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by mayank 9y ago
Forget about COBRA, it's never affordable. Buy health insurance yourself. If you leave your corporate job, that'll be a "qualifying" life event, although that's not too important since open enrollment is coming up i
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by mayank 9y ago
I think you've got Facebook and Google reversed. Facebook is famously all open-plan. Google has a mix of open plan areas and mini 4-person offices with doors, along with other configurations.
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by mayank 9y ago
I'm afraid we're in violent agreement. I never said "Postgres isn't ACID", that's never been in dispute. I said that you can't treat Postgres with a read replica as an ACID database, because as you and I b
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by mayank 9y ago
Please read OP's comment. Postgres is not ACID with read replicas. The replication lag yields eventual consistency.
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by mayank 9y ago
Check out the TPC benchmark: http://www.tpc.org/information/benchmarks.asp
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by mayank 9y ago
Your point is valid, but just wait till you encounter "isomorphic javascript". Web development uses formal terms in a more "feels like" way than academic literature, sadly.
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by mayank 9y ago
> I imagine at a place like Google, your "corpus" is just about everything under the sun, as are your queries. > What happens then? You accept the fact that a good search engine is inevitably going to be a multi-layered beas
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by mayank 9y ago
While this pattern is common in node, it's not node specific. Erlang/OTP uses supervised process trees, Linux has supervisord to support this pattern, and the general idea is called "crash-only" software [1], among other
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How many 53-bit integers fit in your language’s map data structure?(medium.com)
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by mayank 9y ago
"Free speech" as a concept extends far behind and beyond the First Amendment, which is the US statute you're alluding to. There's nothing nonsensical about a person believing in absolute free speech as a core value and s
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by mayank 9y ago
OP is saying they want to support a private business that voluntarily shares the government's mandate on free speech, even when they are not required to.
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by mayank 9y ago
You've really just laid out feelings rather than concrete technical reasons for why Kafka can't function as a permanent datastore. Can you point to specific design elements in Kafka that would lead you to conclude that it isn&#x27
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by mayank 9y ago
> It would be nice if someone make a docker image with all the tuning set (except the hardware) This degree of optimization is something that really depends on a specific use case and the precise configuration of the entire hardware+soft
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by mayank 9y ago
Not quite there, but parts are: * You can send your firehose to BigQuery, and write Javascript UDFs to transform the data. * You can use a service like DataRobot to automatically train a bunch of models. * You can deploy the trained models
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by mayank 9y ago
Is it unfounded to see ICOs as a form of unregulated gambling? I'm thinking particularly in terms of legal consequences for US-based entities offering ICOs. Can entities like the IRS or SEC punish companies or individuals that offer IC
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by mayank 9y ago
It's generally good form here to put in a disclaimer when you're plugging your own product.
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by mayank 9y ago
I can get on board with that :)
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by mayank 9y ago
It's actually not a new kind of distributed algorithm: 1. Peer-to-peer algorithms: BitTorrent would like a word with you. 2. Distributed consensus: Paxos would like a word with you. 3. Proof of work: hashcash would like a word with y
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by mayank 9y ago
None of the ideas in PageRank were new either. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
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by mayank 9y ago
Yield management is a form of constrained optimization, and it's tempting sometimes to relax the customer experience constraints to favor a higher (short-term) yield, as we see from time to time with the airlines.
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by mayank 9y ago
> I think the internal algorithm for training their models will be to maximize "continuations" of watching series enabling binge-watching. While this may be a good measure of engagement for THEM, it hardly is for ME. This seem
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by mayank 9y ago
You can actually get the latest edition of Elements of Stastical Learning for free as a (legal) pdf from the author! https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/
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by mayank 9y ago
I was under the impression that mitmproxy is no longer effective with iOS's mandatory pinned certificates. How did you manage to intercept traffic?
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by mayank 9y ago
There is absolutely no evidence that this fork will gain traction, because it contributes nothing new technically, so it's unlikely we'll reach the point you mention.
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by mayank 9y ago
The questions you ask are great, but slightly less important when you add the fact that everyone has the box already, and getting them to use a new box has been tried incessantly over the years, and yet here we are with the same old box.
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by mayank 9y ago
node's strength is its community -- how do any of the things you cited indicate that the community is going to fork, especially over a non-technical issue? The reason io.js took off with the community is because it addressed a core te
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by mayank 9y ago
The Flajolet-Martin paper on counting unique items in an infinite stream with constant space [1]: a great, well-written introduction to streaming algorithms that triggered my first "aha" moment in the field. You never forget your
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by mayank 9y ago
This is really misleading and shoddy reporting. It's one disgruntled developer forking over Code of Conduct issues (not even technical). The chances that this will win over any significant traction from the node community is nearly zer
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by mayank 9y ago
It's meant for large codebases that can't be loaded into an IDE all at once, or for cases where you need to modify other people's code and automatically send them individual pull requests for approval.
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by mayank 9y ago
The same reason why you have first-degree and second-degree manslaughter, for example. Intent counts.

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