JPKab

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by JPKab 14y ago
I hate it when speakers talk about "NoSQL" without specifying what they are actually bitching about, which in this case is clearly Key-Value/Document oriented databases. Of the non-relational databases, there are actually many which provi
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by JPKab 14y ago
This really made me sad. I had no idea this guy had died. He inspired the author of 'Born To Run.' The book inspired me to start running several years ago and to consequently lose 50 lbs. and become who I am today. RIP Caballo.
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by JPKab 14y ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanholiday/2012/05/17/why-i-los... Advertising isn't worthless, but advertisers are very naive. You talk about companies spending money because they are stupid. I SUSPECT, but only Facebook has the data to KN
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by JPKab 14y ago
Cars that drive themselves. Distributed power generation. Web connected sensors in everything. You know, things that have a material effect on people's quality of life. As opposed to Facebook.
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by JPKab 14y ago
"THOMPSON: Is Facebook worth $100 billion? BLANK: In the last bubble there were no customers. Facebook makes $4 per user. The users are customers. They produce real revenue. Nobody's debating whether Facebook can make money. They're debatin
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by JPKab 14y ago
In other words: People who happen to drink coffee, for some reason that may or may not be related to coffee, live longer on average than people who don't drink coffee. Do people who don't drink coffee have lifestyles similar to those who d
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by JPKab 14y ago
Diederich, it's interesting how you pointed out living in an expensive school district is your biggest child related expense. My wife and I did the same thing. We chose to live in a 1 bedroom high-rise, so obviously we sacrificed on space
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by JPKab 14y ago
You got me there. I wish I could think of a word to describe the group of people who have been brainwashed into thinking that if they don't spend shitloads of money on stuff, and buy a big house in the burbs, that they are bad parents.....
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by JPKab 14y ago
Haha! Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't mean to leave them off. I met you guys in 2009 at a semantic tech conference, back before Metaweb was purchased. So glad to see your work being pushed to the most popular website in the world
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by JPKab 14y ago
"At the age of 29, I've likely forever lost the following opportunities due to cost and probable inability to make up for lost wages and career potential: - Getting married. - Having children. - Studying any more, whether that means grad sc
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by JPKab 14y ago
I think that there are two things in their favor here: First, they are Google, and therefore possess huge quantities of data and the ability, courtesy of their uber map reduce prowess and ultra-fast custom hardware, to make sense of it. Sec
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by JPKab 14y ago
"Additionally, consumer's bar for tapping an ad is MUCH higher (given the relative speeds of mobile browsing). As searching moves mobile, how does Google's revenue shake out?" combined with "If you look forward 5+ years, everyone is doing
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by JPKab 15y ago
It seems like there is a huge amount of ignorance (on the parts of both developers and DBAs) about the fact that NoSQL doesn't necessarily mean "no schema." For whatever reason, the "cool kids" in the Web dev world completely ignore the ug
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by JPKab 15y ago
Thanks. I look forward to checking out your project.
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by JPKab 15y ago
Ok, so I commented in a thread here, and just now saw your username. Thanks for your work. Your "Learn the Hard Way" books are great. And your advice on being a professional programmer vs. being a professional who knows how to program re
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by JPKab 15y ago
Congratulations on your success. I applaud anyone who is trying to help educate novices in coding. I've never code in Ruby/Rails, and I have to say I'm tempted by the idea of having talented start up dudes I can skype with. The fact tha
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by JPKab 15y ago
This unquestionably lowers the barrier to entry for crunching large data sets. I'm looking forward to messing around with it. Are there any other alternatives to this service? Something like a PigAsAService or HiveAsAService offering?
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by JPKab 15y ago
As a 30 year old with a wife, kid, and semi soul-sucking full time data job, this post causes me to feel both inspired and regretful. This guy would NEVER hire me, which I guess I should feel bummed about, but instead I'm just fired up. I
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by JPKab 15y ago
You are soooo right. One of the worst fields, in my opinion, is nutritional science. Gary Taubes has written two books, "Good Calories, Bad Calories" and "Why We Get Fat" which eviscerate the core studies that are foundational to modern n
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by JPKab 15y ago
This is a nice addition to other Node.js tutorials. But a few gripes I have: 1) No explanation of callbacks or event-driven architecture 2) Mac specific instructions only. Why would you limit your tutorial to a specific brand of hardware?
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by JPKab 15y ago
I would hardly call "Cult of Mac" journalism. But yes, the other outlets, like CNET, etc are definitely incompetent.
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by JPKab 15y ago
Good point, but here's the kicker: How many of these older folks couldn't wait to LEARN vs. USE the newer stuff? Too often, I've found that middle-aged programmers in gov't/defense jobs won't learn a language unless its a job requirement.