jbellis

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by jbellis 16y ago
It's quite possible to generate recommendations solely from upvotes.
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by jbellis 16y ago
Which "it" are you referring to?
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by jbellis 16y ago
Isn't that an example of the sunk-cost fallacy?
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by jbellis 16y ago
Scalaris has supported ACID transactions for years, but it never caught on because at scale you care more about availability than about having transactions: http://twitter.com/Werner/status/1008722501
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What's new in Cassandra 0.6.5(riptano.com)
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by jbellis 16y ago
link to the guy who did the work (and posted more interesting maps): http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/08/the-top-...
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by jbellis 16y ago
I've heard the same argument about making interest-free loans to the US government so you can get a refund later. I don't buy it there, either.
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by jbellis 16y ago
In a similar vein, some of the best apps are made by non-US developers, but neither of my [American] credit cards works buying apps in non-USD. (Not sure if Apple has the same limitation, or whether they "solve" that problem by only showing
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by jbellis 16y ago
looks like there is http://github.com/klondike/campyre for android but it doesn't look very active.
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by jbellis 16y ago
Cassandra has a lot more installations pushing hard on it in 0.6 than it did in 0.5, many of whom have worked with me and other committers to resolve their issues, so it's not just paint-by-numbers handwaving on my part. Here are some of th
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by jbellis 16y ago
Note that flowdock was on the obsolete Cassandra 0.5; the little they described of their problems suggested that upgrading to the 0.6 series would solve the worst of them.
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by jbellis 16y ago
The history is relevant there, though: OSCON started as a perl conference and expanded to other areas later. (FYI, a "track" is a group of related talks, not a single presentation.)
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by jbellis 16y ago
sounds similar to http://github.com/tjake/Lucandra
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by jbellis 16y ago
They had one of the better poster sessions at PyCon a few months ago: http://blog.picloud.com/?p=96
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by jbellis 16y ago
"I count 33 synoptic documents at perlcabal.org. Synopses 2 through 6 tend to be fairly stable, although changes still occur. The remainder of the synopses are still drafts for the most part, awaiting more feedback from implementations and
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Google News redesign: "a lovely example of personalization done poorly"(glinden.blogspot.com)
1 points by jbellis 16y ago|1 comments
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by jbellis 16y ago
No, it's not. It's the difference between lightning and a lightning bug (with apologies to Mark Twain).
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by jbellis 16y ago
You don't say which HTC phone it is, but I don't think any of them have 2.2 yet...
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by jbellis 16y ago
Cowen isn't the kind of partisan that Krugman portrays in his op eds. (For that matter, I doubt Krugman really is, either.) Some quickly googled examples of Cowen agreeing with or praising Krugman: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/margin
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by jbellis 16y ago
It looks like the answer is "it's pretty damn noisy everywhere we measured."
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by jbellis 16y ago
Exactly: it's depressing, but working software really can be created by throwing dozens or hundreds of junior-level developers at it. I'm just not interested in working on any problem domain where that's the best approach.
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by jbellis 16y ago
The Chinese (and many other nationalities) have intelligence and work ethic in spades. Perhaps you didn't mean that the way it sounded. :)
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by jbellis 16y ago
N97 was released barely one year ago.
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by jbellis 16y ago
I'm guessing downmodders aren't aware of this article? http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1394128
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by jbellis 16y ago
Related point: big corporations _love_ regulation, since they can afford the cost but startups they might otherwise have to compete with cannot.
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by jbellis 16y ago
scholar.google, search for the authors names he cites
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by jbellis 16y ago
My guess would be that features you see as "OSX taking from Gnome," both Gnome and OSX got from NeXTStep.
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by jbellis 16y ago
It's a good talk, but if you go read the research he's citing, he took a great deal of liberties. :-|
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by jbellis 16y ago
What revenue is it that apple is getting 80% of to android's 20%? Hardware? Manufacturers still get $hundreds per phone even when they are "free." Software? If Android gets 80% of the market by size (they don't, and won't soon, but might
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by jbellis 16y ago
> people said it was completely stupid to not choose the Gecko engine That's not how I remember the reaction of the (few) people familiar with both KHTML and Gecko.

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