CPlatypus

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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Don't worry, the "github or git out" attitude is only common among people you wouldn't want to work with anyway. They're the ones who will change languages or frameworks according to what's fashionable, rat-hole the team on fun but irrelev
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
First, I disagree with the characterization of Red Hat as somehow being a lower tier than Oracle, IBM, or VMware. During my mostly startup-oriented career I've worked with hundreds of people who later went to those three companies, and in
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"How can one possibly know this, even in principle?" Are you seriously suggesting that standardized tests are the only way to measure school or student performance? What about non-standardized tests showing improvement within the same regi
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Please don't feed the troll. ;)
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I work at Red Hat. Most of my group is scattered all over the world. AFAIK we have multiples in our Massachusetts, Minnesota, Czech Republic, and China offices. The rest are scattered from the UK to Australia, with quite possibly more
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"I'll control for the factors I have data on" Of course you will, even though - or perhaps because - the intermediate result is far more inflammatory than informative. "Because the Finns don't do standardized tests" The fact that they don't
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
But student body is not held constant, not even ethnically. Even within the "white European" demographic bucket there's huge variation among ethnic groups - most relevantly regarding attitudes toward education itself, teachers, and relat
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Your "authority" is crap. The original article explicitly compared Finland not only with Norway but with individual US states that had similar population and percentage of immigrants. That's about as apples to apples as you can get, consi
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"The Obama administration requested the indefinite detention provisions." [citation needed]
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Yes, the RHEL5 kernel is obsolete in that it lacks the barrier support necessary to implement proper behavior with decent performance. The fact that obsolete ext3 runs better on also-obsolete 2.6.18 kernels doesn't really tell us much exce
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
The problem with data=ordered is that it imposes a global order, allowing one I/O stream to stall others. Imagine if waiting for data to be acknowleged on one TCP socket meant waiting for all data sent earlier on all sockets - even those
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I agree with most of these, but a couple seem pretty specific to the use of Python as a language for serious, complex, fully packaged applications. Sorry, but Python has another use as well - to create quick utility scripts in a better lan
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I wish I could upvote that at least twice - once for the game-theory bit, and once for the tracking-effort bit. Those are both excellent insights.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Most of the reasons are good, but how can anyone keep a straight face while they present changing strategic priorities as a big-company problem? Don't startups do 90-degree "pivots" of the entire darn company just as often? The ten startup
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I love the assumption that the men currently in startups have female partners who would want to reverse roles. Most have female partners who would prefer to stay home or work for an established company, so the actual effect of those men sta
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I wonder how much of this effect is just due to the fact that admitting the child is overweight would be tantamount to admitting that they themselves are overweight. Without making any moral statement whatsoever, that's simply hard for peo
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
The world would also be a better place without a lot of social-media crap startups with "sell more ads" business models using other people's money to bid up the price of talent and office space. Nonetheless, the people starting those compa
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
This same principle often applies to reading others' code. It's common to look at it, see something inscrutable, and decide that the author was an idiot. Then you try to rewrite it, trip over all the same bugs that the author had learned to
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
As you yourself said, it ain't gonna happen anyway. Therefore, this thread isn't "spoiling" anything that would have happened otherwise. At least try to be consistent, instead of trying to silence everyone who doesn't share your opinion o
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I understand and agree with everything you said. Coda has every right to be angry with Stephen. He might even have the right to sue Stephen. Nonetheless, swearing in public like that was simply not the way to deal with the situation. Th
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"You can't correct Coda. He doesn't care." I know that. What I might be able to do, though, is explain why his example might be a bad one to follow. Or maybe it's a good one, for those of the "no publicity is bad publicity" mindset. In a
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I'm not trying to put anyone in their place. In a way, that kind of dominance-hierarchy BS is exactly what I'm objecting to. The point here is that this new response from Coda doesn't even address the technical debate. It doesn't make on
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
...and of course, the professional tone of the blog entry is ruined by the thoroughly unprofessional tone of the accompanying tweet: "That, @jodastephen, is a fucking announcement by Yammer about Scala." http://twitter.com/coda/status/1420
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
He's not wrong, but at the same time I don't think anybody who so enjoys pissing contests on Twitter can afford to be too condescending about slapfights on HN. The last thing either place needs is more hipper-than-thou posturing.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Are there many data centers using IB? Yes. SMP was common in HPC before it came down-market, likewise NUMA. Commodity processors have many features - vector instructions, specilative execution, SMT - first found in HPC. Power and cooling de
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Does it still have plenty of battery life when you're doing something besides commenting on Hacker News? Perhaps more importantly, how fast do you need a single instruction stream to be? I'm writing this on my own three-year-old MacBook
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
X86 is not going away, I agree, but Intel can hardly exercise the kind of dominance they've enjoyed for the last several years when they're facing serious threats at both the low and high end. At the low end, ARM simply beats x86 for anyth
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
6x the performance . . . for 8.5x the TDP. It's pretty easy to see why ARM designs are already preferable for almost anything that has a battery, and laptops are outselling desktops already. Sure, there will always be applications where si
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I get the impression that the problem was less about scaling within one database than about scaling across many; Lenton practically says as much about a half dozen messages down-thread. Deploying literally millions of separate databases wo
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Two differences between Facebook and Groupon immediately occur to me. First, despite everything else that's wrong with it, Facebook's business model does not depend on persuading small businesses to sell goods and services at less than the

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