Maro

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961.
by Maro 15y ago
Physics isn't hard because of the maths (n-dim vectorspaces), it's hard because of the physics.
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by Maro 15y ago
I'm not too familiar with the message queue use-case, but perhaps this is something you could do with ScalienDB, which supports replication and failover. Disclaimer: I wrote it.
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by Maro 15y ago
I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but there's also a new company called Hadapt (the commercialization of HadoopDB). It's about adapting Hadoop for real-time analytic SQL queries by putting local SQL dbs on the Hadoop nodes and then us
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by Maro 15y ago
Check out http://scalien.com or http://github.com/scalien/scaliendb for a replicated, scalable (sharding) database built around strong replication (Paxos). Google's latest database called Megastore is also using Paxos and they seem to b
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by Maro 15y ago
Interesting. Where do you put Germans in all this?
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by Maro 15y ago
I'm in Hungary and it's blocked.
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by Maro 15y ago
I'm wondering why you didn't use a scripting language like Python?
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by Maro 15y ago
You can also get rid of Google ads in your browser, so I doubt that's a major issue.
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by Maro 15y ago
According to the panelists, what Google does (statistical inference) is not pure AI.
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by Maro 15y ago
Chomsky is 82 years old. We're lucky he still has enough energy and drive to sit on panels. I think it's disrespectful to demand serious investigation from an 82 year old man who has produced more of that in his earlier life than we all wil
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by Maro 15y ago
LinkedIn is worth 94,498,627 * $32 = $3B and the co-founder still owns 21%. It had Q1 revenue $94M, Q1 net income $2M.
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by Maro 15y ago
I have a NoSQL startup and I got started by reading "the Google papers": http://bytepawn.com/readings-in-distributed-systems/ Some code: http://github.com/scalien/scaliendb
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by Maro 16y ago
This reminds me of the good old days, the 90s, when I was a teenager and finally upgraded to a ~50KB/s cable modem from my puny 33600 baud modem. That was a game changer, I even ran an FTP server for a while =) It's been getting faster eve
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by Maro 16y ago
Time will tell... About a year ago The American Interest had a special issue about Russia, where they said Russia's current territorial size is a historical minimum --- the author was implying this is likely to change through expansion in t
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by Maro 16y ago
Why not just take it and use it as insurance that he will always be able to spend his time doing math... This has nothing to do with principles. Suppose it's 1920 in Russia (or Germany) and you turn down $1M. You sure as hell could use that
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by Maro 16y ago
I can't read this, it's too moving. Maybe in parts.
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by Maro 16y ago
Great post. I've also had "Startup depression" where I didn't sleep for 1 week and was totally unproductive for a grand total of 2-3 weeks. Ever since then I stopped recommending doing startups to my friends. We've also experienced the "You
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by Maro 16y ago
I guess I mistakenly thought covert means secret, without helicopters hovering over the city and people tweeting about it.
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by Maro 16y ago
1 year ago they did 400,000 vids/month, now it's 700,0000,000 vids/month? Is that a typo?
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by Maro 16y ago
Except in all the cases where an API doesn't make sense for your startup or isn't important at the beginning.
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by Maro 16y ago
So, was the heli shot down in the OBL assassination operation? Does that mean that this was not a secret/covert operation?
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by Maro 16y ago
I agree with most of what you said. I also like the idea of Skillshare. But, watching the slides, jumping from "you don't have to go to college" to Skillshare gave me the impression (even though the slides didn't say) that Skillshare is a s
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by Maro 16y ago
Please explain why employing someone at minimum wage evil.
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by Maro 16y ago
IANAL, but I think there are some things you can't fire people for, like race, age, being pregnant, etc. But other than that, I'd think you're free to 'fire at will'.
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by Maro 16y ago
I agree. It's not like the yellow badge people were complaining and needed someone to stand up for them.
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by Maro 16y ago
AFAIK, segregation was physical separation, not forbidding people to talk to each other. On a large corporate campus, you can't just randomly walk around in the buildings. Your access card doesn't even work everywhere. So segregation (physi
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by Maro 16y ago
Assuming the person is given and commited, the question is what the experiences are wrt. structuring commission, ownership, vesting, etc.
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by Maro 16y ago
This works for something like doing an Ironman, where it's up to you and only you. That's how I did my Ironman. But it doesn't work like that for things that don't just depend on you, like doing a startup or closing a deal, even of you "Com
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by Maro 16y ago
You should explicitly list which browsers your app works on. I use FF4, is it HTML5 compliant? I don't know.
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