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by akbar501 12y ago
I have recently been going the other direction from the "Southwest model". It's on a case by case basis, but if it takes less time to learn and use a technology that is purpose built then I'll invest the time to learn &#
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by akbar501 12y ago
The title of this post does not reflect the content of the groups discussion. It sounds like Titan will be largely handed off to the community, while the former Titan team will start to work on a new product (DSE Graph).
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Consistency in Apache Cassandra (free course)(learn.exponential.io)
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by akbar501 12y ago
This is obviously a personal preference question. I use a Linux laptop and a MacBook Pro daily. Most days I spend more time on Ubuntu. In case it matters, the MBP is brand new top end. I run Ubuntu on an older Dell Precision, yet its still
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by akbar501 12y ago
Sketch is very nice. I use both Photoshop (when on Windows) and Gimp (when I'm on my Ubuntu laptop), so I have experience with each. Sketch provides a clean, focused UI that makes it easy to get many tasks done simply/quickly. Spe
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by akbar501 12y ago
The short answer is "yes, it's worth the time". One big improvement I've made in my code over the years is that I take the time to improve my code. Continuously improving code quality does lead to high code quality, and
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by akbar501 12y ago
The following are a few of the most common issues that I see in code written by young programmers. These are also issues that experienced developers can help new developers fix by 1. Lack of knowledge of the business domain leading to an in
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by akbar501 12y ago
I switched to Hugo (gohugo.io). It was easy to learn, I use git for revision control, and I have complete control over formatting (including code blocks). I plan to host it starting this week on S3 which involves me scripting the deploy pro
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by akbar501 12y ago
There are known causes of failure in software projects many of which overlap with project failure in general. As there are two companies involved, a post-mortem of failed projects must include problems on both sides. On the purchaser side:
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by akbar501 12y ago
For me yes, but I already use separate Linux and MBP laptops. I think about upgrading my Linux laptop from time to time and I'd like something with the power of my MBP with its form factor. However, I'm a current Linux user (my pr
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by akbar501 12y ago
This is very nice. Thanks for creating it.
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The first thing I do is to be specific about the types of screen time: 1. Active and positive, such as educational, creative: example: math apps, spelling apps, etc. 2. Passive but positive: example: watching professional figure skaters so
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by akbar501 12y ago
> SLA's are never free from anyone This 1000x. SLAs are not free. Your time is not free. Nothing is free. No agency is doing ongoing support for free. Either a.) the potential customer is negotiating hard, or b.) the other companies
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by akbar501 12y ago
Media metadata is one use case: http://www.mongodb.com/presentations/storing-ebays-media-met... Here's another deck from 2012: http://www.slideshare.net/mongodb/mongodb-at-ebay
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by akbar501 12y ago
Doesn't eBay use MongoDB at scale (ref: http://www.slideshare.net/jaykumarpatel/cassandra-data-model... ). Slide 4 shows eBay's MongoDB cluster size: Hundreds of nodes, > 50TB, > 2 billion ops/day
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by akbar501 12y ago
> It seems over the last year technology has been growing more rapidly than any other period. I tend to agree with this statement. The entire stack appears to be going through a revolution. The data layer in particular is seeing very rap
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by akbar501 12y ago
The Hadoop community has been making huge strides on integrating with existing technologies and developers thanks to the various SQL-like query engines. Based on the home page it appears that Drill currently supports queries on Hadoop, but
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by akbar501 12y ago
> I find that vertical aligning is great if all the lines (variable names) are of similar length. I agree that when a few variable names are very long that it can actually make readability worse. I vertically aligned for about a year to
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by akbar501 12y ago
Genuine question. > General advice there is to stay away from competing with the 20+ crowd. What do you see as the relative strengths of the 20-30 developer vs. the 30+ or 40+ developer?
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by akbar501 12y ago
For ML, Spark MLlib is a solid choice. For large scale, distributed stats I'd go with SparkR. https://spark.apache.org/
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by akbar501 12y ago
Meteor hit 1.0 b/c their APIs are stable. I'd also guess that the software has hit a level of maturity where the Meteor team is comfortable with a supported release. As for Node, there are some within the Node community who would
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by akbar501 12y ago
> I fail to understand why someone would want to deal with javascript callback chains on the server side to build simple websites. I use Node/JS on the server b/c I'm hyper productive with it. Like all languages/frame
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by akbar501 12y ago
As of 2010, the UCSD Bioengineering graduate department was #1. The strength of UCSD in bioengineering, plus their other strengths (chemistry, theoretical chemistry, biology, physics, math...), is part of what explains San Diego's stre
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by akbar501 12y ago
Nice. I'll definitely run the sample to see how well it works on an actual device, but the screenshots look promising.
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https://source.ind.ie/project/phoenix/blob/master/LICENSE
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> One could make a distinction between parenting and parentage, and under such a distinction there's not really any such thing as same-sex parentage yet. While both people in a same sex couple cannot claim parentage on the same chil
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> The LDS church is doing massive amounts of work in preserving historical records. Definitely. I think this is an area where LDS could do better PR.
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by akbar501 12y ago
Good question. Yes, same sex couples do contribute to the world's family tree. I don't know of about all possibilities, but the following are examples I know of personally. 1.) One of my friends has a daughter. He came from a very
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by akbar501 12y ago
> 3,200 employees. This number tells so much about the improvements in developer productivity over the years. Adjusting for TVM, the same revenue is now supported by far fewer engineers (obviously not all 3,200 employees where engineers)
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by akbar501 12y ago
> we're now ripping apart at the seams Congrats on the growth. It sounds like its time to start automating some of your processes / tasks.

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