jmulho

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   by jmulho 16y ago

   The link says: 'As a result, appeals to "preserving distinctions" that are "important for communication" and to "avoiding ambiguity" are baseless and indefensible in this case.' "no matter which form you use, people will understand what you
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   by jmulho 16y ago

   Ha!
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   by jmulho 16y ago

   Thanks. The talk itself is way better than the summary.
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   by jmulho 16y ago

   Can we clear up one issue? Sharding on userid -- bad or fine? I say fine. If your algorithm is "if userid between A and M then server0, else (N-Z) server1", then you could get unbalanced. But if your algorithm is "if random 50/50 hash o
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   by jmulho 16y ago

   I am talking about the database looking in memory for what it needs to answer a request; if it doesn't find what it needs, it reads from disk. Since it has been allowed limited memory, when it put something new in memory, it has to kick so
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   by jmulho 16y ago

   Why on earth would you want to keep 236 million check-in documents (66 gig / 300 bytes) in memory ? Here is an idea: write an algorithm that keeps the most recently used 100 million check-in documents in memory. That'll save 38 gig of RAM
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   by jmulho 16y ago

   I agree. Microsoft shouldn't be concerned about the fact that no one likes their products because they make so many different products that no one likes.
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   by jmulho 16y ago

   Suppose you want your website to behave consistently in the latest three versions of the four most popular browsers. You have two choices: 1) try to do it yourself, 2) use a Javascript library. Option 1 has the following drawbacks: a) you'
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   by jmulho 16y ago

   "With HTML5 and AJAX..." Show me a good web app and I might agree. Your point, for now, is theoretical.
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    by jmulho 16y ago

    They yanked it way before it had any chance of succeeding. I wanted to use it and didn't get the chance before they yanked it. I saw the video in early 2009, thought it looked awesome. The website said it would be available to the public
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    by jmulho 16y ago

    For those who didn't catch ellyagg's point, I summarize. good: dietary fat, large portions of pure meat, any sort of meat, all-bacon explosion diet, so-called paleo diet, most popular diets bad: all the obviously unhealthful foods people
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    by jmulho 16y ago

    The article links to a presentation by one of the authors of VoltDB. On slide 17 he makes the crucial point that overhead (latching, locking, recovery, and buffer pool) makes up 88% of the work that a typical RDBMS must do. Useful work (d