jbellis

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   by jbellis 14y ago

   Maybe I'm just an old fart, but I think it's less misleading to label "not production ready" releases with a 0.x.
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   by jbellis 14y ago

   True, but a common argument from gun owners is that if you're feeling homicidal, you'll find a way to commit murder with or without a gun. Looking at all homicides vs gun ownership seems to bear that out. In fact, there appears to be a neg
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   by jbellis 14y ago

   "If you look at a per capita rate, the rate of multiple-victim public shootings in Europe and the United States over the last 10 years have been fairly similar to each other. A couple of years ago you had a couple of big shootings in Finlan
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   'Where did the money go?' ask Code Hero devs(develop-online.net)

   4 points by jbellis 14y ago|0 comments
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   by jbellis 14y ago

   I found Core Worlds to be a disappointment. By the time you can start to build up some interesting combos in your deck, the game is over. Fairly slow-moving, too.
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   by jbellis 14y ago

   +1 for Power Grid. Like most of the best games, it actually gets more fun once you've figured out optimal play. Weak games just get boring.
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   by jbellis 14y ago

   Which thread did you suggest App Inventor in?
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   by jbellis 14y ago

   Thanks, that does look good! I'm glad there's a new book out, the other books on Scratch look too dry, too outdated, or both. Ordered a copy.
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   by jbellis 14y ago

   That's exactly why I introduced my kids (10 and 7) to Scratch. But we got to the end of the video tutorials and ... then what? They don't know enough about what's possible to pick a challenge goal and start working towards figuring it out.
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    I looked for the actual paper but couldn't find it, can you post the link?
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    "Amazon Redshift includes technology components licensed from ParAccel." http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-services-announces-amaz...
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    Having gone through a company rename with much less history than the PostgreSQL name, I would say this is a shockingly bad idea.
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    I'll ask the obvious question not in the FAQ: How is this different from MongoDB?
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    My company recently hired a 58 year old developer. His experience is an asset, not a liability.
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    Average latency is NOT correct because YCSB latency is measured per-insert, not averaged over the total runtime. Here is the code from DBWrapper.insert: long st=System.nanoTime(); int res=_db.insert(table,key,values); long en=Syste
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    A more rigorous set of tests (including datasets that don't fit in memory, for instance) was presented at VLDB this year: http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p1724_tilmannrabl_vldb2012.pdf
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    This isn't like mongodb's non-durable-by-default writes. No, the "buffering" here is done client-side . So it really wasn't hitting the database at all (until the client teardown phase, well after the latency that is being graphed here w
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    Note that the HBase numbers are so good because the client wasn't actually hitting the database: http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/2012/10/solid-nosql-benchmar...
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    My reading was that columnar storage was a critical piece of Dremel. "Accessing the same data as Hive" doesn't sound like Impala is doing that. Is that optional then or is this just a query engine?
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    The main reason Stallman isn't mainstream is not his physical appearance, but his refusal to compromise with potential allies on even minor details. Not to mention a truckload of NIH on the part of the FSF, although you could argue this is
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    Inside Brazil's Robust Startup Scene(fastcompany.com)

    2 points by jbellis 14y ago|0 comments
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    Reminds me of http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/height_discrimi... Conclusion: "For centuries, short men have shrugged their shoulders and carried on. They, at least, still see themselves, and are seen by others, as variegated
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    PyCon is still my favorite conference by a long shot. I did think that 2012 felt like it was losing some of the community vibe, with evenings dominated by big sponsor events instead of BoF sessions, but in a way I guess that's a good probl
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    A trivial benchmark that doesn't actually run long enough or do enough allocation to exercise the GC isn't going to be representative of real-world performance in any case.
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    Thanks! It really is an open-source success story, IMNSHO.
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    something has been very effective at reducing deaths by fire: http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/chicago/wp-content/uploads/20...
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    Code: https://github.com/walmartlabs/mupd8
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    Muppet: MapReduce ­Style Processing of Streaming Data(vldb.org)

    5 points by jbellis 14y ago|1 comments
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    Dynamo cites BigTable as solving similar problems but it's not inspired by BigTable at all, architecturally.
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    by jbellis 14y ago

    Within a partition, yes.