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by benblack 15y ago
I am apparently in that foolish minority that believes language runtimes should not segfault/corrupt themselves while running correct code. That this problem requires significant effort just to hack around, while actually fixing it would t
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by benblack 15y ago
I am running this code in production, hence it cannot have bugs. QED. Yours in perpetual bogglement, Lil' B
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by benblack 15y ago
San Francisco, CA Boundary is building a platform for real-time network operations, visualization, and exploration. We have exciting challenges in high-speed data collection, large-scale data processing, user experience, and interface desi
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by benblack 15y ago
Well, yes. Exactly. Big ups to the Homo Sapiens posse. - Lil' B
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by benblack 15y ago
I've recently discovered that when you know almost nothing about the problem someone is trying to solve it is both easy and attractive to speculate about how much better your solution is than the one reached by the people who have to solve
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by benblack 15y ago
"In a replica set configuration, all reads and writes are routed to the master by default. In this scenario, consistency is guaranteed." One would hope that reading and writing a single node database was consistent. This is table stakes fo
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by benblack 15y ago
I was not aware that BigTable worked that way, but it doesn't change my original point about "C != C". That a given NoSQL system is architected for both does not imply that such a design is always desirable or representative of the NoSQL d
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by benblack 15y ago
Thanks for bringing some much needed science to these proceedings, my man. Too many people mistaking computer science for a therapy session where their feelings matter. Computer science has much in common with the honey badger. Think upo
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by benblack 15y ago
They really are that different, and I hear 10gen is hiring. Increase the peace. - Lil' B
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by benblack 15y ago
If a slave can continue serving reads whilst partitioned from a master that continues to accept writes then you cannot guarantee consistency. If a slave cannot serve reads when partitioned then you aren't available. If a master cannot acc
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by benblack 15y ago
To some commenters: the C in CAP and the C in ACID are not the same thing. If that is not clear to you, it is unlikely the database you develop will include correct implementations of core concepts. Knowledge is power. Peace and love to t
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by benblack 15y ago
Thanks for the comments, Jorge. What you describe as a fundamental flaw is perhaps better described as a careful engineering trade-off. AtomicMap is intended for specific use cases. If you are not dealing with an extremely high throughpu
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by benblack 15y ago
Oddly similar to my article in GigaOm last year. http://gigaom.com/cloud/nosql-is-for-the-birds/
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by benblack 15y ago
As explained in the post, the minority side of the partition is not writable.
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by benblack 15y ago
(Reposting my blog comment here) "I mean primarily the ability to face a network partition and continue providing write service to all clients transitively connected to a majority of servers. Secondarily, I mean the ability to continue prov
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by benblack 16y ago
+1
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by benblack 16y ago
"does he thinks that at least object oriented programming is more naturally understandable by developers? The question is about how they might use, say, OO DBs with more understanding. may we say that OO approach in programming is much less
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Challenges and Trade-offs in Building a Web-scale Real-time Analytics System(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
19 points by benblack 16y ago|1 comments
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by benblack 16y ago
Was this comment produced by a Markov generator? No part of it makes any sense.
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by benblack 16y ago
This article is mostly marketing phrases from the websites of the various projects. Sadly, much of it is inaccurate, extremely skewed, or otherwise not useful for the stated purpose of comparing the listed databases. For example, CouchDB h
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Time-Varying Graphs and Dynamic Networks(arxiv.org)
2 points by benblack 16y ago|0 comments
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Dotted Version Vectors: Logical Clocks for Optimistic Replication(arxiv.org)
3 points by benblack 16y ago|0 comments
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On the Benefit of Virtualization: Strategies for Flexible Server Allocation(arxiv.org)
3 points by benblack 16y ago|0 comments
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Net Neutrality vs Open Access - Sweden's Open Network Pioneer(spiegel.de)
8 points by benblack 16y ago|0 comments
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by benblack 16y ago
Google, like almost any other company of sufficient size, has a problem retaining great engineers who prefer smaller companies. Those preferences are not about the false dichotomy between "engineers" and "entrepreneurs". Mr. Ts'o enjoys a
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by benblack 16y ago
So many useful links in this discussion, I consolidated them (and a few extras) here http://post.b3k.us/modern-parsing-bibliography
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Yacc is dead(arxiv.org)
154 points by benblack 16y ago|44 comments
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by benblack 16y ago
Minor correction: the current draft is http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-00
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by benblack 16y ago
I enjoyed it when I first read it a couple of years ago and the recent blog post from tsuna on context switching reminded me of it ( http://blog.tsunanet.net/2010/11/how-long-does-it-take-to-ma... ). Glad to see some other folks like it, a
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A Comparison of Software and Hardware Techniques for x86 Virtualization(vmware.com)
28 points by benblack 16y ago|2 comments

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