damienkatz

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by damienkatz 16y ago
Not to me. We hired a guy who worked on the, ahem, back end of a popular iPhone gay meet up app. That it got a lot of traffic was a plus to us.
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by damienkatz 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand. CouchDB won't lose any committed (fsynced) data when it crashes. And when configured, it won't return a success until it's committed. It's completely durable. edit: Oh I see, the stuff written in the clojure side
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by damienkatz 16y ago
It's quite durable. CouchDB has pure tail append storage and will fsync every update and batch concurrent updates into a single commit. It can get fairly close to a drives max sustained write speed.
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by damienkatz 16y ago
Yes. CouchDB is designed as crash only software, it detects and restarts immediately on crash, and shutting it down is done with kill, not exit.
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by damienkatz 16y ago
I remember reading somewhere that simple email obfuscation can result in more spam, as advanced bots look for obfuscated emails specifically because they are more likely to be an actively checked account. Also more advanced bot operations a
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by damienkatz 16y ago
> 1. Stop overpaying employees. Jobs now have inflated value because most companies assume that everyone they employ or hire is above average, which is a mathematical impossibility. That's just silly. Obviously not every company can bea
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by damienkatz 16y ago
I was intrigued by the concept, Googled "Secret Patent" and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Patent...
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by damienkatz 16y ago
This article is bit off the mark. The "Sunk Cost Fallacy" is to continue pouring resources into a venture because of an irrational desire to get back your initial investment. The fallacy part is that new investment will help recover old los
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by damienkatz 17y ago
ubiquitaqaticism
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by damienkatz 17y ago
It points out the problem, that some firms have faster access to trade data than others, but proposes no solutions. How to make that not true? I think the low latency colo data centers with equal length cable for all might be as good a solu
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by damienkatz 17y ago
Same thing for me. They tasted awful. Threw the rest of the can away.
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by damienkatz 17y ago
http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=514
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by damienkatz 17y ago
Yes, but are the claims true? Have studies failed to show stopping smoking doesn't help you live longer? And the Japanese _are_ fairly heavy smokers yet have very long lives. That's not to say I don't thinking smoking is really bad for you.
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by damienkatz 17y ago
> On the other hand, casual sex is as common as ever Citation needed. Other than lots of pictures of nekkid people on the internet, most studies show sexual activity (amongst teens and college students anyway) to be going down. It's bee
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by damienkatz 17y ago
> To me, the fundamental benefit of TDD is that it proves that the code is in the state I think it's in before I make a change, and it proves that the change I made did what I expect. That's called unit testing, and it's gets you to the
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by damienkatz 17y ago
If you view computer programmers as mental ditch diggers, then the idea that one could be so much more productive than another seems crazy. But when you see it as a creative endeavor, it's completely rational that some could be orders of ma
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by damienkatz 17y ago
IMO, Nerd is a derogatory, meaning someone who is socially inept and not much fun to be around. But a geek is just someone who has unusually strong interests in a subject, activity or occupation. COmputers, cars, film, fashion, politics, ma
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by damienkatz 17y ago
I see what you are going for, but I don't see what you save in practice. I've heard of something similar with dishwashers, where rich folk will have multiple dishwashers and just move clean dishes to the dirty washer, never actually putting
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by damienkatz 17y ago
Coding in PHP make Al Gore cry.
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by damienkatz 17y ago
> What is the best way to deal with skeptics of generally accepted ideas? As a creator of a "NoSQL" database (CouchDB), I think I understand the skeptics that climate researchers must deal with, and how it's difficult. In our case, ther
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by damienkatz 17y ago
No, you present a hypothesis and try prove it wrong. And best science is done when many people try to prove it wrong. Less scrutiny is not better science.
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by damienkatz 17y ago
I'm a shitty typist, but a really good coder. I've tried to make myself faster, but I think my brain isn't wired for it. Occasionally my typing becomes a productivity bottleneck, but most of the time it just doesn't matter, as I'm spending
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by damienkatz 17y ago
I'm all in favor of simplicity, but there isn't much that seems simple about this proposal.
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by damienkatz 17y ago
I was confused at first by the first paragraph since it didn't say the beavers _must_ stop. Once I figured that out the rest made sense.
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by damienkatz 17y ago
I'm sorry, but you are just wrong. He's an extremely talented writer and pretty good developer. He blogs about stuff that interests him, he often presents the newcomers point of view, he rarely claims to be an expert on the topics he's writ
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by damienkatz 17y ago
I think a problem Rebol might have is it's name sounds very outdated, like a strange cousin of COBOL.
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by damienkatz 17y ago
Like any long running system, it's the pause while the garbage gets collected and data is rearranged for more efficient access. The animals that "never" sleep are actually just failing-over to the other processor while the GC happens.
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by damienkatz 17y ago
> CouchDB is a document database that supports two-way replication so you can re-sync after taking part of the data offline, but it's still designed around the concept of a single master that holds all the data To clarify, CouchDB's rep
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by damienkatz 17y ago
Good article, but I was hoping this was about how intellectual insecurity tends to create complexity. To not value and create simple things due to a desire to show off how smart you are with a mastery of the deeply complex.
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by damienkatz 18y ago
You don't have to intend to sue, the debt collection agency has that option. And while the collection agency probably won't do that, they might. Never know.

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