jcdavis

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Starbucks's Shoddy Square Rollout Baffles Baristas, Confuses Customers(fastcompany.com)
5 points by jcdavis 14y ago|0 comments
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Google Takes the Dark Path, Censors AdBlock Plus on Android(eff.org)
2 points by jcdavis 14y ago|0 comments
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Yea. I'm hoping as part of this nextgen upgrade they announce more RAM. SSDs would of course be nice too, but more RAM is what I want the most
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Java Magic. Part 4: sun.misc.Unsafe(mishadoff.github.com)
2 points by jcdavis 14y ago|0 comments
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Maybe I'm being too nice, but I'm willing to give the NYT a little benefit of the doubt that this might just have been a single journalist embellishing a story for publicity, as has been known to happen both there and at so many other publi
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Incredible building regulations. Trying to build anything in SF is a giant clusterfuck. Propose anything over 4 stories outside of Fidi/SOMA? People will complain that its "blocking light" or "out of character", or that it blocks their lega
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by jcdavis 14y ago
I started on my TI-83+ and then later moved up to a TI-89, which was great for wannabe programmers because you could easily write programs in C (using TIGCC) instead of having to deal with the limitations of TI-BASIC.
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Not mentioned: RethinkDB doesn't yet support secondary and compound indexes, which is a dealbreaker for a lot of setups Definitely looks interesting though, and I look forward to playing around with it at some point.
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A new backend and optimizer for scalac(magarciaepfl.github.com)
3 points by jcdavis 14y ago|0 comments
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by jcdavis 14y ago
I believe most of the optimism from that quarter came from the improving margins, which something AMZN hasn't always done a good job with.
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by jcdavis 14y ago
That chart takes away inflation. When people say the expect 7%/year they are not including inflation. 7% a year pre inflation and taxes is likely roughtly 3.5-4%, which is grey on that chart.
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The last three months on Foursquare(foursquare.com)
12 points by jcdavis 14y ago|0 comments
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Instagram is heavily sharded, so they've pretty much already given up a snapshot view of all their data anyways.
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Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar, "Graph Search"(techcrunch.com)
35 points by jcdavis 14y ago|22 comments
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Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods(somethingsimilar.com)
346 points by jcdavis 14y ago|42 comments
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by jcdavis 14y ago
San Mateo County opted out of the initial BART system in 1961 though, and is still not a member of the BART district, which is why trips to/from San Mateo county are charged more. http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/5427069831/in/photos
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Its a private university, but they (like most research universities in the US) get a lot of federal research funding. As an alum, no idea what to thing about this ruling.
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Where are you getting those numbers? Not saying you're wrong, just curious. A quick look online shows ~18k federal, ~6k CA, and ~6K SS + medicare, which is 30%ish
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by jcdavis 14y ago
This is way overly pessimistic. At 100k total taxes (Federal+CA+SS+Medicare) are in the 30% range. That leaves 30k to spend (not too hard for a single 25 year old assuming you don't have lots of student loans, even in SF) and 40k to save. A
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by jcdavis 14y ago
2 good JVM performance blogs: http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/ http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/
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by jcdavis 14y ago
I'd love to see more regional ISPs on this list. Kinda annoying to see Google under "Major ISPs" when they only serve a single city currently
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by jcdavis 14y ago
Subway from manhattan is almost certainly not faster unless there is very heavy traffic (which of course is fairly common on weekdays). If you want to take transit, LIRR from Penn Station + Airtrain is generally the way to go, even if you h
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by jcdavis 14y ago
I'd be curious to know what broke. Companies in the last batch having a harder time getting funding?
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by jcdavis 14y ago
I live in SF and I have no issue with landlords evicting tenants who were being AirBnB hosts. Realize that: 1) The housing market in SF is crazy right now (obviously this is hardly their fault) 2) There are thousands of available AirBnB roo
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by jcdavis 14y ago
I disagree, I think potatolicious was pretty on point > It's not some god given rule that cities HAVE to keep growing ad infinitum, especially ones that have limited land. Most San Franciscans are happy with the size of the city as it i
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Knowing How to Hack(bijansabet.com)
2 points by jcdavis 14y ago|0 comments
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by jcdavis 14y ago
What? Not having your company's stock perform as well as you wish (or what the recruiter told you, which everyone takes with a grain of salt anyways) is nowhere near examples see in that court filing. Not remotely close. Putting what looks
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by jcdavis 14y ago
I thought java had switched to using a slightly more optimal lock xadd for AtomicInteger/etc updates? (see http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7023898 ) Doesn't address the main issue of memory synchronization between cores,
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by jcdavis 14y ago
When I was still at SFDC (January), postgres was being cautiously looked into as an Oracle alternative (along with HBase for certain parts, which has definitely been happening). Glad to see they are going for it.
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Compact Off-Heap Structures/Tuples In Java(mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com)
1 points by jcdavis 14y ago|0 comments

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