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by anorwell 6y ago
Chesterton's fence [1] captures this idea: one should not tear something down until they understand it. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
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by anorwell 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
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by anorwell 6y ago
I really wish this project, or other object storage systems modelled after haystack, would get more traction. I think it is reasonable to expect that your object storage system should support both small objects (< 10k) and large objects
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QuickBlog: Simple blogs hosted on GitHub pages(anorwell.com)
3 points by anorwell 6y ago|0 comments
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by anorwell 7y ago
I think the homochirality of amino acids might be what you're referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry)#In_bioch... "The origin of this homochirality in biology is the subject of much
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by anorwell 7y ago
> I guess that means 5% false positives? That wouldn't be bad. Due to Bayes' Theorem, this can result in the majority of patients with a positive result being patients without cancer. Depending on what treatment is taken, and
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by anorwell 7y ago
One thing I like about zabbix is the excellent grafana plugin, which provides a very good ability to view and ack host-by-host alerts from within grafana. That said, I'm not very familiar with the alternatives.
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by anorwell 8y ago
If I understand, the difference is that this allows insertion of only some columns, including the primary key. If there is an existing row, the union of all columns will be the result. On the other hand, `INSERT OR REPLACE` completely repla
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by anorwell 9y ago
This looks great. One of the barriers to switching to this, for my project, is the sbt-native-packager plugin and the way we use it to build debian packages. This plugin is one of the best things about sbt.
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by anorwell 9y ago
This article talks about how Target predicts when a woman is pregnant, and the steps they go to to make it less weird: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....
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by anorwell 9y ago
I've never used kotlin, but after reading the article, I wondered how it could be possible for kotlin to be null-safe and interoperable with Java at the same time. Turns out it's not [1]. Kotlin's null vs non-null types seem
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by anorwell 9y ago
Encryption didn't make it in? That's too bad!
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by anorwell 9y ago
1% equity in a series C startup sounds wildly optimistic. You would most likely not get that much equity as a senior software engineer. It's interesting that your first calculation still favours the other choice.
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by anorwell 10y ago
It seems to me that an array of ints depends on agreed convention (beyond the JSON standard) just as much as a base64 string does. In general, interpreting the meaning of a JSON primitive (int, string, boolean) is something that is being ag
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by anorwell 10y ago
I don't think "slow" is the real issue here, but rather concurrency models for IO-bound applications. The way Rails apps often work is that something like unicorn is used to maintain a pool of worker rails processes, which ha
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by anorwell 10y ago
I have only read Eric Evans' book, but it is excellent and still very relevant.
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by anorwell 10y ago
Thanks, makes sense.
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by anorwell 10y ago
I'm not sure I understand this. The claim is that "we dramatically improve the performance of insertions without hurting the IO cost of queries" by writing to the root's event log. However, it seems to me that this is on
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by anorwell 10y ago
Encrypting on top of ZFS negates ZFS' compression and de-duplication. My understanding is that this implementation preserves both of those. For example, ZFS can compress before encrypting.
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by anorwell 10y ago
400 requests per second.
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Model-First Cassandra in Ruby(techculture.datto.com)
1 points by anorwell 11y ago|0 comments
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by anorwell 11y ago
Isn't "ad hoc environment mapping" the same thing as "lanes by consensus", more or less?
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CassSchema: A ruby gem for managing multiple cassandra schemas(github.com)
1 points by anorwell 11y ago|0 comments
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by anorwell 11y ago
One of the tunable parameters is the "size of your electric bill", which defaults to $150/month and maxes at $500/month -- far too low for a city hall, I should think. This is the limiting factor here, not the size of th
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by anorwell 12y ago
You don't touch on the fact that options act can act Monads (i.e., that you can invoke an operation on the inner value, conditional on whether or not the optional value is present). For example, an optional user translates naturally to
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by anorwell 12y ago
https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV... via google
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by anorwell 12y ago
Congrats guys!
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MDialog acquired by Google(mdialog.com)
14 points by anorwell 12y ago|2 comments
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by anorwell 12y ago
Referring to people who build software as "IT" is a UK thing. The author is from the UK.
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by anorwell 12y ago
I don't think anyone is criticizing for comprehensions as unreadable. Implicits in particular introduce non-local effects that may not visible from reading a particular piece of code, and in my experience should be used sparingly.

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