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by jasonkolb 12y ago
Honestly I'm not sure, I haven't used Solr. I was just comparing it to the relational databases I've used, key-value stores like Cassandra, and other documents stores like Mongo. It definitely doesn't replace relational
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by jasonkolb 12y ago
I'm sitting in Elasticsearch training right now (during a caffeine break). These are some really great guys that know their stuff, and they're committed to contributing back to the OSS version everything that makes sense. They con
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by jasonkolb 12y ago
I often wonder the same thing. Other things that require the same level of expertise typically tell you that you need to do something by actively breaking. I know I need to call my heating and cooling guy because my air conditioning stops w
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by jasonkolb 12y ago
I think you give way too much credit to the average person. It's easy to lose sight of how scary technical things are to normal people when you're in it day in and day out, but to ask the average person to change something in thei
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I think most people would appreciate some feedback on something they work hard for, even if it's just an "atta boy, looks good, keep on going--sorry it didn't work out", or even better some productive feedback ("you
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Author here... I realize Namecoin is playing in the identity space, I'd love to get some feedback from people who are familiar with it. The Ethereum project (which recently surfaced here as well) is the most interesting to me. What&#x2
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Should you pay capital gains on yourself?(jasonkolb.com)
2 points by jasonkolb 13y ago|1 comments
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Caloric restriction is absolutely fascinating in all forms. I think intermittent fasting might be the best-known variant of this, but there are others. All of them cause dramatic changes in the way bodies function, from changing the hormone
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
"It shows that depression is something chemical, that it can be reversed with chemicals, it dispenses for once and for all that you can just pull your socks up." This is entirely an assumption, and shows nothing conclusively. Just
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5 Technologies That Will Change the World(jasonkolb.com)
15 points by jasonkolb 13y ago|6 comments
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
That just ruined my lunch. Seriously, Zite is awesome, only "recommender" that actually works for me. Prismatic, Flipboard, everything else I've tried--they all suck. Only Zite consistently gives me things I haven't seen
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Why Data Strategy Matters(jasonkolb.com)
6 points by jasonkolb 13y ago|2 comments
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
This story is the only response needed when someone says "I don't care because I don't have anything to hide".
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Have you actually used the site? I tried to register, it's a complete joke. It crashed twice and eventually I got to a point where I literally could not figure out what I was supposed to do next. I mean, I'm a programmer and I cou
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Hey Tristan, looks awesome. Great work! This has some really interesting adjacencies to a project that we currently have in limited beta and getting to roll out widely very soon. I'd love to chat about some ideas I have to work togethe
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Interesting way to buy and sell coins. I wonder what the markup will be compared to some of the other services out there once you factor in commissions and so on.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Interesting. This appears to be an attempt to do some market research by Google--to find out which messages are resonating with their audience. I wonder if it'll work.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I didn't feel like this post was very clear, but I do (think?) it pointed out some important ideas. Data as the fodder that a community uses to discuss and dissect its area of focus is going to be a high growth area. It provides an alm
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
My guess: they will float a toothless bill that gives lip service to protecting civil liberties. Then they will gauge the reaction to that bill to find out how much the public at large actually understands about what's going on. If the
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I thought the recent rule changes allowed this now... isn't this what Angel List is essentially doing?
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
So here's a question... with the new rules around fund-raising, why wouldn't he just throw up a box to this side of this article that says something like: "By the way... now that you've seen our numbers, if you're i
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
This is so relatively unimportant compared to the issue of antibiotics becoming useless that it made me laugh. It needs a healthy dose of perspective.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Cool. I thought maybe it caught something from healthcare.gov servers. It's that time of year you know.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I'm not sure you're right, but I totally agree with the idea behind your idea, which seems to be that it's better to explain the difference rather than work around it. From a coder's perspective, I'm looking at this
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
What we really need is a political movement based only on a very few things that we can all agree on. Leave economics, morals, guns, abortion, and everything else completely out of the story and focus on one or two core issues. Like upholdi
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I would like to salute the people who are willingly putting themselves on all kinds of lists by being here. I would be there as well if it were practical for me.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
This could be one of the most important rulings in history. It will define whether or not the country is actually run by the Constitution or not, as it can clearly be read. If it goes the wrong way (as I, and anyone else with a halfway dece
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
That's what I was thinking as well. If this sort of thing becomes commonplace, you would just take a jammer or scrambler with you and turn it on after you see them give up the chase. It wouldn't be for your run-of-the-mill stupid
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
That's pretty cool. GPS jammers are relatively easy to make however. Funny how hacking skills are quickly becoming the most powerful skills in meatspace as well.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
That's a good point, I hadn't considered the collaboration aspect. Out of curiosity, what kind of projects require this? I suppose a book with multiple authors is one good example, are there others?

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