bayareaguy

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by bayareaguy 6y ago
The distributed database systems of the mid 80s such as the Teradata DBC 1012[1] are better prior art for Map/Reduce. 1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBC_1012
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by bayareaguy 12y ago
HTSQL[1,2] by Clark Evans is similar. 1- http://htsql.org/doc/overview.html 2- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTSQL
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by bayareaguy 12y ago
Jepsen[1] is the killer app that's leading me to learn more about the Clojure and Go ecosystems. I mostly write Python by day but since Jepsen revealed consistency problems in etcd[2], I've had to learn more Clojure/leining
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by bayareaguy 12y ago
If you are interested in SSD optimizations you may want to read this research from Microsoft: The Bw-Tree: A B-tree for New Hardware[1] 1 - http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1787...
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by bayareaguy 13y ago
I'm about as old and I've lived in the bay area all my life. I've seen the popularity of things on his resume rise and fall. I'm not on any social network and my bank account has never exceeded five figures. I could b
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by bayareaguy 13y ago
Says the game developer who sells virtual goods... I've lived in the bay area longer than BART has been in operation, and I'd rather see my fares raised to pay the BART employees even more so that they can focus on the safety and
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
You'll need to deploy your own private log analytics. While there are plenty of products developed over the past decade to help you do this, the "in" approach these days is a combination of Hadoop for storage and ETL and a more traditional
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Both my kids spent considerable time "role playing" and focusing on non-combative activities like chatting and trying out different variations of character choices so I'd say the answer is definitely yes, especially if the game builds on ag
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
A similar thing happened in my own family a while back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226987
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
It looks like it did. The internet archive crawled bits of Lycos Circles from 2005 to 2009[1] as well as the original eCircles all the way back to 1998[2] 1- http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://circles.lycos.com 2- http://waybackmachine.
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
You may be right - logic programming isn't easy and the semantics are different, so it may make things more confusing for a complete beginner (I learned Prolog long ago). For a deeper understanding I would still recommend trying it.
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Erlang is easier if you know a little Prolog. Perhaps you could download SWI-Prolog[1] and spend a little time doing simple logic programming[2]? 1- http://www.swi-prolog.org/ 2- https://sites.google.com/site/prologsite/prolog-problems
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
A "dot.com" company called eCircles[1,2] took exactly this approach between 1998-2001. They were later sold to Classmates[3]. 1- http://www.pcworld.com/article/9704/join_hands_in_ecircles.h... 2- http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-55246946
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
A former employer of mine in the financial sector used Scalable Informatics[1] and Dell[2] servers for that sort of thing. 1- http://scalableinformatics.com/ 2- http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-cloud-servers
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
the wheel was such a clever interface choice ... first seen on the ill-fated Modo four years earlier. http://www.ideo.com/work/modo/
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Transcript of Rob Pike interview on Go(jottit.com)
1 points by bayareaguy 16y ago|0 comments
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859468 And here too http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=690656
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Presumably you could also write it in JavaScript or some other language with excellent JSON support No surprise since JSON (aka JavaScript Object Notation) was designed for interpretation by JavaScript and subsets can also be directly int
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
One interesting thing from the "What's new in 3.2?"[1] page: After the 3.2 release, there are plans to switch to Mercurial as the primary repository. This distributed version control system should make it easier for members of the community
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Care to elaborate in your own words why you think so? I will be quite peeved if something I have been doing for years with combinations of tools like Dropbox and Truecrypt becomes more difficult or costly to me or my customers due to a pa
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Not so. As I commented earlier[1], SO's data/ink ratio sucks compared to YC. 1- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=305304
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Prior art? 2009 - http://www.randomwire.com/storing-sensitive-data-in-the-clou... 2008 - http://firmit.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/truecrypt-virtual-enc...
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
I would think that this should be obvious, but sharing your password in such a circumstance appears prohibited by the Facebook terms of service[1]. More specifically: You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers,
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Space filling curves are also good for building multi-dimensional indexes for databases. http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/TriStarp/pubs/bncod17.pdf
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
I don't trust this guy, especially given his connections to EMC's competitors.
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
I'm eager to use Clojure professionally but Python is more practical. Another case of the "worse is better" syndrome.
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." -- John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Indeed, as this poor student discovered the hard way... http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/03/13/208259/Sophomore-Uses... Believe the Camel when it says -- third edition, page 69 -- "You will be miserable until you learn the difference betw
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
The models, from the slideshare notes[1] PatientsLikeMe.com Flattr.com Groupon.com Spotify.com PayWithaTweet.com HumbleBundle.com Free with in-app sales Quirky.com Airbnb.com Kickstarter.com 1- http://www.slideshar
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans - John Lennon

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