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by jbellis 16y ago
I believe the evaluation for large data center locations looks something like this: 1) Where can we get cheap power? 2) Of those locations, where can we save on taxes, building costs, labor, etc? AFAIK there isn't anywhere in CA that qualif
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by jbellis 16y ago
I googled [bcrypt api] to see how hard it would be to wrap with JNA (my guess: not very), but the first hit was "jBCrypt - strong password hashing for Java." So I stopped looking.
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by jbellis 16y ago
Megan McArdle is a fourth.
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by jbellis 16y ago
Cython is not (nor is it intended to be) a drop-in Python compiler.
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by jbellis 16y ago
John Draper was in one of my SQLAlchemy tutorials at PyCon a couple years ago. Very cool that he's still out there hacking.
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by jbellis 16y ago
fwiw, Cassandra automatically takes a snapshot (which is basically instantaneous -- see http://www.riptano.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-066 for a brief explanation why) before truncating or dropping a column family, exactly because it mak
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by jbellis 16y ago
reference updates are atomic, but without volatile (or more heavyweight synchronization) there may be an arbitrary delay before the change is visible to other threads.
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by jbellis 16y ago
Better: contribute to something open source so people can (a) see your work and (b) see that you can work with someone else's codebase, which is harder than just dealing with your own.
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by jbellis 16y ago
C# is a statically typed language that gets a lot right (and not coincidentally also borrows a ton from Python). As mainstream languages go it's probably the best out there; too bad the Mono compiler is usually a version behind and the VM d
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by jbellis 16y ago
Even with a pen/stylus, handwriting is only about 30wpm. Moving to a finger would cut that in... half? worse?
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by jbellis 16y ago
Interesting, I thought this was going to be about Samuel Pepys. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pepys )
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by jbellis 16y ago
Write amplification ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_amplification ) means that naive random writes like what you see from b-trees are going to degrade performance on SSDs too (although not as pathologically as doing rotational seeks).
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by jbellis 16y ago
So, why not cigarette adapter DC sockets?
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by jbellis 16y ago
All the keyboards he pictures are ergonomic nightmares. +1 to jfb's recommendation for Kinesis Advantage. Their ergonomic designs are well-made and durable. (My first lasted seven years; still on my second.) Doesn't hurt that it gets a lot
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by jbellis 16y ago
No, that has nothing to do with it. The oracle patents are on VM implementation, not class library -- and IBM has a license for those patents, and is going to continue to develop their VM while collaborating on the class library.
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Thoughts on Redis, Not Enough Thoughts on Alternatives(pl.atyp.us)
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by jbellis 16y ago
> The empirical evidence shows that, for example, NPR is more likely to interview a conservative economist about a story than a liberal. To be meaningful, we'd need to compare the ratio of conservative economists on NPR to conservative
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by jbellis 16y ago
390B + 240B is over 20% of the total 2008 budget. I guess we have different definitions of "minor."
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by jbellis 16y ago
Not sure why this is being downmodded. Stonebraker has a history of using his reputation to promote his businesses. Which is fine, but I don't think most people realize how much of a financial interest he has in downplaying nosql. Somethi
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by jbellis 16y ago
Damn it, another misclicked arrow on my phone. sorry about the downvote.
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by jbellis 16y ago
I'm a huge Vinge fan, but I was really underwhelmed by Rainbow's End. (Was it aimed at the YA market and I didn't notice?) Hope CotS is better.
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by jbellis 16y ago
http://www.jetbrains.org/
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by jbellis 16y ago
http://twitter.com/moonpolysoft/status/24405372639
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by jbellis 16y ago
Two Digg engineers have said on Quora that Cassandra in particular is not the problem ( http://www.quora.com/Is-Cassandra-to-blame-for-Digg-v4s-tech... ) "The whole 'Cassandra to blame' thing is 100% a result of folks clinging on to the NoS
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by jbellis 16y ago
The cassandra issues were primarily ops failures, and secondarily an older version of Cassandra making it difficult to recover once it was overwhelmed. (Some of the resulting improvements in Cassandra are documented here: http://www.riptan
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by jbellis 16y ago
how are we supposed to find the noobstories link normally?
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by jbellis 16y ago
> Sun never made as much as IBM did, but the people who founded Sun made more than they otherwise would have. And of course the startups that became possible because Sun equipment was much cheaper than IBM's thought this was a pretty go
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by jbellis 16y ago
> I'm an unabashed Craiglist hater simply because he completely fucked up and missed the boat and failed us developers by not transforming the most popular and best single Internet site of high signal/noise anonymous contact into the be
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by jbellis 16y ago
No. this is discussed in TFA.
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by jbellis 16y ago
trading money for vacation is called unpaid leave. most employers are happy to accommodate that.

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