justin_hancock

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by justin_hancock 9mo ago
The expectation that a machine should not make these mistakes is reasoned, humans might make these mistakes but they will generally realise their mistake. The machine doesn't know its wrong. A human learns to drive within 20-40 hours
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by justin_hancock 3y ago
Disagree on latency, for certain classes of applications it really matters. Latency can be caused by a myriad of things, but if that thing is your means for cut over, you haven't failed to respond, you've failed to respond in a t
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by justin_hancock 3y ago
Volt is another good example of solving this well. It's consistency guarantees are strong, and offers very high availability through it's replication which commits transactions to replicas simultaneously. In theory it's wea
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by justin_hancock 10y ago
Bournemouth has a long runway, legacy of its WWII roots. It was chartered for £60,000 for some 20-minute subsonic flights. There were also some day trips to Cairo from Bournemouth.
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by justin_hancock 11y ago
It is a real issue, I was amazed to find places such as Milton Keynes were seeing foreign investment on new build - friend is renting there and his new build place is owned by a family based in the UAE
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by justin_hancock 11y ago
Zwift and Bkool already have offerings in this area. Zwift is outstanding.
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by justin_hancock 11y ago
It is brutal and in some countries, likely to result in a law suit as it can be construed as 'Constructive Dismissal'. Extraordinarily damaging to the person on the receiving end. Its better to do it the right way, make the posit
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Kudu: New Apache Hadoop Storage Engine(blog.cloudera.com)
14 points by justin_hancock 11y ago|0 comments
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Turing biopic to open London Film Festival(theguardian.com)
1 points by justin_hancock 12y ago|0 comments
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Aussie engineer tops the music charts(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by justin_hancock 13y ago|0 comments
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by justin_hancock 13y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head with Scala. It feels every conceivable concept in language research has been thrown in. The lack of coherency is sometimes quite jarring. Coherency/conceptual integrity are things I look f
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by justin_hancock 13y ago
Warrants are required in the UK, though there are special exceptions such as when a serious or dangerous incident, agreed its open ended but the onus is on the Police officer to prove it and entering without one is unheard of in my experien
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Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park(billtuttememorialfund.wordpress.com)
107 points by justin_hancock 13y ago|21 comments
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by justin_hancock 13y ago
They're useful where you need to grow a collection in constant time. Re-sizing arrays is potentially very expensive.
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AMD hUMA integrated CPU/GPU memory architecture(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by justin_hancock 13y ago|0 comments
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Asynchronous Loggers for Low-Latency Logging(logging.apache.org)
42 points by justin_hancock 13y ago|10 comments
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Google sues BT (British Telecom) over patent infringements(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by justin_hancock 14y ago|0 comments
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by justin_hancock 14y ago
The one thing seems to have been omitted is housing costs? I am in the UK and housing costs have risen very sharply thus eliminating any other reductions on pricing. This is one area the current generation is much worse off, rents are hi
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by justin_hancock 14y ago
HBase 90.4, problems with I/O we had a very heavy read load on top of a write load, write load bursting 14,000 TX per second, and an average of 8,000 per second - each record around 2k. Because of the I/O the WAL had to be turned off, this
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by justin_hancock 14y ago
Also they used an old version of HBase, 90.4 in the benchmark, HBase 94.0 has been out since May 2012, and has a lot of work to improve performance especially remove lock contention on the region server.
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by justin_hancock 14y ago
My understanding of facebooks Pod Architecture for HBase was not the name node but simply scaling HBase, HBase gets rather unpleasant at facebook scales. The facebook HBase fork has things like compactions disabled to improve performance.
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Mechanical Sympathy and High Performance Coding - Martin Thompson(channel9.msdn.com)
1 points by justin_hancock 14y ago|0 comments
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by justin_hancock 14y ago
Bruce Eckel is releasing a book this year on Scala, Atomic Scala: http://www.atomicscala.com/ Eckel's Thinking in Java was a classic, I suspect he will this one out of the bag too. The Odersky book is good as a reference, but not a great
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by justin_hancock 14y ago
I find this quite curious, how would it work with clothing? I mean most clothes designs are the work of high end fashion houses, the middle market and lower end then produce very similar styles, its an accepted system. Surely this mean th
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by justin_hancock 14y ago
This is a just discussion of the hype cycle, you can apply the very general rules to almost any technology. No new insight here, it feels like link bait.
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Impala Realtime Query Engine for Hadoop/HBase(theregister.co.uk)
32 points by justin_hancock 14y ago|3 comments
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Mythbusting Modern Hardware(gotocon.com)
2 points by justin_hancock 14y ago|0 comments
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The Social Olympics(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by justin_hancock 14y ago|0 comments
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by justin_hancock 14y ago
I have had the joy of interviewing people who've lied on their CVs (Resumes). One particular pearl was a guy claiming he'd worked on a particular project I had lead, I proceeded to ask him about the project who ran it, what it was about e
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by justin_hancock 14y ago
Although its not on mobile didn't Google's desktop search tools cover an awful lot of this? I certainly remember it returning, emails, documents and other textual data in the result. It also had plugin support. It may not have existed on

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