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by illumin8 9y ago
LOL - I'd like to report that I was able to download the entire source code of your website by right-clicking and selecting "View Page Source..."
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by illumin8 9y ago
Underwhelming - you could build the same exact thing with a bunch of white box servers and a pair of Infiniband switches.
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by illumin8 9y ago
Your rental rates are accurate, but the cost of ownership is way more than $0.10 per mile. For that to be true, you'd have to pay $20K for the average car (the average is higher), drive it for 200,000 miles, and that doesn't coun
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by illumin8 9y ago
I've recently noticed a huge decline in the quality of Uber drivers. In 2012, when I first started using Uber, most of the drivers were college educated millennials driving a brand new Toyota Prius. They were friendly and nice to hav
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by illumin8 9y ago
I'm not talking about Le Pen. I'm talking about the army of far-right wackos on Twitter that openly spout nazi memes and unleash bot armies on anyone who disagrees with them. Le Pen is probably a far right wacko as well, but I do
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by illumin8 9y ago
Isn't that the intention of these far-right wackos? The "official" campaign is over, so they can attempt to influence the results without worrying about the Macron campaign being able to deny the rumors? Twitter needs to dec
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by illumin8 9y ago
This is hilariously bad. An "audiophile" speaker manufacturer lovingly handcrafts genuine wooden cabinets, then proceeds to fill them with the cheapest possible components acquired from AliExpress... With those kind of margins, t
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by illumin8 10y ago
Exactly. And, since you have to scan your smartphone before entering, they already have your name, address, credit card details, etc., so shoplifting would be extremely risky. Most teenage shoplifters might be able to outrun a security gu
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by illumin8 10y ago
Netflix realizes that the value presented by AWS for outweighs the costs. If you feel differently, you should probably ask yourself what information you are missing, rather than just dismissing Netflix and their decision. It's clear
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by illumin8 10y ago
May I make a suggestion: Try Amazon Aurora. You'll get 500,000 read operations per second, and 100,000 writes per second. It supports up to 64TB of total capacity, and 244GB RAM on your primary master. You can also have up to 15 re
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by illumin8 10y ago
This is just factually incorrect. AWS hard partitions all instance types, except T2 (which are overcommitted, and clearly advertised as such: "burstable"). So, if you provision an x1.32xlarge with 128 vCPU and 1.92TB of RAM, you
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by illumin8 10y ago
+1 - I stopped visiting Forbes because they decided to block ad-blockers. Fuck them; they won't get my eyeballs.
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by illumin8 10y ago
The fact that this comment is the top comment on this post, and pedantically tries to tarnish the entire article, which contains many real-life quotes from female software developers who are real, and live today, speaks volumes. Please, tak
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by illumin8 10y ago
And, I'm not saying this is wrong, but it appears to me that most people living here have voted with their wallet. If you compare food prices in nordic countries where labor is more fairly priced, you'll see how dramatically more
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by illumin8 10y ago
Data protection. HDFS replicates chunks of files across 3 different drives by default. This is configurable, but it's one of the most simple ways to protect your data from drive failures, without the performance penalty of RAID.
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by illumin8 10y ago
It actually doesn't matter what California voters want, or what a red federal government wants, a constitutional amendment would require 2/3rds of both the house and senate, as well as 75% of all the US state legislatures to appro
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by illumin8 10y ago
No need to be pedantic; the narrative that they are all gang members, rapists, hard, violent criminals is deeply flawed and inaccurate.
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by illumin8 10y ago
My grandfather owned many apple orchards, and he said without migrant labor, he would have had to go out of business years ago. He could not hire US citizens as workers because nobody that is born here wants to climb trees all day picking
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by illumin8 10y ago
Salt Lake City, Utah, has had very good success with light rail.
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by illumin8 10y ago
I get it, but think of what you're getting in return. The example in the article, about the Coke vending machine. Imagine in the past, before vending machines - the only way you would be able to buy a Coke in that particular area woul
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by illumin8 10y ago
If your professor is just reading text bullet points from a slide, he sucks at public speaking and presentation skills. Don't blame the medium for poor public speaking skills. I was just in a 2-day classroom setting this week and the
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by illumin8 10y ago
Why would they need to? https://c9.io
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by illumin8 10y ago
A complete restart of the index subsystem would require downtime. Note: they are not saying those servers have never been restarted - it's highly likely they get restarted regularly. But, a complete restart of the index subsystem imp
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by illumin8 10y ago
It's actually just two commands: 1. hive 2. INSERT INTO parquet_table SELECT * FROM csv_table;
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by illumin8 10y ago
S3 bucket creation was down in us-west-2, because it relied on us-east-1 (I expect that dependency will get fixed after this), but all S3 operations should have continued to function in us-west-2, other than cross-region replication from us
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by illumin8 10y ago
How much BTC did he get?
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by illumin8 10y ago
You might also consider AWS batch. It's designed for this type of use case.
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by illumin8 10y ago
It's not that bad. You can compress the data on S3 in ORC or Parquet format, and you only pay for the compressed data you read, so 1TB can be 130GB after compression. Plus, these formats store summary data, so queries like SELECT COU
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by illumin8 10y ago
Well, you could run it on a large EC2 instance (x1.32xlarge?!:O) and it would be running the lambdas on the cloud, technically... ;-)
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by illumin8 10y ago
You can always do a full scan of your S3 namespace every week or so and synchronize the index. This gives your consumers low latency access to the object store, as index lookups are extremely fast, it minimizes the cost of lookup events on

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