary ratio for that Silicon Valley engineer is 10:1, if a 20:1 ratio is possible somewhere else then th
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
If developer salaries grow out of proportion to the value they create (which IMO has already happened), that creates downward pressure for everyone else in the value chain - non-technical employees, suppliers, etc. Also, when the bubble in
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I tried this on my very recently installed Fedora 16 desktop at home, and it worked. All of my applications were accessible, alt-tab and other selection methods worked, etc. The only thing that was missing was the panel at the top, and I
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Dedup isn't quite the same as sparse files. If the filesystem is unaware of dedup, then it still has to allocate its own structures corresponding to the dedup'ed space, seeking to the next hole or next allocated block won't work (not tha
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I agree that it's a strange set of choices. Eliminating quotas and compression might be OK for something positioned as a basic filesystem, but for something billed as a "next generation" filesystem it seems odd. Eliminating extended attri
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
My first inclination is to agree with you. The OP should never have used WordPress as a multi-tenant CMS in the first place. OTOH, he does raise some issues that affect WP use even in its original blogging context. I use WP, I like it, I
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Am I the only one who suspects this is an epic case of sour grapes?
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
The other comparison I'd make is to normalized vs. denormalized databases. Normalization has been pushed for decades to reduce anomalies that are not dissimilar from those that occur in copied-and-pasted code. Yeah, wonderful, but that sa
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
So will I, but only if I can check out his code on github and ask him a whole bunch of puzzle questions first. ;)
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"simple postures and more importantly breathing" +1 I'm no yoga expert, but I've dabbled at two separate points in my life. While I've forgotten practically all of the postures, the breathing stays with me. I still consciously use differe
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Thanks for the steawman. I was explicitly referring to a mentality, not to github itself. I use github. I don't share that mentality. It's not github's fault that some users treat them as an oracle, but it does happen. I have on multi

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