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by dclusin 14y ago
This seems like the classic compile-time run-time trade off. On the one hand it does indeed appear to take a while to load the page. The upside of this though is obviously smooth scrolling for very large presentations of data. Since the sor
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by dclusin 14y ago
The present value of the securities is certainly one aspect of measuring the value of said securities to Mr. Zuckerberg. Another aspect would also be the control of his company that he's giving up (since it's primarily stock I assume). The
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I too would also like to know this. At first the ternary operator seems difficult to comprehend but after a little bit of mucking around with it it really seems more natural to me. When I'm thinking about a binary question rarely do I ever
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by dclusin 14y ago
As someone with an older sibling who meets 4 of the 5 aforementioned criteria I can confirm that no it is not always that easy. Giving him a place on my floor wouldn't really do anything to improve his circumstances or outcome. What makes m
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by dclusin 14y ago
Disk drives with battery backed write caches are a requirement for any system where data corruption is considered a system failure. We use these at my job for things other than just our data bases. It doesn't need to be just SSD's either; t
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by dclusin 14y ago
With the release of the iPhone. One example of this was that Apple was able to use their clout to successfully sideline flash in favor of HTML5. That's not to say the technology industry was in love with flash prior to the iPhone, but the i
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by dclusin 14y ago
Yes still the same field. If I switch jobs I think I can probably expect a 30-40k bump + signing bonus since it's a totally different market now. Also when you have a job people want you. When you're out of a job you're seen as deficient in
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by dclusin 14y ago
Agreed. One thing I've noticed about my own life is how hard even 1 year out of your career track hurts you both professionally (skill set) and personally (income/wealth). I was doing financial services programming for a big bank as my firs
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by dclusin 14y ago
Same here. I would add that one of the things I'm pretty careful not to sacrifice is interpersonal (and as a corollary emotional) development. These things play a huge part in your ability to raise children that grow up to become well adjus
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by dclusin 14y ago
You're the second person that mentioned skeuomorphism. Could you please explain what it is and why it's a big todo? Most of my cursory google searches don't provide any particularly insightful definition of what it is. The blogs/rants usual
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by dclusin 14y ago
What industry do you work in?
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Another good read about increasing disk IO and reducing latency can be found at the Mechanical Symphony blog about the single writer principle: http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/09/single-write... We ran into issues where lots
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by dclusin 14y ago
The prevailing argument against regulation is usually cost. "It would be expensive to implement this! MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!" and to the uninformed outsider this has a ring of truth to it. However any cost figure would be largely overstated a
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For page views of course. It made it to the top of hacker news, after all.
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My understanding was that this is only applicable if you are domiciled in the applicable area. Is this not correct? Has anybody tried this?
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by dclusin 14y ago
The important thing to determine that isn't specified (but implied) in the article is whether or not random access is a hard requirement. If yes then it would probably be cheaper to go with a disk-based solution. From the sounds of the arti
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by dclusin 14y ago
It's been my experience that it is a lot easier to ask for a paper trail on craigslist from prospective sellers than it is on the street from some boiler-room type operation.
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I personally have known people who do software development for as low as 35k/year. I have also known people who have attained wages as an engineer for as high as 250k/yr. Given this continuum I suspect it's very easy for a well heeled emplo
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by dclusin 14y ago
like totally noted, dude! :)
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I suspect that you also believe that you are not being pretentious and pedantic by raising this point. I emphatically disagree. The latter half of the criticism raised in my comment was directed towards your initial comment and comments or
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When I see colloquialisms used in technical discussions I generally assume that the author is attempting to convey the topic of conversation in a more casual and approachable way so as to maximize the amount of of people who read and think
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Correct. Reliability and Availability are two separate but related goals.
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Sequence numbers on messages sent by producers coupled with some sort of persistence by the sender. This way when a gap is detected some sort of resend protocol can be implemented to achieve the delivery guarantee.
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Trading has always been about speed. This dates back to the creation of the earliest financial markets ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family ).
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I've heard secrecy thrown about quite a bit but I've always been a bit mystified as to why. The reason I'm confused is because it seems as though any of your well healed competitors would be able to study your product/marketing/etc and dete
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by dclusin 14y ago
Perhaps maybe they will fix the design of the square card reader? I saw the iPad + Square combo being used as a replacement for a register at a coffee shop and the lady had to fumble with it and eventually use her other hand to hold the rea
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by dclusin 14y ago
Agreed! And taken to the logical extreme often times they are used as an excuse for lazy thinking. One example is stream processing where you're processing lots of messages per second and typically have some sort of originating request ID.
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Don't forget copy and paste.
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Also for me it's the threat of potential downtime. Switching organizations is a hugely expensive process and to create anything of consequence (e.g. not some stupid rails crud app) takes a lot of domain knowledge and experience with the exi
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It's not so much the small size of the font it's whether or not it is a fixed-width font. A font is considered fixed-width if every character that can be represented in the font set has the same width and height for each character. As an en

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