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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I find it a much bigger "F U" to host an issue tracker and completely ignore it (perhaps while you continue development on other features), or worse, close new items out of hand. At least he's taken the time to clarify what c
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I applaud his approach, at it demonstrates respect to other developers by explicitly communicating what others can expect of him. Although it's not required, I would hope that all devs who open source a project without any intention of
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Could New York City Subways Survive Another Hurricane?(nytimes.com)
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Dear poster, don't imply all startups are equal. If a startup asks you to solve math puzzles, it's possible that the work you will be doing heavily involves the creative use of math or information analysis. (This is more broadly v
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
This is an apples to oranges comparison. The article centers on (the author's idea of) the messaging that greater American society would like to impart on the archetypal Stanford student, who is upper-class, American, young, inexperien
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
One way or another, you have to achieve product-market fit.
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
"local maxima"? The commenter never said that progress was finished, and that nothing more should or could be done. He was merely describing it as better than the prior state, from a utilitarian perspective. Relative to standards
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
The problem for me is not technical per se, but that it adds another element of complexity to an already complex programming environment and has implications for human resourcing. Becoming expert in a new language goes beyond learning synta
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You Can Finally Buy 'Game Of Thrones' A La Carte: HBO Comes To Google Play(forbes.com)
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Cheers. And didn't mean to trigger a pet peeve, I was just continuing the example. The point was more "even when you put SSDs under an RDBMS, it's still an RDBMS".
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Yeah, memory-mapped files and journaling are standard OS primitives. I would say auto-sharding, replication, indexing, and complex schema-less querying are not. In my experience, MongoDB arrived with NoSQL/BigTable to fill a different
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Yes, I agree. But regarding my comment, the use case was caching with persistence. Redis has some persistence options (pure snapshot or pure journal), but they just aren't its primary use case and aren't nearly as mature or perf
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Sorry, I guess, that you haven't heard of teams caching denormalized data in MongoDB... MongoDB uses memory-mapped files across all available memory to manage data, it sacrifices ACID for speed, and its capped collections sacrifice und
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I'm confused. You do realize that MongoDB uses memory mapped files for managing and interacting with all data...
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
No one's arguing that disk paging is high-performance. In fact, MongoDB themselves explicitly recommend that you keep your working set size below physical memory size.
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
MongoDB is not a particularly good database. But it is a pretty good in-memory cache that can persist to disk, which is a valuable technical niche. It's a small change in perspective (that is betrayed by their marketing) but has a huge
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I totally agree. But I like the cave idea so I would prefer caves along the perimeter of the floor. (Though you might not call them caves anymore.) At the same time I've known (more?) programmers that prefer the dark. And I also know p
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I wouldn't necessarily elevate an expectation of visual and behaviorial consistency to "theory". I have learned that a chair can hold my body weight. When I rest my body on an object that resembles a chair and that I've
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Gov. Jerry Brown signs bill increasing online privacy for minors in California(scpr.org)
1 points by mcgwiz 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Heuristically, anytime you're doing I/O (network or filesystem) could be an opportunity to increase concurrency with async/await. By using asynchrnous I/O and trickling that asynchronocity all the way up to ASP.NET, you
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Agreed. But why are things the way they are and how do we progress from there? In my experience, a lot of the difficulty in comprehending/accepting that women experience the industry so differently than men is that many men either A) o
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Can Web of Trust/PGP be applied/adapted to client-server communication such as that handled by HTTP? Conceptually, HTTPS built on PGP? Would new products or services help the adoption of this (like a social network for PGP keys)?
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Websites differ in their basic nature, and one size does not fit all. Roughly speaking, websites that are document-like (primarily consumption-oriented) should probably be progressively enhanced; websites that are tool-like probably should
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Pretty good stuff, but the second suggestion about mobile development should, at the least, be given a big asterisk if not removed entirely. When differentiating content based on user-agent and including the "Vary: user-agent" hea
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Far more interesting blog post by their CEO here: http://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/whats-name
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
All sensationalism, little substance. Particularly regarding the topic of the link-baity title. > "One such company, Lenddo, determines if you're friends on Facebook (FB) with someone who was late paying back a loan to Lenddo..
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Makes sense, and I think most people understand this. That said, I think the name "the Sunday test" and the description "If this person were alone at the office on a Sunday..." is far from ideal. (Off the top of my head,
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
> we can hire lawyers, doctors, and surgeons on the back of a CV and an hour interview. You can do that with programmers too. And depending on the type of work you are hiring for, this can be sufficient. Menial product maintenance is sui
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Thank you for the reply. According to your example about the night sky, a claim is merely an observation if everyone will make the same claim in response to the same evidence. This seems very porous and weak, but following that logic, I wou
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Interesting. I haven't read the paper, but I took the "theory" to be: "when presented with a visualization of one's body, augmented with a signal pulsing synchronously with one's heartbeat, one's perceptio

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