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by bjt 12y ago
I'll give it a shot, with the disclaimer that this explanation is based on conference talks I've seen and documentation I've read. Spark is a successor to Hadoop, aiming to perform big distributed data crunching jobs more qui
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by bjt 12y ago
For a year or so I worked as a contract programmer on the inworld content team for Second Life. I didn't have VR, and the language I programmed in (LSL) was even worse than Javascript, but it was still incredibly fun to use code to sh
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by bjt 12y ago
As I understand it, the Flocker guys aren't really working on the CoW filesystem part of Docker, but solving the problems of data locality and persistence with regular (non-CoW) volumes mounted into a container.
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by bjt 12y ago
hstore isn't really as flexible as a Mongo document, given that both keys and values must be strings, and you can't query into a document nested inside an hstore value. Now, with the jsonb support coming in 9.4, PG gets pretty muc
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by bjt 12y ago
His Wikipedia page also relates his career in the DoJ and as a US Attorney, a very different background from the typical libertarian HN reader. I don't agree with Orin Kerr on this, but I'm willing to accept that he's likely
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by bjt 12y ago
It's technically correct but not idiomatic. Technically correct because by the definition that Wikipedia gives ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain ), non-enforcement of a trademark could lead to forfeit of
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by bjt 12y ago
The article's discussion of 90 day "top up" terms seems to address that.
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by bjt 12y ago
Thiel is playing fast and loose with the definition of profit here. While it's true that "economic profit" will go to zero under perfect competition, that only means that the company's accounting profit is the same as
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by bjt 12y ago
I haven't tried it yet, but Postgres XL is pretty new, and promises this. http://www.postgres-xl.org/
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by bjt 12y ago
What is the optimal number of remote controls in your living room?
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by bjt 12y ago
It's hard for a bot to understand concepts of 'owner' and 'completely different person' based on the data they have available. Companies can use this robots.txt feature to un-index old marketing content after a re-
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by bjt 12y ago
Couldn't agree more. The focus on non-practicing entities is misplaced. There's no reason we shouldn't incentivize inventors who come up with great ideas so they can sell them to others who have the skills to bring them to
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by bjt 12y ago
In Python you have no guarantee that that function hasn't been monkeypatched over and replaced by some other library you imported.
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by bjt 12y ago
The examples in the article sound more or less like a wild re-explanation of the economic concepts of present value and discount rate. With all the literature available there, it's a shame the article doesn't make that connection
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by bjt 12y ago
A case like this leaves institutional scar tissue. There will be new sections in HR policy manuals and training programs. Executives will be gun-shy about any conversations that even come close to those at the heart of this lawsuit. Ther
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by bjt 12y ago
Copyright exists to incentivize creativity. The fact that we're arguing about this proves that there's at least one photographer that would be disincentivized by your proposed rule. This also happens more than you might think. S
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by bjt 12y ago
Wikipedia is being disingenuous and immature here. I would be very surprised to see a court agree with their argument. Courts generally try to avoid reaching perverse results that undermine the purpose of the laws they're enforcing.
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by bjt 12y ago
This library is a couple years old already (version 0.1.6 hit PyPi in Nov 2012). A rename at this point seems unlikely. Unlike datetime.now() and datetime.utcnow(), arrow.now() produces a datetime that includes tzinfo. As long as that&#x2
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by bjt 12y ago
Doesn't this work just as well in reverse? > Eventually you will run out of available, qualified coastal talent and you will need to hire someone from a non-coastal area. I live in the bay area, but am from Utah originally. A coupl
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by bjt 12y ago
In vast areas of the region in question, there is either no grass (just sagebrush) or it's so sparse that you can't reasonably feed a cow with it.
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by bjt 12y ago
The evidence given by the article (job growth numbers) is insufficient to prove whether the tax hike killed jobs or not. It's quite possible that the effect is negative, as claimed by taxpayers associations, but that it's small,
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by bjt 12y ago
The states are what give the constitution its authority, not vice versa. The commerce clause is part of the fed govt's "enumerated" powers, meaning that the fed govt only has the powers listed in the Constitution. The states,
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by bjt 12y ago
Another vertical like http://www.mailboxapp.com/ ?
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by bjt 12y ago
I thought the same thing about Rabbit. PinLater's ACK system feels like a questionable reinvention of AMQP. I'm probably missing something. Rabbit's advertised throughput doesn't reach 100,000/sec, but you should
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by bjt 12y ago
While I don't disagree with anything in the article, I think it, and most commentators, are thinking too small. When thinking about wearable computing, one big challenge is to take a small, weird-shaped form factor, like sunglasses or
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by bjt 12y ago
The URL includes the car's ID number, strongly implying that this is a centralized service running in a data center, not a server running on the car's computer.
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by bjt 12y ago
Academia holds itself to higher ethical standards than those other actors. Those are the standards violated here.
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by bjt 12y ago
From the article, they know they felt worse because the subjects' own posts subsequently became more negative.
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by bjt 12y ago
The tie-in with Weebly, Squarespace, Shopify, etc. tells me they're targeting the low end of the market. Freelance photographers, caterers, and people currently selling stuff on Etsy. If I were targeting that market, I would also pref
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by bjt 12y ago
Based on all the links to similar apps in this thread, writing an image-resizing service to sit behind a CDN seems to be a right of passage. My creation from a couple years ago: https://bitbucket.org/btubbs/thumpy&#x2F

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