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by andrioni 9y ago
>So, using sports as a proxy is not the same as management decisions where there are no well-defined criteria or expected value. Wouldn't it make his result even stronger? If the thesis fails to hold even in better conditions (like
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by andrioni 9y ago
Aren't the bitcoin transaction fees actually higher than what you would get with banks? I don't know how it works in the US, but I can do free almost-instant transfers inside Germany with no problems at all, including for online t
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by andrioni 9y ago
Not only that, but also languages you dislike enough to tell everyone who reads your CV you won't work with them, like ACow_Adonis said. I know many people who avoid R as much as they can, but would rather work with it than be unemploy
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by andrioni 9y ago
If you want to stay in the JVM, Scala supports some pattern matching, including your examples: def functionReturningMultipleValues() = (List(1), List(2), false) val (l1, l2, b) = functionReturningMultipleValues evaluates to: l1
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Datomic Made Easy – Datomic in the Cloud(youtube.com)
4 points by andrioni 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrioni 9y ago
One thing of note is now both Google Cloud and AWS charge at least one minute per instance (AWS used to charge a full hour, and GCP ten minutes).
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by andrioni 9y ago
Spark SQL does exactly that: declarative graph dataflow computations + a multicore (also distributed) scheduler and executor, although it doesn't really scale down that well to a single machine and the execution layer happens mostly on
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by andrioni 9y ago
Although China has such a large market (and potential to close the market if need be) that not being able to expand outside of China won't be a problem for a long time.
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Introducing Levi's Commuter Trucker Jacket with Jacquard by Google(atap.google.com)
2 points by andrioni 9y ago|1 comments
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by andrioni 9y ago
>That European chocolate in American supermarkets is quite often the lowest-quality stuff from here. I guess this is somewhat universal: the only Brazilian cachaças available here in Germany are the worst ones in Brazil, but they have in
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by andrioni 9y ago
Well, but Mac OS X (then OS X, now macOS) was called "Mac OS Ten" and it actually followed Mac OS 9.
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by andrioni 9y ago
Mesos actually handles the lower level part (determining which machines are up and which resources they have (CPU, memory, disks, network ports, GPUs), running tasks on machines, isolating resources from each running task on each machine, e
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by andrioni 9y ago
How did Microsoft solve it with their C++ APIs? I've never ventured much into Windows programming, but I remember hearing that MFC uses C++, and newer stuff is mostly C++-based.
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by andrioni 9y ago
It does the optimization by default, the annotation is to ensure it raises a compilation error if it actually fails to optimize.
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by andrioni 9y ago
It's actually pretty weird that would stop distributing it, especially since they still distribute a Shockwave Player, and well, Shockwave has been completely dead for long time now.
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Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Relational Databases [pdf](dl.acm.org)
1 points by andrioni 9y ago|0 comments
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by andrioni 9y ago
>The downside is that the table takes 600GB of disk space compressed which is a major chunk of our cluster. And that it probably takes one hour or more to fully reload it if you ever need to.
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by andrioni 9y ago
>Yugoslavia -> Serbia and Montenegro And before (soon after WWI) it used to be officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
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by andrioni 10y ago
The linked article (at least right now, AP via Bloomberg) actually says the ban is indefinite. >The ban was indefinite, said the official. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/some-elec...
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by andrioni 10y ago
I don't know the volume of transactions they have, but in my past experience with SAP it was extremely hard and expensive to implement and make it scale (1~2 years for the initial implementation and migration and 10M+ USD spent), and w
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by andrioni 10y ago
AFAIK AWS doesn't fully build and manage their own datacenters, they usually just lease a bunch of space in an existing one that's good enough.
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by andrioni 10y ago
Elasticache is still there, and it is still getting updates and new features: Redis got bumped to 3.2 a few months ago, and they also added managed sharding support.
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by andrioni 10y ago
>Are there things that transpose memory organization? Not exactly what you asked, but if you look at most subroutines in linear algebra libraries like LAPACK, they tend to have extra arguments so you can tell if your inputs are already t
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by andrioni 10y ago
The other way around: Avro is supported by pretty much any language out there, while you can't even write a Parquet file on Python, and even reading it is pretty hard.
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by andrioni 10y ago
It might be more about bureaucracy than about cost. At my last job even small expenses would require printing forms and getting the CFO to sign them, so in the end it was pretty much not worth it for small tests.
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by andrioni 10y ago
Do you think you could ask someone and find out the cluster sizes they used for those sorts? They mention "With the largest cluster at Google under our control", but it would be more interesting to have an idea of actual numbers,
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by andrioni 10y ago
Yeah, I do this every day: I treat my work laptop as a desktop, and just remote desktop into it from a Chromebook (or a Macbook, depending on where I am) whenever I want to work remote.
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by andrioni 10y ago
Well, they still have the instance types where instance storage matters most, IMO: d2 and i2 (which are great for running things like Cassandra and HDFS). Also, complementing toomuchtodo's comment, there's also now EBS types focus
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by andrioni 10y ago
Orkut was always part of Google, it was created by a Google employee (Orkut Büyükkökten) as his 20% project.
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by andrioni 10y ago
They already offer spot p2 instances, although I think the main spot pricing history widget isn't up to date yet. The current minimum spot price seems to be 0.09 USD/hour for a p2.2xlarge, and there have already been steep price f

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