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by justinsb 13y ago
I was suggesting that MongoDB's marketing claims initially went unchecked here and generally. It seems a lot of people assumed that others had done the due-diligence for them. They started using it not knowing that it was not very con
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by justinsb 13y ago
I take it you two do have history, because I didn't really pick up on #2 and #3 from his comment. I would suggest that every time you say "docker is not just a fancy wrapper around LXC", mentally people assume that docker is
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by justinsb 13y ago
It seems peterwwillis picked up on one very specific claim (that Docker is a portable standard) and called it out as false. That's exactly what we should be doing with false marketing claims, or else we end up with MongoDB all over ag
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by justinsb 13y ago
I think the suggestion is that the buyers are algorithmic trading systems. An alternative explanation: could Twitter buy Tweeter and use it to list a lot more easily than the formal IPO process? If the government shutdown goes on for so lon
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Benchmarking graph databases... with unexpected results(nosql.mypopescu.com)
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by justinsb 13y ago
Looks to be 20% cheaper than Route53 per query (but with a higher per-zone charge and $50 minimum.) Good to see more competition in the space; I bet AWS will price-match within a week or two.
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by justinsb 13y ago
That's great stuff - thanks. Just trying to collect tips from those that have been there, so that when I get there I have something to start from!
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by justinsb 13y ago
Good point - particularly as it's a fairly simple universe of answers. I wonder if we could get the raw data. But, I do think the Mechanical Turk vs "shopping mall" selection-bias factor overwhelms everything else.
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by justinsb 13y ago
I'd love to see a blog post that went into detail about those issues: what to measure, what to tune etc.
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by justinsb 13y ago
I don't think that's quite right. Imagine if I flip a coin and it comes up heads, so I say "coins always come up heads". You don't flip a coin once to prove me wrong. I think the right thing to do is to conduct a
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by justinsb 13y ago
I tried the BingItOn.com challenge: 5/5 for Google for me. But I saw that Microsoft was trying to push me towards "popular" queries (what Miley Cyrus said today about the government shutdown). So I think this is an issue of
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by justinsb 13y ago
I've used ElasticSearch & Logstash (& Kibana, also shown here), and I've been nothing but impressed. My primary concern was how it would cope when data exceeded RAM (I like to call this the MongoDB fallacy). However, base
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by justinsb 13y ago
It wouldn't seem in Netflix's (or any company's) best interest to behave like that: essentially, firing someone that has produced, that they're under-paying. You're under no obligation to share more details, but you
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Open Competitions: Thoughts on the Netflix OSS prize(blog.justinsb.com)
23 points by justinsb 13y ago|6 comments
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by justinsb 13y ago
I believe that strong typing is a much bigger factor than design patterns in supporting big codebases, and allowing people new to the codebase to contribute productively. Once you go beyond a small project, it's really nice to have th
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by justinsb 13y ago
I believe NewSQL will deliver 100% ACID and high-availability on distributed systems. Not 100% availability, because CAP tells us that's theoretically impossible. But availability as good as any _real-world_ non-consistent database _
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by justinsb 13y ago
It's not just the BA brand though for business flights; it's the "enterprise deals" with the companies that are paying for the seat, the businessperson's preference for earning points they can redeem for a nice holi
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by justinsb 13y ago
I think that mainframes are the solution to the problem that some applications run well only on a single machine. Most software has been cluster-fied, but there's one big one that is left: databases. Mainframes are more expensive per-
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by justinsb 13y ago
A great analogy. Hopefully - just like jQuery - you can get Microsoft on board with LXC as well :-)
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by justinsb 13y ago
Interesting! What was the response when you tried to get it merged into the kernel?
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by justinsb 13y ago
My understanding is that it's been unable to get into the Linux kernel because it's unstable? I agree it's a great tool if it works :-)
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by justinsb 13y ago
DotCloud have done a wonderful job of popularizing the idea of LXC containers with Docker. I think the idea of LXC containers as software-distribution mechanism is a great one, and I credit Docker with getting that idea into my mind. It is
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by justinsb 13y ago
I think you could adjust your tone to be more HN-suitable, but I don't think this is worth getting upset about: it sounds like Docker made a lot more changes than did OpenShift. It's good positioning by DotCloud, but it's no
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by justinsb 13y ago
If I have two Docker instances, with a common base image containing e.g. libc.so, then will those two instances share libc's memory? When Docker moves from AUFS to BtrFS, will it share the memory there also? Edit: I ask because the id
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by justinsb 13y ago
Can you explain a bit about how this would work here (i.e. for Gogo)?
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by justinsb 13y ago
How can MAC spoofing be stopped? All the counter-measures I can think of seriously degrade the experience. I can think of approaches that work for HTTP, for example, but I can't see how you would allow e.g. SSH while preventing MAC sp
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by justinsb 13y ago
Theoretical resolution of "intuitively obvious" paradoxes such as these are important. If we cannot find a theoretical resolution, it can indicate a flaw in our theories, and that will likely provide a more accurate set of theorie
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by justinsb 13y ago
For some reason, that story seems to have fallen off the front page, so people may not know that the root cause is not Heroku: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6380772
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by justinsb 13y ago
Did it look like a ddos attack, or do you think something went wrong where you were getting traffic meant for other EC2 nodes? I'm not quite sure how you would tell the difference of course...
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by justinsb 13y ago
Is your test producing a new document value 100 times a second, or just writing the same value back over and over again? It sounds like it might be the latter, which is not a particularly stressful test (because you can't detect data r

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