NyxWulf

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by NyxWulf 13y ago
Yeah that xkcd came to my mind as well. I'm amazed at the timeless truths he captures in those comics. Creating another version which may be better isn't the hard part. Gaining consensus and getting people to give up the other
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by NyxWulf 13y ago
wc -l is faster however it only works on an uncompressed file. The pipeline in the article was doing much more complicated work on the stream of output. I will often separate my pipeline logic from my "read this data and feed it into
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by NyxWulf 13y ago
This works for me in zsh on OSX history \ | sed "s/^[0-9 ] //" \ | perl -pe 's/ \| */\n/g' \ | gawk '{counts[$1] += 1} END { for (x in counts) { print counts[x],x}}' OFS="\t" \ | column -t \ | sort -k 1,1nr \ | head -100 Ok not sure how to
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by NyxWulf 13y ago
Observing other channels, or seeing when a channel does fire is what the select structure is for. It is one of the features that makes channels and goroutines very nice in go. http://golang.org/ref/spec#Select_statements http://blog.gol
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
Interesting concept, but the flaw at the heart is the presupposition that lack of progress right now means we are at the ultimate limit of what can be accomplished. Imagine if cavemen learning to paint on walls said, well we haven't improv
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
When I was in high school one of the students committed suicide. There was a lot of discussion and outreach at the school at the time. One of the things they talked about was that once one student commits suicide it greatly increases the
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
It seems like you are confusing predictions about this election with overall model accuracy. The state by state predictions are the primary method by which you can judge the accuracy of his model. If his model forecasts a state as 60% for
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
You can get the kindle version now. John Cook may have gotten an advance copy of the book.
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
The arguments advanced against an "Operations mindset" are mostly strawmen. Operations is primarily about efficiently operating an organization towards a goal. The type of thinking advanced in the article however is more likely to be push
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
I use vividchalk, which I was happy to see there on the list. It's amazing how many variations on color schemes there are.
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
That's the difference between guaranteed capacity and most services. It's very common to use the properties of normal usage patterns and pool the excess capacity. The phone system has done that for ages. Ever try to make a call during an
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
In Utah the year is the only one that changes color, all of the months are white. That's why I was looking at his plates, to see if I could see even the letters on his plate. Granted I'm not a trained observer of registration violations a
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
I knew it! Roughly a year ago I was driving home from work at night. My registration was expired by a few days, and I drove past an officer in a parking lot. As I was passing him, I knew my plate was expired, so I was looking at his plat
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
Even if people don't learn to "properly" understand the Gaussian distribution, basic understanding of the nature of variation and the difference between random events and something that indicates an actual change in an underlying system wou
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
Let's take the salesman example. A salesman isn't literally making $150/hour. As a hypothetical the value might be $0 in hour 0, $450 in hour 1 and $0 in hour 2 for an average of $150/hour. Much of sales work is this way, their is prepar
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
That's our next step is automating our fail over. We currently use DNS Made Easy and while you can do that with them it's tougher. We are switching to Dyn, and their Layer 2 failure detection will put our failover in that 6 second range.
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
If you operate a service where uptime is critical, two of everything isn't enough. You have to ensure they will be separated geographically and logically so that when things like this happen, you don't lose your systems. We operate systems
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
heh, I was about to, but then I saw your response. Thanks.
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
I agree with many of the points in the article, however it is conflating two unrelated things. Using simple averages in isolation is almost always a mistake. The real story in a system almost always lies in it's variation and not in the a
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
For this type of service spamgourmet is my long time favorite. Create disposable e-mail addresses that forward to your real e-mail address. You get a name stub and then you can create e-mail addresses on the fly. For instance you can have
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
Most business people aren't interested in model accuracy as a term. They want something that provides benefit, e.g. cost savings, increased revenue, increased profits, etc. The sales process of convincing someone they need an accurate mode
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
I couldn't agree more. Accuracy is a problem, variation is another problem. Dealing with layers in the business who have no math or statistics background but very strong opinions is yet another complication. These types of conversations a
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
I agree with Paul's comment. The 250 number feels low to me, but that is applying a specific model. Typically people come with some set of favorite models, and many of them provide that vast majority of the benefit a business needs. Espe
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
As someone in the big data field on the ground (VP of Engineering). Let me give you my thoughts on it. Your impression about the hype is correct. There are a lot of vendors offering BIG solutions, if you pay them BIGGER money. Where I us
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
It's not that you can solve every problem, but supply and demand are very real. If the wage rates for Big Data get high enough more and more people will try out the field, which will generate a larger supply. The reasons companies don't ju
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by NyxWulf 14y ago
I've seen several articles like this, and there are a number of things to consider. Logging to ascii means that the standard unix tools work out of the box with your log files. Especially if you use something like a tab delimiter, then you
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
Can you elaborate on a few things? You say that UUID version 1 was designed for an outdated purpose. What do you mean by that? UUID V1 does sort by time, so I'm not sure where the outdated purpose is relevant to that consideration. You s
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
I've been through the process of litigating a contract in court. Not fun, but definitely was an exquisite education in the school of hard knocks. Lawyers throw all kinds of language into a contract, that doesn't mean the intent was there.
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I have been through the process of litigating a contract in court. The law does cover this. Contracts are about a meeting of the minds. Do both parties understand and agree to the terms. Things like email, other wri
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by NyxWulf 15y ago
Initially it was not encrypted and was stored in plain text in the database. Then we started encrypting sensitive information at rest, both the database files and the backups. We also encrypted certain sensitive information with a seconda

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