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by jbellis 14y ago
What? Amazon is no stranger to restocking fees on electronics.
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Firing Aversion: a Cross-cultural Study(econlog.econlib.org)
1 points by jbellis 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbellis 14y ago
There's a certain amount of complexity that comes with the territory when you move from a single-machine design to a cluster, but Cassandra does as much as possible to simplify things, starting with a fully-distributed "every node is the sa
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by jbellis 14y ago
You're right, I missed the part where "can't do cross-shard transactions or joins" was describing the old mysql infrastructure, not F1.
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by jbellis 14y ago
I think it's a fair thing to bring up, given that the F1 abstract comes across as claiming your-cake-and-eating-it-too: "With F1, we have built a novel hybrid system that combines the scalability, fault tolerance, transparent sharding, and
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by jbellis 14y ago
I'm surprised nobody's picked up on the main tradeoff here: very high write latencies (and high read latencies too, just not as spectacularly). From slide 9: Performance: ● Very high commit latency - 50-100ms ● Reads take 5-10ms - much s
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by jbellis 14y ago
This is stupid. Do people really think Thiel is personally managing every job opening at every company he's associated with? Non-sequitur "gotcha" reporting at its worst. I expected better from Yglesias.
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by jbellis 14y ago
Link to last month's discussion of this story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3847373
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by jbellis 14y ago
Quibble: the "companion pass" to allow a second ticket was an additional $150,000.
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by jbellis 14y ago
The key is to serve the coffee/snacks in the sponsor room.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Just got an email that GOG preorders are getting Machinarium, the soundtrack, art book, and a full copy of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut. No complaints here.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Hiding behind "nobody has suggested a title I like so I'll leave the one everyone agrees is egregiously misleading" is, bluntly, a dick move.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Misleading headline. Here's a better summary: $36,000 "raised" $32,000 received after kickstarter fees $12,000 spent on rewards $2,000 spent on taxes because we didn't understand how LLCs work $18,000 left for our company and game developme
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by jbellis 15y ago
According to http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/getLastError+Command it is still unsafe by default.
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by jbellis 15y ago
No, it's advocating increasing the number of women in CS by proposing a separate 101 course for people (like, the article assumes, most women) with no prior programming experience, while retaining an "introduction" course for those who do h
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by jbellis 15y ago
The original is on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-scale-lib/
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OmniTI announces OmniOS, an Illumos-based OpenSolaris "continuation"(businesswire.com)
2 points by jbellis 15y ago|0 comments
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From the author of Solandra, the next generation of Cassandra + Solr integration(datastax.com)
3 points by jbellis 15y ago|0 comments
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by jbellis 15y ago
Too bad it's fake. I wouldn't mind an xpilot revival at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPilot
590.
by jbellis 15y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
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by jbellis 15y ago
Man, I've lost count of how many arrows I've fat fingered (in both directions) on my Android phone. I really wish HN would add the ability to change your vote afterwards.
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by jbellis 15y ago
I enjoyed the footnotes, too. "This is not an endorsement of pair programming."
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Attention to Detail(martinsnyder.net)
153 points by jbellis 15y ago|30 comments
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by jbellis 15y ago
Wake me up when they add compaction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_(computing)#Memor... (CPython has this weakness too. http://www.slideshare.net/jbellis/pycon-2012-what-java-can-l... )
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by jbellis 15y ago
I deeply regret allowing greader on android to update to a version that (unknown to me) contained that "feature."
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by jbellis 15y ago
I saw Paul speak at the first Startup School in 2005, where he literally read his talk on stage from an essay he held in his hand. I saw him again at PyCon 2012, and he's improved a lot. But this article makes me think that he still sees
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Speaking to a technical conference(spyced.blogspot.com)
3 points by jbellis 15y ago|0 comments
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The fall of Big Paper(forbes.com)
67 points by jbellis 15y ago|26 comments
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by jbellis 15y ago
There may well be a better alternative to the local maximum of powerpoint and keynote out there somewhere, but Prezi sure isn't it. At first it was a novelty; now it's just annoying.
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by jbellis 15y ago
P2P backup / sync has been done before (allmydata is another example from longer ago). It's that plus the appliance that makes Space Monkey unique, IMO.

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