knightni

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by knightni 14y ago
...and even then, it's hard to know whether the CEO exercised brilliance, luck, or a combination thereof.
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by knightni 14y ago
It doesn't surprise me a great deal - Mongo doesn't have a history of being a technologically strong database system. While it is/was perceived as high performance, it's always been clear that this performance was gained as a result of com
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by knightni 14y ago
I've used a wide variety of languages, and I've yet to encounter one that wouldn't have been better with good IDE support. I like having the ability to refactor quickly, to hop to method definitions with ease, to have a quality integrated d
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by knightni 14y ago
A glance over the wiki pages for countries that use FPTP and PR suggests that PR at least correlates better with sanity. My personal beef with FPTP is that it devolves so much power to the party base - since you can't start new parties arou
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by knightni 14y ago
> Is there any teaching in the prior art, as a whole, that would, not simply could, have prompted the skilled person, faced with the objective technical problem formulated when considering the technical features not disclosed by the cl
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by knightni 14y ago
When I went to a starbucks in NY recently (I'm British), I ordered a medium-sized tea, and got given a tent-sized teabag sufficient for a very large teapot. It made the tea extremely nasty, presumably in aid of a quantity=quality impressio
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by knightni 14y ago
Since these questions will inevitably come up: - You fsync yourself to ensure durability. I can't see at a glance what fsync settings are used for the speed tests. - It's not transactional, although single operations are atomic.
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by knightni 14y ago
> A company, acting "morally" as you define, pays more tax than it is required to under the law. In so doing, it incurs a loss so severe that it must cut staff in order to remain viable. Usually not an issue in this case, since corporat
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by knightni 14y ago
> Monopolies only exist when created by regulation. If you take the dictionary definition rather than the legal one, sure. The legal one is the one that's actually relevant for most people's purposes, though.
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by knightni 14y ago
It's interesting, because from my observation a lot of the crowd who popularised systems like mongo were those people who weren't willing to think* . Learning the relational data model + tooling was too complicated. Now Mongo has a big
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by knightni 14y ago
> (Well, only that here we also have deferred log flush, which means the changes will take a second or two to actually make it to the file system, but that still demands the same aggregate throughput from the HBase. That is where this t
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by knightni 14y ago
Just came here to post this. It's frustrating, because a configuration like that makes the numbers completely irrelevant, unless you don't care whether your data gets persisted or not. I'd much rather see a more like-for-like comparison, a
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by knightni 14y ago
Your average car engine is dramatically less efficient than a power plant.
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by knightni 14y ago
Less again when you include taxes. The rule of thumb in the UK, at least, is to double an employee's salary to get the total cost of employing them.
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by knightni 14y ago
I assume it's a reference to the cost of hiring engineers to make the code more efficient, versus just throwing hardware at the problem.