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by br1 16y ago
I can't stand the rubbish advise to 'just double the estimate'. It just means you'll get an estimate 2^n times the size of the original guess from the guy n steps away from you.
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by br1 16y ago
Note that there's also a pdf if you don't have the time for the whole video.
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by br1 16y ago
"sometimes it's a vision other times it's a hallucination" According to Martin Varsavsky, Steve Jobs hallucinates too. http://martinvars.com/post/3761365862/mi-dificil-encuentro-c... (spanish) reads: "Steve Jobs insisted european mobile
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by br1 16y ago
The telco analogy is gold. Hopefully twitter and telcos have the same dead future in store.
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by br1 16y ago
If I had the money I would trademark unprotected twitter accounts just to have them (temporarily) assigned to me and make more noise about this outrage.
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by br1 16y ago
Sorry, I was unclear. We are from Uruguay. She was just in transit in the US.
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by br1 16y ago
The partition of stack exchange into n different sites is sad. Tags should be able to impose order at least in the IT questions. The current situation heightens the artificial boundaries between programmers, users and sys admins.
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by br1 16y ago
This reminds me of a very neat trick from Windows IO completion ports. When you mix blocking and nonblocking tasks, you want more threads than the number of cores, so that the CPU is fully used even if a thread blocks. But when no thread
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by br1 16y ago
FWIW, my sister-in-law took stopped in LA bound for South Korea without a Visa and wasn't just kicked home. The US embassy ultimately got things sorted out.
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by br1 16y ago
As you say, not all things are universal. Data structures, however, are based on principles, such as divide and conquer, that you may well argue transcend the human condition.
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by br1 16y ago
Don't change the resolution, only the dpi settings, say, frm 96 to 120.
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by br1 16y ago
If they trust automatic analysis so much, they should rewrite PostgreSQL in Haskell and trust GHC to generate C-like performance assembly.
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by br1 16y ago
"Using BerkleyDB or Innostore could remove the slowness and pain of interacting with the data through SQL." I think the author was referring to building redis on top of SQLite, not talking SQL from an application.
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by br1 16y ago
You can now also rent ACM papers via DeepDyve. The first one is free, so if you want to stick it to the man, register yourname+a@gmail.com, yourname+b@gmail.com, yourname+c@gmail.com ...
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by br1 16y ago
I feel your text for TDD and Agile is the same used to hype the terms by the proponents.
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by br1 16y ago
You can get more writes than the number of ops/second of your disk by abandoning B-Trees for TokuDB. (I don't work for them. I'm just a fanboy).
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by br1 16y ago
Your code is object-based not object-oriented because of the lack of inheritance.
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by br1 16y ago
I would include lawyers in 0.) diseases.
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by br1 16y ago
I just realized that Facebook uses data more structured than their crushed competition. The relational database pundit in me rejoices.
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by br1 16y ago
It seems Google suck at efficient battery use. GTalk reconfigures the windows system timer for 1 ms granularity even when minimized.
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by br1 16y ago
War and diplomacy are just different instances of state policy. The same arguments for/against transparency apply to both.
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by br1 16y ago
More system software in ML: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/HORUS/
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by br1 16y ago
Maybe pg considers HN essential. You don't outsource your main business.
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by br1 16y ago
I like this. Ask what you can improve, not what you did wrong. You won't stress the interviewer as much.
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by br1 16y ago
The author overestimates the quality of designer tools.
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by br1 16y ago
Good for you, sincerely.
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by br1 16y ago
Very inspiring. However, entrepreneurs lie to themselves thinking they want to make a better world. Money is the incentive. Real vocation needs no financial reasons.
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by br1 16y ago
Brazil tried this stunt in the 80s. Google "Brazilian Informatics Policy". Even when such a project fails its primary objective, it may advance the human resources immensely.
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by br1 16y ago
I read somewhere that the prime SUV in the arab world was the Mitsubishi Pajero. The entire category was labeled "Pajero Jeep" in Pakistan. Of course, I can't find the article now.
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by br1 16y ago
"I'm sick of seeing EA outsource" My country is poor and lots of developers work in outsourcing firms from the first world. The funny thing is that a friend of mine does class assignments for kids in American universities, perpetuating the

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