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by jdcarter 9y ago
However, this study indicates that ZFS is excellent at detecting on-disk corruption but does little to protect against in-memory corruption: https://research.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/zfs-corruptio...
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Apologies! It's an expression I use commonly, like "let me throw this idea out there..." Now that you bring my attention to it, however, it does seems backwards, and I'm sure it's baffling to non-native speakers. Th
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by jdcarter 9y ago
FWIW, the article mentions the book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann. I wanted to throw out my own endorsement for the book, it's been instrumental in helping me design my own fairly intensive data
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Plenty of us do learn other languages purely out of curiosity. I've been studying Japanese for the last 9 months for that reason. However it's difficult to immerse myself in spoken Japanese because, where I live, I have to go ou
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Amsterdam has entire neighborhoods of floating houses. Not houseboats, but house-shaped houses that float. See: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/06/the-floating-houses-of-...
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Oh very much so, 68K was great. Even better, at my first job we had a custom 68K-based embedded device and no source-level debugger, so you could only debug in assembly. That reinforced everything I had learned just a few years before. Our
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by jdcarter 9y ago
> "modern computers are very complex, don't even try to understand what's happening" One thing to keep in mind is that the CPU is no longer the CPU you think it is. While the x86 instruction set used to directly contr
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by jdcarter 9y ago
The Unix Haters Handbook may be old, but it's a glorious combination of humor and legitimate commentary. I read it years ago while on a vacation, and I don't think I've ever laughed as much while reading any other book, ever.
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Google is famous for nixing qualified candidates for all kinds of nonsensical reasons. I would never read anything into failing to get an interview or offer letter there.
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Check out "Job Simulator." It's meant to be entertaining and not teach any real skills, but bears some similarities to what the article describes. My daughter loves it.
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by jdcarter 9y ago
MicroPython appears to be taking off; companies like AdaFruit are making their new boards such as the Feather M0 [1] and Circuit Playground [2] come with MicroPython loaded and ready to go. [1]: https://www.adafruit.com/prod
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Sure it's expensive, but we're talking about your primary input device which you use for hours every day. If your job is in front of a computer, do yourself a huge favor and get a decent keyboard, display, and chair. You also am
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by jdcarter 9y ago
I appreciate the effort that people are putting into the switches themselves, but agreed, updating the layout is where the real gains are found. I've used Kinesis keyboards for 20 years--I now own four of them of various vintage--and I
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by jdcarter 9y ago
I have four of them, purchased from Amazon. One Nest Protect was DOA (wouldn't connect to wifi) and Amazon had a replacement to me next day. They work flawlessly: they work when I test them, don't make noise when they're not
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Yes, C++ build times were a significant factor in Go's creation. Rob Pike describes it here: https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article He covers all the same points about header files and how Go addresses those
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by jdcarter 9y ago
In addition to fpgaminer's excellent explanation, I highly recommend the book "Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications" by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, and Tadayoshi Kohno. It's an excel
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Here's the original WSJ article, but it's paywalled: https://www.wsj.com/articles/wal-mart-to-vendors-get-off-ama...
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Walmart reportedly telling partners/suppliers to not use Amazon Web Services(fortune.com)
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by jdcarter 9y ago
From the wikipedia page: "fine up to 20,000,000 EUR or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover of the preceding financial year in case of an enterprise, whichever is greater" So yea, a 20M EUR fine could destroy a startup.
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by jdcarter 9y ago
I've found that Pandoc [1] is a wonderful converter if you want to write in a future-proof format (like markdown) but also generate nice PDFs. [1]: http://pandoc.org/
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by jdcarter 9y ago
I switched to target archery for similar reasons. Archery is far less about the bow and far more about technique. With olympic-style recurve and bare-bow shooting, it seems like there's always more to learn--it never gets boring! And i
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by jdcarter 9y ago
I've started using ULIDs when I need IDs that are time-sortable while still retaining the advantages of a UUID. Read more here: https://github.com/alizain/ulid The ultra-quick summary: 48 bits of timestamp
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by jdcarter 9y ago
There are a shocking number of older tech companies around Boulder (say 10+ years old) that haven't gotten the memo about the market value of engineers. They've somehow gotten away with paying engineers $80k/yr, and now they
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by jdcarter 9y ago
Agreed, I gave up on bicycling when I moved outside the Boulder green belt. Boulder has a ton of cyclists but, for whatever reason, refuses to build proper bike lanes. The major roads in/out of Boulder barely have shoulders in places.
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by jdcarter 9y ago
> although the housing prices skyrocketing is going to affect whether the younger people who are less financially established, will come in the same numbers as before. But at least you can just go East here. The towns surrounding Boulder
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by jdcarter 9y ago
I work at another Boulder company just down the road from SparkFun, also founded by a CU student in his dorm room, which has been successful without VC investment. Boulder is an odd hybrid of new tech companies and more traditionally bootst
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Sorry, I meant "shortly after the review was published," not the book. In fact "The Story About Ping" was a favorite children's book of mine when I was young (in the '70s) and I still have that copy.
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I remember reading that Amazon review of "The Story About Ping" shortly after it was published. Still a classic to this day. Excerpt: ...The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advance
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by jdcarter 10y ago
We're aware of the potential license issues, but not concerned they'll be a problem (for now). Also, in my system all compressed data is marked with its compression type, so it's possible for me to later find zStandard-compre
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I've been completely impressed with zStandard. I tested it when 1.0 was released, and I was blown away by both its performance and compression ratio, especially on multi-core machines. I'm using it in a project at work (prototype

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