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by estebarb 6y ago
The GPS data couldn't be "rounded" to have less precision, depending on population density?
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by estebarb 6y ago
I was remembering Pulse VPN... I had to install it on my own computer when my work laptop died. Now I have to tolerate it everytime I log on, although I use other user account for job related things.
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by estebarb 6y ago
How Google handles disk storage? From what I remember of the papers, GFS depends on a disk service, that exposes the disk resources. And how YouTube store MySQL data? Uses GFS or some other mechanism?
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by estebarb 7y ago
Unless you control each and every provider is difficult to achieve perfect physical security. Most companies just bought the fans from somebody else.
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by estebarb 7y ago
I have no idea, but at least it should reduce pressure on reagents required for other techniques.
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by estebarb 7y ago
It would be nice if the keyboard comes in other layout like ISO. It would help map keys better in other languages like spanish. I want a key for the Ñ.
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by estebarb 7y ago
I didn't find documentation about the disks: size, ssd/hdd, price?
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by estebarb 7y ago
JS build times? I guess that I haven't touched JS development in a while... My Early 2011 MBP (with SSD and RAM upgrade to 16GB) still rocks with intensive information retrieval and other big data tasks (Go, Java, Python).
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by estebarb 7y ago
+1 to this. I know every case is different, but cases aren't that different. Examples on paying taxes, recurrent costs, important dates won't hurt, and give a better idea of what people is getting into.
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by estebarb 7y ago
Without reading: I think that the importance is that before we had methods that could do that. Now we know that there is an algorithm that can do that. They proved that it is always possible, not in some subset of the networks. In the o
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by estebarb 7y ago
Well, journalist main task is to inform objectively, not to comment subjectively. They aren't researchers or economic analyst. And on other hand, most politics decisions are based on feelings, not facts.
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by estebarb 7y ago
"simple" is a strong requirement. I don't know how to make anything of most things proposed!!! If we were thrown to the Earth 10000 years ago, we would be able to bootstrap our current tech in less than a century?
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by estebarb 7y ago
12 years ago we still relayed on notebooks and pens for everything. Then smartphones appear and life changed forever. And also devices like clocks, calculators, cameras, gps, planners, maps, agendas, erasers and liquid paper become redundan
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by estebarb 7y ago
Firefox earnings come most from search engine royalties for being featured... Google keeps it alive. Basically Google is developing Chrome and funding its major competitor.
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by estebarb 7y ago
Nobody have experience with 2checkout? I'm considering using it for a SaaS (they handle taxes, payout to latam), but the lack of references feels odd
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by estebarb 7y ago
Please, don't tell HP Inc employees that they are going to pass through another split.
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by estebarb 7y ago
What you mean with 1year cliff?
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by estebarb 7y ago
It's there any way to read it from a phone? It's 5:04am and I don't want to open a laptop just for reading it...
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by estebarb 7y ago
I think that people just take too seriously the part of "hash tables are O(1) and trees are O(log(n))". But you have to consider complexity of hash generation (in real life sometimes it's worse than tree traversal), rebalanci
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by estebarb 7y ago
And some people says that lisp like languages use too much parenthesis...
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by estebarb 7y ago
I'm really waiting for the postmortem. The first services down were networking/datastore, and some minutes later all the others started to fail. My hypothesis is that network failures prevented Paxos, a CP algorithm, to go forward
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by estebarb 7y ago
A today solution for this problem, that is used on real life systems, is scheduling a regular restart of the programs (and claiming all its resources). Also, this must be fixed at OS level that must assume that they may have memory leaks, a
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by estebarb 7y ago
It's easy to achieve good performance on small datasets. But we are speaking of Internet scale!!! And not only that, Google is capable of serving responses to millions of persons!!! The index take a lot of disk, memory, computing power
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by estebarb 7y ago
I don't see how this could reduce Google's "Monopoly". Searching with an API is the same as searching from the browser. how the results are going to be sorted: garbage will be garbage, and should be demoted both in the A
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by estebarb 7y ago
The import tax is around 50% and still have to pay sales taxes (like VAT but different). Here the cars are sell with nice seats and radio, instead of must have security features... You know, to die with style. Oh, yes San Jose smells bad, b
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by estebarb 7y ago
At least in Costa Rica beaches are already used for private resort beaches (illegal in law, but meh), extracting salt and dumping construction debris or stealing sand. With those antecedents I don't think the government would oppose to
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by estebarb 7y ago
I'm wondering: how much energy we could save if magically all our Python, Ruby, PHP websites appear rewritten in Rust or Go. Datacenters use a lot of energy: improving performance of interpreter to match efficiency of compiled ones wou
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by estebarb 7y ago
Maybe it could be pushed as a web browser/crawler feature: mark sites as fake news? But I'm sure it would be used by bad governments to do more harm than good... :'(
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by estebarb 7y ago
It reminds me of OVSDB + IDL (C client): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7047 . The C client keeps a partial replica of the database, and the database notifies all the clients with the changes. It makes super fast to wo
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by estebarb 7y ago
I remember that with Windows 98SE, when it got stuck most of the times you can make it come back to life again by opening/closing the CD tray a lot of times...

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