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by aphyr 16y ago
In addition, uranium mining tends to use acid leaching, which doesn't send as many people underground.
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by aphyr 16y ago
Ah, I read "any key" as referring to the delete/backspace keys. In retrospect it makes perfect sense. To be honest, I still consider this efficient and consistent. Deletion and replacement are both operations that can be applied to selectio
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by aphyr 16y ago
Er, sorry, could someone explain why this is bad UI? I frequently want to delete in both directions, and delete a selection. Seems efficent and sensible to me. In fact, I find Macs are almost impossible to use for text editing because of th
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by aphyr 16y ago
Do you think Xcode 4 will become free at some point? What happens when Xcode 3 is no longer supported or sufficient?
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by aphyr 16y ago
Admittedly, this is a tech demo which was designed to pack in the maximum amount of variation into the shortest possible time frame. Game development typically reuses the same carefully-crafted assets (particle systems, models, textures, sh
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by aphyr 16y ago
They probably mean the 6-core i7-9* series, distinguished from "regular old i7" by their Gulftown architecture and 50% higher transistor count. But yeah, I thought that term died a while back.
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by aphyr 16y ago
Realtime graphics are finally blurring into stylized film. I expect in another ten years or so we will, for all intents and purposes, have the horsepower to render photorealistic scenes. The bigger problem may be finding ways to create this
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by aphyr 16y ago
Riak, by default, uses a replication value of three. Your single test machine has to do ~three times the work, so you should expect slower performance here. (I'm oversimplifying somewhat.) You'll see significantly improved performance on a
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by aphyr 16y ago
Bitcask is an in memory datastore because it keeps a copy of the entire dataset in memory. Begging your pardon, but I think you may be misunderstanding bitcask. The bitcask keydir is stored in memory, but the values are stored on disk. Th
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by aphyr 16y ago
To my knowledge, there is no such thing as an in-memory bitcask backend for Riak. Could you have been using regular Bitcask (keeps values on disk in log-structured files) or the ETS memory backend?
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by aphyr 16y ago
I believe the limit using the current bitcask backend is (40 bytes + average key size) * (replication factor) / (number of cluster nodes * memory capacity of the smallest node). If that factor grows above 1, you can't store any more. IIRC c
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by aphyr 16y ago
Weirdly, everyone I've met in SF is hiring. They're also all complaining that they can't find anyone who fits the job. Maybe it's just high standards?
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by aphyr 16y ago
Where's your github profile? Personal site with demos? Projects you contributed to? Anything counts, man! Even toy projects you built in a weekend just for fun, if they show your ability to reason about a problem.
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by aphyr 16y ago
This is an especially good idea as many currently deployed versions of MySQL suffer from unrecoverable segfaults as a result of receiving too many (read: more than six) SSL connections. Ask me how I know. </jaded>
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by aphyr 16y ago
And for an even more surreal take... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1quwIFj-RvM#t=1m50s
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by aphyr 16y ago
Efactor: is your goal to earn as much disgust as possible from your target market? Or do you really think that registering a slew of new accounts in a day and having them shill for your product is going to go unnoticed?
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by aphyr 16y ago
I'm a sock puppet!
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by aphyr 16y ago
Looks like Dave's never going to actually approve this comment, so: Dave: 1. Please create a static archive of your users' tweetstream in a publicly accessible place. Have the URL be a function of their Twitter username. Aphyr: http://tw
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by aphyr 16y ago
This brings a whole new meaning to "fork me on github".
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by aphyr 16y ago
I don't want to flag this, per se, but readers should be aware that this particular article is rather old. The theory has been picked up, criticized, defended, and a subsequent paper published. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally
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by aphyr 16y ago
its queries were very similar to SQL You may want to learn more SQL. If you're interested in picking up a more complex document database, I would recommend Couch. For a simple k/v store that will get you thinking about concurrency, perhap
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by aphyr 16y ago
I can't see using MongoDB for any production project. It combines a limited replication/sharding model with a poor single-server durability, lack of tunable CAP constraints, and some surprising performance bottlenecks. If you want integrity
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by aphyr 16y ago
I'm only fluent in English, but at some point or another I've held basic conversations in four other languages (Norwegian, Spanish, Japanese, and American Sign Language). I think if I had the occasion to actually use these languages I wou
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by aphyr 16y ago
We are going to build a wide, commercial version of the Kahn Academy. This is a terrific idea, and I wish you all the best in doing it well. You've got the drive, money, and PR skill to make it a reality. Go for it.
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by aphyr 16y ago
Honestly, Jason, this is the only time I've found myself agreeing with you. Mahalo was a low SNR, spam-driven, visually abhorrent, search-result-polluting pile of useless self-referential scraped-off-wikipedia bullshit that I wanted to burn
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by aphyr 16y ago
Has no intrinsic competitive advantage Sure it does. You're just thinking about "cost" only in terms of money. In order to use a piece of software (and use it well) you need smart people, time, the right kind of infrastructure, and the kn
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by aphyr 16y ago
I was under the impression climate and storms were dominated by thermal processes in the troposphere, not ionization or charged particle flux. Any climate guys or meteorologists care to call this out as BS or not?
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by aphyr 16y ago
(disclaimer: I haven't looked at Cassandra in 6 months) Riak doesn't involve Java. It sounds trite, but that was a huge plus for our team. It has commit hooks. Search. Builtin JS VMs for mapreduce. More straightforward administration. Most
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by aphyr 16y ago
Email address + gravatar.
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by aphyr 16y ago
dope ! Was that introduced in Snow Leopard? My apologies.

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