Russelldb

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by Russelldb 12y ago
Edited to say I'm a Basho employee and did a lot of the development work on CRDTs in Riak. Also, Hi! You can use any CRDT implementation you want from the client. You can roll your own, or you can use riak_dt, or some other library. In
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by Russelldb 12y ago
Only last-write-wins registers use last-write-wins to resolve conflicts. Maps and Sets and Flags use an Add-Wins/Observed-Remove semantic based on fine grained causality tracking methods borrowed from dotted version vectors, counters a
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by Russelldb 16y ago
Saying that, I signed up anyway (to add to the feature list :D) I really like it. It needs traction to make it useful but it is fun and could be sociable. The idea is trivial, but that is nice: everyone loves top 10s.
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by Russelldb 16y ago
First Hacker News project listed here that I have clicked around and enjoyed for ages. Really nicely executed. With a lot of play it may well become very useful for making snap decisions. Would like to sign up without linking an existing
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by Russelldb 16y ago
From http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html > So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?
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Ask HN: Which Functional Language to get a job?
1 points by Russelldb 16y ago|1 comments
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by Russelldb 16y ago
William S. Burroughs
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by Russelldb 16y ago
My theory on this is that it is a market for lemons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons Solve that problem to solve this one.
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by Russelldb 16y ago
> there are only 24 hours in a day Per person. Trade on your name? You are an A+ player. You must be turning work away. Take on more work than you can handle and farm it out to A-/B+ players. Consultants don't scale but consultancies ca
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by Russelldb 16y ago
1. Reading on the toilet 2. Getting rid of the TV 3. Exercise 4. Sleep 5. Org mode
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by Russelldb 16y ago
Ordered, thanks.
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by Russelldb 16y ago
That order is really very helpful, thank you. That order plus the Khan academy is what I am going to base my study on for now.
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Ask HN: A maths textbook from Arithmetic to 1st year CS?
3 points by Russelldb 16y ago|7 comments
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by Russelldb 17y ago
Big Trak, Lego Mindstorms, any programmable robot type toy.
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by Russelldb 17y ago
The lack of picture is the only thing that stopped me trying it.
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by Russelldb 17y ago
Isn't this just Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'?
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by Russelldb 17y ago
My bottom line is that, as a publicly, tax funded organisation this is a total waste of time (and money). Other, open source frameworks are, at the very least, good enough. Hiding some individuals ego trip behind the stated good of "inclusi
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by Russelldb 18y ago
Firstly, don't feel bad because you feel this way. It is pretty typical for a bright kid to feel this way, often. The thing that is getting you down is the over-analysis and introspection not the relationships. Relationships with people are
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by Russelldb 18y ago
>I can't take a cut of the pot or ante as that will convert me into a gambling site, of the type that are illegal in the US. Ah. I wasn't aware of the legal implications in the US. >What about letting people replenish their balances
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by Russelldb 18y ago
Hi Joel, Don't want to sound like a stalker or sound too fulsome so don't get the wrong idea but I follow you in twitter and read your posts on the erlang list and find you inspirational. My opinion on this is:- 1. Forget the subs. Let peo
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by Russelldb 18y ago
Jumping the gun I know since there is no verification but this, if true, is totally world changing, isn't it?
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Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility(theregister.co.uk)
4 points by Russelldb 18y ago|1 comments
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by Russelldb 18y ago
http://rimuhosting.com now have a datacentre presence in the UK (London). I find them very useful but best of all they have very, very good support. They are NZ based.
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by Russelldb 18y ago
Contract java monkey. Currently doing VoD. Would rather be working on erlang/python/openlaszlo web fun for my kids. Educational software is uniformly poor in this country.