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by ap22213 10y ago
If you have an employer plan, maybe your employer cut benefits? I know several people that had that happen recently. I'm more concerned that the inflation calculations don't account for decreases in product and service quality. It
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by ap22213 10y ago
Oh, Is this the search wish-list thread? Ok: I just want a search engine that only indexes the sites that would be of interest to people like me. For most of my searches over the last year, Google has been so broken that it's almost un
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by ap22213 10y ago
That's kind of the point though. Google seems to think of itself more as a research institution than a business. When I think of companies that are good at execution, Google isn't on the list.
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When a doctor approaches their practice as a for-profit transactional business I believe they should be treated as any other similar business. If I go to a bakery and it is poorly run, or I am overcharged or mislead, or the product is of po
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by ap22213 10y ago
That's a great point! I wish I would have thought of it at the time.
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I think this probably happens much more frequently than people may realize. I once gave a doctor a bad Yelp review and was very careful to avoid stating anything that could be claimed as libel - I only stated very specific and accurate fact
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by ap22213 10y ago
Remember that Python is several decades old, and version 2 is about 16 years old. Like UNIX man pages, the docs (as well as best practices, idioms, etc.) were influenced by programming methods of the day. There was much more time to read th
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by ap22213 10y ago
Oh - I was using 'reason' as is often used in the informal vernacular - to mean why or follows from. I assumed that most people on here would understand from the context. But, I can see now that it's a loaded word given the s
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by ap22213 10y ago
That's pretty cryptic... Ok, what do you mean? I'm dense.
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Why does the plant produce DMT? Is it a poison? Are there other plants that produce it? I wonder about the evolutionary reasons for its emergence. Does the plant influence the Human so that the Human protects and nurtures the plant? When d
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by ap22213 10y ago
I'm pretty lonely. After years of moving around and making lots of 'disposable friends' - mostly work friends, I eventually settled in the burbs. The conversations out here are limited to the most superficial things: kids, we
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by ap22213 10y ago
I find these type of posts on HN to be curious things. Clearly, there's lots of interest in the subject and desire to change things. And, most HN readers are highly educated and many are even high-income (i.e. have position to affect r
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by ap22213 10y ago
But, also, cloudflare has made the malicious / non-malicious ratio so much worse. A staggering amount of web content has become practically inaccessible on TOR because of them. This makes TOR very difficult to use for the average law-a
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by ap22213 10y ago
It could be because people who immigrate here are significantly more motivated than people in general. I read somewhere that many of the most successful entrepreneurs in the US are foreign born. That doesn't necessarily mean that forei
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by ap22213 10y ago
What are you trying to sell exactly and to whom are you trying to sell it? I currently live around a bunch of upper middle income Americans (>$200k annual household income), and I have family and friends in poor rural America (<$10k a
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by ap22213 10y ago
Alluxio can cache objects in memory that are used downstream in other steps or even other jobs. In Spark, the biggest performance gains are realized when all data stays in memory. But, the Spark memory architecture is kind of opaque. It&#
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by ap22213 10y ago
Would pipelining help much when the processing job is CPU bound (all cores maxed out)? Sorry - what does co-tenant to compute mean?
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One of the hardest parts for me was getting the cluster sized appropriately so that all data stayed in memory. Overflow to disk slows things down a lot. But, sizing the cluster can be tricky if you're generating a lot of data structur
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by ap22213 10y ago
Yes
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"Remove the two temporary tables and combine all three Hive stages into a single Spark job that reads 60 TB of compressed data and performs a 90 TB shuffle and sort." "As far as we know, this is the largest real-world Spark j
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"While running on 20 TB of input, we discovered that we were generating too many output files (each sized around 100 MB) due to the large number of tasks." I could be completely missing something here, but to decrease the number o
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by ap22213 10y ago
I don't get this age of greed that we are in. The board and the VCs are making hundreds of millions (and some of them already have that much), and they are f'n pinching pennies for the first 20-30 employees that worked their ass o
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It's extremely helpful if a team member has a CS degree, but it's not always essential. The CS grad usually understands the whole stack from UI through CPU, I/O, and memory. They don't get the distant stare when they see
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by ap22213 10y ago
It upsets at how anti-science and anti-technology some of my friends have become. Some of them believe that vaccines shouldn't be used. Some of them reject medicine and medications. Some of them avoid GMO foods. They use essential oil
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“We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.” Unfortunately, we can't modify much of the environment without giving up a lot of what we have. And, that's the t
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Sadly, the reality is that most people seem to side with your perspective. And, like that, the great middle class boom that drove the golden age of the 20th century is over. Recently, I've had the jarring realization that for Humans (a
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by ap22213 10y ago
It's interesting that they chose Pittsburgh. Having grown up there and they having lived in many different places since, I have learned to appreciate having learned to drive on those roads, especially during winter. Many roads in Pitt
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by ap22213 10y ago
Are ADHD medications really that effective for those without ADHD? They can boost your mood, for sure. And, they can keep you awake. But, for me, the dosage needs to be precisely adjusted just to be effective, and I have to take them just
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by ap22213 10y ago
Does anyone know what MS does with this data? Is it just for ads?
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Would have been great if it ended with something like: Your friend emails you a satire on Bay Area life. It isn't perfectly written, and it surely doesn't fit your life, but it fits so many of your friends' lives. You contin

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