jbellis

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   by jbellis 17y ago

   First you need to distinguish between the ones that just give you some kind of blob api (HDFS, mogilefs, whatever sector/sphere's FS component is), and mostly-posix-compliant ones (glusterfs, ceph, etc). http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2662
2. 812.▲
   by jbellis 17y ago

   Superficially at least it sounds a lot like what you'd get if you added SSDs to Oracle's Exadata.
3. 813.▲
   by jbellis 17y ago

   This makes me think that it's a shame we'll never have a modern equivalent of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, because nothing new will ever enter the public domain after the 1998 copyright act.
4. 814.▲
   by jbellis 17y ago

   pg has always been more interested in targetting Oracle users, than mysql users.
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   by jbellis 17y ago

   Engadget's review is better: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/19/droid-incredible-review/
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   by jbellis 17y ago

   Partly that's because while US personal taxes are middle-of-the-pack-ish, their corporate tax rate of 35% is behind only Japan: http://alhambrainvestments.com/blog/2009/01/29/corporate-tax... (And partly it's because there's a lot more th
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   by jbellis 17y ago

   Bingo. I spoke with an entrepreneur at PyCon who started his company in Singapore, not only because of the IRS, but because Singapore is happy to give a visa to anyone in the world he wants to hire.
8. 818.▲
   by jbellis 17y ago

   "Index of Economic Freedom." http://www.heritage.org/index/ Methodology is explained in detail on the site.
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   Steve Jobs's slight of hand(benlog.com)

   23 points by jbellis 17y ago|9 comments
10. 820.▲
    by jbellis 17y ago

    Big companies are terrible at solving problems by throwing $millions at them. Depressing, but true.
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    The absence of a button may be a feature, but terrible UI design is not.
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    I switched from a Dell Studio XPS running Windows 7 to a new mbp running OS X 10.6 a month ago, and the mbp is noticeably less stable -- I have to reboot every few days to avoid Spinny Wheel Of Hell for no apparent reason. (I prefer linux t
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    I've failed to get offers when I've been up front and said, "I'll leave in two years if I'm not challenged anymore." And that's okay, because it probably wasn't a good fit.
14. 824.▲
    by jbellis 17y ago

    One of my bosses told me, "People who have been at their current company for more than four years probably do not have enough thirst for challenge to be a good fit at a startup." That seemed to work for him. And I think Mark Suster has had
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    The messy realities of failover in your architecture(michaelnygard.com)

    2 points by jbellis 17y ago|0 comments
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    They're hoping that the free publicity attracting _good_ developers who otherwise wouldn't have heard about Redgate, will outweigh having to sift through some extra chaff.
17. 827.▲
    by jbellis 17y ago

    My rebuttal: Grim Fandango.
18. 828.▲
    by jbellis 17y ago

    Mine, too. I would have liked it to last longer; I'm not a fan of the zero-button trackpads.
19. 829.▲
    by jbellis 17y ago

    I get about 4h on my 10-days-old mbp battery, fwiw. Apple's benchmarks are as unrealistically optimistic as everyone else's. (I complained about this to a long-time mac user, and he said "You're probably using it with the display on.")
20. 830.▲
    by jbellis 17y ago

    Yes, 2 and 3 are what I was referring to. Glad to hear those are fixed!
21. 831.▲
    by jbellis 17y ago

    Dell Studio XPS or HP Envy line are good alternatives, depending on what you need. Both are available with higher-res screens and faster (quad core i7) cpus than the mbp, for instance. The major caveats on the Envy are that it has serious,
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    I don't think the non-pro model can drive a 30" monitor.
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    "I can't imagine they made it harder to replace the HDD." Start imagining. You need a mini-torx screwdriver to get the hdd out, once you get the cover off (8 phillips screws). Not the end of the world, but not too many people have a T8 sit
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    > A trivial system with these properties is one that replicates every update to all available nodes and requires reads to get matching results from at least half of the nodes. Nope. You haven't thought this through. One problem is that
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    Between the (10%) restocking fee and the pita-ness of switching machines, I'm not sure that's such a great deal. :( (I added my own SSD to mine, so it's not just a matter of Time Machine.)
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    All of apple's SSDs are Samsung, by a large margin the worst on the market. http://it.anandtech.com/show/2829/19
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    I was sitting next to Reg Braithwaite at the first startup school when one speaker (pg?) said something about startups being for young people so they can focus 100% on the company without worrying about kids. Reg stood up and said, paraphr
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    And yet, I'm writing this from FF on OS X right now because the awesomebar is just that damn good. I've actually seen the benefits of the cross-platform approach first-hand, too. I've copied my same profile from mac to linux to windows and
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    Linkjacked: http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2010/03/what-...
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    by jbellis 17y ago

    "Notably missing? Anything for managing a conversation, like IM or Twitter, which is a big omission." http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/multitasking-comes-to-iph...