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by fizx 16y ago
Don't worry. Murder only takes a few minutes.
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by fizx 16y ago
We won't run it in production yet. YMMV.
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by fizx 16y ago
I like the variant: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
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by fizx 16y ago
You know how you think you're 90% done with a project, and there's a ton of little details, so that in reality, you're actually a long way out? That's where Cassandra is at.
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by fizx 16y ago
Remember Crystal Pepsi?
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by fizx 16y ago
To more easily implement, might I suggest the anonymized email approach a la Craigslist, with some karma floor for sending.
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by fizx 16y ago
> But also, if you consider taking classes in test only form ok, why not simply drop out and take the GED? I enjoyed playing sports. I had really outstanding English, Civics, and History teachers. I had a lot of (not always positive,
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by fizx 16y ago
I was extremely bored in high school. What did I do? I negotiated agreements with teachers to let me go to the library or gym instead of class, as long as I still aced tests and didn't cause trouble. I took calculus my freshman year. I
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by fizx 16y ago
Pick another name.
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by fizx 16y ago
If you are building a startup, I seriously recommend starting out in two data centers, even if you just have a vps or two in one or both of them. While operating at crazy scale may or may not be a Maserati problem, it will pay dividends ea
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by fizx 16y ago
Where's the vim option?
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by fizx 16y ago
Yep. Flagged...
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by fizx 16y ago
An interesting note is that Pivotal Lab's VP of Technology, Ian McFarland (@imf), was Friendster's Chief Architect. Ian is one of the nicest people in the SF startup scene, and can share the experience of Friendster's growth, pain, and sub
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by fizx 16y ago
Probably not. They don't have enough money yet to afford Pivotal. This is probably just good PR for both sides, as well as relationship-building, so that when Diaspora gets an A round, they can start spending it at Pivotal.
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by fizx 16y ago
Features cost money, news at 11.
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by fizx 16y ago
Slavery (in America) died in the 1800s. Your job doesn't own you.
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by fizx 16y ago
Thought experiment: If software patents were to have become invalid, and someone has a patented widget, could I legally recreate it in Second Life?
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by fizx 16y ago
> he second quintile of American income is still very, very poor My brother lived a middle-class lifestyle in Michigan on $25k/year. There's plenty of frugal people living in the sticks who do just fine.
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by fizx 16y ago
Hopefully, it does as well as their Twitter killer and their Wikipedia killer.
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by fizx 16y ago
IME, the presence of women has mostly been a signal that the workplace is healthy. For the most part, women won't put up with the same shit men will to get ahead. Whenever someone says "women are bailing," I read "working conditions are po
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by fizx 16y ago
Yeah, but its a practical necessity to have at least one person on the team who really groks hadoop, and has experience with the "quirks and rough edges." I wonder how many of the companies calling you need that person, or are just looking
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by fizx 16y ago
Nope
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by fizx 16y ago
It wasn't just that. The entire article was an immature run-on sentence.
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by fizx 16y ago
I too suffer from this, and am looking for a sustainable way out. This must be how obese people feel about their weight. If anyone else has solutions please post away. Strangely, the solution that's made the biggest difference in outside
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by fizx 16y ago
Indeed. From the Twitter blog, "They have joined our analytics team and will focus on integrating ideas from Trendly into our current tools and building innovative realtime products for our future commercial partners."
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by fizx 16y ago
Given that (1) the acquisition was almost surely for the talent, and (2) you deeply care about the space, you might consider getting in touch to see if you could take over or maintain DabbleDB.
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by fizx 16y ago
I can only imagine if you tried this in Boston ;)
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by fizx 16y ago
If someone is actually doing this, I'd love to see a writeup. Never underestimate other ocd nerds :)
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by fizx 16y ago
Hey! I'm one of the websolr guys. Obviously, we're working on this problem, and it's a hard (but fun and rewarding) one for a number of reasons! Search is fundamentally hard to put into the cloud, because it requires so many IO operations.
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by fizx 16y ago
Man I love the definition of culture at the bottom of the article. It really cuts through the crap and platitudes. Culture is: 1. Polarizing decisions 2. Excesses 3. Quirks 4. Dysfunctions And to answer the question:

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