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by ctdean 10y ago
Here's an indirect pointer to the data from J. Alex Halderman: https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-wa...
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by ctdean 10y ago
Pretty neat. Anyone know how this compares to the WePay offering?
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Buying Washio’s assets, Rinse cleans up part of the on-demand laundry market(techcrunch.com)
1 points by ctdean 10y ago|0 comments
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Concurrent ml versus go(wingolog.org)
2 points by ctdean 10y ago|0 comments
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by ctdean 10y ago
$625 million in cash
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Google to acquire Apigee(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
210 points by ctdean 10y ago|80 comments
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Infrastructure Software is Dead(mirantis.com)
228 points by ctdean 10y ago|134 comments
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by ctdean 11y ago
It's hard to see from the outside how much innovation is stifled due to regulators - but from my position it is a substantial amount. Part of the basic problem is that the very large and very successful companies have captured their r
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by ctdean 11y ago
Article from 2011. Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3108087
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by ctdean 11y ago
This reminds me of the discussion on the definition of "Object Oriented". It's a term of art that means a specific thing in the context of programming. [1] "Minimum Viable Product" is also a term of art to describ
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A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It’s a Process(themacro.com)
120 points by ctdean 11y ago|34 comments
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On relationships, a game theoretic approach(medium.com)
2 points by ctdean 11y ago|0 comments
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by ctdean 11y ago
A great talk by William Byrd
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by ctdean 11y ago
I'm all for threading and pipelining when appropriate, but I don't find these any easier to read. The nested example in particular is harder to follow. This is in sharp contrast to Python list comprehensions, which are very strai
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by ctdean 12y ago
Job posts are marketing ads, so don't take it seriously. All this posting is hoping to do is to attract people who like Python and get them to apply. This won't get 100% of the applicants you want but it will get some of then, an
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by ctdean 12y ago
Yes, she is talking about one particular kind of company, but Jessica's definition of a startup is the generally agreed upon one here on HN [1]. (The fed is using a definition of a brand new company.) While the fed paper is really inte
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by ctdean 12y ago
Like others have said this is for SaaS startups with more than 1mm ARR. It won't work for your local Kwik-E-Mart and it won't work for non-startups.
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by ctdean 12y ago
He's just misinterpreting the quote, and then setting up a strawman to make an slightly related point. "A" players make an outsized impact on a rapidly growing organization. Successful startups aren't like other activit
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Formal Methods in Building Robust Distributed Systems(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
109 points by ctdean 12y ago|9 comments
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by ctdean 12y ago
CDB is one of my favorite data structures. When a student wants to learn about databases, I get them to implement cdb. It's easy to implement and really demonstrates some good system engineering tradeoffs.
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by ctdean 13y ago
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by ctdean 14y ago
How does it work? If I have a collection/table with 100,000 rows and want to create a histogram by month does it pull the 100,000 rows over the wire to your servers and does the aggregation there? select month, sum(x) from T group by m
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by ctdean 14y ago
You can just use any of the online DB REST interfaces. MongoLab has a nice one http://support.mongolab.com/entries/20433053-rest-api-for-mo... That will return a json object as the value.
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Heroku: use cnames not apex/naked domains(devcenter.heroku.com)
2 points by ctdean 15y ago|0 comments
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by ctdean 15y ago
> Because labor is a mostly fixed cost for each alternative, it will tend not to impact the relative comparison of the two alternatives I don't buy this. My experience is that the ops cost of a co-location facility are much more expens
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by ctdean 19y ago
MySQL and PostgreSQL are fine relational databases and you can build large systems out of them. You might also consider embedded DBs such as SQLite (relational) or qdbm (non relational). If it were me, I'd go with one of these. Good lu
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by ctdean 19y ago
There is something wrong with the format. Some readers are ignoring the comment field (not your fault, but that's the sad reality), change it to a description field and encode the link to the story and the link to the comments in that fiel