lrajlich

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by lrajlich 17y ago
I agree with most of what is said, but I think the word "dysfunctional" is incorrect and implies the wrong characterization of these situations. Show me the entrepreneurs who came out of childhood situations where fighting, alcohol and drug
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by lrajlich 18y ago
It's good to see hadoop getting some press attention, it certainly deserves it.
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by lrajlich 18y ago
The mention of blueprint got me thinking about CSS frameworks and that there's probably alot of value in using one. What are its strengths? weaknesses?
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by lrajlich 18y ago
Love the design. Does anyone have any recommendations for a CSS framework?
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by lrajlich 18y ago
Agreed, Eric writes an excellent blog and is based on real world experience. Coordinated marketing and product launches make sense in the context of a Product Development model but cut into your ability to learn in the context of a Customer
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by lrajlich 18y ago
I personally use "iostat -xk 1" which shows the values in kilobytes rather than blocks (easier to read) and updates every second.
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Comparison of data analysis packages: R, Matlab, SciPy, Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata(anyall.org)
31 points by lrajlich 18y ago|9 comments
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by lrajlich 18y ago
Tom's hardware forced all the data to the outer sectors of the hard drive. While this reduces capacity it also cuts down on seek time significantly, which would have a tremendous effect on hard drive performance in a database scenario. It a
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Short stroking may boost DB performance by 100%(tomshardware.com)
1 points by lrajlich 18y ago|2 comments
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by lrajlich 18y ago
I've heard of a number of ways of solving this. I don't like json in blobs since you can't query or index the blob data effectively. I propose the attribute table pattern, which I've used to decent amount of success. It's not as sexy as ff'
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Google forced to go web 0.0 by courts(nytimes.com)
37 points by lrajlich 18y ago|2 comments
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by lrajlich 18y ago
These predication markets are garbage. Future expectation of a commodity price can be expressed using futures and this is the generally the way in which a trader (or collectively, the market) expresses a view on the future price of the comm
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by lrajlich 18y ago
R is a different language (which is vectorized and partially functional) and has a more comprehensive stats library and better for "statsy" things, whereas matlab is better for more "mathy" things like linear algebra.
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by lrajlich 18y ago
R is essentially an open source S-Plus implementation. S-Plus licensing can be an issue, particularly when you are running on a cluster. I worked at a place that used S-Plus and they had a to limit the number of S-Plus slots to run jobs aga