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by meritt 9y ago
I'm not attempting to compare the usefulness of CSV to a RDBMS. I'm simply pointing out it should be inherently obvious that writing to 1 file is faster than writing to N files, which is the only thing the benchmark is in question
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by meritt 9y ago
If I asserted: "It's faster to put 10,000 rows of csv data in single file instead of 10,000 individual files" even the most junior programmer would likely say "Well, duh, it's 1 file instead of 10,000". Yet thi
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by meritt 9y ago
3 person company with revenue in the low seven-figures. Our AWS + IT spend is about 3.5% of revenue
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by meritt 9y ago
They are running MySQL on an m4.xlarge server. He's asking why they aren't using RDS instead. What does S3 have to do with his question?
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by meritt 9y ago
> might actually decrease entropy? and make collisions likely. It's rearranging in a deterministic manner, there's no loss of information, it's just a permutation. There is no impact to entropy nor the likelihood of a coll
606.
by meritt 9y ago
Oh, I'm sorry I misunderstood your comment. I think we're in agreement.
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by meritt 9y ago
How is this excessive? They were promoting the sort of hate speech you find in the darker corners of 4chan and /r/The_Donald. Harvard is fully within their rights to require a certain level of civility and maturity of their applic
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by meritt 10y ago
> For instance using debit cards for the riskiest locales That seems counter-intuitive to me. If there's going to be a fraudulent charge on my account, I'd rather it be a temporary charge that can be resolved instead of actuall
609.
by meritt 10y ago
No, if the alleged crimes are legitimate, he needs to be jailed. Simply handing him off to continue his abuse in another country doesn't fix the problem. It's not like the US has any hesitation with imprisoning people for petty cr
610.
by meritt 10y ago
I point out irony with the age of one user and somehow that's "even crappier" and "less civil" than his comment which is ridiculing every single college graduate and "incompetent older people" as being u
611.
by meritt 10y ago
I'd advise you to read the rest of the thread as the vast majority of the responses were criticizing his vitriolic attitude, and based on the number of upvotes my comment received, I'd argue a large percentage of the HN userbase a
612.
by meritt 10y ago
> I don't want to teach all your shitty college grads humbleMouse's profile: "Mid-Twenties" lol.
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by meritt 10y ago
And that was purely a tax-avoidance strategy. Top employees have always been compensated via stock instead of any form of profit sharing. Now that Amazon literally can't spend their money quickly enough, they're doing stock buybac
614.
by meritt 10y ago
It's bewildering to me how a company can have $1B in revenue and not able to make file-syncing profitable.
615.
by meritt 10y ago
Machine Learning by Andrew Ng (Stanford) https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
616.
by meritt 10y ago
That's what happens when you use mturk instead of computer vision.
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by meritt 10y ago
Utah didn't solve homelessness. The primary "reduction" was changing the definition of chronic homelessness and now less people are being counted. http://www.aei.org/publication/on-utahs-91-percent-decrea
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by meritt 10y ago
If HR had actually done their job, Kalanick wouldn't be spending a Sunday night struggling to reattach his unicorn's horn.
619.
by meritt 10y ago
Google acquired Skybox for $500M in 2014. Curious what changed so significantly in 2.5 years that a half a billion investment was no longer viable. Based on the terms of this deal, it appears they were only after the imaging data itself. I&
620.
by meritt 10y ago
I agree with you that the content was absolutely damaging. The Podesta leaks began 1 hour after Trump's pussy-grabbing video was published, and continued every single day until November 9th. The timing was absolutely strategic and poli
621.
by meritt 10y ago
That is because WikiLeaks decided to become politically opportunistic with what they chose to leak and when they chose to leak it, instead of simply leaking everything immediately after receipt.
622.
by meritt 10y ago
It's about Muslims (and only Muslims) from the 7 listed countries. I'm not sure how to make this any more clear.
623.
by meritt 10y ago
I'm not taking a stance here, I'm using facts to prove that this ban is targeting Muslims (and only Muslims) of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.
624.
by meritt 10y ago
> First, it's not a "ban". It's a temporary suspension until new vetting procedures are put in place. A 90-day suspension and a ban are the same thing. ban is defined as "officially or legally prohibit." -
625.
by meritt 10y ago
Apple is the largest (market cap) public U.S. company and within the world's top 10 by other measurements. We have empirical evidence they are going great, I don't think they need an ignorant slogan which presumes they aren't
626.
by meritt 10y ago
I'd be interested in seeing that, also exactly what bottlenecks were you running into? CPU? I/O? Memory?
627.
by meritt 10y ago
Modern web development is turning into the bloated mess of enterprise java we tried to abandon in 1999.
628.
by meritt 10y ago
Look at the specific model number. 9560 is the latest XPS 15" (and 9360 is the latest XPS 13", from Oct 2016)
629.
by meritt 10y ago
Intelligence. Tenacity. Ambition. Judgement. Bonus points for recognizing the bullshit parade that is the current startup world. e.g.: NodeJS has value, but it's mostly the same wheel we've had for 20+ years. Or that MongoDB'
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by meritt 10y ago
AWS does indeed. They charge $0.005 per 1000 PUT requests (which is 12.5x more expensive than GET requests) and then you're immediately paying for storage space as well.

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