ergo98

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by ergo98 16y ago
What an unnecessary, vacuous entry.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Humorously I just saw exactly the opposite complaint - "I wish they'd stop focusing on visuals and start focusing on functionals". They'll never please everyone. Chrome is for you (clearly given that it is obviously what you hold as your be
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Google et al. do essentially run their servers on EC2. If by EC2 you mean "bunches of servers", sure. On GoGrid you can buy cloud servers, or you can rent dedicated servers (and you can intermix the two). The latter are quite a bit les
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by ergo98 16y ago
I have noticed a disturbing trend used in the defense of many NoSQL products --> When faced with criticism point out that there is version n+1 now available and they should have used that, it would have fixed everything, etc. We've seen
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by ergo98 16y ago
Interesting post. Thank you.
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by ergo98 16y ago
No, I'm not suggesting that at all. However in this case the test is so incredibly simplistic that it's virtually useless. And yes, it's rare to use a system where you can't calculate up front exactly what the load will be, and the test is
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by ergo98 16y ago
The key is a long cast to a string, and the value is an int. So 2.23GB of data became 24GB. Quite a large loss factor there. Calculation the load capacity seems like it should be a trivial exercise and shouldn't require a test it approach.
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by ergo98 16y ago
I primarily use the timestamp data type in SQL Server. Which is a data type that isn't actually a time (or date) at all, but instead is a incrementing database-wide value that is automatically updated on every row update.
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by ergo98 16y ago
What's the beef with the timestamp? I would expect, by default, that a timestamp reflects the last change to the row. Most systems use timestamps for optimistic locking/replication purposes.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Gruber isn't a blind fanboy. Just my personal opinion, but I find Gruber to be far worse than a blind fanboy: He just comes across as someone who raised their flag and damnit, he's sticking with it hell or high water, like some small
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by ergo98 16y ago
Am I interpreting correctly when I say that she is a blogger that happens to specialize in Microsoft? If so, big deal: She knows how to get the hits. At first read I thought it was saying she was a paid evangelist for Microsoft.
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by ergo98 16y ago
In reference to the "x marks the spot" they claimed that it "showed you where to cover the antenna", trying to draw a parallel with covering the internal antenna on any other phone. That is ridiculous. You aren't "covering the antenna" when
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Um, from what I saw it was caused by the same thing. You hold a phone a certain way you lose signal strength. Apple is playing some extraordinary deception with that. They're comparing a death grip on phones (which is entirely unnatura
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by ergo98 16y ago
I paid $550 for my Nexus One, on which is an Amazon MP3 app that I have no ability to remove. It inexplicably starts up in the background quite frequently as well, for no particular reason. One day I finally gave in and tried to buy some mu
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by ergo98 16y ago
All recent OMAP processors have exactly the same hardware, including prior phones that don't brick when you root it.
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by ergo98 16y ago
This seems like the wrong place to be asking that. It's like asking who has left the medical business in the doctor's lounge.
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by ergo98 16y ago
It is, to use a Spolskyism, a leaky abstraction.
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by ergo98 16y ago
There was a service several years back where you could post a rate and a profile, and if people called they would pay to talk to you. It seems to have gone under as I can't find any references to it.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Possibly. I've of course lurked for much longer. Even had a couple of other accounts at some point but lost the credentials an..meh. Easy set up.
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by ergo98 16y ago
I've taken lots of downvotes lately to say that HN is becoming less hacker and far more generalist. That happened to virtually every other site: Slashdot, Digg, Reddit. As the site gets attention (because of its core strength of great hacke
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by ergo98 16y ago
Seriously, the desperate product placement was extraordinary. iPad made a showing in the headline, and 5 times in the text. You would think that the iPad invented 3G data access or something. What a ridiculous distraction in an otherwise in
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by ergo98 16y ago
"Grinds, on the other hand, tend to have started their own company or their own hedge fund. They’re often too awkward to work in a large organization and too intense to work for anybody but themselves. " "During the last few years, for exam
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by ergo98 16y ago
What a bizarre article. Firstly, most hedge fund managers are very socially capable and convincing, which is how they manage to get other people to invest with them. The Bernie Madoff's of the world aren't hidden in a basement. I really, re
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Actually the name was very much accidental. Spur of the moment isn't really accidental, any more than Mel Gibson accidentally said the N-word. There's a bit of a history and a thought process that leads to such a decision.
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by ergo98 16y ago
>"NoSQL" is generally understood to mean "Not Only SQL" I think that that is a bit of convenient revisionism as it becomes clear that the Emperor is wearing no clothes. There absolutely was a very antagonistic, "this changes EVERYTHING"
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Nonsense. There is a whole vast middle ground between "recommended" and "you should skip it". They wrap up by saying "Get a 3GS instead". Could they be any clearer? They are ABSOLUTELY saying skip it. Should anyone listen to them?
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by ergo98 16y ago
>What they said is that they can't put their "Recommended" marks on it until Apple addresses the antenna problem. Which means "skip it". They've done the same thing with vehicles, saying "We love this vehicle...but the reliability recor
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Please, HTC, no more ad-libbing your own user interfaces They suck and are hard to remove. We all call it nonSense for a reason. SenseUI is an excellent interface. I say this as a fairly hardcore user. It's a bit of a UI stepback using
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by ergo98 16y ago
>I have to say, this looks bad for the whole "users first, revenue later" mantra. I think you misunderstood the mantra. It really is "users first, flip it later". Let the next sap deal with it. We've seen that play out time, and time, a
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by ergo98 16y ago
Hanging around = doing absolutely nothing, sitting in memory that is unused. The paradox is that people using task killers often force the system to keep restarting apps it wouldn't have had to restart. This is the same nonsensical behavior

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