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by finnh 13y ago
Up to you. If it's a one-shot site that won't grow, then a single container is fine. But if you might grow, the upfront discipline of splitting them into separate containers will make it much easier to scale & distribute lat
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by finnh 13y ago
What do you mean "patents we're generally forbidden to read"? Patents are public domain.
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by finnh 13y ago
rather than try to convince sed to match your corrupt line via regexp, just use awk to split the file into 2 pieces - the lines before the corrupt line (into file A) and the lines after the corrupt line (into file B). Then cat the 2 files t
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by finnh 13y ago
If you put it in a mattress, sure. But most (all?) people invest their money at a far higher rate of return than inflation.
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by finnh 13y ago
Classic example of why greenfield development is much more pleasant than dealing with legacy systems. Of course, you have to do your new dev well to prevent it from becoming a legacy system that you have to fight with... But I do think t
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by finnh 13y ago
My son's incredible fascination with buses and cars arose with ZERO outside influence, starting when he was maybe 1 year old (he's 2 1/2 now). At the time I don't think he even owned any toy cars, but he would hear a bu
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by finnh 13y ago
Great doc reference, thanks. I've always been impressed by RethinkDB and so was surprised to see the blurb above about being "CA". Good to see that's not actually the party line. Obligatory Coda Hale reference: http:&
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by finnh 13y ago
But what is the current open source version of Iconic? If you click "Get Iconic", you are directed to the kickstarter page. No actual download anywhere that I can see.
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by finnh 13y ago
I was making a little joke - I thought it was widely known that Marissa Mayer was Google's first female engineer. Source: her wikipedia page, numerous articles.
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by finnh 13y ago
Lot of firsts in 1999: First dog First chef First non-engineering hire First press release First female engineer seems to be missing...
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by finnh 13y ago
exactly. good engineers do less, not more.
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by finnh 13y ago
I have the same question, from the same position of ignorance. can we get some tptacek up in here?
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by finnh 13y ago
... and that's why i use tripit
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by finnh 13y ago
I'm glad to see open-zfs.org for exactly the reasons you mention. I've been runnning MacZFS for years, but it's currently way behind at zpool version 8, zfs version 2. At one point I put a FreeBSD machine in the basement, wi
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by finnh 13y ago
I've noticed this myself as well, with a similar timeframe. In college, right when I started coding, I would regularly type up a 8-10 page paper (for non-CS assignments), find 2 typos in spell check, and then just ... turn it in. No
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by finnh 13y ago
sure, I'm being pedantic. But, if it's called out as "the perfect word" I assume the OP would want to know (just like I welcomed the correction when I first learned it).
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by finnh 13y ago
I used to live in a pretty small house. I loved it. Then I had two kids =) EDIT: added smileyface.
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by finnh 13y ago
Actually, "decimated" is not the perfect word for it. He's done much better than mere decimation! (Decimated means "reduced by 1/10th" ... not, as is popularly believed, "reduced to 1/10th")
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by finnh 13y ago
If you want to live in a city, it's not the cost of the house that kills you: it's the dirt. In Seattle, where I live, my property tax statement tells me that my (large, nice) house is worth roughly half as much as the land it sit
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by finnh 13y ago
No joke. I kept scrolling, looking for the paragraph when he quits the "trying to be funny for the intro" style and switches to a normal, readable mode.
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by finnh 13y ago
That's a great quote. I would hope that such a choice would not "scandalize" today's modern reader, as I don't think that nationalism is as strong today as it was in 1938. At least, not in the US. I hope. Which
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by finnh 13y ago
Well, to some extent the systems are already written. And there will always be private companies that manage to hire top talent while still selling shady shit to govt. (palantir, anyone?). Finally, it is absolutely the case that intelligen
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by finnh 13y ago
Charlie's argument is that the vast majority of people growing up today will not have sufficient loyalty to "the state" to fill the ranks of the state's spy apparatus. While I find it persuasive that people's loyalt
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by finnh 13y ago
I like the Docker idea, especially if Arc were providing the base linux VM via read-only mount and the website's Arc App was only a difference image on top of that ... nice and small.
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by finnh 13y ago
Nice checklist! I really like Coda Hale's "You Can't Sacrifice Partition Tolerance" [0] I think part of people's frequent confusion is thinking it's "CAP: Pick two" when really it's "C or A
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by finnh 13y ago
If you're advertising your curated list here on HN, you may wish to spell Kalzumeus right =)
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by finnh 13y ago
Wow, hostile! See my response to this same question when it was more gently expressed by 'hamburglar.
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by finnh 13y ago
I'm not saying it's a pump-and-dump. What I am saying is that Icahn (and others like him) are very careful to hide their purchases from the market while they are still purchasing , in order to prevent their own purchases from
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by finnh 13y ago
Icahn wouldn't be above sending a tweet like that to raise the price before unloading shares. His goal is to maximize his return, not that of his twitter followers.
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by finnh 13y ago
You are confusing throughput with latency. Google is optimizing for throughput.

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