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by bermanoid 14y ago
Beyond a few terabytes of data, Postgres is just as worthless as MySQL, and every other non-experimental SQL option comes with a "call us" price tag. If there are production-ready options for biggish data other than NoSQL or high priced com
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Mental illnesses are not understood at all, I'll agree with that. I would be hesitant to assume that they're not genetic, though - I've personally decided not to have children entirely due to the fact that mental illness is so prevalent in
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by bermanoid 14y ago
No. If we accept the article's claims at face value (which is another question) all we can say is that there should be a different audio compression algorithm for each person that could reduce 5 min tracks to 5k files. But the algorithm t
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by bermanoid 14y ago
The problem is likely the same as usual: if the damn control plane is down, it doesn't matter how robust your failover architecture is, because your requests to bring up new machines go unanswered. There's pretty much no way to architect ar
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by bermanoid 14y ago
...bracing for the inevitable headlines that claim exactly the opposite of the first sentence of the abstract: "General intelligence (g) and virtually all other behavioral traits are heritable."
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by bermanoid 14y ago
By the way, E=Mc2 is pretty obvious to me too--now. And if physicists had been forbidden to use the formula without paying severe fees after it was discovered, we'd be a lot worse off.
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by bermanoid 14y ago
It's definitely not just you. To me, almost the entire list reads like "Figure out something how to do something frigging awesome in field X, by solving Y!" where X is any old scientific field and Y a random mathematical problem drawn fro
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by bermanoid 14y ago
You say that as if it's a bad thing. To me, "the number of people doing nothing but indulging themselves is proportionally larger" sounds like a good thing, a clear indicator that we've come a long way - we're so well off now that you don't
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Yes, it is, without a doubt. It's one of the most universal tricks of the trade that you'll literally never regret learning, mainly because just about any environment you'll ever work in will by necessity support regexes, and in many, it wi
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by bermanoid 14y ago
There certainly are sub-fields of CS where complex equations in papers are justified, but far too often it is laziness, and hides assumptions or imprecise descriptions that makes implementing the described methods harder. But without such
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by bermanoid 14y ago
And what part of that is incompatible with a BSD license?
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by bermanoid 14y ago
The author completely misses the point of these arguments. This is not about science increasing the rate of scientific progress. It's about computation improving the rate of computational progress. Particularly, the "Singularity" is about t
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by bermanoid 14y ago
I spend at least an order of magnitude, if not several, more time with each of those things than I do with a goddamn version control utility. I put in effort where it's worth it. Version control doesn't even come close to hitting the top of
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by bermanoid 14y ago
As in no, you didn't consistently get within 10% of the IOPS you provisioned at their promised 99.9%? Or were there other problems? I'd be pretty surprised if they were going live with this without being able to deliver, especially since th
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Except again: In Google vs AT&T, Comcast et al, I'll take Google any day of the week. Their "evil" is a bunch of shit that nobody really cares about, whereas the others actively screw me , running fiber optic cables straight into my ap
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by bermanoid 14y ago
You mention this as if you don't already have more than enough data to tell us whether it's true or not. Is it? When you run a spreadsheet and scatter plot hours worked over the first few months against your ROI on startups, do you see a me
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by bermanoid 14y ago
If you're a mortal, don't put too much weight in the advice of the gods. People at the top of their game are usually too prone to attribute their success to hard work. People at the bottom are too prone to write it off as a question of geni
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by bermanoid 14y ago
They are just handing over the cash, I think. The only "condition" of the deal is that people aren't working, though I think Rule #1 (You MUST go on vacation!) is a bit vague. There's a slide later on that explicitly mentions the possibil
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by bermanoid 14y ago
But the point the poster was making is that what is "grassroots" depends on who the idea comes from. If it's someone that you interact with daily and actually get a significant chunk of time with, then it seems natural; if it's coming from
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Regardless, though, that means that the per user transaction rate is $700 per year on average - the incomes of people in a country also reflect multiple spends of the same dollar, which is why velocity of money is so critical to an economy
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by bermanoid 14y ago
It's a shame when people's feelings get hurt, for sure. But have you looked at the text in question? It's no work of art. I don't know whether the live version is before or after, but in all honesty it could use quite a bit of trimming, a
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by bermanoid 14y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again - if your business exists primarily to help users get a task completed and move on, then you absofrigginglutely should not be running A/B tests the way content sites run them. If you can achieve gre
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Evolution works by exploiting regularities in all of those complex and intertwined factors. In instances where we see obvious regularities, and we see that they've been exploited, then we should at least bump that probability that it's a va
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Actually, it's because the rest of you "scientists" end up publishing bullshit results that you got by chance. I'm kind of joking - most other scientists don't collect enough data to have to worry about 1 in 10,000 events happening by chanc
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by bermanoid 14y ago
People should absolutely at least be doing some back of the envelope math on this before choosing a strategy. If you're at N DAU, then a 12h downtime will affect a bit more than N/2 users, and some percentage of those users will become ex-u
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Since they were both assigned to the same city, it's quite possible that more people use OkCupid in that city. I have no idea why the author didn't realize what a terrible idea splitting them up across cities was...
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by bermanoid 14y ago
There's a practical problem when trying to apply this paper to something like airport screening: it minimizes E[stops until terrorist is found], whereas what we really care about and want to minimize is P(terrorist gets through without bein
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Don't overstate the result here: this paper says that (mathematically speaking) if you want to find terrorists in a crowd with as few checks as possible, it is optimal to profile rather aggressively, you just shouldn't do so directly in p
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by bermanoid 14y ago
You can't view apartment search results on a fucking map. Are you really going to argue that the site is more usable without that very basic feature?
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by bermanoid 14y ago
Yup, there's a catch-22 here: when your site has shitty usability but is the only source of information, people hit more pages and spend more time there. When you fix your UI mistakes, they're in and out quicker because they actually get wh

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