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Basho (Riak) raises 7.5M(masshightech.com)
43 points by bobf 16y ago|19 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
Indeed. For me, one of the key takeaways was that to successfully implement lasting change, you must appeal to emotion. Logic is not enough.
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by bobf 16y ago
@GoogleIO Twitter confirms, sold out in 59 minutes.
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by bobf 16y ago
Sold out already?
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by bobf 16y ago
Get involved with a community related to the programming language; I've had great success with IRC.
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Drug Catapult Found at US-Mexico Border(foxnews.com)
1 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. For comparison, I currently see ~95% of search engine referral traffic from Google, 2.8% from Yahoo, 1.4% from Bing, and <1% from all other search engines combined. It makes no sense to let X, Y, Z random search
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by bobf 16y ago
Have you looked into the possibility of having it expunged?
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by bobf 16y ago
I've been using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono lately.
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by bobf 16y ago
See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin : "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. - Misattributed to various people, including Albert Einstein and Mark Twain. The earli
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by bobf 16y ago
"Hope is not a strategy." - ? Also, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." - Benjamin Franklin
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by bobf 16y ago
I loved the author's discussion of "the deep friendship of intimate conversation" as a form of solitude and introspection. I've experienced increased self-acquaintance through such conversation a few times in life, and can't imagine ever fo
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by bobf 16y ago
Consider a similar question which is frequently discussed on HN -- how to describe a business concept as easily as possible. One technique is to make comparisons to existing businesses that are fairly well understood. For example, YouTube w
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SV Computer History Museum overhauled(nytimes.com)
3 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
Is this using the NYT lib released yesterday?
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by bobf 16y ago
From my experience, Google does actually seem to do a reasonable job of ensuring they don't over-crawl your site with the automated crawl rates. Increasing the crawl rate above the automatic figure can certainly be helpful - just make sure
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by bobf 16y ago
So they've only tested heavy access load on a double-digit gigabyte volume? That concerns me a bit, as I'm considering migrating from HBase to Riak, which would be several TB of data.
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by bobf 16y ago
Could you handle that by taking a screenshot, allowing the user to crop the area with the actual recipe text, then using OCR?
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Why our best officers are leaving(theatlantic.com)
82 points by bobf 16y ago|28 comments
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Quitting the paint factory(adamantine.wordpress.com)
2 points by bobf 16y ago|1 comments
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South Carolina, then New York City to leave the Union(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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The 24 Burger Strategy(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
Good idea -- see AeroFS for a few clever people doing it already ( http://www.aerofs.com ). In answer to your question, I wouldn't pay for it, but don't let that discourage you as I'm almost certainly not your target user (and I would suspe
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by bobf 16y ago
Stability and reliability have dramatically improved in HBase over time (2 years ago, those were definitely concerns I had). When we began using HBase in mid-2007, it seemed like the best (read: only viable) option for our use case. Now, th
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by bobf 16y ago
What would you do with it? (I know there are lots of uses, but what's yours?)
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by bobf 16y ago
Looks like 0.14 is a great release, from the notes. I'm setting up a Riak cluster tomorrow to evaluate performance as an alternative to our current HBase-based setup, so the timing on the release is perfect for me.
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by bobf 16y ago
Have you considered Riak+RiakSearch? I'm in a similar bind, and have been looking into that.
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by bobf 16y ago
It would be interesting to see this used in a non-public fashion, like for maintaining a distributed MongoDB-like system.
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by bobf 16y ago
This seems like a great answer in response to the YC application's "hack" question.
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by bobf 16y ago
John Resig posted this on his Twitter account (@jeresig) today, while announcing jQuery.com had reached an Alexa rank of 513. I personally found it very interesting as it highlights the inconsistency of Alexa rankings, as I'm sitting on nea

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