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by elvinyung 8y ago
Do I have to have the extension to use it? I don't see why this can't be exposed in the form of a Google Scholar/Sci-hub-ish search engine.
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Foucault, of course, talks about this. In Discipline and Punish : >But the Panopticon was also a laboratory; it could be used as a machine to carry out experiments, to alter behaviour, to train or correct individuals. To experiment with
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Shameless self-promotion: I wrote down some thoughts a while ago about this: https://www.notion.so/The-Hyperreality-of-Big-Data-ae0aebb35... It almost feels like the only solution (for one aspect of the problem) is for the
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I just hope you understand that you're not just doing that. > Even great noodles aren't much better than average noodles. I really can't understand it. I have no reason to be mad at this, I have literally no reason to be e
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Shameless plug: I wrote a blog post a while ago using your premise to argue why decentralized technologies wouldn't be useful to society: https://www.notion.so/Yet-Another-Rant-About-Blockchains-ece...
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by elvinyung 8y ago
My takeaway from this article was mainly about how much competition should be fostered within the system. One interesting thing about the neoliberal era, it seems, is that the things in it seem to be simultaneously very big and very small.
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I don't really particularly like David Chang, but one thing that I do identify a lot with is that there is a lot of art and expertise in Asian cuisines that have been neglected in the west, precisely because it has been dismissed as si
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by elvinyung 8y ago
That's fair; I think I'm slightly more-pissed-than-usual about this just because it's very easy to dismissive of ramen, especially in North America, because all people remember are those deep-fried dehydrated brick fixtures
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Well, have you had great noodles? A crash course on Japanese culture: kodawari . It's a singular, artisanal obsession with making a single thing perfect. In Japan, there are restaurants dedicated to making only one thing, only yakit
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Meme Weeding: Los Angeles Density(pedestrianobservations.com)
1 points by elvinyung 8y ago|0 comments
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Thanks -- just curious, am I correct to interpret this to basically mean that thus far, the performance of the system basically relies on users to explicitly define colos nicely within their application-level data model? For some reason thi
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Ok, while we're at this, I think that the most important part of the post was this: > Edgestore data was already well-collocated, which meant that cross-shard transactions ended up being fairly rare in practice—only 5-10% of Edgesto
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Citus seems to be doing pretty well.
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Vitess [1] is a similar kind of abstraction layer that's compatible with the native MySQL wire protocol. It also supports atomic cross-shard transactions using 2PC. [1] https://vitess.io/
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I am convinced this no longer exists. (shameless plug ramble: [1]) It's too easy to inflate reviews now. [1] https://www.notion.so/The-Hyperreality-of-Big-Data-ae0aebb35...
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Sharding Cash(medium.com)
5 points by elvinyung 8y ago|0 comments
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by elvinyung 8y ago
The original blog post from PG talked about that: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Thanks! Just curious, do you use the same tables for both OLTP and OLAP, or do you have some kind of pseudo-ETL process to transform between OLTP and OLAP schemas?
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by elvinyung 8y ago
How is MemSQL for OLTP nowadays? Has anyone had any success consistently/scalably using it for true HTAP-ish use cases?
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Against Tulip Subsidies (2015)(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by elvinyung 8y ago|1 comments
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by elvinyung 8y ago
How is Cloud Spanner adoption nowadays? I seem to be hearing lately that more and more teams are looking seriously into adopting it.
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by elvinyung 8y ago
> Nor have we been lulled by Soma and subliminal brain programming into a hazy acquiescence to pervasive social hierarchies. I mean I guess we did, by a different kind of SoMa...
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by elvinyung 8y ago
>Kubernetes hasn’t been able to scale to the large clusters that Uber requires, i.e. 10,000-plus, nor does it support elastic resource sharing. It is also not the ideal scheduler for batch workloads due to the high-churn nature of batch
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Interesting, it doesn't show up for me. Mind posting a screenshot? I'll pass it onto them.
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Thanks! It's kind of a blog [1] that mostly consists of me writing down various things that I think about, that I try to format in a presentable way. I write everything in a notes app called Notion, and it happens to provide zero-effor
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by elvinyung 8y ago
To sum up something I've been thinking about: the panoptic dystopia of our future is evidently not Orwellian, but Molochian (shameless self-promotion: [1]). We aren't forced to install telescreens in our homes; we live within soci
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I kind of agree with the ambivalence about being a manager, but why the focus on being technical? Why not move into e.g. product management?
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I definitely agree with you about the anti-blockchain bubble that's formed, but I think that there are a few unanswered questions about non-technological factors (shameless self-promotion: [1]) that will unfortunately limit them to be
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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (2011)(plus.google.com)
2 points by elvinyung 8y ago|0 comments
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Oh dang, I didn't realize it was happening this soon. I'm visiting Japan next week and I thought I would have at least a few more days to visit old Tsukiji again.

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