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by habitue 11y ago
I think you're missing the massive technical issues that are impeding postgresql from doing efficient sharding. SQL was not designed with distributed systems in mind, it has numerous features that can't be done efficiently in a di
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by habitue 11y ago
Maybe TV is an ideal medium for brand awareness campaigns, but it simply won't have a large enough audience at some point. It seems like these marketers jumped on digital during the hype phase, and were just ahead of the curve. Now the
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by habitue 11y ago
Your app should be clustered, and your db (where your state should live) can be clustered too. Ultimately you want as little state in your app servers as possible, since this makes it harder to scale them out, reboot them etc. That's t
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by habitue 11y ago
Because people don't need any encouraging to do those things. From a dentists point of view there's no scarcity of poor dental decisions, so they don't need to artificially try to create them.
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by habitue 11y ago
This is an interesting thought, I like it
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by habitue 11y ago
"Objectively" is the new "Literally"
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by habitue 11y ago
What is the context of this?
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by habitue 11y ago
I think Navarr is fully aware of the Linux desktop meme. It's clearly tongue-in-cheek
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by habitue 11y ago
There is also js2-refactor [1] by Magnar Sveen (of emacs rocks fame) which adds structural editing to js2-mode [1]: https://github.com/magnars/js2-refactor.el
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by habitue 11y ago
It seems like the hype around Heroku has died down somewhat. Does anyone care to comment why they went with Heroku vs. AWS or the like?
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by habitue 11y ago
Oh my god, I can't take this rambling book review style. Please save me from this pretentious focusless essay disguised as a book review.
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by habitue 11y ago
I get that, I just meant to point out it's a collective action problem in both cases. There are different trade-offs for you personally though which might make you pick one over the other.
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by habitue 11y ago
Is it illegal? I would expect it to maybe break the ToS or something contract related, not be criminal.
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by habitue 11y ago
A lot of people seem to be attacking his numbers and his advice etc. But even if his explanations and suggestions are complete bunk, the fact that he's doing it serves as an existence proof that this kind of life is achievable. So if
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by habitue 11y ago
By sending your kids to a private school, aren't you contributing to the exodus from public schools that make schools in the city such a disaster to begin with?
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by habitue 11y ago
It won't be JDBC (since we have our own language ReQL) but we're working on an official java driver now: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3930
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by habitue 11y ago
I'm actually writing the official Java driver right now. We should have a beta version out in a few weeks Follow https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3930 for progress updates
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by habitue 11y ago
I appreciate that they archive their online articles with the original 1993 html.
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by habitue 11y ago
I agree people reinvent the wheel all the time, but instead of seeing it as something naive people do, I see it as fertile earth that genuinely new things can grow from. I feel like "young developers reinvent what we already had 30 ye
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by habitue 11y ago
This isn't interesting because it generates the best algorithmic music, it's interesting because he trained it on data, and didn't implicitly encode (very much) music theory into it. In other words, the fact that it sounds mu
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by habitue 11y ago
Holy shit. I hope this is sarcastic
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by habitue 11y ago
> I own my iTunes library, don’t need a membership card, and I don’t exactly “borrow” items from it. Depends on how many songs have DRM on them I guess. It's certainly not true for iTunes shows and movies
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by habitue 11y ago
> Over the next decade, you’ll see some of these entrepreneurs create companies at YC that rival Airbnb’s social (and financial) impact. I think this sentence is interesting. It kind of hints that they use the term "AirBnB" int
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by habitue 11y ago
They actually say explicitly that they won't: > these findings won’t dictate how we choose to invest from now on
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by habitue 11y ago
Total security is not having a computer, or having it off all the time. So in the limit, they must interfere. What you're saying is you refuse to believe we cannot have an acceptable compromise. That I think is reasonable.
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by habitue 11y ago
Two things I can think of: for consumers, applications don't currently make the best use of multiple cores. There just isn't enough work to do on them. For gaming at least, DirectX 12 will remove a limitation that only one CPU cor
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by habitue 11y ago
This is in direct violation of the Chain that Binds.
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by habitue 11y ago
> Without a certain minimal degree of luck, you would have no scientific progress. A minor disagreement on this point. I think often our intuitions are shaped by experience, and lead us to conclusions that we don't have a rational l
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by habitue 11y ago
I don't disagree except that in order to produce a sufficiently human-like intelligence that can pass the turing test, we'll most likely need to have pulled the human experience apart enough to understand where the experience of q
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by habitue 11y ago
What you're saying is that there's no difference between something that exists and is unobserved by a conscious mind, and something that doesn't exist. I'm talking about the definition of existence that makes the sentenc

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