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by easp 17y ago
In addition to the things people have already mentioned, I'd suggest combining all of them, and more, into a credibility score. If your application doesn't involve a strict tallying/reporting of votes, they you can use the score to do weigh
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by easp 17y ago
Generally, symptoms from a vaccine are mild compared to getting the full blown illness, so the upside is still there, even if you suffer the downside.
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by easp 17y ago
Because these apps all started with the idea: Location based mobile advertising is going to huge. I gotta get me some of that. Hmmm. Hey, social networks are big...what if we do a location based social network? The problem is, it is a stu
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by easp 17y ago
James Hamilton referenced this in a blog post today. He was pretty skeptical. He's been a proponent of SSDs in some applications, but he can't see how their cost can be justified yet on the basis of power efficiency alone. The power effic
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by easp 17y ago
For what it is worth, Memcachedb and Tokyo Tyrant have used the same trick. I think I came across anothe key/value store this summer that also offered memcached protocol support.
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by easp 17y ago
It seems people often gloss over the issue of redundancy when making these comparisons as well. If the server hosting your EC2 instance fails, you just bring up a replacement and continue on your way. If you are on a traditional VPS, you e
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by easp 17y ago
The other problem the big newspapers chains have is that many of them have substantial debut burdens, which is, again, something a lot of smaller locally owned papers didn't have the privilege or inclination to do.
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by easp 17y ago
Yeah, I think such a move would hurt Murdoch and AP more than it would hurt Google. I understand contextual advertising, I suspect that Google makes far less than average on searches for news related terms, because people aren't looking to
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by easp 17y ago
You don't think that military bases and big federal contracts aren't just another form of welfare subsidized by blue states like California?
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by easp 17y ago
I've assumed that Facebook would be adding location to their mobile clients in the near future. In doing so, they won't hav to resort to the games Foursquare uses to try to get to critical mass. I also doubt that foursquare has any key in
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by easp 17y ago
Articles about how iPhone developers aren't getting rich won't make you rich.
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by easp 17y ago
Copy-on-write is also why people overestimate Apache memory consumption so dramatically and then get into the hassle of running php apps under fcgi to save a trivial amount of memory.
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by easp 17y ago
I hadn't heard that Facebook had any major Postgres deployment. MySQL seems to form the core data storage for the appplication. Cassandra looks like something they will be using more and more of. They use their own Hive project to allow
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by easp 17y ago
Sounds a bit like Odeo, which is what the Twitter guys were sick of doing when they started doing Twitter.
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by easp 17y ago
A 7,200 RPM disk can do about 120 IO operations/s, max. Each transaction requires at least one IO operation to be properly committed to disk. So ~100 inserts/updates per second is pretty close to the limit of modest hardware, unless you ar
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by easp 17y ago
Probably something like "show me the oil and tell me what the extraction and production costs are." What people like you who like to build peak oil straw men conveniently either fail to remember or consistently overlook is that the modern a
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by easp 17y ago
Yes, informed consent and other nonsense underpininning freedom and democracy be damnned. And please, let's ignore how industrial-scale farming makes it difficult for agricultural societies to escape poverty. It doesn't apply to everyone,
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by easp 17y ago
I place a high value on the immersive interaction with other students that come even outside the classroom with campus life. A few years ago I even chided some incoming students for considering cell phones a necessity for keeping in touch
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by easp 17y ago
A good deal of your critique is a rehash of concerns people expressed about RSS in the first place. They generally did not come to pass because either they weren't real problems in the first place, they were easily addressed, or general ad
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by easp 17y ago
They did invite these criticisms by drawing comparisons to S3, EMC, etc. However, they already tried to factor out the cost of operations so that s3 was on equal footing with the non-service offerings. We can quibble about the specific num
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by easp 17y ago
You are oversimplifying. The cost of energy is an important limit to the cost of materials, but it is far from the only factor.
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by easp 17y ago
You are oversimplifying. The cost of energy is an important limit to the cost of materials, but it is far from the only factor.
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by easp 17y ago
EROI on commercial solar panels is generally less than a year in sunny climates. Even in somewhere like Seattle, which isn't generally regarded as sunny the EROI is two years. The cost of energy costs are important when considering the eco
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by easp 17y ago
You do realize how many unproven assumptions you are relying on. Theoretically, we can have access to infinite amounts of clean energy by fusing hydrogen nuclei... We've known that for decades, and yet, people are still worried about the s
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by easp 17y ago
Just keep in mind that if your project is under active development, people already have an incentive to contribute their private patches back to the mainline because it makes it easier to take advantage of other people's improvements. Oth
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by easp 17y ago
"Also, I have noticed that the people that do have Iphones use every opportunity to 'flash' them." or maybe they just take every opportunity to use them
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by easp 17y ago
<I>Also, I have noticed that the people that do have Iphones use every opportunity to 'flash' them.</I> or maybe they just take every opportunity to use them
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by easp 17y ago
<I>Also, I have noticed that the people that do have Iphones use every opportunity to 'flash' them.</I> or maybe they just take every opportunity to use them
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by easp 17y ago
My understanding was that a lot of research clusers actually have pretty low utilization. I believe the cloud computing whitepaper David Patterson put out in the spring had I data on that.
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by easp 17y ago
At least he proposes a hypothesis about the issue. The only hypothesis you advance is basically: I don't believe you, so I don't have to provide evidence either, and besides, you sound like a crazy.

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