mdellabitta

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1. 61.▲
   by mdellabitta 11y ago

   Irony?
2. 62.▲
   by mdellabitta 11y ago

   That feature is included with every new account!
3. 63.▲
   by mdellabitta 11y ago

   That "weirdly shaped enter/return key" is an ISO standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_9995
4. 64.▲
   by mdellabitta 11y ago

   I was responding to the comment "You wouldn't put the entire content of a file in an extended attribute, would you?" HFS+ does, although in this case, it does without leaking that detail to callers.
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   by mdellabitta 11y ago

   Actually, I believe OS X does this for small files in order to not burn a whole filesystem block on a sub 1k file. "In Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6, HFS+ compression was added. In open source and some other areas this is referred to as A
6. 66.▲
   by mdellabitta 11y ago

   Just a datapoint: Macs have been sending files via the Internet with resource forks for a long time, basically since the invention of the Macintosh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BinHex Resource forks are basically leg
7. 67.▲
   by mdellabitta 11y ago

   Just as a alternative view: I was a Spotify user but their Android app was unreliable... my phone would hard reset occasionally. Then I started using Google Play Music.
8. 68.▲
   by mdellabitta 11y ago

   Ding ding ding. Also, hello from Indian Point, Buchanan, NY! I can see a containment dome as I write this. Next up on my Snake Plisskin-esque commute is literally going through Sing Sing prison: https://www.google.com/maps&#
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   by mdellabitta 11y ago

   > The key to a successful nuclear reactor of any kind is to generate, confine, and control a blob of super-heated matter, called a plasma — a gas that has reached temperatures of more than 180 million degrees Fahrenheit. Um, what? I&#x27
10. 70.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    SI and metric are actually subtly different. Do any countries actually use SI rather than metric?
11. 71.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    One kg of water is definitely one kg.
12. 72.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    Has anybody else read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie ?
13. 73.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    That's funny, I would have thought the utter lack of anything explosive would differentiate it from a bomb. :)
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    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    I guess I'm not really thinking this is a hardship on the interviewee, but wondering more if you're implicitly filtering your candidate pool. But you make good points.
15. 75.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    Does this interviewing methodology mean that you only hire devs that don't currently have a gig or have vacation days to blow on the possibility of getting a job with you?
16. 76.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    Is that another plain-English name for EC2, as well?
17. 77.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    That raises the question: What would be the 'natural' English spelling of other Italian words, like 'pasta' or 'gnocchi'? Which highlights the slippery slope we're on here...
18. 78.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    IIRC, the AWS console itself is hosted out of us-east-1. Which means you're always somewhat exposed to whatever failure modes it has.
19. 79.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
20. 80.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    Probably!
21. 81.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    I think I figured it out. Someone put their book on the F8 key during a restart.
22. 82.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    You need a non-blocking lawyer queue.
23. 83.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    There's an About page on that same site, available in the top navigation: http://databricks.com/spark/about
24. 84.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    http://timecube.com/
25. 85.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    Something tells me that photo makes it look worse than it is because it was taken with a long lens.
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    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    Of course, you'd probably do a little better than that, because at no point would your car be carrying all of that gas. But the trough would have to get wider when you went uphill or had to get going at a light.
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    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    I'm imagining the job interview. "We want to sponsor your distributed database research, but not your Barbie animated GIF production."
28. 88.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    Except this won't work with files bigger than 5gb. It might be worth the time to do it right.
29. 89.▲
    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    So everyone who runs Hadoop is installing junk? Seems like plenty of other companies have been able to build businesses on it without adhering to your Debian-only rules...
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    by mdellabitta 11y ago

    But Debian isn't the Debian of Hadoop. Cloudera is. Why should we assume the Debian Foundation is the sole trusted source of every type of software?