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by dougabug 14y ago
Truly defeating spam in all its guises (SEO, commercials, daily offers, junk mail) is a pretty difficult problem. How do you recognize cleverly concealed data? Spammers constantly adapt to spam filters and new/pristine communications channe
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by dougabug 14y ago
I don't know that this is so much an explanation of why databases matter, so much as an assertion of faith that they do. While I would never deny the claim, you could substitute "morality" for database and it could be an excerpt from a serm
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by dougabug 14y ago
Apple was on life support during the mid-90's. Microsoft nearly killed the Mac with its unimaginative imitator, Windows, but probably held off from killing Apple completely because of the Antitrust case hovering over it. Many if not most of
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by dougabug 14y ago
If the Palm Computing IPO didn't reflect marketing hysteria around PDA's, I don't know what does. The spinoff gave Palm a market cap of over $20B, about six times the entire value of its parent company, 3Com.
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by dougabug 14y ago
Optimizing the (immediate) measured economy doesn't necessarily reflect the most important goal of society. People might measure their productivity in forests paved, or maybe we can maximize the needle on some Fed metric by building more na
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by dougabug 14y ago
Not everywhere in the world has reliable landline connections and other forms of fixed infrastructure. And there are environments where wireless communications can be sporadically impaired due to weather or terrain (or ocean or space). Ther
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All of this has happened before... Actually, Usenet worked amazingly well even under the limitations of computers and networks in the 80's. Shared information streams strike me as superior to isolated data motes and walled gardens.
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Because a hundred files must be worth ten times as much as ten files. Maybe he gets paid by the file.
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Except that Pike's paper precedes Hadoop by two decades.
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Obvious seems to depend on conditioning. For me the correct answer to the lily pad question seemed completely obvious. On the bat and ball problem, I experienced a cognitive dissonance, the knee jerk answer appeared unbidden, yet something
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by dougabug 16y ago
If all, or even most of the citizens in your empire turn into free riders, the empire collapses. Certain types of groups like nations, startups, and schools of scientific thought, may be be inherently unstable on various time scales, yet th
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by dougabug 16y ago
Wilson's critics appear to engage in a great deal of uncalled for ad hominem attacks. I hate those kinds of personal insults. As far as kinship not being essential to group cooperation, this seems plausible (though unproven) to me. Dogs are
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by dougabug 16y ago
"Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. 'That suc
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by dougabug 16y ago
Pg_restore is pretty flexible. You can have it generate a list of the objects in the dump, and then edit that file to create/restore only the objects of interest. You can omit/change permissions, schema objects, restore order, etc. You can
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by dougabug 16y ago
You can restore data to a table from a dump using pg_restore without recreating indexes. If you have a couple extremely large tables, you should consider partitioning them. Partitions are true tables in Postgres, and you should be able to u
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by dougabug 16y ago
There will always be an elite. But society needs a humble, wiser elite, who lead by example, talent, and perseverance; leaders who provide valuable insight, rather than protect their advantage by raising walls. Ken Thompson is the best kind
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by dougabug 16y ago
Brilliant and thought provoking, heretical words. Exclusionary access, prohibitive cost, insular culture, overgrown complexity concealing fundamental ideas... “It’s something about the scarcity and the status. In education your value depend
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by dougabug 16y ago
$50/hr seems quite reasonable. I doubt I'd need more than 100 hours a year of use, and even if I required several hundred hours, that's still readily affordable.
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by dougabug 16y ago
Staffed by scientists and engineers, I imagine. You can get some pretty sophisticated parts built by foundries. At one point, making a microchip was prohibitively expensive. Nowadays, when you create chips basically by coding them in high l
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by dougabug 16y ago
While I've said pretty much everything in the article to my friends and co-workers over the past several months... I'd still say at this point it qualitifes as FUD.
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The cost of maintaining your own tools is quite high, as is the expertise required to maintain them in working order. It seems to be that the inexperience or lack of skill which leads to shared equipment getting ruined is due to the fact th
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by dougabug 16y ago
Seems like many samples could be prepared locally and shipped to the analysis center ala Netflix. Another possibility would be making samples to order at a location near where the necessary equipment is located. For instance, I need a brain
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by dougabug 16y ago
Do you need exclusive access to your very own scanning multiphoton microscope? Seems like laboratory virtualization would go hand in hand with open source science.
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by dougabug 16y ago
Terrific lecture. A bit leisurely for the first hour, probably could've cover that in half the time, but then progressively realizes he's short on time and accelerates through the probabilistic analysis of the runtime. Still pretty easy to
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by dougabug 16y ago
Google faces two major obstacles in its social networking ambitions: an implementation problem, and a brand problem. On the implementation side, their previous offerings have not been compelling. On the brand side, people generally aren't e
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by dougabug 16y ago
Well, most small businesses fail in the first few years. But that doesn't stop millions of them from becoming viable. We tend to think that the ecosystem only has room for a handful of Internet or technology companies, but that's far the ca
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by dougabug 16y ago
Finally, here is a technology I can get with. Most of the web entrepreneurs seem to embrace a "Field of Dreams" breed of business plan: build it and they will come. And when they do come - advertise, upsell, follow, track and slice and dice
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Sure, but it's still an interesting collection of papers. I rather enjoyed perusing the articles. A commendable effort by Mr. Huang.
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My comment was not really so as glib as all that. We see hundreds of billions of dollars worth of speculative investments in "technologies", recalling the heady days of the dot-com era and the now iconic pets.com. Cures for common viral dis
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by dougabug 16y ago
Does the world need another Facebook or Google? How bout a cure for the common cold or something useful?

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