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by baudehlo 11y ago
To be fair, most people who think they need a "big data" solution would do just fine with a Postgres single instance install.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
And what would shock you most is some of the methods used to send those transactions (eg ftping a text file, and if it gets corrupt, someone opens it in vi to fix it - I have a friend who used to do exactly that).
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by baudehlo 11y ago
The only thing I'd take out of your comment is "all providing strong guarantees". I'd say that if you document that it does provide those guarantees that it damn well better do that (modulo bugs of course).
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Sure, I could have asked more nicely, but when someone is seemingly ok with oppressing one part of society I would appreciate an explanation. It's surprising that (some/most?) Americans are ok with this situation, and yet understa
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by baudehlo 11y ago
I said nothing about being part of society (whatever that means - it's a very vague statement). I asked a specific question about suffrage.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
So you're fine with suffrage in general, or just for people who have paid their debt to society?
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by baudehlo 11y ago
In some countries the weekend isn't Saturday and Sunday though. So the start of the week is kind of arbitrary.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
I'm not sure why my comment got so downvoted, that's kind of weird as I was just stating facts. Absolutely the average buyer of a Camry is not going to care about this. But that wasn't at all my point. Some cars (more often i
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by baudehlo 11y ago
When I bought my Civic Type-R it didn't even have an option for air conditioning due to the weight it added. For some types of car every pound (though they are called grams in the real world) counts. I suspect this will be popular in t
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by baudehlo 11y ago
You probably can't beat the market. But if you can beat a savings account earning 2% interest it's probably worth it for the learning experience.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
If you learn something while writing it, and it sits and earns a little bit of money without much work, then it's not really foolish. I bet you learned more doing that project, things that probably helped get you that Wall Street job,
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by baudehlo 11y ago
I attended this talk at OSCon 2003 and it still remains the best talk I have ever attended. The last part about a message to the aliens truly blew me away. The fact that Mark found an error in this set of binary bits, that nobody else had s
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Being able to write one in plperl would rock
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by baudehlo 11y ago
It's a shame that canada has a better mat/pat leave standard but such a terrible (same as the U.S.) vacation standard.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Isn't that basically what I said?
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Throwing out the Windows 3.1 argument is an effort to throw mud at the wall and hoping it sticks. Node is meant for network programming, where letting the OS schedule which process can operate on the network data is the right thing to do. T
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by baudehlo 11y ago
It's more than that. The design of NNTP is much like POP3 - you download entire threads and messages all at once. It doesn't work all that well on the web compared with say IMAP.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
But getting a .io domain already taken by a .com is also kind of stupid. It's only useful if the .com is being squatted on and you hope some day to make enough money to buy the .com too (see e.g segment).
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by baudehlo 11y ago
It loaded for me on iPhone 6, but I couldn't scroll past the first map because it took up the entire screen :(
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by baudehlo 11y ago
But that is his/her definition of spam. And as someone who has worked in the anti spam field, I'm ok with that. However I have the same problems Linus has so I am not excusing gmail one bit in this.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Absolutely true. When a co-worker saw the picture I posted on hipchat of Charon, he said "so what, looks just like our moon." Thankfully he was chewed out by another science fan in the channel, but a sad number of people care less
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Segment(io) doesn't have a solution for this, in case you decide to go searching. And their server side APIs have plenty of issues of their own (eg no way to get utm parameters to the destination - hugely frustrating and we are still w
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Well pg has definitely written about it. http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html
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by baudehlo 11y ago
The financial disaster would be horrendous. Look at the number of companies using google for email. When the towers went down in 2001, the first business priority of many companies was getting email back online. It's an incredibly impo
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Sadly, software is complex and security is really hard (and generally a trade-off). See also djb.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Absolutely. I contributed heavily to the code that ran an anti-spam DNS blocklist (that is used by most of the world). Open sourcing that code would have given away how we populated that blacklist, which would have allowed spammers to bypas
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Why on earth wouldn't your mail server add that for you?
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by baudehlo 11y ago
I think the big thing with alcohol is it's a lot harder to become addicted to. I don't disagree that alcohol addiction is a problem (and a more damaging social problem in some aspects - a smoker father is probably far less of an i
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by baudehlo 11y ago
Thankfully brownies don't make everyone stink.
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by baudehlo 11y ago
For sure. But this article isn't about that.

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