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by Todd 15y ago
Congrats Eric! Being on the bestseller list should drive awareness of your methodologies to a broader group. You've been working hard at it. Keep it up!
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by Todd 15y ago
You're in luck. Nebraska has the second lowest rate of unemployment in the US. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm
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by Todd 15y ago
Nicely done. It would be nice if there was a "more" link.
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by Todd 15y ago
Marcelo presented this at the HN Seattle Meeup last night. It was primarily a backdrop for his talk. The most interesting point, IMO, was the cyclical trend he observed in the number of startups registered on the site.
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by Todd 15y ago
Node would work well since it's designed to support async patterns. You're right that the challenge is the polling model that you have to implement when using MongoDB as the queue. To get throughput, you may have to use it as a journal and
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by Todd 15y ago
If you put this behind, say a REST API vs using MongoDB directly, the clients could use long polling. If you look at Twitter's Kestrel, it was implemented with a similar mechanism, albeit leveraging some capabilities that were intrinsic to
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by Todd 15y ago
Many languages have unexpected pronoun usage that newcomers must get used to. Many Indo-European languages have a formal 'you', for example. With French, it's the same as 2nd person plural (you). With German, it's the same as 3rd person plu
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by Todd 15y ago
Ditto. I've been an Amazon user since the late 90s. They've got an incredible amount of user data about me, including wishlists with thousands of items. That all ends about two years ago. This is when I started buying digital books on my wi
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by Todd 15y ago
I've been noticing it more frequently as well. It has changed the way I use HN. Now, I quickly scan the first page and open interesting stories in tabs. Then I quickly click More and do the same. Wash, rinse, repeat two or three times depen
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by Todd 15y ago
Agreed, but there were still some interesting anecdotes and perspectives from his POV in Singapore.
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by Todd 15y ago
"Better" perhaps, but also different. I think Derek's post was more about culture and less about daily life and modes of thought. I enjoyed both.
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by Todd 15y ago
There's no mention of the distinction between the file system and the compute portion. Also, no mention of the particular computational approach (e.g., map/reduce). Arguably one of Hadoop's big benefits is HDFS.
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by Todd 15y ago
I'm working on YAMRF (yet another MR framework) in C#. I wanted something like Hadoop but something that was much simpler to setup and to hack on. There's no question that Hadoop is the elephant in the room, so to speak. It is very robust a
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by Todd 15y ago
I don't think this is helpful. He can provide for his family with out a "9 to 5". He could contract remotely, for example. And he could work on side projects with an eye to the future, which would help keep his spirits up through this perio
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by Todd 15y ago
I, too, found myself watching the proceedings for longer than I should have. The design is elegant and I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out. Ironically, the most amazing thing about the video is seeing a modern icon in such a quot
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by Todd 15y ago
There are some interesting ideas here, but it's a little heavy on opinion. Rob's obviously an agile zealot. These myths he's refuting are not universal, though. For example, pair programming doesn't work for everyone, nor does the open offi
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by Todd 15y ago
This is more perlish, with the exception of the map delimiter. If you proposed => it would be identical to perl.
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by Todd 15y ago
This is a very timely article for me. The place that I work used to have an office about a 12 minute drive from my house. It was a temporary solution (that ended up lasting over a year) and we needed to find a more permanent location. It wa
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by Todd 15y ago
I, for one, appreciate what you guys are doing. Kudos for setting up the site and including competitors' products. We need more stand up products and studies like this.
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by Todd 15y ago
I understand his frustration, but a single global namespace is not the solution. This would be a regression to the place that PHP has been trying to escape from. If modules aren't available, then people will invent pseudo namespace qualifie
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by Todd 15y ago
I believe this is one of the signs of the apocalypse.
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by Todd 15y ago
Ah, things have obviously moved on since I left the Java world years ago. In any event, the VM is still specified at the bytecode level. The JITs are optimizations that are outside of the standard. The .NET ECMA standard specifies an IL tha
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by Todd 15y ago
In addition, the JVM is just that--a VM. The platforms that run .NET with a JIT compile the IL down to optimized native code. This is similary to the way many Lisps work. Although the JVM is highly optimized and runs faster than Mono in man
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by Todd 15y ago
This is the best news I've heard all week. Huge congratulations to Miguel and the entire Mono team!
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by Todd 15y ago
At least it's reproducable...
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by Todd 15y ago
Thanks for posting. I meant to go to this session but it was too early.
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by Todd 15y ago
Why don't we yet have XMLj?
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by Todd 15y ago
Coincidentally, I had the chance to visit the bone yard at Victorville recently while doing a photo shoot for a software project (I'll post a link in a month or two, once it becomes public--it's very cool). We had the chance to photograph t
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by Todd 15y ago
It could easily be made less obtrusive. It just needs a little usability testing.
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by Todd 16y ago
First off, keep things simple. Don't dive into Linux, Emacs/VIM, etc. right away if you don't already know them. Your goal is to learn programming. Next, you probably have an idea about where you want to be with your business. Is it mobile?

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