bonesmoses

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by bonesmoses 10y ago
Well, we ran a billion queries per day on a 1.4TB system I was in charge of a couple years ago. Now we're building a 500+TB reporting system and probably putting it on Postgres-XL. Seems to scale fine to me. ;)
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by bonesmoses 10y ago
That's pretty much it. No time series just yet, just an existing Mongo set that I'm trying to wrap my head around, and that means picking it up ASAP. I've messed around with Cassandra, but not in much depth. I ran into the wa
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by bonesmoses 10y ago
Wait, you're telling me that a highly sensitive organ that maintains a complicated electromagnetic and chemical signaling system within a medium of fragile and compressed axions is difficult to tweak with grossly tuned omnidirectional
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by bonesmoses 10y ago
Not really good enough. There are massive changes between OS versions. Until a couple days ago, my LG G3 was still on KitKat. The underlying structure, performance, and a lot of other significant details are directly tied to the OS and ca
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
> Yet I'm unemployed, 30 year old, and can't manage to get hired or to do work that is given to me. IQ and that kind of intelligence is only really a predictor of how quickly you are capable of learning. Unfortunately, it means
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
Potentially. I deterred many bullies because I simply didn't give any fucks. I grew up pretty poor and moved a lot, so I was always the new kid, and I also stood out because I usually immediately rose to the top of the class. That usua
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
Eh. I used to do that until my 30's or so. Now I just want those damn kids off my lawn. ;)
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
HN is a forum comprised primarily of extremely tech-oriented and innovative people. Are you somehow surprised that some of these would be a standard deviation or two above the norm? And heaven forbid they comment on an article with which th
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
Isn't that a housing issue, though? Paying for a $2350/mo place on $60k is... pretty ridiculous.
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
Indeed it is. Legit avenues like Netflix and iTunes are showing people are willing to pay for content, so long as it's available. There's dwindling tolerance for manufactured scarcity. Make it available, and we'll buy it. Don
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
The only thing that concerns me overall about bike sharing is helmet use. It's so easy to casually walk up and rent a bike that riders rarely consider safety. In Chicago, I frequently see Divvy users riding around in traffic without a
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
Good to know. Also, pretty cool emulator!
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
I like the end result. However, it makes me wonder just why it's so acceptable that simple programs like this even compile down to a 160KB executable in the first place. The actual active code is essentially some text and an interrupt.
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
Tell that to Bernie Sanders: http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/bernie_sanders.htm
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
I'm a bit older than the author, and for me, it has come down to this: "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." The article contains a lot of good, sensible statements. But it was clearly written for, and by, someone
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
Or Python, or any language that has a PL in PostgreSQL. Unfortunately a lot of people consider that a hack, and they're not wrong. If we can address fields with operators (->, ->>, etc.) then why can't those operators mod
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
Unfortunately that's not where it ends. I wish it was only gender or sociological issues. Beyond that, you don't have to be poor, or female, or black, or... etc., to understand empathy. In a world where empathy didn't exist
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
Which, to me, raises an interesting question: If someone can direct the wrath of the lunatic fringe at you with utmost impunity, can it really be claimed that they have no voice? Because they're claiming they don't, while still ex
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
I don't know this is exclusive to Millenials, so I'll be generic: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of decrying someone's argument due to race or gender approaches 1. Really, this is just a precursor for G
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
Ironically, by dismissing your input because of your race or gender, they are engaging in the exact behavior they are purportedly against. That kind of juvenile hypocrisy should be avoided by everyone , but sadly, is not.
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
Yeah, I didn't see that there was a previous post; sneaky. In any case, that just accentuates my point, really. Were this more automated, the businesses wouldn't need to file either. If forms were handled more like an API, i.e. fi
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
And this is the way it should be . Our government seems to think computers are operated entirely via witchcraft. I doubt we'll get something like that before 2050.
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
I used TaxACT from 2000 until last year, when its interface for handling my HSA made me want to immolate my computer. Then TurboTax helped out. This year, I just said "fuck it" and went to H&R Block, because I'm just done
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
The annoying part about all of this is that our taxes are already done . Due to various required forms for businesses, the IRS pretty much knows exactly what you make and how you did it. Banks file forms. Charities file forms. Employers fi
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by bonesmoses 11y ago
It's interesting watching this from a somewhat detached perspective. I only have a B.S., but I did it back in the late 90's. In my industry, it seems like the average level of education is an M.S. based on my coworkers. However, I
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by bonesmoses 12y ago
That's some pretty good stuff, right there. Out of curiosity, any reason you're using HSTORE instead of JSON? I've been watching what contexts JSON gets used in PostgreSQL systems, and having another data point never hurts. :
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by bonesmoses 12y ago
Well... generally this is solved via indices. An event log indexed by user ID would have the same effect. You get all the user info, and if you really need to grab historical or event data, it's there when necessary for parts of the ap
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by bonesmoses 12y ago
Introducing the caveats of PostgreSQL arrays is informative. However, I can't help but note that this app probably would have been better served by a classic event log table. Why have each user forever carrying tens, or hundreds of tho