akronim

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by akronim 17y ago
It's not SQL that's complex, it's mastering the details of an RDBMS to get the desired performance and scale. This heads towards dba/sysadmin territory which IS complex if that's not your speciality.
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Scaling up Large Scale Search(hathitrust.org)
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by akronim 17y ago
At least if it's a library you're not really increasing your chance of failure. Whereas as you add external dependencies, the odds of one of them being down and taking your service with it increases. So you had better thinking about how y
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by akronim 17y ago
In clusters working on large amounts of in memory data, the approach is often to load the data, then move the code (e.g. a java class implementing some data procesing interface) to the data as required, rather than move the data to the code
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by akronim 17y ago
More machines reduces redundancy - which is what the op is asking about.
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by akronim 17y ago
But the most expensive apps, like tomtom, are iPhone versions of expensive products, so even though the iPhone app version is high for an app, it's less than the alternative. That doesn't really work for iPhone only apps.
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by akronim 17y ago
Shouldn't you be using HTTP Accept headers to specify the format(s) you want? (rather than file extensions in the URL)
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by akronim 17y ago
Shouldn't we have agents trying to get through security with guns, explosives and anything else that's restricted, multiple times per day so we can measure how effective airport security is and improve it? Ideally these agents would not ge
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by akronim 17y ago
because (as it says in the article) he's running on EC2 and it isn't an option.
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by akronim 17y ago
If you're going to depend on one of these services for something serious, you should always have a plan B. Architect things so you actually can use your B plan, at least in theory, which means avoiding integrating to specific features. You
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by akronim 17y ago
having a blog successful enough to generate 1-2k users is a pretty big project in itself; sounds more like a way to put things off than a good first step.
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by akronim 17y ago
In summary, use cross functional teams of < 10, seated in closed team rooms, working 40hrs/week, scheduled to 80% workload, and if you need to crunch, start 4 weeks from the deadline and prepare to lose out afterwards.
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by akronim 17y ago
There must be bands near recouped, that would be but for some dodgy accounting. So while for the author it doesn't really make any difference, there must be artists missing out on actual cash.
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by akronim 17y ago
Nice, but pretty slow to render for me (on FF3.5). Actually it's more that it pauses at about one quarter rendered and looks broken for a second before it finally renders.
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by akronim 17y ago
On the add review widget, maybe the default rating should be 5, or at least not 1. Maybe use one of those star widgets instead of the combo box? I think business using this would prefer a higher default rating, rather than have their prod
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by akronim 17y ago
You can't add items to immutable collections - if you call add() etc you'll get an UnsupportedOperationException. If you want a mutable version then you need to create a new collection, and can use the immutable collection to provide the s
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by akronim 17y ago
Yes, but as a large corp, you have the momentum to survive if you can't bill for a month, but it might be fatal for a startup.
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by akronim 17y ago
It sounds like they're targeting startups, but if you're a startup you're adding quite a bit of risk by depending on another startup (in beta) for something so critical as your cashflow. It's easy to imagine scenarios where they go bust at
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by akronim 17y ago
The foil that's providing the lift is pretty big in terms of surface area, and so is the drag. On a normal board at speed on flat water, probably only about a foot of the board is in the water, and the fin is tiny by comparison. So the id
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by akronim 17y ago
Root cause analysis isn't really their strength, in their announcements anyway. Do they think people would get upset if they knew the core reason for the problem or something?
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by akronim 17y ago
Taleb's strategy gets paraphrased as "buy out of the money puts" but I'm sure there's quite a bit more going on than that at his funds, even if that's broadly the strategy. For starters you have to figure out which puts to buy. It almost
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by akronim 17y ago
But it does remove the need for a fake passport.
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by akronim 17y ago
The stat is meaningless anyway without some sort of timeframe.
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by akronim 17y ago
Stack overflow got exposure to thousands of developers from day one thanks to Joel/Jeff. If they'd stuck the site up anonymously it would be nowhere near as well used now, and might even have never got anywhere without an initial critical
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by akronim 17y ago
> My guess is that more damage was done by the head-on collision with the wall than by the errant spring Given that the medical treatment Massa has received all seems to relate to head/eye trauma I think it's pretty safe to say it's the
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by akronim 17y ago
> this trick will work with any language that supports both single-line and block style comments isn't this just a horrible workaround for not having a debugger?
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by akronim 17y ago
I'm not sure that publicising this use is the best way to keep it available...
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by akronim 17y ago
isn't that typically "Up to 55 days" i.e. you still have to pay it monthly?
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by akronim 17y ago
But not so nice if you're a paying user (via the license fee) and upgrading means a new OS or computer. I think their mandate is to work for their paying users, ahead of helping web developers.
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by akronim 17y ago
Surprising that more companies haven't tried to replicate this - there's no way you could get so many qualified people working on something for three years for a million all up as employees. Not to mention the publicity.

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