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by capkutay 12y ago
Has anyone tried gambler's ruin in real life? Theoretically, you have the best odds of doubling your money if you put all your money down on one hand. Given most casino games, your odds of winning a single game is less than 50%. So let
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but its docs used to be of the frustrating variety I hope this doesn't sound like a knock on open source technology, but when a company's only revenue stream is providing training and support for an open source framework, doesn&#x
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One significant difference is that instacart just matches you up with shoppers who can go to your local stores, pick up the food, and deliver to you and everyone in your area. I believe the Y2k grocery services had fleets of trucks, warehou
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by capkutay 12y ago
This may be the wrong venue to say this, but the war against proprietary technology and patents doesn't totally make sense to me. I've read about many of the popular cases where large corporations use patents as a legal tactic to
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by capkutay 12y ago
When you're valued at $20b+ with less than $1b in revenues, good/decent growth isn't good enough.
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by capkutay 12y ago
Gauges and 3d area charts are other examples of misleading visualizations that take up a lot of space without deriving much meaning. Why do we keep seeing them? They're flashy and make my dashboards look like the one my competitor is u
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by capkutay 12y ago
"Wall Streeters have the fastest computers, most sophisticated software and biggest databases money can buy, and yet many failed to see the 2008 crash coming." How could software catch predatory lending practices written into poli
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by capkutay 12y ago
WebAction (www.webaction.com) in Downtown Palo Alto - Full Time Hiring UI Engineers, Platform Engineers Jobs@WebAction.com At WebAction, we're working on a platform that shrinks the gap between you and diverse, physically disparate dat
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by capkutay 12y ago
What's really significant is that the tech industry is slowly creating new job markets via 'app-driven services'. Doordash, grubhub, amazon, and google's instant delivery services are other examples that can contribute t
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by capkutay 12y ago
Before people start preaching 'coding is the new reading/writing', let's get to high school CS requirements first (like any other common science/math class). Also, I think there's a sweet spot between a full-on
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Why is San Francisco public transportation so bad?(alexmedearis.com)
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by capkutay 12y ago
I'm surprised Apple didn't get into this recent movement of communications company acquisitions. For 1/3 of their cash pile, they could have streamlined control of not only the devices (tablets, phones, tv's) and the con
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by capkutay 12y ago
The analysts and tech media pundits always bring up a possible watch or TV as apple's next blockbuster, game changing product. But making TVs by itself doesn't sound like a good business decision to me. It would be hard to maintai
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by capkutay 12y ago
This makes a lot of sense. Around the time when I was doing MPI in C, I was looking into a java implementation just out of curiosity. The only real framework people recommended at the time was hadoop.
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by capkutay 12y ago
WebAction - Palo Alto, CA (relocation and remote are both possibilities) jobs@webaction.com Front-End Engineer at WebAction “As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product”. - Jef Raskin, Designer of the Macintosh As a Fr
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by capkutay 12y ago
Eventual consistency and NoACID aren't synonymous. HBase has strong consistency but it certainly doesn't have ACID transactions.
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by capkutay 13y ago
What they released now might not put other twitter analytics products out of business. However, they're facing increasing pressure from their investors as earnings reports are showing their current revenue model isn't cutting it.
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by capkutay 13y ago
Hmm...Phoenix has been available for some time. Is there a reason its on the front page of HN now? (new release? significant new adopters?) It's interesting how the NoSQL movement spawned a chorus of 'SQL/relational db's
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by capkutay 13y ago
I saw this posted on HN awhile back and thought it was very cool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7272652 Or direct link to the actual project: http://yasp.me/ If you're interested in assembly but
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by capkutay 13y ago
'You must not convert this to SQL on the client side. You must validate the fields submitted are in your approved list on the backend (indexes/security).' Interesting point. Can't you get around this by only exposing cer
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by capkutay 13y ago
The people who invented computer science were certainly driven by theoretical and mathematical concepts. Lambda calculus, church numerals, etc all played a role in the formative days of cs
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by capkutay 13y ago
This is a cool idea. Its good to see that SQL is a driver in new data management technologies. It supports the idea that as applications change over the years, the data model should try to remain the same. My view is that it's always a
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by capkutay 13y ago
I think that SF's proud antiquity is coming back to bite it. The older generations fought against development for decades, now the demand for property is so high they can't afford to live here anymore.
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by capkutay 13y ago
Well, it's possible that they recognize that market capitalizations of tech companies are a little saturated right now given their sources of revenue and growth plans. So while your stock is overvalued, one of the best ways you can tak
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by capkutay 13y ago
This. After doing my initial skim of the article, the first thing I noticed was they omitted sockets. I always thought sockets were the standard for streaming, real-time communication over the web and would at least be mentioned in a post l
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by capkutay 13y ago
That might have been a slight misunderstanding on the writer's part, but I'm sure the atlassian guys are considering box's market as well. If a company is already spending money on Jira and stash for developer collaboration,
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by capkutay 13y ago
It looks like this is on HBO's youtube channel so not only are they allowing it, but they are the ones streaming it for free. It makes sense to stream premier episodes for new series if it means they can hook people into the show and p
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by capkutay 13y ago
Ah ok. I understand why a columnar database would be better for analytical workloads, but I didn't realize that HBase and Cassandra aren't actually laid out in a columnar fashion on disk. I was confused by the 'column store&#
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by capkutay 13y ago
I think cassandra is pretty good for analytical workloads...for instance "Give me all the customers from pittsburgh" is a faster scan when the city column is laid out contiguously on disk.
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by capkutay 13y ago
So with Cassandra you have a pretty nice, scalable, columnar DB with a SQL interface[0]. Not to mention, it's free and apache licensed so you can distribute it as part of your own software. I guess I've only looked at cassandra fr

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