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by etrain 14y ago
I had a very similar experience about a year ago. Except instead of running out of RAM on a 32-bit instance, I was running out of disk on a 64-bit instance. That's right, my database ran out of disk, and the driver didn't throw an exception
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by etrain 14y ago
The signup/confirm/login metaphor is really tired and annoying. Don't give me two screens of meaningless text, show me what your product does and let me interact with it before making me sign up. For example, open the strategy builder windo
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by etrain 14y ago
Want to comment just to stress that this feature is EXTREMELY useful and has saved me from all sorts of tricks with file intermediate output with filenames that match process ids, etc.
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by etrain 14y ago
Serious question for phk: Despite your rant, why do you continue to use autotools in Varnish? Is it because libraries that Varnish depends on require autotools? Or did you simply follow convention?
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by etrain 14y ago
The startup game has tons of formally educated people, and their failure rate is just as spectacularly high, if not higher. In my experience, the formally educated tend to build "science projects" at a higher rate than businesses, when comp
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by etrain 14y ago
Love the data and the site. Would be fantastic if you'd open up an API to this data to make it easy to ingest and analyze in external tools (R, Excel, whatever). It would be easy enough to scrape it, but formal support for data export is su
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by etrain 14y ago
Really strong support for code reviews.
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by etrain 14y ago
I don't mind the rtomakyo dotfile style. ( https://github.com/rtomayko/dotfiles ) I haven't implemented it myself - mostly relying on standard tools as the author does. Vanilla bash, vim, etc. The other trick I like to employ (if I'm in con
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by etrain 14y ago
"Certainly by the time you read this." Code isn't live yet, at least for me, ericd - is this conversation giving you pause about deploying the new feature, or is it standard ops issues? Also, this couldn't come at a better time for me. I lo
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by etrain 14y ago
Yeah, Wrangler will turn your "manipulation" steps into scripts in Python/MapReduce/Javascript.
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by etrain 14y ago
I guess it's been about 9 months since I really put pandas through its paces, so I'll take another look. IIRC, last time I really tried to do a project with pandas, I found some typing/data transformation issues to be the things that held m
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by etrain 14y ago
Not sure if snark, or if really thst financially sophisticated...
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by etrain 14y ago
This release looks like a great upgrade to a great library. The idea of using python as my "one language" is really appealing, but I still find myself falling back on R pretty consistently when it comes to data manipulation/analysis. As pan
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by etrain 14y ago
I agree with you here, but there are environmental concerns related to the extraction process - namely contaminated water supplies and greenhouse gas emissions.
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by etrain 14y ago
Whether or not you believe we're approaching or passed Peak Oil, it's astounding the impact that technology improvements in horizontal drilling and shale gas are having on domestic oil and natural gas prices vs. the rest of the world. Curre
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by etrain 14y ago
Good stuff - big fan of your company. But you'd agree you did something pretty different, right? You started with the major retailers and integrated with existing inventory systems, if I'm not mistaken? I think that was a better path forwar
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by etrain 14y ago
Yeah, except Milo hit this from a different (and completely sensible) angle. While the OP suggests spending years building up a free inventory system for all local merchants, the Milo guys realized that 1) A huge percentage of stores these
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by etrain 14y ago
Only in certain environments does divide by zero == +Infinity.
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by etrain 14y ago
Very cool - where are you getting your data (links, location, language, etc.)?
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by etrain 14y ago
I am not an antenna expert, but one of the things to understand about antenna design is that the shape of the antenna changes its transmission properties. In this case, you end up with a directional antenna. In the case of a WiFi mesh netwo
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by etrain 14y ago
The software industry allows for something that's pretty unique - two people can have the same title/role, but one of them might be 100x more productive than another. While some of this difference can come down to innate ability, much of it
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by etrain 14y ago
This goes beyond creative works, but to many other types of digital content. I remember hearing John McAfee discussing trying to come up with a way to sell software, and say something like "here was this thing, that cost absolutely nothing
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by etrain 14y ago
I'll bite. Investors don't value early stage companies the same way they value mature companies - for example, a public utility company serves a defined population in a defined geographic region, and operates at some predictable margin. The
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by etrain 14y ago
I used nmap a lot during the 2.5 days (c. 2001), and was even a (very occasional) contributor as they were porting to Windows. I can safely say I have 0 idea how 90% of its functionality works anymore - and I think that's a testament to how
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by etrain 14y ago
It would be awesome to collect some concrete examples of complete beginners coming in with revolutionary ideas - both in business and coding.
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by etrain 14y ago
Nope 2.8b is total shares outstanding. $38*2.8b or roughly 100b ~= facebooks current valuation. That said, I'm pretty sure the volume info included the offering of 10% of the company.
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by etrain 14y ago
Stock market performance != economic environment. Unemployment is still as high as its been in a generation (or more, depending on how you count), and real growth has been highly stagnant. Yes, we pulled away from the abyss, but outside of
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by etrain 14y ago
First - my point was about shareholder value. That has been depressed substantially since he took over, on a market relative basis. Second, It was the largest company in the world when he took the reigns. He's been the boss for 12 years. 9%
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by etrain 14y ago
Forbes named "worst CEOs" based on one pretty clear criteria: These CEOs have failed to create value (or stopped creating value) for their shareholders over long periods, yet remain employed, and their companies remain pretty large. GE has
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by etrain 14y ago
Stonebraker's research and commercial ventures the last several years have been focused on building specialized variants of existing database systems. Vertica (C-Store), VoltDB (H-Store), Streambase (Aurora), and SciDB are all specialized D

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