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by fizx 10y ago
I built custom storage for Twitter back in the 2010-12 period. There wasn't much off the shelf in those days that worked out-of-the-box at scale besides Cassandra, and Twitter had a well-documented attempt at using Cassandra for prima
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by fizx 10y ago
We use LD, because (1) we don't have time to make a pretty UI with user management and audit logs, and (2) we like the reliability story of running all of the heavy lifting through fastly's CDN. They are a little more pricey than
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by fizx 10y ago
You are crazy from a careers perspective, but do whatever makes you happy.
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by fizx 10y ago
In other news, words can mean more than one thing.
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by fizx 10y ago
We're kind of out on the edge of the galaxy. As you might suspect, dark matter tends to be more dense in the middle of the galaxy. I'll let someone else be more precise: http://cdms.berkeley.edu/Education/DMp
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by fizx 10y ago
In addition to unbalanced classes, where let's say 2% of data is from a minority class and 98% is from the majority, how do people handle when 2% of data is from the minority and 98% is of an unknown class, but pulled from a known dist
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by fizx 10y ago
> As they are still so keen on controlling encryption we can assume with good confidence that so far they have failed It would be quite the bluff though.
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by fizx 10y ago
If only we had a way of learning how to rank these papers...
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by fizx 10y ago
> We're thinking of releasing Carbide as open source in the coming weeks if there's a community interested in building stuff on top of it I'll be hitting refresh until you do :)
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by fizx 10y ago
As someone who has written a scraping framework, this article is useful AF. > but all it explained was how to make a few API calls in order to solve a very specific problem. Yeah, the very specific problems everyone runs into time after
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by fizx 10y ago
Nifty! Did not know that.
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by fizx 10y ago
There's no theoretical reason why multipaxos can't be implemented hierarchically in order to increase throughput or expand the key space beyond what a small number of machines can handle. But paxos itself is complicated enough to
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by fizx 10y ago
From what I see in this picture, the bungalows obey the principles of the article. For example, all the windows are similar, the house appears designed in thirds, the bottom floor clearly visually supports the top floor. The house is an exa
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by fizx 10y ago
Wow, that's like over 5,000,000,000 requests per month! Please use requests per second like everyone else.
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by fizx 10y ago
Unfortunately, you also get Enumeratee.take(4) &>> Iteratee.fold[Byte, Int](0){ case (acc, b) => acc * 256 + (b & 0xFF) } It's a community thing, and much like Java suffered from excessive XML and p
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by fizx 10y ago
> The physical configuration of a Dyson sphere is inherently unstable. It's the astronomical equivalent of balancing a pencil on its tip. No, it's neutral--the equivalent of keeping a ball on a table.
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by fizx 10y ago
If in some artificial scenario, I had to blind hire one of two candidates with functionally identical resumes, where one asks for market value, and the other asks for half market value, yeah, I take the higher salary..
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by fizx 10y ago
I have a hard time saying no myself. But hey, for the big cases, you can always go back to the person and say, "sorry, but it's not really going to work. I didn't take into account _____." If they're mad, they&#x2
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by fizx 10y ago
All things are never equal. Even assuming that you had an identical prior on the two candidates, the information that one person was willing to do a job for half price would make me doubt his intelligence.
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by fizx 10y ago
> Nobody is stopping engineers from saying "I'm going to contribute $1.5m to your bottom line this next year, I want you to pay me $1.4m", but they'll be shown the door because there's a guy that's willing t
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by fizx 10y ago
Lightspeed was probably in the training set ;)
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by fizx 10y ago
How in the world do you train that? Where's the corpus of english <-> code mappings come from?
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by fizx 10y ago
> I'm no biz-geek, I probably can't name a dozen CEOs. But for years, MM's name was called put in every critical mainstream headline about Yahoo, of which there were many. I do not believe that's an accident. I do not
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by fizx 10y ago
This story is screaming "no one wrote in this month so I had to make something up."
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by fizx 10y ago
By this guy's definition, housing construction has diseconomies of scale. You wouldn't believe how expensive a thousand story tall condominium complex would be!
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by fizx 10y ago
It gets better after a year or two of consistent monthly cash flow through one account, but $diety help you if you ever want to switch banks!
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by fizx 10y ago
Plenty of things can go wrong with a place to sleep. Bedbugs, for example.
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by fizx 10y ago
> Elasticsearch is one of the easiest clustered databases to administrate You seem to have installation confused with administration. Off the top of my head you forgot security, monitoring, logging config, backups, handling common produc
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by fizx 10y ago
> "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." The best minds of the previous generation were thinking about how to kill Russians. I'd say it's an upgrade.
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by fizx 10y ago
Looks like http://www.graphviz.org/

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