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by dman 9y ago
Getting a database off the ground as a sustainable business is incredibly hard work. As someone who works on similar problems I have massive amounts of respect for people who try to build a database related business knowing the huge odds th
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by dman 9y ago
Thanks for the detailed comment!
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by dman 9y ago
Ah I meant the legality of funding efforts to find glaring bugs in competitors products and then releasing them publicly as a 0-day.
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by dman 9y ago
Any restrictions at the time of disclosure?
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by dman 9y ago
What does the software stack look like for these?
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by dman 9y ago
Am curious if it is legal to fund security research to find flaws in a competitors product. If so then going forward this might become a tool used by hardware / software companies to go after their competition.
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by dman 9y ago
This has been my experience as well, I emailed Lisa Su about some issue I was having with an AMD product and she (or her team that monitors her email) were very responsive and helped me sort my issue out.
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by dman 9y ago
Is it possible that the person in question believes that they are being sidelined / pushed out?
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by dman 9y ago
Has there been a public release of the source for this?
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by dman 9y ago
Nokia had users who were happy with the solid phones they were building.
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by dman 9y ago
Customers are fickle beasts, they mutter and keep on using a product until they dont.
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by dman 9y ago
Killing battery life of their users isnt a business reason?
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by dman 9y ago
I wonder if at some point it will be possible to discuss C++ on HN without the majority of the conversation becoming side tracked into discussing Rust.
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by dman 9y ago
Could this be the first time someone gets fired for hiring IBM? (Sorry could not resist after having heard of that quip so many times).
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by dman 9y ago
Nice! Ive been meaning to try out Julia for a while now. Is the numpy equivalent in Julia largely written in Julia itself? (as opposed to C/Fortran)
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by dman 9y ago
Designers also need to ask what is the economic price of disrupting existing user expectations.
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by dman 9y ago
Wanted to give a shout out to phosphor - the underlying UI framework used in JupyterLab. Used it for some non JupyterLab use cases and found it a pleasure to use. ( https://github.com/phosphorjs/ )
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by dman 9y ago
Timdb ?
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by dman 9y ago
Drop me a note the next time you are in NY, would love to meet up.
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by dman 9y ago
The Python bits are unreleased and the python usage is restricted to desktop visualizations, so no you are not missing anything.
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by dman 9y ago
Codebase started in 2013. Original business case was to allow business users to create filtered/aggregated views on top of streaming data.
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by dman 9y ago
Yes for much of its life perspective has been a python library. It offers a streaming dataframe abstraction in Python. I believe the Python bindings have not been open sourced yet.
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by dman 9y ago
You will get me into trouble! I said 80x faster than the Python prototype. I did benchmark this vs Pandas over the years and depending on the usecase the two codebases trade blows with each other for static data. However for streaming datas
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by dman 9y ago
Will defer to texodus on that - he is the front end expert here.
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by dman 9y ago
The following features made wasm compelling here a. Filter / Pivot / Aggregate moving clientside means a lot of load off the servers. b. Performance in wasm is surprisingly close to same C++ code running natively on the desktop. c
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by dman 9y ago
As a fellow backend developer I certainly hope so. I think web assembly gets us very close. Only two things I missed were direct canvas access from C++ without going through a JS shim and access to some kind of blob storage api in the brows
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by dman 9y ago
+1 - Even though I do not work there anymore, I can vouch for the fact that the team has amazing engineers and works on fundamental CS problems.
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by dman 9y ago
No, when I first prototyped it I had written a Python version initially. From memory the first C++ build was ~80x faster than the Python prototype.
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by dman 9y ago
The name had been in place internally since 2013, so the naming ship had sailed a long time ago.
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by dman 9y ago
Best part was the validation of a design decision of having minimal dependencies. It made the web assembly port almost trivial. Worst part (which has improved dramatically) was the rough edges in the web assembly toolchains early on.

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