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by bkeroack 11y ago
This book gives an interesting take on it: http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Camp-14-Remarkable-Odyssey/dp/0... According to it, the South considers the North so underdeveloped and backward that it isn't worth the
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Guess what determines school curricula in most cases? The opinions of the parents who care enough to go to school board meetings, serve on the board or complain to officials.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
It's right there on page 3 ("II. Background A. The Murder-For-Hire Evidence") and continues for quite some length. I'm not a lawyer and haven't been following the case, but if he was convicted of what the government
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by bkeroack 11y ago
We don't need a union per se, but a professional association (aka guild) would be fantastic. As professionals we need to stop letting employers be the sole arbiter of competency, and we also need to institute a code of engineering ethi
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by bkeroack 11y ago
It wasn't very long ago (before the multicore era) that essentially nothing running on personal computers was truly parallel. Yet multithreaded applications (concurrency) worked just fine.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Note that the decoupling correlates closely with the computerization of society/business around the mid-1980s. The market for most types of human labor is soft in advanced economies, and getting softer. We don't grow the economy b
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by bkeroack 11y ago
MySpace made many mistakes, the worst of which is that they would do absolutely anything to increase short term revenue regardless of the effect on the experience. The result was a messy, user-hostile product that was bleeding users to anyt
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by bkeroack 11y ago
It's not that surprising. Serving static files is pretty easy and lightweight (part of why I like the movement towards SPAs), and there's been 20+ years of work done to make it fast. We've been conditioned for years by dynami
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by bkeroack 11y ago
They should do the same study for VM images on Vagrant Cloud (aka Hashicorp Atlas), or any other repository of binary software/images built by untrusted third parties. I thought it was obvious that public images on Docker Hub were to b
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by bkeroack 11y ago
No, the real difference is that trailers depreciate over time, while houses (and property) appreciate. Mobile homes--when purchased--are not an investment in the same way real estate is. Think of them more like automobiles that wear out a
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by bkeroack 11y ago
One of the reasons why I use Python 3.x exclusively is for the new function annotations, which allow use of this: https://github.com/prechelt/typecheck-decorator This allows me to write Python in a design-by-contract s
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Maybe try increasing GOMAXPROCS? Otherwise it will run essentially single-threaded.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
"[A]ll that startup equity" for normal employees is typically sub 0.1%.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Pointer, length, encoding . In 2015, giving me a bag of bytes labeled "string" is about as meaningful as saying it's "music" or "a picture".
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Reads absolutely must go through the consensus system (whatever it may be) if you make any guarantees against stale reads. Yes it's expensive, but that's why there's no such thing as a magical distributed database that scales
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Hulu uses Cassandra heavily, as does Netflix.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
The people down-voting you have no sense of humor, or have never read Wolfram's work (or both).
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by bkeroack 11y ago
I doubt it will be outlawed. You can still ride horses on public streets in most places (probably not freeways I imagine), but most people of course don't. In the same way you probably will be able to drive cars manually indefinitely,
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by bkeroack 11y ago
There is always overhead when adding abstractions--the only question is whether you pay at runtime or at compile time. C++ (and presumably Rust) choose the latter, Python and Go choose the former.
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by bkeroack 11y ago
The real reason is that giving a grade promotion to a young child every few weeks keeps them entertained and happy, which keeps their parents happy and therefore ensures that tuition money keeps coming in and new students continue to sign u
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by bkeroack 11y ago
"...since we were using low-end commodity storage that was by no means enterprise-quality." If Facebook (and I believe it's similar with other big players like Google and Amazon) are not using "enterprise grade" har
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by bkeroack 11y ago
The entire point of the Quora answer (by a sushi chef of 14 years) is that there is a limitless depth of knowledge for what at first glance might appear to be a "narrow range of topics". I mean sushi is just cutting fish right? Ju
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by bkeroack 11y ago
It's only "insane" by myopic Western/American standards. Look at the martial arts of Japan (Judo, Jujitsu) where to earn a black belt--which is traditionally not the end of learning but merely symbolizes understanding of
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by bkeroack 11y ago
> That's because I think, in the long term, it'll play out better for me to have spent my 30s well than to have ratcheted up my salary but not really know anything. Maybe, but it's far from an obvious conclusion. F
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by bkeroack 11y ago
This document says essentially nothing of significance--it is a marketing piece. There are no details of exactly how resilient a containerized process is to attack, how to prevent "escaping", etc. The general consensus (if I'
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by bkeroack 11y ago
When your money supply is pegged to a physical resource, the primary economic activity that is incentivized within that economy is producing more of that resource (ie, digging gold up out of the ground, or invading/"colonizing&quo
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by bkeroack 11y ago
After I left a company and was speaking with them about exercising my vested options, they flat out refused to tell me how many shares were outstanding. In writing via email. I don't know if that's kosher or not, but I can'
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by bkeroack 11y ago
Is speed really the most important metric?
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by bkeroack 11y ago
The full explanation deserves a blog post, but in a nutshell it revolves around the issue that ES contains a huge amount of complexity around a feature that is actually fairly useless (the "elastic" part) or at least difficult to
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by bkeroack 11y ago
In my experience, Elasticsearch is the single most common source of infrastructure downtime and service failure. It's basically my arch nemesis.

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