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   Handling big data with probabilistic data structures. PyCon 2011. (video)(blip.tv)

   50 points by herdrick 15y ago|1 comments
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   I only bring it up because a lot of people do "try to stick it through to an exit" only due to that bias. It's a sad waste of talent. EDIT: In fact, I think that whole section should say the opposite: "2. Refusing to quit with unexercised
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   Very good post, aside from this: "So if you join a startup and don’t exercise, you should probably try to stick it through to an exit." No. If you're thinking of quitting, presumably an exit which will make you rich is not imminent. Hang
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   OK, thanks! That's valuable info.
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   Nathan, we'd love to hear your postmortem on BackType's experience with Neo4J, and how Sphinx is turning out.
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   Ah yes, I should have read not scanned "3. Distributed RPC". Thanks.
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   This sounds great. This is the traditional realtime processing use case: process messages and update a variety of databases. Question: I typically think of real-time as a need for user-facing things, i.e. handling a user's requests before
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   Riordan said the computer science department could be doing more... in terms of forging ties with technology leaders... It's funny, WWU CS has a repuation for being a very pro-Microsoft department. Not sure what's really going on here.
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   No, your rent is a function of the supply and demand of rentals.
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    I was making a joke using communist terminology. To be more direct, I don't think Steve is casting a dark cloud over the community, in fact the opposite metaphor is better: he's bringing some important issues to light.
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    I think the term you are looking for is 'wreckers'.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    ... the Racket library is immense... It is very impressive by the standards of relatively unpopular languages. Also the documentation is really good. But if Racket's libraries are immense, what is Ruby's and Rails'? Mega gargantuan?
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Please be nice. jbooth, if you try Haskell out you'll be very surprised. It's often true - it's just that it takes a lot more work to get a Haskell program to compile.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    > I'm quite sure in a decade or two I can't wait, thanks for the cheery prediction!
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Noisebridge is pretty open to this, I think. Email me if you want.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Ran into a lot of problems with Neo4J and rewrote it later using Sphinx Really? I'd love to hear more about this.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Actually, that's not what he's talking about. He's saying that they only do something about lack of process or messy code or whatever when it starts to hurt them. It's strictly internal.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Clojure has Leiningen for library versioning / package management / builds. It's excellent.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Thanks for this. I didn't know about update-in. Are there other 'update' functions? However, it's a good thing you want a DAG, because with immutable data structures you're hosed if you want a cyclic graph. Or at least you won't be build
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    There are tons; you just rarely hear about them.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    A more accurate title today would be, "How I lost my faith in Common Lisp".
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Those weren't bad decisions, they were technical debt - a very useful thing in early stage startups.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Same for me.
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    Facebook: tools are top priority(facebook.com)

    14 points by herdrick 16y ago|5 comments
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Still undervalued. Goldman got a good deal.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Related: see the cheapest flight to each of your Facebook friends. http://apps.facebook.com/milehighflyer/
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Market size. People speculate it's only worth $1M a year to Amazon. But what could it be if it were better done?
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Better comments at programming.reddit, sadly: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ed2pb/yacc_is_d...
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Aside: it's looking like Lamarck was right.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Oops. Only five days ago - ouch.