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by amix 17y ago
"So when should you make business decisions? When you have the most information, when you're at your smartest: as late as possible." I disagree. You should make decisions when you have enough data and enough understanding to draw a conclusi
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by amix 17y ago
If you run out of ideas, the best thing to do is to steal ideas from others and try to execute them better. :)
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by amix 17y ago
Judged on my experience, by storing millions of keys in Tyrant, I would say it's very durable. While this is a great blog post, I think the author misses stating that Tyrant supports master-master replication and "hot" backups - which makes
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by amix 17y ago
A few weeks ago I argued that language distribution platforms should be based on a distributed version control system (like Mercurial or Git) and have an user-friendly web-interface (like BitBucket or GitHub). Reputation (like the one found
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by amix 17y ago
I have gone through my search history in Google and compared it to Duck Duck Go. The results are pretty good for most queries and really good for some queries. Some good results: * http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%09dragon+age+review&v=d (Dr
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by amix 17y ago
I had the same sceptism, but found the article to be a good and a sound read without any hocus pokus. His theory is also interesting and worth a read.
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by amix 17y ago
I think author misses that the Chinese market isn't free and most of the western sites are blocked by the great Firewall. I think their market would look at lot differently if their market was free and anyone could compete on it.
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by amix 17y ago
A part of the human nature is to keep pushing ourselves, keep improving, never becoming fully satisfied - this has resulted in great achievements for our ancestors. This urge to keep improving is a lot stronger for some people than others a
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by amix 17y ago
The documentation seems to be incomplete ( http://code.google.com/intl/da-DK/apis/analytics/docs/gwo/ ). It seems to mostly cover authentication and reading of a feed?
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by amix 17y ago
I would say that statistic and probability theory are probably the most important thing to learn for anyone that analyses data, yet most programmers are clueless and statistics isn't that popular in CS programs (at least the one I had or ha
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by amix 17y ago
Spotting the perspective is not that easy, at least in art, and it's first in 1400's that we understood it properly. Before Filippo Brunelleschi* most things were painted with invalid perspectives. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Br
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by amix 17y ago
The war in Afghanistan was a reaction on 9/11, an act to get a small group of people called Al-Qaeda - - attacking a whole country because of a group of people is a revenge act. The war on Iraq was based on false premises (weapons of mass d
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by amix 17y ago
He also gets it while USA are in two wars (wars which have very little to do with peace and most likely related to oil and revenge). Anyhow, I like Obama as well, but giving him a peace award is just too early.
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by amix 17y ago
This seems like a spin. They seem to be outsourcing this to Sri Lanka by buying MillenniumIT, which is a Sri Lanka developer ("Compared to the bill of $65 million for TradElect, MillenniumIT, a Sri Lankan developer, is a bargain at $30 mill
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by amix 17y ago
I am no fan of IQ tests myself, but I think in most tests they are looking for the most simple and logical answers - and they are trying to create tests that have very little ambiguity. In your sequence it's more logical and simple that the
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by amix 17y ago
My guess is that this stack is getting out-dated, or at least improved vastly as Google tries to do index updates in near real-time. The major problem with map-reduce is that the results aren't in real time (e.g. you collect data and then y
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by amix 17y ago
It's a little outdated, but I spent some time on tweaking it: http://amix.dk/vim/vimrc.html I specially like: map <space> / map <c-space> ? And the parenthesis/bracket expanding.
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by amix 17y ago
Your statement about dogs is untrue. Dogs, and a lot of other animals, have the ability to think creatively, i.e. to come up with new stuff, new tricks. A lot of animals also have self-awareness* (e.g. dolphins, elephants, magpies). Of cour
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by amix 17y ago
In return when JWZ is finished hacking he hangs in his own nightclub. Not a bad trade-of IMHO ;)
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by amix 17y ago
It's a pretty crappy comparison. If you need transactions and ACID properties then you pick InnoDB and not MyISAM. Now what are the cons of PostgreSQL? 1) It's hard to install and manage, which could explain why Postgre's adoption is fairly
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by amix 17y ago
Killing one of the most popular languages isn't a solution, it's only wishful thinking. The situation with JavaScript isn't that bad, we just needs better tools such as a secure way to source external JavaScript and better protection agains
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by amix 17y ago
If we follow the idea of killing everything that's "insecure" then we will end up killing everything, because nothing is 100% secure. I vote for improving JavaScript, for example, by sourcing external code via Google Caja. We should also im
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by amix 17y ago
Is there anybody running Berlin marathon this weekend? I will and we could meet if anybody is up for that.
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by amix 17y ago
How is 2.x dead? Everyone in the Python community is using and developing for 2.x. If you develop for Py3k, then you loose backward compatibility and you can't use upcoming optimizations like Unladen Swallow. I think Python might end up in
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by amix 17y ago
I don't think backwards compatibility is the problem. The problem with Py3k is that it does not offer any vital features, it requires a lot work to port to Py3k (to top that off Py3k is slower than Python 2.x). The only way I can see Py3k s
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by amix 17y ago
Updating the cache is far from easy. An example that show cases the non-triviallity is MySQL's query cache: it will purge the whole cache on a table update. If you get a lot of reads, this works great, but if you get a lot of updates, then
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by amix 17y ago
Following this guide blindly is a bad idea. Doing premature caching can be dangerous - you may end up caching stuff that gets hit once, you may miss caching stuff that get hit a lot of times and you may end up making your caching a lot more
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by amix 17y ago
"If you eat more energy than you use you may not gain weight" The normal body will convert excessive energy to fat, so if you intake more energy than you use you will gain fat. Care to explain your case? "if you eat less energy than you use
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by amix 17y ago
It's not pure genetics alone, it's a combination of genetics and gluttony. It's really simple: if you intake more energy than you consume, then you will gain weight. Our energy utilization varies and is regulated by genes, to beat this prob
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by amix 17y ago
I wish it was possible to buy a PDF version.

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