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by drewda 5y ago
"YMMV (literally)." ha, that's for a good laugh at the end
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by drewda 5y ago
I believe that's become standard practice in the last few years. For example: https://www.microdrones.com/en/integrated-systems/ge-industr... or https://kairosaerospace.com/methane-detection&#
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by drewda 5y ago
Exactly, thanks. "MapReduce paradigm" wasn't precise, and I can see why that makes everyone want to give a distributed systems 101 lecture in this comment thread :)
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by drewda 5y ago
> You're likely conflating the fact that to achieve fault tolerant distributed computation, hadoop and hadoop like systems use a database like filesystem. Yes, I specifically mentioned non-Google users adopting Hadoop, since it enc
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by drewda 5y ago
Yes, which is why it's amusing in hindsight that for a decade everyone* outside Google was forcing all* their distributed data tasks into the MapReduce paradigm, without considering alternative approaches like the one used by Spanner.
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by drewda 5y ago
Perhaps the biggest "fake-out" in 21st century computing: Google publicly released its MapReduce paper -- directing most of the rest of the industry toward loosely coupled, overly complex distributed data processing systems like H
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by drewda 5y ago
I recall seeing pictures and notes about a PinePhone with a physical keyboard. Is that actually under development as well? Or is that just someone's experiment?
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by drewda 5y ago
At many of these papers, advertising is the greater source of revenue than subscriptions.
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by drewda 5y ago
> You cannot 1099 everyone especially if they are only working for you as a full time employee (IRS won't like that) One way smaller companies do accomplish this is with "professional employer organizations." A PEO is the
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by drewda 5y ago
FWIW, copyright applies to recordings of classical music just as much as to recordings of contemporary music.
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by drewda 5y ago
This looks like a rewrite/gloss of recent New York Times reporting: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/climate/toyota-electric-h... Same thing happened the other day when a gloss by The Verge was tr
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by drewda 5y ago
Side note: This Verge piece looks like a rewrite/gloss of recent New York Times reporting: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/climate/toyota-electric-h...
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by drewda 5y ago
This was originally reported by CNET (with additional context), so let me encourage folks to give them your clicks instead: https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-hypocritical-remote-work-p...
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by drewda 5y ago
If you want the polish of d3 and some of its power without all the complexity, try Vega Lite and related tooling: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
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by drewda 5y ago
> PDF forms now support JavaScript embedded in PDF files. Some PDF forms use JavaScript for validation and other interactive features. The amount of complexity that one can put into a PDF is both surprising and a tad frightening.
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by drewda 5y ago
FWIW, I thought Google had pouched all of Nuance's key technical staff years ago.
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by drewda 6y ago
The private sector has been trying for years to reduce the National Weather Service's resources. Perhaps that's not the entire story of why NWS has IT constraints right now. But it's still pretty frustrating how Accuweather k
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by drewda 6y ago
Wasn't this the shtick of the "toolbar" plugins offered by AOL, Yahoo, and even Google at one point over the years?
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by drewda 6y ago
On this note, I have 60% fond memories of Appcelerator Titanium and 40% frustrating memories :)
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by drewda 6y ago
Maybe just a coincidence in timing, but it's interesting to compare this to the just-announced Mobile Native Foundation: - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/press-release/new-mobile-... - https://
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by drewda 6y ago
Not sure if it's "new" but it's always interesting: Postgres offers a fine set of full-text search functionality, with the advantage of being able to also use the other ways in which Postgres shines: document-like data (
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by drewda 6y ago
"Management through walking around" comes from Hewlett-Packard. At least as practiced by at Packard and Hewlett, it was supposedly more about learning from individual contributors in labs and on factory floors -- without only gett
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Python's cryptography library now includes Rust code(github.com)
2 points by drewda 6y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 6y ago
I have a BlackBerry Key2 and am not sure what to replace it with when it goes kaput. Typing on a touchscreen leads to pain in my finger tips. I would pay good money for a quality after-market keyboard to snap on to the bottom or side of an
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by drewda 6y ago
We've found much to like about GraphQL, but it's a minor annoyance that most GraphQL-based web services only accept POST requests (not also GET requests) and treat white-space in the query as meaningful. These little factors make
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Leaving SF? Bring the Best of SV Values with You, Not Just SV Dollars(hunterwalk.com)
1 points by drewda 6y ago|0 comments
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by drewda 6y ago
Nice work by @blackmad! For those wanting to start in the "shallow end of the pool" tuning Pelias geocoder indexes and config, there's also a web-based UI that can hit multiple instances and visualize the various results: ht
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by drewda 6y ago
Agreed. We've had good luck running all sorts of jobs on Argo and wrote up some of our experiences at https://www.interline.io/blog/scaling-openstreetmap-data-wor...
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by drewda 6y ago
As I mention later in that paragraph, I think the real structural issue is that most creators still do not make a full living even when they do the multi-offering approach. This failure by individuals is masked, in part, by the churn of yet
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by drewda 6y ago
This blog post and the associated startup/investment are, I think, identifying a real issue but not acknowledging the underlying structural issues: most independent creators probably do need to sell a range of complementary products an

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