Devilboy

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   by Devilboy 16y ago

   Reminds me of the classic paper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet from Fred Brooks where he argues that programming will always be complex because the real-world problems we're solving are complex. No programming technique or
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   by Devilboy 16y ago

   It's free?
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   by Devilboy 16y ago

   One region hosts many client accounts. One client account has many services. Services are linked to charge rate tables. One account can have multiple logins. One service was many log entries. ...
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   by Devilboy 16y ago

   This is the important bit. Just about every company or web app will have a bunch of relational data and therefore an SQL database of some kind. And storing key-value pairs in an SQL database is really not that hard or inconvenient or slow o
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   by Devilboy 16y ago

   You should try a RBDMS too :P
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   by Devilboy 16y ago

   3. Are our brains really 'distorted' or just different? Who is to say what is the better/natural/whatever way of thinking? In this case there is a clear logical answer. 4. I found it extremely annoying that they capitalized the word 'weird'
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   by Devilboy 16y ago

   The offer is made only once and the other party is aware of the game.
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   by Devilboy 16y ago

   I can't imagine that 80% success rate for second time startups is anywhere near correct.
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   by Devilboy 16y ago

   Nobody is recording your speech for you, YOU are recording it and putting it on the internet. YOU have the power to keep your thoughts off the internet if you want to. If you choose not to do so then that's fine too, you just can't change y
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    I disagree. You do not own those comments. The moment you made them public you shared ownership with everyone on the internet and beyond. If a newspaper wants to quote you they can do so without seeking your permission. If I want to copy it
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    This is a public website and it's cached and retained by many servers all over the internet. Even if you deleted your comments at the source there's nothing preventing me from going to Google or The Internet Archive or whatever to find your
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    This is completely off topic
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    http://www.pollenizer.com/startmate-seed-tech-startup-invest...
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    No I mean besides the anonymous comments on TC, has anyone confirmed that this really happened?
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    The terrorist have won
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    Do we really know that engineers left (or wanted to leave) the company because of him?
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    Everyone is an expert on AI and the human brain today I see.
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    This is what I got from it too. Ray is not an idiot.
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    I hope they go ahead and build these, they look awesome.
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    That is such a disaster for free / ad supported apps.
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    Especially startups in foreign countries.
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    Yea I read my computer screen almost 18 hours a day, and I don't get eyestrain either.
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    Now I can truthfully write: "Observers say that many democrats were concerned with the Obama admin's decision to..."
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    Cooking just denatures the proteins. It doesn't change that much. And highly processed food is indeed worse than fresh food.
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    Not 'everyone' agrees but most experts seem to.
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    I figure if you eat things that's been around for thousands of years you'll probably be OK. It seems that everyone agrees on: - Lots of fruit and vegetables - Legumes - Fish twice a week or more - Red meat but not for every meal - Avoid hig
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    Sorry you are correct. I misunderstood. I don't think the wear leveling will affect the benchmarks that much though - even if it's horribly inefficient your drives will still beat the snot out of any spinning platter drive on the market tod
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    Sounds like they were a bit too relaxed on the code reviews.
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    > SSD firmware needs to do clever things with caching and write combining to avoid premature wear. This has not been an issue for several years now. SSDs last at least as long as spinning platter disks. Especially the server-grade SSDs
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    by Devilboy 16y ago

    If I could send myself a tweet to 2001 it would include 'Buy RAM & SSDs'