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1291.
by corresation 14y ago
I would absolutely expect to find people in other fields who know specific areas of my field better than me. This is the story of every single person "in computers" since the origin of the career, everyone who dabbles desperate to show that
1292.
by corresation 14y ago
They are professional coaches. He's a parts logistics troubleshooter. See the problem there? While your story is both anecdotal and second-hand, what you describe doesn't sound that remarkable: Information is largely free now. It is ent
1293.
by corresation 14y ago
I don't think this post, or most best-practice type articles, is trying to describe how things generally work, or even trying to push it as mainstream knowledge. Instead it's someone who has gained enlightenment trying to get through to peo
1294.
by corresation 14y ago
Absolutely and unequivocally true! And the truth is that the actual makers have always been quite reasonable in their claims. But from an industry perspective it is hard to separate the two, much like Visual Basic got most of its bad rap fr
1295.
by corresation 14y ago
It's cool to hate MongoDB When a product is pushed as essentially a silver-bullet -- often by people who have never and will never actually build anything with it -- it is naturally going to get a lot of backlash by people who see through
1296.
by corresation 14y ago
for both single-machine (Postgres, MySQL) and distributed (Cassandra, HBase) usage. I'm surprised that MySQL Cluster Edition doesn't get more attention in the scale-out space. It is a simply brilliant product.
1297.
by corresation 14y ago
I mean that no one ever would configure 24 disks as RAID-0 -- the probability of a data-loss failure (which may not be a problem from the data-loss side, but is from the process continuity side) becomes incredibly high. Best case most peopl
1298.
by corresation 14y ago
That would be a cynical view of it, sure. I do consulting work, 90%+ of it out of sight. I could technically hire some offshore help to do it for me, but it turns out that the reason people pay me what they do is the insight and knowledge
1299.
by corresation 14y ago
Had the same concerns, however it is a press release service (apparently Thompson Reuters).
1300.
by corresation 14y ago
Even getting the data to that machine presents a problem that seems to undermine the value of it entirely: As you mentioned, the real value in this is linear processing of large sets of data, but the storage is ephemeral so your process has
1301.
by corresation 14y ago
It says that a read message demands a reply, and a replied to message can be rated upon by the receiver. There was a service years back that did something similar via the phone -- you could register as an expert of something and people woul
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by corresation 14y ago
Worth noting that it sounds like hs1.8xlarge is built on magnetic disks (24 2TB HDs - edit: originally put 1TB), each reading some 100MB/sec, yielding the theoretical max of 2.4GB/s in a RAID-0 configuration. No one actually uses disks in s
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by corresation 14y ago
It went largely unnoticed, but one of the biggest changes of the November Android NDK release was the addition of LLVM/clang to the toolchain. This was primarily added to reduce issues when cross-compiling iOS apps to Android.
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by corresation 14y ago
"Heart disease kills 28 innocent people in the USA every 25 minutes! Cancer kills another 28 innocent people in that time! More innocent people die from car crashes every minute than die from guns. Does a mad gunman kill 28 people every 25
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by corresation 14y ago
I would say that you must be offended that people have a differing opinions, because I see little offense among others. Yes, other people disagree, as they should. Another poster hit on a point of contention that has always bothered me, whi