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by hugofirth 7y ago
Using Neo4j community edition would certainly make your life easier in terms of the queries you might want to express, but for this amount of data you can get away with postgres, as you observe. If you want a simple in memory graph modellin
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by hugofirth 7y ago
> Culture fans: These are not the knife missiles you were thinking about. Though I'm not sure the US having access to those would make me feel any better :)
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by hugofirth 7y ago
I suspect you will thoroughly enjoy this twitter account: https://twitter.com/cultureshipname?lang=en
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by hugofirth 8y ago
True. Though in tradeoff it has massively increased throughput. I'm always frustrated when I see blockchains recommended as a solution for a consensus problem in anything but a zero-trust scenario
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by hugofirth 8y ago
Yeah this article isn't that so hackles down. Its someone writing a charming description of a tradition which is most likely completely unknown to their target audience. Also - the fact that Americans have not taken the time to find ou
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by hugofirth 8y ago
Not a lot of content yet, but building databases (even toys) is an incredibly interesting exercise which I encourage many more people to try out, so +1! For anyone else who is interested in learning how to build a database, can I thoroughly
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by hugofirth 8y ago
Just as a minor correction: Neo4j does have a built in query engine, but it is for the declarative query language Cypher, not the graph traversal framework Gremlin. Using spark as the example, think spark-sql vs operating over RDDs
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by hugofirth 8y ago
I would add that if you want something cheaper than Edinburgh, but in the same neck of the woods, then you should try Newcastle-upon-Tyne. There is the same academia-industry collaboration and a growing number of tech jobs. The pay is a bit
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You need a novelty budget(shimweasel.com)
4 points by hugofirth 8y ago|0 comments
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by hugofirth 8y ago
If you enjoyed this then there is at least a passable chance you'll be interested in the scala library cats-effect, which just 1.0 and has a nice toolkit of concurrency primitives, which are well documented. https://typeleve
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by hugofirth 8y ago
This is a very dangerous argument for anything but the most domain specific or simple logic. Every time I roll something non trivial rather than using the widely testing and "battle hardened" alternative that increases the fragi
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by hugofirth 8y ago
The author makes some interesting arguments, but they are all predicated on the idea that generics are somehow hard to grok or use? Having helped teach Java to many people with less than a year's programming experience at university, I
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by hugofirth 8y ago
As a point of comparison, the London Stock Exchange had its first female chief executive in 2001[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Furse
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by hugofirth 8y ago
I have to ask: what makes you think that staticly typed languages are harder to test? My experience is precisely the opposite. Large testing codebases can benefit hugely from the increased refactorability. In addition, the types help to exp
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Scala Cats hits 1.0(typelevel.org)
2 points by hugofirth 9y ago|0 comments
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by hugofirth 9y ago
In my limited experience (I've only voted in two constituencies during my life) MPs are actually pretty good about responding to comms. Now the cynic in me says it probably isn't them, but I've had an email back and forth
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by hugofirth 9y ago
Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe is a book of blueprint-like diagrams drawn in xkcd style explaining complex systems simply. Its great fun!
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Why Functional Programming? It's the Composition(tech.iheart.com)
3 points by hugofirth 9y ago|1 comments
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by hugofirth 9y ago
An upvote was an insufficient form of agreement. Go buy this book people!
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Social Security Cards Explained (by CGP Grey)(youtube.com)
1 points by hugofirth 10y ago|0 comments
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Tracking the Money - Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb(medium.com)
1 points by hugofirth 10y ago|0 comments
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by hugofirth 10y ago
An upvote was insufficient t express my agreement with this recommendation. The amount of papers this guy gets through and summarises well is ridiculous.
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by hugofirth 10y ago
Oh for goodness sake...
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by hugofirth 10y ago
This! Don't be fooled by the prevalence of Haskell-like libraries and patterns in the Scala community (or a vocal subset). Those are absolutely useful but you're free to use them or not, and if you want to just write ML style func
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by hugofirth 10y ago
I think its fair to say there is still value in extending the state of the art in graph partitioning algorithms. There are two assumptions implicit in your statement. First, that you have hardware available with large amounts of RAM (32GB w
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by hugofirth 10y ago
I do the same and have done for years, its nice to know others share my sense of whimsy :)
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What's the point of culture in Brexit Britain?(theguardian.com)
1 points by hugofirth 10y ago|0 comments
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Micro-optimizing your Scala code(lihaoyi.com)
1 points by hugofirth 10y ago|0 comments
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by hugofirth 10y ago
In point of fact, I think its not so much a handicap: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20918650/what-are-the-ben...
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Should All Locks Have Keys? Phones, Castles, Encryption, and You [video](youtube.com)
53 points by hugofirth 10y ago|18 comments

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