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by dbenhur 12y ago
How is the abuse potential substantially different than vote-by-mail? "Hi, like your job? Please bring your ballot in in and fill in the oval for the legislator that's gonna give my business a tax break. Thank you."
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by dbenhur 12y ago
If you think you're going to harvest the "Wisdom of the Crowds", please go read James Surowiecki's book of the same name. http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/... If that
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by dbenhur 12y ago
Even if you don't care about the id ordering, unless "Captain Nemo" occurs so frequently as to be likely found in the first few pages of the table, the index is a big help.
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by dbenhur 12y ago
The author's Closing Remarks give rather short-shrift to the nuanced thinking Dick Gabriel has contributed to this idea. Gabriel's "Worse is Better" page https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html co
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by dbenhur 12y ago
I'm pretty sure you can using a stored procedure written with plv8. Though that's not exactly a fluent and elegant natural solution
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by dbenhur 12y ago
The Martingale only wins in the long run if you have unlimited wealth and time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%29
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by dbenhur 12y ago
Are you sure that's a good thing? antirez seems to have a hard time reasoning correctly about distributed systems: http://aphyr.com/posts/283-call-me-maybe-redis http://aphyr.com/posts/307-ca
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by dbenhur 12y ago
On Cassandra, some CQL collection operations behaved well (adding elements to a set). Everything else Kyle tested there was demonstrated to lose data. Kafka lost data all over the place under Jepson; though Kyle offered great respect to th
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by dbenhur 12y ago
Never observed shitting the bed -- Zookeeper: http://aphyr.com/posts/291-call-me-maybe-zookeeper "As with any experiment, we can only disconfirm hypotheses. This test demonstrates that in the presence of a parti
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by dbenhur 12y ago
With 64bit operands, IMUL+SAR is between 10 and 25 times faster than IDIV on current x86 hardware. (div speed is very dependant on the values being divided. eg: on Sandy Bridge arch, latency is between 40 and 103 cycles.) With these deltas,
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by dbenhur 12y ago
This is a people thing, not an academia thing.
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by dbenhur 12y ago
> Mayer has proven herself through the ranks of many prestigious technology companies You have a funny definition of "many". She's worked at exactly two tech companies in her career: Google and Yahoo. For such a shrill cri
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by dbenhur 13y ago
5000 checks and a few hundred hosts is a fairly tiny operation. At an order of magnitude above that you will start feeling real pain with Nagios.
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by dbenhur 13y ago
You can get detailed timing data about parse, plan, execute timings from postgresql logging. Parsing is almost always trivial. Planning can get expensive for complex queries with many joins (large space of solutions to explore). For simple
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by dbenhur 13y ago
The default stored procedure language is PL/pgSQL http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/plpgsql.html and has been available in Postgres almost forever.
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by dbenhur 13y ago
> when languages like Python and Ruby can be over 100x slower than other high level languages You said a wrong thing. Java is a far cry from a high-level language. Javascript is arguably a high-level language however, and meaningless b
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by dbenhur 13y ago
The article in a twitter size synopsis: 0.90 ** 4 => 0.6561
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by dbenhur 14y ago
Terry has Alzheimer's, not cancer. Arguably more tragic as it's slow and lingering, destroying your mind long before your body goes.
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by dbenhur 14y ago
> The executable code is compiled into binary that directly correlates to the copper wires (and etched semi-conductors, or perhaps even vacuum tubes) of the specific, real, tangible machine intended to execute the code. You do realize i
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by dbenhur 14y ago
The problem is any YAML loader which supports tags that can name arbitrary classes and have existent classes whose initialization may `eval` the supplied values. Ruby is very publicly hurting, but equivalent vulnerabilities exist in other
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by dbenhur 15y ago
1) practice 2) evaluate 3) goto 1
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by dbenhur 20y ago
Shared services mean that mistakes made by any other client on that machine are very likely to damage you. Also, without root access, you are often stuck not being able to set a configuration well. For a hobby site, or a sandbox, shared h