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by jbellis 15y ago
Very next sentence: "It is important to remember too that just because competitive markets might not provide the best of all conceivable worlds doesn’t mean that government intervention can."
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by jbellis 15y ago
> it is their right to decide where the line gets drawn No, the whole point of fair use is that certain uses are protected EVEN IF the artist doesn't like it.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Cassandra's CREATE INDEX will happily run in the background against existing data. Without blocking other reads or writes, of course.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Reddit's initial problems were from being woefully underprovisioned, which they acknowledged. Here's what David King [ketralnis] said six months later: "Running any large website is a constant race between scaling your user base and scaling
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by jbellis 15y ago
I get that dogfooding is important, but github employees aren't the target market.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Tcl doesn't really fall into this category -- Tcl's hashes are called arrays, but for sequential structures you would use a list instead.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Yesterday's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661364
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by jbellis 15y ago
I'm more curious about the tptacek consulting tips now, than BCC. :)
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by jbellis 15y ago
No, the author has misunderstood "joins are slow." (Edit: not the post author, but the HN submitter. This reaction made more sense before the submission title was changed.) The point is that joins are slow _when you scale past one machine_
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by jbellis 15y ago
I can't speak for others, but I downvoted because the time to figure out your business model is long before IPO. So a claim that an "attack" isn't valid because it ignores the possibility of radical business model changes isn't worth discus
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by jbellis 15y ago
Detachable magsafe cables would also make it easier for third parties to sell power adapters, which is almost certainly why Apple power bricks are alone among major manufacturers in not splitting things this way.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Approximately none, because dollars are inflationary by design (of the Fed), not deflationary like bitcoin (again, by design of its creators).
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... and the first part is lifted from http://www.quora.com/Im-about-to-quit-my-job-to-learn-to-pro...
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by jbellis 15y ago
Too bad -- I guess dropbox isn't doing anything to get efficient what's-changed notifications from the OS, then (since the only platform-specific code is the UI). Because those hooks are not at all cross-platform. /probably obvious to all y
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by jbellis 15y ago
It was only a matter of time before Google started using Cassandra... :) (Re http://webpulp.tv/post/4184040219/scaling-postrank-using-rub... )
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by jbellis 15y ago
Exactly. I thought perl (and c++) demonstrated that TMTOWTDI is a misfeature pretty convincingly, but I guess some people weren't paying attention.
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by jbellis 15y ago
The high-level difference is that anything Hadoop-based is oriented around "give me a job to run, I'll go crunch over the data, and spit the result back to you." In "realtime" analysis, you tell the system "these are the queries I want you
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by jbellis 15y ago
How is this different from a "traditional" CEP system like Esper? (I mean on the actual processing front, rather than architecturally -- sounds like Storm is a bunch of building blocks instead of a unified system.)
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by jbellis 15y ago
Definitely not a record. I remember a professor at Princeton who got his first PhD at 17, but he was bored, so he got his second at 19. One was in physics, the other in mathematics, but I don't remember the order.
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by jbellis 15y ago
> Surely kids as brilliant as these ones sound are getting full scholarships to college? I see it's been a while since you went to college. Let me introduce you to a concept called "need-based aid:" it's virtually impossible to get a fu
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by jbellis 15y ago
Upvoted, but if I am not mistaken those statistics are for false positives (VC thought idea would work, but it didn't.) What we're concerned about here are false negatives (VC thought idea wouldn't work, but it did). I could be wrong, but I
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by jbellis 15y ago
The thrudb author ( https://github.com/tjake ) is working on Cassandra now.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Then again, the labels shut down mp3.com's music locker 10 years ago.
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by jbellis 15y ago
Summary: http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/brisk/about_brisk#key-featu...
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by jbellis 15y ago
That's one point: CFS means it's more fault tolerant and simpler to run (only one type of node), with equal-or-better performance. You also get multi-datacenter support essentially for free. The other big win is you can run analytic queries
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by jbellis 16y ago
Note that many states , including California, tax capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income.
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by jbellis 16y ago
Outstanding use of sarcasm to make fun of the "EBS outage means we should all go back to building our own datacenters" overreaction. /applauds
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by jbellis 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_... puts Thailand in the 80s in GDP per capita. The Philippines is 125, 113, or 132 depending on the list. All three lists agree that Thailand has less than 1/4 of US GDP, and th
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by jbellis 16y ago
Why is it more expensive to deploy in zones X,Y in regions A,B than zones M,N in region C? I assume you don't just mean "US West is ~10% more expensive than US East."
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by jbellis 16y ago
TFA suggests "local c = Counter()" is what you are looking for.

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