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by jbooth 11y ago
The 'compact' and 'write-optimized' are probably to differentiate RocksDB from LMDB, which pretty thoroughly smokes it for read loads and has an arguably more useful transaction model (which it pays for by single-threadi
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by jbooth 11y ago
The great depression was 'just' volatility if you look at a long enough timeline. Flash crashes are scary for lots of reasons.
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by jbooth 12y ago
Presumably, sales != revenue -- they're making a much smaller % of sales as commission. As for the price:earnings ratio being a negative number -- etsy's sexy, more profitable businesses may not be.
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by jbooth 12y ago
Ok, it would require 30 seconds of 3rd grade level math. That's clearly unacceptable, and we need to instead pursue a solution that pushes wealth upwards. Because simplicity, right? No other agendas involved there? Let's talk
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by jbooth 12y ago
A progressive tax would require the same size tax form, even a progressive tax that went negative at the lower incomes. Flat isn't the simplification -- elimination of the billion deductions is the simplification.
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by jbooth 12y ago
Your first example is a great counter-point to the talk above about "if more stuff can fit on the screen it's easier to understand". I personally really prefer the 2-line construction.
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by jbooth 12y ago
Techies might be 5% of linkedin's user base, but they're a much larger % of the recruiter fee base. Those recruiters are the people who pay linkedin.
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by jbooth 12y ago
What's the derivative of that growth look like, though? It could be that they just have enough customers who are either locked-in or on the back-half of the adoption curve, allowing them to limp in with some growth for a few more year
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by jbooth 12y ago
java.util.concurrent has been around since java 1.5
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by jbooth 12y ago
Everyone should learn a Lisp early in their career. Anyone who actually cares about performance will learn quickly that auto-parallelizing or 'parallel collections/streams' is a joke, with Amdahl's law being the punchli
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by jbooth 12y ago
This kind of comment is probably why Mr. Ptacek chose the word "believer" downthread.
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by jbooth 12y ago
But we already have imperfect solutions for all of those, and together they make up a very minor % of all currency transactions. Are you saying that being debatably marginally better at those corner-cases will propel it into usurping the do
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by jbooth 12y ago
So what would you place in the "legal/useful" quadrant in the author's post? Maybe I'm just lacking imagination but it seems that bitcoin's uses are 90% speculation and 10% illegal. What's the killer app
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by jbooth 12y ago
Basic economics are just, like, what the man wants you to think, man.
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by jbooth 12y ago
I have a 90 minute commute and my living room is just barely 30 miles from the target.
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by jbooth 12y ago
Well, there's your rough estimation, and there's actual statistics recorded in, for instance, the G7 over the last 100 years[1]. They disagree. Did something change where this is the 'new normal' and I'm just misu
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by jbooth 12y ago
Deflation doesn't mean a thing about prices of goods relative to our labor and time. It speaks to the nominal relationship between units of currency and prices of goods, labor, and time. Goods and labor are on the same side of the eq
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by jbooth 12y ago
Well, they've also got horrible growth and debt problems, but I was trying to point to probability of the scenario -- Japan is indeed one of the two cases I was thinking of but thanks for correcting me from a decade to ~~20 years (1995
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by jbooth 12y ago
Natural state of affairs? The G7 between them have been deflationary exactly twice in the last 100 or so years that we've been keeping good records on this. That's twice, for less than a decade each, in 700 country-years of econo
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by jbooth 12y ago
Not to mention, empowering moderate and scientifically minded Gazans is probably one of the more productive things one could do to contribute to eventual resolution of the conflict.
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by jbooth 12y ago
Yeah, but if you were to speak specifically to this issue, the exact opposite is the case. If someone could poke a scientific hole in the AGW theory, they'd be set for life. Maybe they're all too risk-averse and want to stick wi
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by jbooth 12y ago
I'm pro gun rights, but if I could, I'd specifically outlaw sales of guns to anybody who's buying it based on a fantasy of taking out an active shooter.
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by jbooth 12y ago
Yeah, but aside from the singular issue of generics (which are not exactly cutting edge), I can't think of a single 'advanced' feature that would add nearly enough utility to pay for its additional complexity. Everyone who s
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by jbooth 12y ago
You read the golang mailing list? In addition to showing up on every HN and probably proggit thread about Go? How much time have you spent actually programming?
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by jbooth 12y ago
I'm gonna just throw it out there for you: You Do Not Get It when it comes to Go. Internalize that. Nobody, fucking nobody ever, has said "this tool sucks, I think I'll use it exclusively from now on". They're se
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by jbooth 12y ago
Ok, fair enough, but if IO isn't happening, who cares if it's a runtime or the OS swapping out the 'thread'?
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by jbooth 12y ago
I disagree that it's solved. 90% of community libraries aren't even following the gp's recommendation, let alone minor and incremental release versions. And as you said, there's no standard. With nexus/maven repo
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by jbooth 12y ago
Even then, Java's had ExecutorService, Callable<T> and BlockingQueue<T> for a long time. Effectively the same thing as Go's green threads from a programmer's perspective, with the only real difference being that
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by jbooth 12y ago
Could you provide examples (beyond generics) where 'composable complexity' helped finagle achieve a goal? My experience with Scala has been that an author's 'composable complexity' becomes a reader's 'wtf
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by jbooth 12y ago
Any efforts towards a version-numbering standard for dependencies? Godeps is ok as a workaround, but published versions of things like logging packages, etc, would make me feel a lot safer when depending on them. And no, I'd rather no

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