jbellis

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by jbellis 14y ago
Space Monkey's seed round was about nine months ago ( http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/11/space-monkey-seed-round/ ). Maybe that's what you're thinking of?
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by jbellis 14y ago
Both upload and download can be capped in the Preferences. Upload, where bandwidth limits are the worst, is almost entirely based on replicating data you've added to Space Monkey. (I have an alpha Space Monkey device.)
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by jbellis 14y ago
http://www.crunchzilla.com/code-monster Also, +1 recommendation for Scratch.
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by jbellis 14y ago
That's pretty common. "Maker's schedule" http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html rings true to every technical person I know.
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by jbellis 14y ago
Oops, you're right, this is CPB. He's screwed.
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by jbellis 14y ago
Looks to me more like 700k was blocked as part of the capital controls to prevent a bank run. The actual amount to be seized will be much smaller. Cold comfort, I know.
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by jbellis 14y ago
The IRS computer systems are stuck in the 80s. You can get them to send you a copy of the information they have; it will be ready around August. I'm not exaggerating; I've done this a couple times because I'm terrible at keeping track of t
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by jbellis 14y ago
Cute, but as someone who presents at conferences many times a year, I would never rely on a network connection.
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by jbellis 14y ago
I'm pretty sure "buying a product" wasn't how it was presented when I first looked at it... in any case, it's clearly an attempt to get around the rules; nobody is seriously interested in buying a My First RPG Maker Game on its merit. Tuit
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by jbellis 14y ago
This violates kickstarter guidelines against "fund my life" campaigns ( http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines ). I've used the Report button to bring this to their attention. Yes, I know it's a feel-good story, but encouraging this wi
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by jbellis 14y ago
On the flip side, I've seen insane (from a US standpoint) rules on vesting at UK startups, like "the company gets all your options back if you leave." Don't know if this is SOP or not.
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How a prosecutorial culture of paranoia, zero-tolerance, and fear harms security(plus.google.com)
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by jbellis 14y ago
+1, the reader table definitely needs iOS/Android app columns.
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by jbellis 14y ago
It's a lot more similar to Cassandra than Voldemort, actually. Voldemort is more of a straight-up clone of the original Dynamo, while Cassandra and DynamoDB are second-generation, what-can-we-learn-from-Dynamo's-weak-points evolutions from
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by jbellis 14y ago
I see a bunch of stories about this recently, but they all seem to derive from this 2008 one: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/homeland-sec... Has there been any actual new reporting since then?
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by jbellis 14y ago
"Instead of using AWS primitives, they built their service on their own hardware in neighboring data centers, and utilized AWS DirectConnect to provide low latency connectivity." To me that sounds like, "we deploy on SSDs." Which then make
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RavenDB vs HBase vs MongoDB vs Riak vs Cassandra(blog.markedup.com)
3 points by jbellis 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbellis 14y ago
It looks like he's only considering ideal writes with no amplification. This can make a big difference: http://lwn.net/Articles/428584/
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by jbellis 14y ago
This is the level of modern public discourse. "Romney lied" or "Obama lied" was what you probably heard most in headlines last year, even though in most cases the discrepancy was more along the lines of Broder lowering the temperature twen
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by jbellis 14y ago
The college professors I know would laugh bitterly at the suggestion that underprepared college freshmen was a relatively new phenomenon.
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by jbellis 14y ago
It's worth noting that the FB HBase install is also sharding across multiple sub-clusters because of the HDFS namenode SPOF problems [1]. Personally, if I'm going to shard manually I'll stick with postgresql. One of the primary reasons to
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by jbellis 14y ago
Post author here. Your first paragraph is, bluntly, incorrect. Cassandra guarantees that data will always become consistent. This is automatic [1] for normal operation, including in the face of temporary failures. Permanent failures requ
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by jbellis 14y ago
Dejavu is also the name of an interesting ORM for Python -- basically gives you linq-like queries in Python, compiled down to SQL through AST inspection. http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/dejavu-languag...
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by jbellis 14y ago
Slides and video from a webinar I gave on 1.2: http://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/college-credit-whats-new-... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9nxTTYSwi4&feature=youtu...
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Cassandra 1.2 released with virtual nodes, collection types, request tracing(datastax.com)
3 points by jbellis 14y ago|1 comments
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by jbellis 14y ago
Hmm, doesn't seem to be connecting all the dots. None of the committers to Cassandra show Contributions there on their profiles: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/graphs/contributors
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by jbellis 14y ago
Note: the Google Chromebook (a netbook by any reasonable definition) is Amazon's top-selling laptop. http://news.yahoo.com/netbooks-crash-burn-amazon-best-sellin...
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by jbellis 14y ago
Did you read what you linked? "Because of Mr. Kim's background as a technology analyst, observers speculated that the family had used online mapping to find their route. However, Mrs. Kim told state police that they had used a paper road ma
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by jbellis 14y ago
Found an update on the toddler who froze in 1994: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/02/20/...
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by jbellis 14y ago
http://mailinator.com/ has been around for a while, and allows you to pick your own inbox name, as well as many alternate domains.

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