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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I think the video chat component of this is to assuage the 'face-to-face support is more comforting' crowd. If my mum can get the callback, see the person, talk to them, and have the steps explained, it'll vastly reduce the n
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
So far I've seen a few comments criticizing Mayday, because of claims that "it should just work, like Apple". In fact, Apple offers free "setup" service at an Apple Store when you buy your device, and 90 days of unl
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I'm going to fall for this trolling: It's a trade-off. Assembly is an order of magnitude less productive, and it doesn't offer significant benefits. Outside of your critical path, you might actually hurt your runtime performa
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I don't know how much stock I'd put in self-reported reasons for attrition. At my school the undergrad professors for calc are all excellent - well reviewed by students, winning awards, etc. Still, a lot of STEM students drop out
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I worked on a project with a guy who did network analysis like this. It was pretty cool... the first three times. After that it seemed like every problem had to involve a whizbang graphic - then I realized he didn't actually know how t
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Preface: "Big Data" is a stupid label, and I wish it would die. You have no idea how much time I spend explaining to non-technical people that comparing Hadoop and Riak is like comparing a tractor to a helicopter. You can definite
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I'm always torn by these headlines: yes, many organizations lack the size of data required to take advantage of Hadoop. Few of the articles really bother explaining the advantages of Hadoop, and how what you're doing really moves
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I still don't think the correct solution is to just give up on the relational model and store a bunch of denormalized documents. Just because Drupal has technical debt (which is not surprising to me) doesn't mean it's impossi
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
MongoDB is definitely not a no-brainer - what actual benefit is there to being able to 'arbitrarily add fields to a page'? The whole application layer has to support an arbitrary schema anyways, which is bound to be a security and
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> All it takes it one person to hire you. And all it takes is one winning lottery ticket to never work again.I don't even understand the substance of your complaint: sexism isn't a problem unless everyone in the world is sexist
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Because Steam sales have driven the prices of games up by 50%. Oh wait, no, AAA games are still $60, but now Steam offers them at a reasonable discount after a few months to undercut the used-games market. Getting kicked out is a point of f
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I get the mixed Apache feelings, but I still don't quite get the dependencies complaint. It seems like your clients have heterogeneous environments (multiple Linux distros, at least). Do you distribute a statically linked binary, or do
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Exactly. A "devops" company shouldn't really be complaining about dependencies anyways, they're a fact of life. I admit my experience with ZK has been 50% administering it with Cloudera Manager, which basically abstracts
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Oh! Treat records as key-value pairs, and encode the value into the IP. If your timeout is 10 seconds, add a DNS record timeout.server.yourdomain which resolves to an IPv6 address with value 10. It gets tougher with ASCII strings, but you c
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
They make some cogent points about Zookeeper, but is javaphobia really a valid concern here? Yes, you have to install a JVM, and Oracle doesn't make that as friendly as it could be. But in my experience ZK doesn't bring along &quo
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Potatoes, milk and molybdenum[1]. Considering powdered milk is pretty light, this might be first-generation space chow. They've got a lot of free time to eat dozens of pounds of potatoes anyways. 1. http://www.straightdope.c
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Wow, those metrics are dismal. Here in Canada we have a similar report that Maclean's does, but it's focused on things like first-year class sizes, student satisfaction surveys, and other, more academically-focused metrics. Of cou
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
While there doesn't exist any project to run BSD or Plan 9 on a Nexus right now, there is literally nothing stopping that from happening (except tremendous apathy from pretty much the whole world). I don't understand being so hung
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the context of that quote is completely applicable to weev. "It should not matter that the neighbor's door is unlocked", is clearly Ken saying that something being technically simple does not make it mora
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
There is no barrier to what software will run on your nexus device. For example, I could put android, or Ubuntu on my Nexus 4. Doesn't that meet all your requirements? The hardware is even sold near cost, by a well-known manufacturer.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
My god, that was easy to misread (not your post, GP). I realize he was referring to the immediately preceding sentence, where he inverted the order from the much more prominent list. Sorry GP.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
But we don't get to see the 'interesting' charts. You're just kind of taking it on faith that he noticed monotonically increasing performance as he soldered more and more expensive caps to his power supply.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> the latter has much more opportunity to give himself breathing room to focus At first this just seemed like a kind of self-congratulatory post: 'Yes, sure, cognitive bandwidth is a finite limit that affects kings and beggars alik
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> selective, loaded definition of "god" Well, you can't really win here. It's either a hand-wavey definition you could never formally prove, or a rigid, 'loaded' definition. That said, the basis of the proof
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
If I were him, I wouldn't worry about 1 customer saying they'll build their own. My coworker (a PM, no less) decided, rather than Solr or ElasticSearch, to write his own search engine for a work project. He did it, and it obviousl
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> I don't see why a phone shouldn't either Any Nexus 4 can charge inductively. The problem is that the 'standard' charging docks are actually incompatible (my $80 Nokia one doesn't work), and they take about twi
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
You absolutely don't need a data plan - my girlfriend is on Rogers with a smartphone kitted out as a dumbphone. Just turn off packet data (in the network settings menu) and you're set. You might not be eligible for subsidies on so
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
Nope! The best part is, if you bring your own phone (or hold onto one longer than 2 years) - no savings! You get to subsidize someone else's phone (or bonus). Frankly, this is something I wish the CRTC would sort out.
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
> fully functional FTFY
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by alanctgardner2 13y ago
I don't really see this being the domain of Kickstarter: ASUS already makes a very cheap 'nettop' box, for example[1]. Commodity Linux boxes are hard: 1) they're small volume, so there's always a premium 2) at the l

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