cbsmith

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3691.
by cbsmith 15y ago
THIS. These agreements haven't gotten in the way that most engineers in the valley know there are a ton of other places they can work, including the "no poach" companies. Valley engineers switch jobs with an ease and frequency uncommon for
3692.
by cbsmith 15y ago
I don't think that at all makes sense. The finance business in general distorts pricing. There are a whole host of professions that pay significantly more in NY than they do anywhere else.
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by cbsmith 15y ago
That sad part is that a lot of what was perceived as data loss from XFS was actually due to bugs in apps & the kernel that XFS exposed. These same issues would show up with ext4 & btrfs, but XFS has already flushed them out so they'
3694.
by cbsmith 15y ago
It must seem very strange to you that most filesystems don't do data journaling and that they have options which increase the risk of data integrity problems.
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by cbsmith 15y ago
> Symmetric keys?? Which part of "not suitable for cryptographic purposes" did you not understand? I don't mean symmetric in the cryptographic sense. I mean as in "ABBA" mapping to the same hash value as "YZZY". I can't remember the spe
3696.
by cbsmith 15y ago
That's a navigable interface, not a discoverable one. This is one of the key differences between a hypermedia style interface and a traditional directory service. Navigable interfaces tend to be easier for people to find what they are loo
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by cbsmith 15y ago
> Developers understand HTTP. Actually, prior to REST, most developers didn't even know about PUT/DELETE/etc. which are key operators that RESTful services are supposed to exploit. Most developers also have shockingly poor understanding
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by cbsmith 15y ago
> With no background knowledge, a client can do a GET request on the root URL to get a list of resources with URLS. It's easy to dive right in and quickly figure out what is available. Where is that specified for REST? I don't remember
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by cbsmith 15y ago
I've seen FNV have some unfortunate properties around symmetric keys. I'd at least use Jenkins instead. If not Murmur, this, or Spooky Hash.
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by cbsmith 15y ago
Thanks. These seems like one of those things that while it might be sensible, wouldn't provide much of a win, so why bother with the mess?
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by cbsmith 15y ago
I also have no memory of /home even existing in roughly the first decade of Unix's existence.
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by cbsmith 15y ago
Yes. This whole article struck me as the spell checking equivalent to "I can build Map Reduce in 5 lines of language N" meme that went around a while ago.
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by cbsmith 15y ago
Newly constructed homes tend to have ethernet jacks in them. Of course, older homes is a whole different matter.
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by cbsmith 15y ago
I think the IEEE folks are putting their money on PoE for this. Seems like a viable choice, though to make it work for hones we'd need a standard ulti-slim connector. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet
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by cbsmith 15y ago
I think webhdfs and the option for datanode bypass on the local clients qualifies as major new features though. hftp was such a PITA and a lot of mappers are now going to go a LOT faster.
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by cbsmith 15y ago
That about... what if he was a spy? You kind of have to leave well enough alone at that point.
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by cbsmith 15y ago
Gee. I kind of thought HBase & Cassandra had Hadoop integration pretty much down...
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by cbsmith 15y ago
> Doctors need less math than engineers. Is "medical doctor" therefore a less valuable profession? If you fail to recognize the importance of understanding math in your profession, then yes: http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_donnelly_show
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by cbsmith 15y ago
The irony was that there was a time when Apple was absolutely HORRIBLE at this. They really only got it fixed after they nearly bankrupted the company.
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by cbsmith 15y ago
My understanding is that this is most of Costco's profit model too: they take merchandise on consignment for say 60 days, sell it all at cost within a week, and then invest the float.
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by cbsmith 15y ago
Rule number #1 in contracting: factor in the interest costs for N days interest in to your price. Your contracts should factor in an exorbitant penalty (based on time-value of money for YOU, not the market place) for post "net N" days (I'm
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by cbsmith 16y ago
This wasn't the only innovation in Search that Yahoo dropped the ball on. There were at least a handful of cool ideas implemented at the company, but there was a prevailing attitude of wanting to let Google be the innovator and simply follo
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by cbsmith 16y ago
1. Do you think in 5 years Yahoo might have been able to get it right? 2. The correctness of the predictions is actually a lot easier to do than you'd think. Yahoo's were pretty good.