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PipelineDB (YC W14) is hiring engineers
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PipelineDB (YC W14) is hiring engineers
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PipelineDB (YC W14) is hiring employee #1
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PipelineDB (YC W14) is hiring employee #1
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PipelineDB (YC W14) is hiring employee #1
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by grammr 14y ago
> there could be a greater effort to channel this enthusiasm into technology that has more a profound and positive impact Of course there could be, but what this woman fails to realize is that smart people are not obligated to donate th
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by grammr 14y ago
tl;dr: MapReduce is bad at a lot of things that it was never designed for.
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by grammr 15y ago
Several of the most popular porn sites are in the Alexa top 100 (ish) in the U.S. You don't get that kind of traffic without having a massive number of Americans watching porn regularly. There's a perception that watching porn is taboo, but
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by grammr 15y ago
It's worth noting that achieving immortality isn't just about medical breakthroughs. Even if one were to have "immortal" cells, an accident resulting in fatal physical trauma would likely occur within about 400 years [0]. [0] http://simple
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by grammr 15y ago
Relevant discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2990768
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by grammr 15y ago
Agreed. I was confused when he started the article by claiming that in "Silicon Valley, there is no more pejorative term than “lifestyle business.”" This is absolutely not a characteristic of the startup community.
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by grammr 15y ago
Many people mistakenly assume that MapReduce is only useful when dealing with Google or Facebook scale datasets. Nowadays, MapReduce is simply a convenient data access pattern, particularly when your data is spread across multiple machines.
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by grammr 15y ago
Check out https://www.cloudability.com/ . They have all sorts of cost monitoring and analysis tools for popular cloud providers.
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by grammr 15y ago
You very well could be right. But what's meaningful here is that Berkeley is hard, and that was the original point :)
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by grammr 15y ago
> Are you saying that the caliber of student in the EECS department of Berkeley is so high that even the bottom 13% of the class would have gotten C's or B's at another school? Certainly not any other school in general, but at your aver
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by grammr 15y ago
This is a valid point. The EECS department at Berkeley essentially sets the distribution of letter grades that will be assigned at the end of each course[0], so there will always be many damned smart students who end up getting really low (
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War of words breaks out over Silicon Valley diversity debate(money.cnn.com)
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by grammr 15y ago
"I want to put a ding in the universe."
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by grammr 15y ago
There are definitely different magnitudes of innovation. There's innovation in terms creating new products and services that people will pay for, and there's innovation that nudges the entire human race forward a little bit. The scientists
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by grammr 15y ago
He's making a fair point, which is that certain types of classification methods basically involve "fitting" a hyperplane to a dataset in such a way that the hyperplane divides the data into different classes [1]. In trivial cases, we may be
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by grammr 16y ago
Considering how strongly the author feels about developing exclusively on *nix, I found it surprising that it took as much as an interview for him to learn that "company X" uses Windows. Almost all software job reqs. offer reasonable insigh
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by grammr 16y ago
My mom is a pretty senior manager at T-Mobile, so when I first read this post I texted her about the acquisition. She said that there were rumors in the company that Sprint was trying to buy them, but she had heard nothing about the AT&
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by grammr 16y ago
"I also want them to be humble and realistic." Ironically, this statement is neither humble nor realistic. No one cares about how you'd like them to be. If all entrepreneurs were humble and realistic, we'd still be in the Stone Age. Yea, a
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by grammr 16y ago
My databases professor at my university once brought up Jim Gray's data latency analogy to illustrate the costs of using different types of storage. Basically it goes something like this: Using a register is like interacting with informatio
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by grammr 16y ago
I think he's suggesting that if any part of the reddit codebase is too complex, then it needs to be ripped out.
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by grammr 16y ago
Write code with testing it in mind. Testing is often introduced far too late in the programming learning process, if at all.
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by grammr 16y ago
I think IDEs will be one of the last classes of applications to move from the desktop to the Web. In addition to the usability challenges of running a highly complex application in a browser, there are also a ton of security/access issues t
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by grammr 16y ago
+240% because of a tweet? I don't think I've ever seen a better opportunity for a short.
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by grammr 16y ago
"If one wants a more educated populace, the answer is less school, not more." This is the most ignorant statement I've seen on HN so far this year. Institutional education is far from perfect, but that hardly means we are better off without
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by grammr 16y ago
I listen to music about half the time I'm coding, but I almost always have my Bose QC 15's on. Wearing them with no music playing blocks a ton of distracting noise out. While expensive, they're one of the best investments I've ever made.

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