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by hcoyote 7mo ago
You're probably looking for seastar, the underlying library used in products like Scylla and Redpanda.
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by hcoyote 7y ago
Matt Risinger (austin-based homebuilder) did a freeze comparison between copper, pex, and sharkbite fittings some time back. It was pretty interesting. At this point, I'd probably go for PEX-A (compression band) over PEX-B (the crimp s
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by hcoyote 8y ago
Mine was The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, read around the same age (took me awhile to get through SiaSL). The ideas around TANSTAAFL were what really drove me to believe in the value of hard work and being wary of the easy path to "succes
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by hcoyote 8y ago
I used to work at a vertically-focused web search engine and ran the operational side of the crawler. Also missing from this discussion would be a mechanism to rate limit (and determine adequate rate limits, based on your error rates) the c
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by hcoyote 9y ago
Probably the first thing to do is find a copy of Lawrence Chang's Handbook of Spoken Mathematics (also referenced in a previous HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10284052 ) This has been great for helping me
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by hcoyote 9y ago
What, specifically, is preventing the conversion? I've converted hundreds of TBytes to Parquet (including moving away from that HIVE ACID stuff).
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by hcoyote 10y ago
Similarly, certain books show up multiple times, once for each version. It would be great if those were consolidated to the latest version of the book. An example of this is when you search for Hadoop. You'll find all 4 editions of Tom
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by hcoyote 10y ago
I don't have a problem with their pricing decisions. It works for some people, it doesn't work for others. I was just noting that the pricing mirrors what I've seen in the photo/art book world.
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by hcoyote 10y ago
The book took 8 years to make. He died in Oct 2011. He probably knew about it.
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by hcoyote 10y ago
Honestly, this cost is on par with other book-based photographic collections from small, bespoke printing companies (Such as Lodima Press). The real question is how many copies did they run. This will determine whether or not the cost is j
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by hcoyote 10y ago
This idea was presented at Usenix LISA a few years back. "Two-Person Control Administration: Preventing Administation Faults through Duplication" by Shaya Potter, Steve Bellovin, and Jason Nieh https://www.usenix.org&#x
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by hcoyote 11y ago
It's not that far off when you consider replacing just light switches with Z-wave switches in a 2000-2500sq ft home. Figure there's probably 25-30 light switches in a house that size. You're looking at about $900-$1200 wort