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by bjt 12y ago
I'm curious what industry you're in. My impression is that most engineering teams wouldn't have a problem with the irreverence, but that teams in some industries (banking? health care? defense?) have more of a need to look l
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by bjt 12y ago
The name of the "Call Me Maybe" artist is Carly Rae Jepsen. The name of the test framework is Jepsen. Nodes in distributed systems call each other. Except under partitions, when they call each other... maybe.
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by bjt 12y ago
Anyone who likes Postgres and is looking for a good analytics DB should check out the cstore_fdw Postgres extension. [1] It allows Postgres to create and query files in the Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) format [2] from Hive. It was created
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by bjt 12y ago
Judging by the dates on the comments, Cowen's review came out more like a month ago.
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by bjt 12y ago
That's all of California, thanks to Prop 13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978...
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by bjt 12y ago
That's the opposite of Facebook's mantra that "code wins arguments". Which has worked well for me.
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by bjt 12y ago
etcd, fleet, deis, and now this are getting me more and more tempted to move from Velociraptor to the Docker ecosystem. If Deis could run my uptests[0] before Vulcan gets called to re-route things, that'd be awesome. https:/&#x2F
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by bjt 12y ago
When you show someone a mathematical formula using standard infix notation, and then want them to write a program to implement it, it's immensely helpful if the syntax of the language is close to the mathematical notation. Infix opera
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by bjt 12y ago
I think Ruby hit its peak at the same time as people were deciding what language to write Puppet, Chef, Vagrant, Jekyll, and Github in, but it's more a coincidence than something inherent in the language that led to those choices. Salt
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by bjt 12y ago
That's pretty grossly overstated. Bank account numbers are printed on checks, which don't have very high security around them at all. If bank account numbers were as high risk as you say, we'd hear about rampant scams where
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by bjt 12y ago
What makes octopodes more correct? All the dictionaries cited preferred octopuses.
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by bjt 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised to see a low carb version if 1.0 gets traction. Soylent itself is a "fad diet a few people [may someday] follow."
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by bjt 13y ago
In case a non-Python programmer is reading this and misunderstood your comment, I'll point out that having code in __init__.py and having import-time side effects are completely unrelated. When I put any code in __init__.py, it's
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by bjt 13y ago
When talking about whether something like Docker is production-ready, the "at worst" can be a lot worse than that, particularly where security is concerned. Months back they found that Docker's API wasn't sufficiently l
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by bjt 13y ago
We're not forced to choose. Unlike a patent, a trade secret leaves anyone else free to invent and use the same idea.
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by bjt 13y ago
We don't need a patent system in order for openness to beat closedness in the software world. Linux and lots of other open source projects are winning their markets without relying on patents at all. No one forces you to choose a pate
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by bjt 13y ago
I think the grandparent post has a point, but rather than trying to bucket disorders into whether they're a "real disease" or not, it's a lot more useful to think of a spectrum where there are some illnesses that have re
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by bjt 13y ago
Most people spend quite a lot of time having "fake experiences". TV, movies, and video games are wildly popular, and consume quite a lot of people's time. As they become more immersive through VR, and provide an even better
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by bjt 13y ago
No. That guide assumes you're running a bunch of processes in the container (or even a full system). That's not the case at all when you're doing an "application container" that doesn't need its own cron daemo
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by bjt 13y ago
The relevant government in this case is the state of New Jersey, not the United States of America. There is a lot of variation between state governments.
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by bjt 13y ago
I went looking for the guide. Couldn't see it linked from the page linked here, so I followed their Gawker link, and couldn't see it there, so I followed the link to occupywallst.org. I couldn't get their embedded PDF viewe
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by bjt 13y ago
Why? Some huge war, plague, or famine is your most likely bet for getting the death rate up. I don't think anyone's pining for that though. Despite having more people than it's ever had, there is less poverty and disease in
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by bjt 13y ago
Thank you! Your Sapir reference led me to Googling "sapir whom", which led me to http://www.bartleby.com/186/7.html . Paragraph 10 is where his "whom" discussion starts. Good reading.
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by bjt 13y ago
I use http://www.7-min.com/ as the bare minimum workout on days when there's not time or I'm too lazy to do anything else. The most important thing I've found in getting more fit is to consistently do someth
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by bjt 13y ago
Though I agree that the documentation is comprehensive, that itself can be a barrier. It all seems very deeply nested and enterprisey. I'm often left wanting a layer of noob-friendly UI or documentation, or "You probably want X&
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by bjt 13y ago
Home office deductions are heavily scrutinized by the IRS, precisely because it's so tempting for people to fudge the lines. You need to have really good documentation. As of this tax year, there's now a "simplified option&
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by bjt 13y ago
Except, people are more than supervisors. Maybe it's the vacation that he's been planning with his wife and kids for 5 years. You can just as easily make a rule like "To all parents: Family time is not work time. Not even
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by bjt 13y ago
I've heard this one's OK. https://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html
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by bjt 13y ago
Google to Bell Labs is not an apt comparison. The better one would be Google to AT&T. Both Google and AT&T have components (like Bell Labs) that produce open technology. The author's omission of Go, Dart, and Android is glar
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by bjt 13y ago
But then you still have to remain vigilant against a clueless dev or random JS lib on www.domain.com setting a cookie for .domain.com, which your browser will helpfully include with requests to cdn.domain.com. With the completely separate

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