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Facebook messaging architecture(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
3 points by Maro 15y ago|0 comments
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COSMOS: MapReduce by Microsoft(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
2 points by Maro 15y ago|0 comments
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Hypothes.is - social sentence-level annotation of the Web, with Kickstarter(hypothes.is)
8 points by Maro 15y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 15y ago
> That is: assume he already knows everything about it. Assume he knows more than you do about it. Even if you have groundbreakingly original ideas in your material, just pretend it’s old hat for him. Write your prose in the succinct, d
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by Maro 15y ago
In practice, beating the CAP theorem inside the data center is achieved by using a 2-tiered system. Have a set of lightweight controller processes which use a consistent majority voting algorithm (Paxos) to replicate the state of the cluste
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by Maro 15y ago
"What is juju?" "Formerly called Ensemble, juju is DevOps DistilledTM. Through the use of charms (renamed from formulas), juju provides you with shareable, re-usable, and repeatable expressions of DevOps best practices. You can use them
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by Maro 15y ago
Those technologies probably don't scale well in terms of hiring. Also, those technologies probably don't scale at all to 1000s of servers, something a Google project has to do from day 1. (I'm not sure they'd even be fast enough on a single
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Shadow of a Black Hole(astrobites.com)
2 points by Maro 15y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 15y ago
How does a patent bank protect against trolls who cannot be countersued as they are not infringing?
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Dalai Lama hangs out on Google+ after visa is denied(digitallife.today.com)
228 points by Maro 15y ago|53 comments
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Official Steve Jobs biography pre-order(amazon.com)
1 points by Maro 15y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 15y ago
IANACM, but I think car mechanics have a model in their head about the gears and rods that make up the shifter, but they certainly don't know off the top of their head which exact gear will break or bend when you try shifting from 2nd to 3r
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by Maro 15y ago
Knowing what not to write and knowing what happens when you write it are two different things.
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by Maro 15y ago
While knowing the standards makes you a better programmer, it's still bad programming practice to write non-excplicit, cryptic code. I think the boy's initial "I would never write code like this" response is spot on. I also agree with the b
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Woz's personal website(woz.org)
95 points by Maro 15y ago|17 comments
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by Maro 15y ago
All I got from this is that Lenovo has laptop called X1 which is supposed to be like a Macbook Air and costs about the same. Looking at it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69V1XkZ-FeQ It's still that crappy plastic PC feel with
857.
by Maro 15y ago
I wouldn't care, if people would stop posting braindumps like this and RMS's here...
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by Maro 15y ago
"[Real heroes] want a world where everybody has access to the best technology, to the best hospitals, and making money is a side effect of contributing in a non evil way to the development of our culture." I think that was pretty much true
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by Maro 15y ago
Reading this, I had to look up what a "Kardashian" is.
860.
by Maro 15y ago
The comparison chart was created by Samsung, but if you actually look at it, they're pretty well balanced on hardware. If you take the polished iOS UI and apps into account, you'll see that Apple has nothing to worry about -- yet. But, the
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by Maro 15y ago
Many sites now use Facebook for comments, because everybody has a Facebook account. For a technical readers, I'd go with Disqus, for a more general audience, with Facebook. (That is if you're playing the numbers game and don't care about Fa
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by Maro 15y ago
Can you sell your app on the AppStore if it's a webapp?
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by Maro 15y ago
So this is for Windows people who want to run PHP in the cloud? Is that a big enough market to sustain a SAAS company? I'd think most Windows people gravitate toward Microsoft/.NET based web technologies. Btw, how is it different from PHP F
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by Maro 15y ago
We built our own, but we're a database company. You really shouldn't!
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by Maro 15y ago
It's not supposed to. It's supposed to position the product in the market.
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by Maro 15y ago
Disclaimer: I'm the competition. It's basically BerkeleyDB Java edition, probably BDB High Availability (HA) Edition with some layers on top. They're doing pre-sharding with ranges mapped onto replica groups, which are probably BDB HA insta
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by Maro 15y ago
I don't really understand why calling a key-value database a "NoSQL database" is incorrect in your opinion. It's one of the many data models (or lack of) that falls under this umbrella term in 2011.
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by Maro 15y ago
"Oracle NoSQL Database supports the ability to bundle a collection of operations together using the execute method, providing transactional semantics across multiple updates on records with the same Major Key Path." In other words, ot suppo
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by Maro 15y ago
The point is, they can go into M/C/F, make 6-figure salaries at age 23, then go from there. They'll be making a whole lot more than the vast majority of engineers even at Google, without taking risks . By the time they're 35, they'll be ve
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by Maro 15y ago
If a hypothetical person (not a HN user) thinks of a domain name and find that these guys are squatting it, is not interested in the design, he'll be thinking they're domain squatting assholes. He'll be right.

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