jbellis

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by jbellis 17y ago
I worked like this for two years: http://www.dqd.com/~mayoff/images/alfa.jpg (picture shows the guy I got the idea from, not me) the backsaver zero-gravity line is not as flashy as the one in TFA but it allows locking the recliner at any
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by jbellis 17y ago
why not just link with libwine? it may be ugly, but there's a lot of people moving it forward, and leveraging that seems like a huge win.
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by jbellis 17y ago
If we're going to claim that an ineffective TSA is a "feature," then let's at least have an _efficiently_ ineffective one.
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by jbellis 17y ago
> msysgit works just fine there As someone who recently moved from a linux box to a windows one for his primary workstation, I can affirm that msysgit is shockingly, shockingly slow. I'd definitely recommend hg if you have a lot of peop
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by jbellis 17y ago
> usually as separate clones so you can work on more than one side-by-side the major downside here is that all IDEs I know are excellent at reloading your project from the fs when you git checkout a different branch, but much clunkier a
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by jbellis 17y ago
> When Apple is scared of web applications, they'll stop improving WebKit. And WebObjects. Oh, wait... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects#2009:_No_longer_supp...
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by jbellis 17y ago
"open source" has a specific meaning, not just "you can read the source:" http://www.opensource.org/
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by jbellis 17y ago
The purists complaining that CS isn't about programming are correct but misguided: the vast majority of CS majors don't _want_ to study "real," abstract CS. IMO the right thing is to offer degrees in Software Development, which would includ
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by jbellis 17y ago
Really? Because every post I've seen where he acknowledges app store shortcomings ends something like "But Phil is a really great guy and he promises to make things better soon, so Apple is still awesome."
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by jbellis 17y ago
> shoehorning yourself into one technology stack is not good on the contrary, specialization is how you get to be more than a trivially replaceable cog in the machine.
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by jbellis 17y ago
to clarify, Cassandra is still faster on a per-node basis than relational databases on EC2, but if you compare EC2 numbers with real hardware and wonder "why is it so slow?" that is why. :) that said, there was a thread yesterday about Joe
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by jbellis 17y ago
Even Apple gives you 70%.
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by jbellis 17y ago
Book publishers also provide things like design, layout, and editing.
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by jbellis 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
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by jbellis 17y ago
how is this different from what mochi media does?
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by jbellis 17y ago
Both are non-distributed (in the autopartitioning sense that everyone but couch uses the term, rather than the "distributed" as in Lotus Notes of couchdb), both have robust, non-sql query models, ... So yeah, for the categories he defines,
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by jbellis 17y ago
what is the speed hit?
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by jbellis 17y ago
Right, we can't have people who haven't already arrived at the "correct" conclusion looking at the data... Is this really what "science" has come to?
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by jbellis 17y ago
It sounds an awful lot like you were arguing by analogy that it's okay to conspire to hide or even fudge your data if you are a Right Thinking Person defending the world from Evil Polluters. Ends, means.
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by jbellis 17y ago
Once you start playing "the ends justify the means," you're not doing science anymore.
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by jbellis 17y ago
I spent a month typing 25wpm one-handed with my other arm in a brace. It was incredibly, incredibly frustrating -- but mostly because of the communication slowdown over irc, email, ticketing systems. (Then, as now, I was in a shared offic
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by jbellis 17y ago
Of course no offense taken. Glad EC2 is working out for your workload. :)
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by jbellis 17y ago
Less-known than it deserves to be: http://www.azulsystems.com/ has been selling Java computers (with almost 1000 cores) for several years now.
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by jbellis 17y ago
I work on the Cassandra distributed database for Rackspace. A _lot_ of people start out trying Cassandra on EC2 but the universal conclusion has been that I/O performance is miserable. Anecdotally, Rackspace Cloud Servers I/O works much be
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by jbellis 17y ago
I was hoping this was going to reveal the secrets of which editor makes docbook not suck.
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by jbellis 17y ago
> It also has multiple return values. Another point of dissimilarity: python has single return values (which may be tuples). > it has iterators I stand corrected, thanks.
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by jbellis 17y ago
> a lot of what you'd expect from Python please stop repeating this. it's unhelpful at best and to people who know python it's outright misinformative. Go has GC and a form of duck typing. That's the _end_ of its resemblance to Python
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by jbellis 17y ago
Go doesn't have method overloading, and it doesn't have polymorphism in the traditional sense either. (Not sure what effect Go's Interface inference has on H-M.)
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by jbellis 17y ago
It's relatively easy to make a SQL front-end for any single-node database. For distributed databases it is harder.
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by jbellis 17y ago
It's worse in Ruby though, because the "use maps for optional parameters" approach means you have to manually check for invalid keys in the map, whereas the same approach in a language that supports native named parameters would throw an ex

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