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by aristus 12y ago
"arroba" is definitely the common word in Spanish & Portuguese.
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by aristus 12y ago
For a very long time, I thought the "{" was called "birdwing" because that's how it was explained to me. When I try that now I get very odd looks. Related: http://carlos.bueno.org/brackets-of-the-wor
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by aristus 12y ago
Whatever it is we're grasping toward, it may be "artificial intelligence" only in the sense that a car is an "iron horse".
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by aristus 12y ago
Facebook has something approaching this, using sleazy DNS and routing tricks to approach optimal cache locality. AFAIK, they have not yet achieved master-master "write anywhere" replication: all writes phone home to the master clu
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by aristus 12y ago
I am self taught, and after 12 years in industry I took McKusick's kernel class on Saturdays at Berkeley. It kicked my ass and ate up a lot of time, but it was the best thing I could have done to further my knowledge.
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by aristus 12y ago
The part where they turn around and demand to do the same thing with private Facebook accounts?
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by aristus 12y ago
I hope employees can opt out, though the author doesn't even seem to think of this as a possibility. I would absolutely not want some rabid HR ferret demanding to paw through my private Facebook account.
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by aristus 13y ago
It's easier to focus and learn on dead trees. For the author it's an interesting model too. Posting online, especially "beta" versions, gets you fast feedback and ultimately a better book. The paper sales are essentially
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by aristus 13y ago
If the system were fully meritocratic, you'd expect a lot more females in the industry, for one. Unless you suppose that females of all races are objectively less capable in some way. But then you'd have to explain why there are s
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How MemSQL Distributes Data(blog.memsql.com)
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by aristus 13y ago
A friend of mine, from Facebook's networking team, also spent a month there. He came back with a thousand-yard stare.
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by aristus 13y ago
You can, by hoisting it up as a calculated column and indexing on that. We have support for sparse indexes as well.
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by aristus 13y ago
Re-deriving from scratch it is hard. No question about that. Magnetism doesn't make a ton of sense either, but it's simple to demonstrate. Intuitive and simple are not always the same thing. If your coin happens to be absolutely f
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by aristus 13y ago
It's quite simple to implement a fair coin from a coin of unknown fairness. So simple, I put it in a children's book. http://carlos.bueno.org/2011/10/fair-coin.html
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by aristus 13y ago
Let's try a thought experiment. What if two Princeton students published an un-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv that said something useful, like revealing the origins of life, or the perfect cookie recipe? Would you argue quite as hard abo
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by aristus 13y ago
...with really annoying ads played at 150% gain.
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by aristus 13y ago
Back at the beginning of time I worked with Vignette StoryServer, which spun out of aolserver, one of the first "database-backed dynamic website" servers. The scripting language was TCL 7.something. I never encountered it again, b
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by aristus 13y ago
I think you mean very carefully written headline. As much as people mutter about clickbait, the art of headlining is old and subtle, driven by business pressures, technical considerations (eg, the width of a column) and psychology. The se
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by aristus 13y ago
If it wasn't slanted, it'd be |.
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by aristus 13y ago
It might also be a subtle hint to read up on history. In the specific case of Hoover, the public did react. When Hoover died, ending decades of quiet terror, his 3rd in command was passed over for promotion to the top job. In retaliation he
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by aristus 13y ago
That's fine, as far as John Q Layman's life is concerned, cutting through false positives with minimal effort. There will be false negatives with any rough filter. It sucks for you, but that's your fight to fight.
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by aristus 13y ago
Simple rule, less about trust and more about science: the paper must be at least 5 (five) years old and have one (1) independent confirmation before I'll consider reading it. It's possible to read the original papers and look for
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by aristus 13y ago
++pandoc. I write all my books in Latex (despite the looks of horror from everyone I mention it to). I compile to PDF for printing and use pandoc to build every other format. It just works. I spent less than 3 or 4 hours, total, integrating
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by aristus 13y ago
Tossed off in the middle of James Burke's connections, while he's driving a French postal van up a mountain on the way to tell the story about the discovery of the vacuum, is exactly this point. As people communicate faster and mo
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by aristus 13y ago
I conducted hundreds of interviews at Facebook, and we always tell the candidate to use whatever language is most comfortable. I've seen all the major languages plus all manner of oddball ones. One candidate did everything in ocaml, an
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by aristus 13y ago
Iirc it was 26 animals total. I read the paper when the blogosphere was hyperventilating about it. The data looked very shaky. If they had stopped a few months earlier they could have concluded that gmo maize prevents cancer. Way too smal
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by aristus 13y ago
Hoax.
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by aristus 13y ago
Dammit. I was hoping no one would see through me. It's hard to remember to practice those platitudes day-to-day, which makes them worth repeating. You must register your predictions beforehand in order to avoid hindsight bias. You al
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by aristus 13y ago
That's an interesting idea. Normally it goes the other way round. Facebook has a fellowship program, and often collaborates with academia, but usually in "data science", not systems or perf. If you are interested, msg me. May
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by aristus 13y ago
Very cool to see this on HN. :) I developed a 1hr class in March or April for Facebook's "bootcamp", and kind of just kept going, collecting in war stories from smart folks around the industry. If you have any questions or wa

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