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by Maro 15y ago
- Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. - Abdel read the line again and again. “I started to ask myself if lies were coming out of this book,” he told us, “or if they were rather coming out of my very own culture.
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by Maro 15y ago
What you have to realize is that, while 30 years ago only the rich could afford computers, now the poor can afford the exact same one. In fact, the field has leveled so much, that the rich can't get more bang for their buck. I spent $2,500
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by Maro 15y ago
A tip: if you have say 4 cores, then using 4000 threads will most likely be slow due to lots of context switches. I say most likely because it depends on the details, but it's a safe guess.
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by Maro 15y ago
I think he didn't mean that it's never used, just that it's never actually said in the real world. My experience confirms this.
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by Maro 15y ago
The actual paper is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3257
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by Maro 15y ago
A real Brogrammer 2.0 uses a NoSQL 2.0 database!
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by Maro 15y ago
It wasn't clear to me whether the OP made "almost 6 figures" a month or a year?
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by Maro 15y ago
I use Ghostery to wipe out Facebook showing up elsewhere on the Internet. http://www.ghostery.com
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by Maro 15y ago
It's really nice how the 37s pages use type for design. Other sites would use images much more to get the same level of design across. It's really neat.
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by Maro 15y ago
I wasn't talking about "email" as a use-case, I was talking about "Gmail". Obviously you can serve 1000s of email users using an SQL and IMAP database.
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by Maro 15y ago
So you'd have one 'emails' table per Inbox, right? So for 1 million users, you'd have 1 million tables, and no SQL database can handle that.
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by Maro 15y ago
NoSQL is a better fit for Gmail because you wouldn't want one gigantic 'emails' or 'contacts' table, which is how you would model it in SQL. You also want to cache the hell out of it, which is easier done in a NoSQL model (e.g. if the cache
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by Maro 15y ago
"software applications are not so often interested in in-database aggregation" Applications that used to be desktops apps are now moving to the web, and these "cloud applications" are prime use-cases for NoSQL. Apps like Gmail, Google Docs,
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by Maro 15y ago
My point is, you can write good, readable, performance, large-scale codebases in C++. Note that Carmack wrote his previous engines such as Quake3 in C, and switched to C++ at some point. I think one of the reasons was that as their programm
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by Maro 15y ago
Doom3 was written in C++ by John Carmack. https://github.com/mtrencseni/doom3
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by Maro 15y ago
I wonder why the bills are drafted in secrecy.
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The Free Internet Act(avc.com)
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by Maro 15y ago
What the App store needs is recommendations like Amazon. I'd spend way more money, like I do at Amazon =)
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by Maro 15y ago
Visually, it almost looks like a step back.
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by Maro 15y ago
Sounds like the Page program at NBC?
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by Maro 15y ago
I'm confused, how does an NDA protect you? An NDA usually says that they won't disclose your secrets to a 3rd party. But they wouldn't have to, they just have to use your secrets internally to compete with you. "... we are not looking to se
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by Maro 15y ago
A similar case is Hubble's measurement of the expanding Universe. The Universe is expanding, and Hubble's linear velocity = Hubble_constant*distance law is an excellent first approximation, but: 1. Hubble was actually measuring the local mo
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by Maro 15y ago
Wolfe-Simon and NASA is an absolute disgrace. I think they could gain far more with a mea culpa than with living in denial, which is what they seem to be doing.
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by Maro 15y ago
There are many people, such as the OP probably, who take pride in the engineering aspect of what they do. It's my understanding that the term "hacker" as used on HN actually does not include this. Also, not everybody is working on a startup
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Inside an Apple factory(abcnews.go.com)
3 points by Maro 15y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 15y ago
Great piece. I especially like the part about iCloud: Q: But doesn't competition from Apple's iCloud service give you pause? There is a company that also sweats the smallest technical details. A: I think they've demonstrated that they funda
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Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark(research.yahoo.com)
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by Maro 15y ago
Eg. I usually have Gmail open in other browsers in Windows even if I run Sparrow on the Mac, and it takes several minutes for Sparrow to notice that a message has already been read, which is super annoying.
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by Maro 15y ago
I actually purchased Sparrow, but I don't use it. It was slow and had some UX quirks/bugs. For a time I fired it up every once in a while as an email-backup solution, but I got lazy so I don't even do that now.
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by Maro 15y ago
"Fluent never sees your Google password." "You may revoke Fluent's access to your email box at any time..." You should make this stick out, increase the font size, color it, bold it.

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