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   by meritt 12y ago

   I was waiting for the "BUY OUR EBOOK NOW AND YOU TOO WON'T LOSE $100,000!" at the bottom of all the scrolling. I was kinda disappointed.
2. 932.▲
   by meritt 12y ago

   Exactly. I am very much on the side of "If it's publicly available info, it's free to access and repackage" but a lot of companies and judges feel otherwise.
3. 933.▲
   by meritt 12y ago

   I'm genuinely confused about the legality about building a business whose sole purpose is to scrape the web, repackage and sell that information. One side of the fence, you have all this publicly accessible information, so it's li
4. 934.▲
   by meritt 12y ago

   "To deliver the highest write performance, Couchbase Server writes to an integrated, in-memory cache first. Then, it synchronizes the cache with the storage device for durability." Comparing the write speed of non-durable writes a
5. 935.▲
   by meritt 12y ago

   The cited research [1] must have been written by an auto dealership. They conclude that since the monthly payment-to-income ratio has not increased, that all is well. Using their own data and a loan amortization calculator I conclude someth
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   The Reality of Student Debt Is Different From the Clichés(nytimes.com)

   3 points by meritt 12y ago|1 comments
7. 937.▲
   by meritt 12y ago

   Or you could do this: function qux() { return [$foo, $bar, $baz]; } list($foo, $bar, $baz) = qux();
8. 938.▲
   by meritt 12y ago

   Our last engineering job req we received about 10 sysadmin applicants almost all of which started with a "I know I'm not an exact fit but..." sort of line. Maybe it was just an oddity.
9. 939.▲
   by meritt 12y ago

   All these companies leaving Heroku and other PaaS providers is definitely a blessing for the thousands of unemployed devops & sysadmins out there.
10. 940.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    Is there a decent way to calculate valuation? We're starting to be approached with merger/acquisition talk and we're unsure on how to best determine our value in that scenario. We're a 2.5 yr old company, annual revenue
11. 941.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    Can you please please remove SumoMe? Or add a button which allows me to disable the stupid highlighting / clickjacking shit it does?
12. 942.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    Drop the mobile games startup, it's not going anywhere. People will still play games a year from now. Find yourself a job. Get a gym membership. Change your diet. Get the medicine you need. Get glasses. Pay off your debt. Once you&#x27
13. 943.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    At least if you're using Oracle they are, as it supports auto-refreshing. Postgres has only had them since 9.3 (and have to be manually refreshed). Meanwhile MySQL is still struggling with regular views.
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    by meritt 12y ago

    I've looked at and avoided doing anything serious with hdfs/mr for 6 years now. I'm glad some people are starting to realize that re-processing your entire dataset every single time you want to do something isn't very ef
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    by meritt 12y ago

    Twitter hashtags. Categorized tumblr posts. Subreddits. Yeah.. Not really seeing the value this provides, or even a gap it might fill.
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    by meritt 12y ago

    I doubt this acquisition was aimed at Pingdom's tech stack so much as their 26 employees and 500k+ users that SolarWinds can now upsell into more expansive monitoring solutions.
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    by meritt 12y ago

    The data shows this trend is not unique to the US. http://economics.mit.edu/files/5554 page 17.
18. 948.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    Why the fuck is this on HN? As much as I loathe Paypal, half-ass instructions for committing bank & wire fraud isn't exactly something we should be promoting. Flagged.
19. 949.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    Facebook has been doing a fair job of banning them. Can't wait for BuzzFeed to be removed next.
20. 950.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    SQL is pretty damn simple.
21. 951.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    When you take the time to learn relational databases, sql, normalization and maybe some caching, suddenly you don't find yourself spending very much time waiting on the DB. If something indeed is going to take that long, perhaps you sh
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    by meritt 12y ago

    I'd argue the simple approach of having a web server (nginx, apache) send requests to a pool of workers (perl, php, python, ruby) is considerably superior.
23. 953.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    2014 is not any more difficult than 2010. If anything, it's considerably easier.
24. 954.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    Cool. I was more taking the opportunity in replying to you to point out that this article isn't very good :)
25. 955.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    InnoDB does indeed use a B+ tree. A more thorough article on the topic is http://blog.jcole.us/2013/01/10/btree-index-structures-in-in... or the book High Performance MySQL.
26. 956.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    Lots and lots of stories never make it anywhere near the front page. Mostly spam.
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    by meritt 12y ago

    Please drop SumoMe too. It's absolutely horrible.
28. 958.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    Small plug for a modern game that's created very much in the style of SoM: http://www.secretsofgrindea.com/ In beta/pre-order now. Steam Greenlight. Small + very dedicated team.
29. 959.▲
    by meritt 12y ago

    2.5 year old company. Data intelligence focus. 5 full-time employees (incl founders). Fully remote. On track to do $1M+ revenue this year.
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    by meritt 12y ago

    Following the law would mean not renting out their properties in SF. People clearly find value in doing so. If AirBNB goes away, the same owners will just switch to Craigslist or the next alternative. Learn to deal with change instead of bi