brown9-2

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571.
by brown9-2 12y ago
You are asking if a country that has the capability of producing nuclear weapons (albeit a small, simple stockpile) has the capability to hack an insecure company.
572.
by brown9-2 12y ago
Is it too hard to imagine that a member of the Kim court could have purchased or ordered the services of hackers to curry favor with the leadership? You might be looking for rationality and logic in the actions of a cult of personality. Thi
573.
by brown9-2 12y ago
Why can we not have an actual discussion about scaling MongoDB when the post is about scaling MongoDB! Because it might be more helpful to think about scaling your data needs than scaling with only a certain product.
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Solving MapReduce Performance Problems with Sharded Joins(labs.spotify.com)
1 points by brown9-2 12y ago|0 comments
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Date-Tiered Compaction in Apache Cassandra(labs.spotify.com)
3 points by brown9-2 12y ago|0 comments
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by brown9-2 12y ago
It would be helpful to keep in mind that whatever "evidence" has been made public is probably not the full picture that the officials have.
577.
by brown9-2 12y ago
Why by a niche print publication if your goal is to turn it into The Atlantic Wire or Buzzfeed? If you want a click-driven website with some stories, just start one instead.
578.
by brown9-2 12y ago
I read the Rocket announcement and then immediately read this response, and find myself very confused at what "mud-slinging" I missed in the Rocket post.
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DateTieredCompactionStrategy: Compaction for Time Series Data(datastax.com)
8 points by brown9-2 12y ago|0 comments
580.
by brown9-2 12y ago
Kind of fascinating that the Slate podcast about a podcast is now ranked #8 in iTunes Top Podcasts list.
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by brown9-2 12y ago
this seems like a pretty common fallacy for people to think about an organization from the outside
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by brown9-2 12y ago
You shouldn't assume that bigots are rational.
583.
by brown9-2 12y ago
The next thing you should do is update the unix tools you already have on your mac. This is more relevant than ever since the recent "Shellshock" debacle. How many developers are launching bash scripts with environment variables
584.
by brown9-2 12y ago
It confuses me when people think there would be a single reason to the acquisition, when instead they probably bought Beats for some combination of 1) a lucrative accessories (headphones) business 2) the Beats executives 3) a relatively sma
585.
by brown9-2 12y ago
Why speculate? It's not like no one researches this stuff.
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by brown9-2 12y ago
This is a great example of a product where just because you can combine a few pieces of technology in a new way doesn't mean that you should.
587.
by brown9-2 12y ago
So you are claiming that having to look away from the road for possibly whole seconds to deal with a phone is not really dangerous, but what is dangerous is your mind wandering? This is a false choice and something that the person you are
588.
by brown9-2 12y ago
Do public agencies in other countries also try to scam the public out of additional revenue?
589.
by brown9-2 12y ago
You realize the paywall gives non-subscribers more access to these TNY articles than before, right? Before this current "free access" thing, 99% of New Yorker articles were not available online.
590.
by brown9-2 12y ago
What security reasons? Firing the author didn't change what had already happened.
591.
by brown9-2 12y ago
What is the purpose of this line of argument? "Most people in the world can't afford taxi rides like this so don't complain about how the police treat it"?
592.
by brown9-2 12y ago
This plan seems to assume that there is a low or zero cost with the hassle of having to deal with those future billings.
593.
by brown9-2 12y ago
What are the good intentions you think someone could hypothetically have?
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Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services [pdf](research.microsoft.com)
4 points by brown9-2 12y ago|0 comments
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by brown9-2 12y ago
The banking example you cite are voluntary industry practices or self-regulation, not legally enforced.
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by brown9-2 12y ago
The US is one of (or the only?) industrialized nations to have no legally mandated amount of paid time off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacation_time#Statutory_Vacatio...
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Why I Hate HATEOAS(jeffknupp.com)
4 points by brown9-2 12y ago|2 comments
598.
by brown9-2 12y ago
Because a company feels there is money to be made by offering a simpler solution to interested customers. Does every product really need a technical justification? If every person at your company is comfortable setting up email clients, IRC
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by brown9-2 12y ago
Persistence. It's nice to be able to see what conversations you missed while offline or overnight, especially if you have teammates distributed across the globe. Persistence also allows you to search through or link people to old conve
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by brown9-2 12y ago
It always seems weird to me when someone shits on another person's credentials without stating their own.

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