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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Just to point out, MapR isn't a slam dunk for a couple reasons. Their HBase implementation is very fast, but it involves using their whole Hadoop distribution. In my experience: - the management UI isn't as good as Cloudera Manage
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Why, pray tell? Isn't the Google CDN: - faster for people in different geographic areas - at least as reliable as your infrastructure - already cached (this would be nullified by your proposal) I ask because normally I wouldn't th
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I don't think energy efficiency is really so critical as the control system: how much steady-state error is there, and how quickly can it initially heat the room? Overheating the room is obviously a bit of a waste of power, but it&#x27
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> What they didn't say on the package WITH CAPITAL LETTERS was that it was a RAID0/JBOD of SSDs with zero redundancy This really shouldn't matter to the consumer - there are lots of ways to couple components in a black box
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
The best advice I've ever heard about networking had to be "keep asking questions". If you want to initiate a conversation, try to learn about the other person. A lot of people (myself included) think, "Oh, I'll sta
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I would actually contrast Fring, the bootstrapper, with Heisenberg, the VC-funded startup. It's clear in the fifth season that Fring had slow growth and scaled his operations gradually, while the newcomers just keep throwing money at t
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
You're right! This single, reasonable opinion from one of the thousands of informed people who happen to work on a wide variety of products from this particular company threw the discussion way off! I'm glad we have your reasoned
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
OK, to get this out of the way: the law in the jurisdiction he's being charged in explicitly considers this to be rape. It's not trumped up by the media, it's how the law is written. > It's sad to see that the presump
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
This is similar to slut shaming. How someone acts before, after, or any other time doesn't affects whether they wanted to have sex in that instance. You could walk around in bondage gear all day, it doesn't mean you're asking
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
The FDA just wants to make sure that 23&Me's tests are accurate, which could actually lead doctors to trust them more rather than replicating them at the patient's expense.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
CAP theorem can apply to any clustered system, it doesn't have to be multi-site. What happens if 6 of your 12 machines die? What if they get cut off from the other 6? edit: There's a bit of discussion further down about the SQL im
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Waterloo has been prestigious for at least 5 years (when I was applying it was among the hardest Canadian universities to get into, and it was already globally recognized). The only thing that has changed is more VC money, and more startup
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I'm a little skeptical: - a bunch of the novel components (the UPS aware persistence layer, for example) aren't actually built yet - they're pushing for people to build businesses on it already. I would characterize it as &qu
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I don't think she did it to be hip - I'm sure she had many doctors advising her, and she underwent many tests before making her decision. But it was heavily publicised, and it set a dangerous precedent that people with less access
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
A TSV is typically referred to as a "flat file". You're going to get a lot of confused looks if you talk about a "TSV database". That said, you can: - create an external table in an RDBMS (any of the above will work
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
That example is a bit severe, but I think the Warfarin compliance example is spot-on. You receive a prescription for a drug, but your magic internet test tells you to take a lower dose, because you're "sensitive". Then you di
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Most databases have a companion GUI tool that will allow you to "edit" the database visually; what DB are you using? pgAdmin (Postgres) - http://www.pgadmin.org/ MySQL Workbench (MySQL) - http://dev.mys
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
In my experience from debugging C programs: - Use valgrind (or gdb)! Your segfault should be simpler to find than a memory leak, because you know what line the segfault happens on. - If you have a value that's getting mangled (pointer
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> Programming is the critical thinking aspects of developing software and a skill that everyone should master: starting with children. That's pretty much the opposite of my point: programmers want everyone to think like programmers
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> Engineers seem to have a certain predilection to talk over people That's overly general: a lot of programmers may be socially inept, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient. Both the examples from above are pretty anti-soci
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
People seem to think the difficulty in coding is the mechanical act of writing code. "If only you could draw code!", they cry, linking together a series of blocks to represent program flow. The thing is, even if you make a languag
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
What's a typical input size, if you don't mind me asking?
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Why bring Hadoop into it? MR is a paradigm for parallel programming, and having it compiled into OpenCL for you is hugely convenient. But the best Hadoop use cases always leverage massive storage capacity: people who do ML on Hadoop are doi
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Has anyone had an experience with KS where: - the product shipped on time - the product worked as advertised - the founding team didn't go overboard In all the Kickstarters I've seen, it seems like the founders lose interest in ac
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
The data still lives in HDFS, so Sqoop is the preferred way to export to RDBMS as far as I know.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
In the same way that 20k a year and 100k a year are fairly close salaries ;)
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Full time - Ottawa, ON. Remote OK. We're trying to increase the effectiveness and availability of mental health services, and improve the lives of millions of people. We're looking for a CTO to establish our tech stack and build o
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
In a class I took on image processing, this was offered as the definitive way to do non-integer scaling. Apple certainly didn't invent it.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I think that's a very narrow view, and it leads to a situation where female applicants might use the school as a 'safety' - it isn't desirable, but it will definitely accept you to boost numbers and look "equal&quot
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Not necessarily, but they do have less women than the average French school, and the OP gave a bunch of serious reasons why this might be the case. They could try to eliminate those policies, and see if it increases female enrollment.

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