jbellis

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by jbellis 17y ago
More like Max, I'd say. :) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_characters_in_Calvin_... )
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by jbellis 17y ago
What SQL was running, and what was the query plan? ActiveRecord is notorious for generating terrible, terrible SQL. Edit: What I would expect to see would be index scan on device id, then sort + limit. So the important factor would be rows
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by jbellis 17y ago
Typically you will only get (even angel) investment _after_ incorporation.
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by jbellis 17y ago
The voters forgot first.
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by jbellis 17y ago
"BareMetal is ready... Current plans call for the ability to write data back to the disk." Curious definition of "ready." :)
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by jbellis 17y ago
Two words: G4 Cube
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by jbellis 17y ago
the clients are thrift, and the commonly used ones (java, python, ruby, C++, php), are robust, although the thrift devs are slow to apply patches sometimes (all the php users I know have applied http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-
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by jbellis 17y ago
> lists and maps have their own syntax fwiw, this will be in jdk 7 (from project coin, iirc)
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by jbellis 17y ago
Scala is too complicated. Clojure is too slow. I'm guessing clojure has a better chance of getting faster than scala has of getting simpler, so I voted for clojure.
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by jbellis 17y ago
> documentation is spotty True, but we're working on that (and we're very responsive on IRC and mailing lists). > not enough big projects are using it I don't think that's true anymore; Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, Twitter, Mahalo, Oo
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by jbellis 17y ago
512 CPUs with no ECC? Ugh.
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by jbellis 17y ago
there's a lot more data in pdf form at http://www.heritage.org/index/
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by jbellis 17y ago
A similar project: http://www.blogofile.com/
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by jbellis 17y ago
then again, that's probably the most obsolete recommendation in PEP8
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by jbellis 17y ago
don't projects like pydev (which has been completely OSS for a while now, and is even written in java, like the code Steve attached) already provide this?
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by jbellis 17y ago
Wow, NDA trolling. That hadn't even occurred to me.
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by jbellis 17y ago
That makes sense, and yet, getting people to switch to Wave is a whole lot more of a change than changing email clients.
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by jbellis 17y ago
> Sixty days later we convinced Silicon Graphics to license us all of John’s code for a dollar. !
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by jbellis 17y ago
Women aren't dumb enough to work 80 hour week for crap wages because video games are cool.
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by jbellis 17y ago
So proprietary is bad, unless someone pays a GPL IP owner for it? Seriously? Come on rms, it wouldn't kill you to admit that sometimes non-GPL licenses are ok.
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by jbellis 17y ago
It sounded like they want to use it as more of a "real" database than a cache, since rebuilding data in case of a hardware failure is so painful. <shrug>
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by jbellis 17y ago
Hard to say, but we increased speed pretty much across the board about 50% from 0.4 to 0.4.2, by 50% (compounded :) to 0.5, and looking at 100% already for release-after-0.5... and we're ready to help configure on IRC :) (Also, I'm not sur
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by jbellis 17y ago
Well, no; if they're using memcachedb presumably their data doesn't fit in memory on a single machine. Cassandra would be a better choice. /cassandra committer, but it would :)
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by jbellis 17y ago
Appeared before at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844229 , but apropos to the generalist-vs-specialist discussion.
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The last days of the polymath [someone who knows a lot about a lot](moreintelligentlife.com)
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956.
by jbellis 17y ago
"Memcachedb also has another feature that blocks all reads while it writes to the disk." Seriously? Wow.
957.
by jbellis 17y ago
I can't actually find a "year on one page" calendar on Amazon. Do they still make such things in these days of digital organization?
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by jbellis 17y ago
standard zip is far more cpu intensive than anything you could afford to run on something where you (a) have very limited cpu resources and (b) need to add very very little latency.
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by jbellis 17y ago
"Sometimes no-warmup is important (see comments above about pacemakers), but more often a short warmup period is irrelevant to the overall application. If I'm using an IDE, I expect a largish loading period... but then I'm using the IDE al
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by jbellis 17y ago
> It's probably the only school in the world that uses 100% Socratic method for all courses nice > each no larger than 17 people good > with no electives all 4 years wait, wtf? I guess if their curriculum works for your kids, gr

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