ddlatham

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by ddlatham 16y ago
i.e. Don't trust Motorola to update their phones.
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Do deleted revisions count against your quota?
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There's an important lesson here for P2P system design. As in all systems, things will go wrong, whether it's your own bug or someone else's. Your system needs to not only be stable in the steady state, but to be able to return to the stea
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available. Unfortunately, today, many of them were taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype. So, what was the problem affecting versions of Skype?
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Flurry Analytics will show you how many users and sessions you have in each city / state / country.
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by ddlatham 16y ago
The same thing applies to rows and columns. We don't use any simple strings for our row or column indexes. They are serialized objects. Earlier versions of the API actually did have String based versions, and were changed to just byte arr
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by ddlatham 16y ago
It's a huge vote of confidence for HBase that the creators of Cassandra would choose it and its simple strong consistency model.
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Many users of HBase (including ourselves) use different, more efficient encoding of values into byte arrays than converting them to String's first, then byte arrays. For example, it's common to use protobuf to encode an object into a byte
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What apps collect for marketing(blogs.wsj.com)
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Smartphone apps tracking various data(online.wsj.com)
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by ddlatham 16y ago
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=color,colour&... Note the effects of the world wars.
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by ddlatham 16y ago
There are definitely cases where it would work better than other cases. Even if we can't use it for some cases, we should still use it in the cases where it would work.
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Using the states to perform the experiments is useful, and we've been doing that for hundreds of years, but it's besides the point of the article. The whole point is to produce sets of people that are drawn from an identical distribution wh
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Then raise taxes on everybody except a hundred thousand (randomly selected) people.
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by ddlatham 16y ago
He seems to assume that the contribution and volunteer rate of the added marginal people (those who signed up after seeing the best performing media / button, but would not have signed up with the default media / button) is as good as the r
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Actually, (A implies B) does imply (!B implies !A). It's the contrapositive. For example, from Wikipedia, "All birds are animals" does imply "All non-animals are non-birds". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraposition
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by ddlatham 16y ago
So he is asking, where are the apps that are available for Android, but not iPhone that meet the following criteria 1. Not made by Google or built-in 2. Popular and well made (no long tail) 3. Don't take advantage of things Android can do b
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by ddlatham 16y ago
It's very interesting that they didn't have the need to compromise on consistency and went with a fully consistent system, HBase.
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by ddlatham 16y ago
The problem is FBIDs are not independent of your social network provider, in this case, Facebook. If I want to take my social data from Provider A, I want it in an independent format, so that I can do whatever I want with it. So that I can
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Synchronized methods and blocks generate different bytecode, but according to the spec, have "exactly the same effect". http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/classe... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417285/equivalent-
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by ddlatham 16y ago
If people are living in this situation, then either it is better than their alternatives (in which case it's good that they have at least this) or something is preventing them from choosing those alternatives (which is not good). Do they ha
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Is that specific to TDD or just having a comprehensive suite of tests?
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If the data was sharded by user ids and some ranges of user ids were more active than other user ids, why not shard by a hash of the user id. In that case all the data for a given user id would live in a single shard, but active ranges of
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by ddlatham 16y ago
I was referring to the middle of the scale, rather than the middle of the universe.
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How would you judge their answer if you're not a programmer?
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Interesting that we seem to fall about in the middle. Or perhaps that suggests we've only been able to observe so far in either direction.
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by ddlatham 16y ago
How about giving an average price that recent buyers have gotten on that car/trim/location?
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by ddlatham 16y ago
Here's a better visualization: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-i...
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http://hbase.apache.org/
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by ddlatham 16y ago
It's not part of a minimum viable product. When you're trying to get something out the door, your downtime communication is not your top priority, so you can afford to improve it later.

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