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by jhugg 10y ago
That about sums it up. If you're going to pick exactly one combination, why pick the one that's loaded for so many people? But honestly I wouldn't have even noticed if it hadn't been so unbalanced. Here's the actu
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by jhugg 10y ago
Right, that's the USB Power Delivery (PD) spec and to get more than 5V, both sides (charger & device) need to support it. I'm guessing (no real idea) that the switch is vanilla 5V like most phones and tablets. Wouldn't mi
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by jhugg 10y ago
I get it. Most of the people who watch the presentation won't care. It just would have been such an easy change that wouldn't have made the presentation any worse for anyone, and it would have made it a bit better for some. It&#x2
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by jhugg 10y ago
The nerd in me is curious about the USB-C charger. Presumably this isn’t USB-C Power Delivery? Assuming 5V, how many MAh do I need in my external battery to run for an hour? How much power does this thing need? Also, do the JoyCon run out o
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by jhugg 10y ago
Showing a demo of a fighting game where a male character repeatedly punches and ultimately knocks out a female character just felt like a missed opportunity to me. How hard would it be to flip that for the demo? (Already regretting posting
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by jhugg 10y ago
Our office is split mac/pc. We bought about 12 of the T440s/T450s for the pc folks. There is a lot to like. One surprise perk: they use the same mini-displayport dongles to connect to projectors, so we can just leave the dongles o
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by jhugg 10y ago
For now, few video streams are anywhere near 100mbit. App downloads would be faster for the tiny slice of people with > 100mbit internet who also aren’t using wireless. I guess that’s something? Probably not worth a smaller margin to App
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by jhugg 10y ago
Ugh. Why the comment hate on HN? Reading code, it’s pretty astoundingly rare that I look at code without comments and think, man, this code is so self-explanatory! Conversly some of the best code I’ve ever read has comments that clearly exp
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by jhugg 10y ago
If you’re not getting paid by your users, then you often get something cool, but maybe not something you want to go to production with.
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by jhugg 10y ago
If you have any question about whether VoltDB could fit or not, let us know. It's surely not as general purpose as PG, but yes, it's faster for many use cases and its clustering is fully consistent.
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by jhugg 10y ago
The RT didn’t have an X86 translation layer like is being discussed in this thread.
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by jhugg 10y ago
What scale? Tesla has hundreds of thousands of pre-orders. How many of these will GM sell? It’s not like there’s a wait-list for Volts.
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by jhugg 10y ago
I believe a country that is actively engaged in the political process is good for all Americans, especially my children who will inherit my generation's screw-ups. I believe a country where 30% of people vote is worse than one where 60
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by jhugg 10y ago
> Yep. It's a myth that Nader lost Gore the election. In Florida, 10x as many registered Democrats voted for Bush as voted for Nader. This isn't a counter-argument. Yes, there are innumerable ways Gore could have gotten the han
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by jhugg 10y ago
I don't have to hold the door for the person behind me, I do it because I'm (sometimes) not a jerk. I vote (in MA) not because I'm going to pick the president, but for two reasons: 1) People literally died for my right to vot
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by jhugg 10y ago
I don't think so, no. You always have the right to complain that both choices suck and the two party system hurts our democracy. But the best way to do that is not to vote for someone else; a symbolic, but possibly harmful act. Petitio
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by jhugg 10y ago
> Next election, politicians look at past elections. They look at what percentages each candidate got, they analyze that based on each platform, the numbers, the demographics of each state and what they voted for. There doesn't seem
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by jhugg 10y ago
>Nothing was altered. You vote your conscience. Because people made a similar decision to what we're talking about now, a majority of voters saw their least favorite candidate win, which many found to be an unfortunate result. A
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by jhugg 10y ago
As I said earlier, in 2000 people voted for Nader and its a pretty direct path to a trillion dollar war that cost thousands of American lives, cost hundreds of thousands of non-American lives, and led semi-directly to ISIS. I don't bla
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by jhugg 10y ago
Don't think of it as a stamp of approval. It's not. There's no public record. No one is going to say "Klathmon voted for the lesser of two evils; look what a compromised person he is!" Vote the vote that has the bes
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by jhugg 10y ago
Hypothetical: Candidate A is a genuine sociopath and serial killer. Candidate B was indicted for tax-fraud, but got off for BS reasons. Candidate C runs a non-profit and loves kittens, but has no chance in hell of winning. I don't want
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by jhugg 10y ago
I’m sympathetic, but as someone who remembers the 2000 election and how it was clearly altered by a third party candidate, with actual serious ramifications (war, etc…), I can’t support this view (at least not in a state that might matter).
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by jhugg 10y ago
The first today, not ever?
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by jhugg 10y ago
This is a fantastic book, but do we have the rights to it? What is this URL?
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by jhugg 10y ago
As the founding engineer at VoltDB, I can tell you that no matter how cool your name is, it can be annoying to be always alphabetized last.
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by jhugg 10y ago
Sometimes this is slower than serialization. In fact, when you’re doing KV-CRUD work on in-memory data, it’s often slower than serialization. Keeping RW-sets is non-trivial overhead compared to the hardest typical part of KV-CRUD, tree or
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by jhugg 10y ago
Aleutian islands wrapping around? Marshal islands?
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by jhugg 10y ago
I will update the docs to acknowledge that consistency guarantees may be compromised if the relative speed between servers in a cluster or clients is a nontrivial fraction of the speed of light. Let me know if I don't have that right.
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by jhugg 10y ago
That would be cool. Kyle Kingsbury started something like this (in Clojure) as part of this project ( https://github.com/jepsen-io/voltdb/tree/master/replication-... ), but it's a large task and would
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by jhugg 10y ago
The stale and uncommitted reads was an optimization. It seemed like a harmless optimization to make at the time, and we were wrong. v6.4 allows you to pick strong serializability (default) or the old behavior at startup. For 100% read workl

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