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by bjt 8y ago
I wish they'd do the median rather than the mean. Having a small percentage of people with super high speeds will drag the mean up, but it doesn't change the experience for the typical consumer.
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by bjt 8y ago
The House doesn't ratify treaties. The Senate does.
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by bjt 8y ago
The Citus team recently created a Postgres extension implementing Paxos. https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/04/13/masterless-distrib...
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by bjt 8y ago
Also submitted a couple months ago. Only got a few comments back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15211604 The first sentence of TFA captures one of the most annoying things about REST discussions: "In this
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by bjt 8y ago
I would go with one of the new generation of solid state guitar amps like the Boss Katana. These are Class D amps like the one in the article, but voiced for guitar, and with distortion and reverb effects built in. They're very reaso
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by bjt 8y ago
Definitely an exaggeration. You don't need every single startup to build a $60 million Content ID equivalent. You just need one startup to build Content-ID-as-a-Service. Which actually looks like a pretty good startup idea right now.
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by bjt 8y ago
This is exactly the problem I found when wanting to use enums. They do not play nicely with transactional DDL.
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by bjt 8y ago
Google didn't write Kotlin. Maybe they're aiming for glory with Go or Dart, but their adoption of Kotlin feels much more like humility than ego-ism to me.
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by bjt 8y ago
Haskell is pretty common for this. See purescript, elm, agda, idris. There are more here: https://wiki.haskell.org/Applications_and_libraries/Compiler...
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by bjt 8y ago
> I don't understand why you would ever want this to be a desktop app. Perhaps because the vast majority of people in the world have no interest in figuring out web hosting so they can read some news articles. That doesn't see
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by bjt 8y ago
I see a mix of good and bad arguments here. I believe the story of Bon-Ton and Herberger's being over-leveraged. It's happened to a lot of retailers lately (Toys R Us for example). And I'm sympathetic to his claim that they
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by bjt 9y ago
"The "purpose" clauses of laws and constitutional provisions are explanatory, not limiting." Cite?
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by bjt 9y ago
LA is more densely populated than people give it credit for. https://la.curbed.com/2012/3/26/10385086/los-angeles-is-the-...
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by bjt 9y ago
> Who keeps a running, unbounded log of all connections in memory? It does that only when DEBUG=True, which is not the recommended production configuration.
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by bjt 9y ago
It's not as clear cut as that. Someone actually has to bring the antitrust suit. In the last few decades, the US government hasn't been doing as much of that as they used to. Once in the suit, then you have to argue about the &
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by bjt 9y ago
He says he likes SQLAlchemy, but doesn't say why. I'm interested to know that though. To me, the big win with SQLAlchemy is that it separates the SQL expression layer from the ORM layer so cleanly. I can write very complicated q
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by bjt 9y ago
RabbitMQ is not hard to use directly. I think most developers would be better off doing that, and coming to understand the power of AMQP, rather than adopting cute DSLs like this and Celery that put you into a box and narrow your view of w
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by bjt 9y ago
By my (admittedly limited) understanding of MVCC, one long running transaction that includes an insert will not block other inserts to the same table. The worst you'd see in that situation is if you were using a sequence for IDs, an I
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by bjt 9y ago
I don't see the single stagedlog table being a bottleneck if you're just doing inserts to it. Postgres is already doing appends to a single WAL internally.
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by bjt 9y ago
> Pass a Constitutional amendment that states that corporations are not people. No one claims they're people. The law lets them stand in as people so society can function. The whole "corporations aren't people" meme
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by bjt 9y ago
I don't think RethinkDB ever intended to unify and replace all existing databases.
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by bjt 9y ago
It sounds very similar to what RPython and Pypy do. You can even use RPython to create a VM for a language besides Python. I read a good blog post from an author who had done that 5 years ago. http://tratt.net/laurie/
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by bjt 9y ago
Agreed. It's a very skewed perspective that treats $425 million as a failure.
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by bjt 9y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but your description doesn't seem consistent with my understanding of the index-only scan feature that's been in PG since 9.2 https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Index-only_sc
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by bjt 9y ago
Thank you for that link; it was a very worthwhile read. Two things stand out: 1. Lattner's ability to present complex topics in an approachable way is very impressive. 2. I'm really excited for Swift 8.0 (my best guess at the fir
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by bjt 9y ago
How would you improve them? (In the context of the boardroom presentations he references.)
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by bjt 9y ago
Only if the future employer asks the current employer for this information, and the current employer agrees to provide it. Both those things are unlikely in the US.
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by bjt 9y ago
I don't think anyone cares to impose a rule saying "You must be this tall to use MongoDB."
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by bjt 9y ago
Only with the benefit of hindsight, which isn't helpful to the newcomer. To someone new who is just trying to work through some web framework tutorial or hack out a half-formed proof of concept, it can be several minutes (or much longe
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by bjt 9y ago
I can't speak for the parent, but there was a time around 2011 when I was pretty excited that MongoDB would let me just start coding without needing to 1) configure postgres's listening port and pg_hba.conf to allow easy local acc

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