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by gopalv 7y ago
> whacking the C: drive with a screwdriver handle, and punched the power. Disk heads have been "sticking" like that forever[1], I guess. And it's a good bit that it will stick back down soon and plow right into a set of cy
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by gopalv 7y ago
> while the Dutch Wikipedia tell these walls are meant to protect fruit from weather conditions Might also have a historic quirk to it. "The fruit wall appears around the start of the so-called Little Ice Age, a period of exceptiona
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by gopalv 7y ago
The article starts with "This unusual storage mechanism used a stack of Mylar sheets to hold 15,360 bits, equivalent to 1920 bytes."
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by gopalv 7y ago
> And while the Bay is tricky from a commuting standpoint no matter what the location, As someone who lives in the area, I like the fact that both BART & Caltrain cross-over right around the airport (I commute to Palo Alto and SF dow
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by gopalv 7y ago
Not the original comment, but I have run into a specific set of regulatory scenarios where the immutability of any event log is a big problem. The data retention policies for users who leave the platform is set to 30 days by GDPR, which req
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by gopalv 7y ago
SSTO would probably more relevant to return from Mars rather than to go there in the first place - building a solid booster or building a mars recoverable one might be crazy. However, the atmospheric pressure in Mars is a lot lower than on
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by gopalv 7y ago
> Amazon is a slightly annoying company that I rarely root for, but Oracle is a predatory company Amazon and Oracle couldn't be more different in this point of view. Amazon's predatory instincts are pointed inwards and downward
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by gopalv 7y ago
> for others I have met, it was a limiting factor and they would heavily disagree The GP comment isn't really about intelligence - it is about the measurement of intelligence & the impact of parental expectations (societal, self
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by gopalv 7y ago
> The basic idea is to read records for a while, get some stats about the key distribution, and set up the buckets to get a roughly equal fraction of the observed keyspace Hadoop Terasort does the same thing of sort, which is to start o
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by gopalv 7y ago
> what I would love is a Kafka-like "event store with MQ semantics", which is in turn backed by an object store. I use Druid for somewhat of an off-kafka store with object store flushing. It is not an MQ log, but the ingestion
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by gopalv 7y ago
My dad bought me one on a long train ride, which had 8-way slides and a few years down the line, I happened to find it & ended up writing out a solver[1]. The problem is not particularly difficult though, I spent most of my time buildin
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by gopalv 7y ago
> What will be fun is to figure out how California is going to implement this wild hared idea if the sport is not profitable The law does not require the sport to pay anything more, this removes the "you may not use your own likenes
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by gopalv 7y ago
> I can copy values with values.copy() which is simple and efficient. If I implemented a possibility as a Python set or list I would need to use copy.deepcopy(values), which is less efficient. The array deepcopy isn't too bad, at le
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by gopalv 7y ago
> The author is making the case for special treatment of structs for a special case. The struct by-copy is mostly a good API thing in a lot of scenarios, particularly when the objects are <1 cache line. Even more so, when you're
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by gopalv 7y ago
> they did actually pitch the social good use case of helping law enforcement find and arrest criminals involved in child prostitution rings. That's sort of the crux of it - ICE wasn't supposed to be bad guys. In fact, ICE coul
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by gopalv 7y ago
> almost barefoot shoes on pavement is the most honest thing you could do while practicing barefoot running I'd second that, though I'm a very casual runner. I grew up running in flip-flops ("hawaii slippers") & o
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by gopalv 7y ago
> how did that person at the 2004 conference know you had the right stuff? I was there talking about my FOSS work, that probably helped. toolz asked me if the "Portable .NET" platform was portable enough to run on some new hard
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by gopalv 7y ago
> He has Aspergers and locks up and fails miserably in the interviewing process, but the honest, reality is, he is10 times the developer I am, the guy sees patterns instantly and has a knack for code organization. I don't think I ca
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by gopalv 7y ago
> it’s in not having to pay a sysadmin so you can work on business problems. ... > that benefit only improves with scale. That's hard to derive from the same statement - there's a point after which you can afford your own 8
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by gopalv 7y ago
> I thought the latency characteristics were much more reasonable there London to NY via space should be faster than through the ocean fiber, though it won't have a steady RTT over minutes, as the satellites pass overhead. Look at f
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by gopalv 7y ago
> Also, due to the continued rampant mistreatment of people under our visa situation (ranted about elsewhere), a lot of them have to put up with far more shit. That is perhaps the understatement within the whole article. The ability to p
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by gopalv 7y ago
> It's akin to the story (I can't find it) where a company stopped providing free soda It's a memorable one, because it was "soda is now 50 cents". https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21&#x2F
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by gopalv 7y ago
> what generally should I know here? The "real useful" part was a click further in for me. https://github.com/BTrDB/smartgridstore/blob/master/tools/c3... Ingress endpoints which is usu
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by gopalv 7y ago
> English is the national language of the US, when where's no such thing as a national language in the US "This is America, Speak English!" does have legal might behind it because of 8 USC 1423[1] The new DREAM act which w
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by gopalv 7y ago
Having hit this sort of problem too many times, I now recommend a DNS style FQDN in all my click-stream data. The domain stored as ".com.google.mail" etc. This breaks down a lot of these sort of queries with a simple enough '
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by gopalv 7y ago
> Sounds like a great way to kill docker completely For a good open source ecosystem, a commission isn't like rent, it is more like taxes. There's a balance point where paying someone else to debug and ship fixes for your probl
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by gopalv 7y ago
> But if someone asked me for career advice and said they don't know how much time they should spend outside of work on programming, I'd have a hard time telling them "no time at all". One of the most interesting hiri
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by gopalv 8y ago
> One of the most important findings is that pay generally will never motivate employees, but it will reduce their incentive to leave. Having talked to a crowd of senior people who were leaving their jobs recently, I think there's a
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by gopalv 8y ago
> Some people when they see my code, have the urge to modify it so that x is initialized to 0 before the branches. But this hides bugs. Something like Java's final would be useful in such a scenario. I write code which looks exactly
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by gopalv 8y ago
> Postgress makes a copy of _every_ row That's what the zHeap storage engine for Postgres fixes - in-place updates for fixed width data. https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/zheap

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