keefe

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by keefe 16y ago
>it's completely won me over, replacing almost every single place I'd use PHP which it should, php is terrible. It's OK for many purposes, but there aren't that many spectacular libraries for difficult things, lack of sophisticated IDE
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by keefe 16y ago
I'll second pretty much all of this. It's important to consider that not getting the degree removes backup plans. Backup plans are important to have if you're not independently wealthy, especially in the current economic climate. It's unlik
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by keefe 16y ago
yes indeed I'm increasingly using couchdb, planning on picking up erlang and it would be useful to avoid the mailing list if you can pass info along...
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by keefe 16y ago
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... there are some limits to uploads
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by keefe 16y ago
Other than the servers checking host per other people's comments, this is basically just how dns works... anybody with a domain can point any subdomain or domain they own to any IP they want. I can't see any practical way around this at the
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by keefe 16y ago
extremely this... that takes down a huge barrier to entry for a totally trivial cost
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by keefe 16y ago
that being said you can do this for free @ dyndns with only slightly more effort
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by keefe 16y ago
Like other posters said, it's a generally difficult problem. I would break the problem down into subsections and estimate each, depending on my experience. e.g. database setup and connectivity - one day +/- one day, I do that all the time.
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by keefe 16y ago
per month maybe
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by keefe 16y ago
Don't get too excited about randomly leaving unless you have a particular plan in mind. If you don't have equity, it's definitely a good idea to separate yourself emotionally - but if you've got a steady paycheck, there's no reason not to k
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by keefe 16y ago
yes, agree. I think this is the talk from startup school where bezos used this metaphor : http://wn.com/jeff_bezos_at_startup_school_08
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by keefe 16y ago
this is the final precept, obfuscate your knowledge...
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by keefe 16y ago
I did some work at the #3 retail grocer in the world and they have an improbable amount of cobol and cobol-apps running as of 2007. Some of these were running on old IBM mainframes from the 80s and perhaps even 70s, including some exciting
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by keefe 16y ago
yeah seriously git clone X fix something obvious git push repeat
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by keefe 16y ago
if you avoid nitpicking details, you'll have nicer discussions too.
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by keefe 16y ago
java is my default for server work, with eclipse and 12 years experience (has it really been so long??) I'm pretty quick. javascript + jquery for front end work. sometimes AS3 but not lately. working on erlang as couchdb has become increasi
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by keefe 16y ago
I'm not married and a year older than you, but I've always been long term relationship man. I imagine that a healthy marriage or long term relationship would only benefit you if she's supportive. It's not much different than being a researc
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by keefe 16y ago
better tools certainly make for a better product, no question. I think this stretches the analogy a little bit though, if we're comparing java and haskell I don't think we can compare a steinway and a casio, maybe a steinway and some off br
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by keefe 16y ago
lol much respect
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by keefe 16y ago
Was falling in love with those particular tools optimal for the photographer, musician, gearhead? Could they have made more money, created more if they had broadened their horizons? It all depends on if the goal is to make as much money as
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by keefe 16y ago
come on now, have you ever fallen in love with a phillips head screwdriver?
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by keefe 16y ago
oh yeah I love couchdb and document databases in general, it's a wonderful and fundamental tech... it's just a certain amount of effort to stuff a particular problem into a btree format, so sometimes it's easier to work with something like
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by keefe 16y ago
typically when you need arbitrary many-to-many relationships or multiple range queries, it's hard to use a document database.
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by keefe 16y ago
I wonder if it's actually possible google forked some code they shouldn't have? I think using java and writing your own vm are quite different cases.
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by keefe 16y ago
an in-memory set won't work. indexes don't have to be in memory all the time to provide log N lookup, I mean just think about how b-trees work. ...and this is a problem most databases have addressed.
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by keefe 16y ago
maybe you have to partition the file but I'm guessing random access will allow you to access it fine, I haven't ever poked a 35GB text file either. first thing I'd try is probably pseudo-this: while((entry=readDataPoint())!=null){
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by keefe 16y ago
how can you have privacy without anonymity from your information service providers?
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by keefe 16y ago
There are many unjust laws, especially in countries other than the US. Each of us has a right to privacy. This allows for nefarious activities but it also enables many forms of creativity.
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by keefe 16y ago
except for all the high quality libraries for doing hard things
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by keefe 16y ago
I'd rather see Vector<Fruit> than Vector<AppleOrOrange> or Vector<TreeBearingFruit> The point is first to change the code s.t. you're dealing with a superclass vs the subclasses. The name of the classes is not specta

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