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by mattrepl 16y ago
Very interesting. I'm interested in hearing about working with open source projects, selling data, and customer support; I'm especially interested in how startups handle bugs in newer open source projects. Do you spend time identifying th
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Stoicism is not about masking pain, but understanding that no one has control of their environment. To violently react to that which we cannot control is damaging to the individual. A Stoic will grieve like anyone else, but find comfort in
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Seconded, I've owned both SR-60 and SR-80 headphones and love them. They are open-backed so would not work well for mowing, but they're fine if you're in a lab or airport. I'd suggest earplugs over headphones for mowing, unless you're tryi
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One thing I considered was living in San Mateo or even Mountain View where you can rent a room in a house with a yard and keep your dog. If you must be in SF, then find a roommate and rent a townhouse with a yard in Potrero Hill. All easie
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I'm not familiar with kanban, other than by name. Site is visually appealing, but I'd suggest reworking the design to use a portion of the empty space on top of many of the pages. I owned this domain for awhile, glad to see someone from HN
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by mattrepl 16y ago
I've enjoyed reading your posts over the years, thanks for them. You're correct that a message queue isn't necessarily a job queue, I was referring to job queues.
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There are some tasks, such as asynchronously-generated web content, where a message queue is the obvious solution. But there are a class of problems where either a message queue or batch processing system (e.g., Hadoop) could be used. Con
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Use Processing.js on the iPad(code.google.com)
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by mattrepl 16y ago
The above post was random but Osmos is worth playing. It can be relaxing, though gameplay varies from slow and methodic to frenzied.
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NoSQL at Twitter, Presentation at NoSQL EU 2010(slideshare.net)
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Instant community: audit a course at your local college or university. Even if uninterested in a degree, attending a class helps keep motivation and meet peers.
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There will be CS influence in informatics and data science, but I'm guessing the influence will come from individuals with CS backgrounds rather than CS departments. These individuals will leave CS departments to join other departments inv
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Introducing Cascalog: a Clojure-based query language for Hadoop(nathanmarz.com)
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Agreed, didn't mean to imply otherwise.
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"Google" is mentioned 22 times in the article. It's the use as an adjective that's disconcerting. But as you stated, sounds fun in a way.
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by mattrepl 17y ago
NoVA and the DC metro area is huge, we have lots of restaurants. Yes, some are chains, but there are a ton of awesome local places as well. I cringe when you suggest there are no good, local places to eat here. Yelp is decent for finding
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Data mining big graphs - an evaluation of the state-of-the-art(highscalability.com)
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by mattrepl 17y ago
There is also igraph, for Python, R, Ruby, and C. http://igraph.sourceforge.net/
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by mattrepl 17y ago
The lectures have been recorded and made available in four parts at http://had.blip.tv/file/3375517/ .
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A Short Course in Data Visualization and the Grammar of Graphics(had.co.nz)
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The overflow error is certainly not a reason to dismiss a candidate. The excerpt from the Wikipedia article doesn't imply that everyone had the same error. Also, the page provided by sanj contains a recount by a Google employee where he an
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by mattrepl 17y ago
Out of curiosity, what is your definition of computer science?
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Excerpt from binary search article on Wikipedia: "Although the basic idea of binary search is comparatively straightforward, the details can be surprisingly tricky…" — Professor Donald Knuth When Jon Bentley assigned it as a problem in a
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An Account of the ACM Data Mining Camp(bytemining.com)
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Problems for which you have solid models and tools (statistics) to solve them are the exact sort you wouldn't use GP or any sort of evolutionary computing (EC). EC is best used when the only other option is picking random solutions from th
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by mattrepl 17y ago
Actually Redis is a bit more than a k/v store these days. It provides implementations of a variety of basic data structures, including lists that support queue operations. There's BLPOP[1] and BRPOP for blocking job/message requests and L
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The slipped schedule and monthly charge for additional features were not the main source of the uproar. The announcement implied that the online reporting advertised as included with the purchase price was now only available at additional
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For anyone that finds the posted site painful on the eyes, here's another introduction to SVD that is all on one page by default and isn't crowded by advertisements. http://www.igvita.com/2007/01/15/svd-recommendation-system-i...
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They're probably using the BDB Java Edition which uses a GPL-compatible license and does require all source code be released with program distribution. Looks like you're right, HyperGraphDB can't be LGPL. More info: http://www.oracle.com/
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BigTable clones like Cassandra ( http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/ ) and Hypertable ( http://www.hypertable.org/ ) can be used in a column-oriented fashion. Both use column families to group related columns.

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