mlmilleratmit

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Cloudant on Google's Spanner(cloudant.com)
69 points by mlmilleratmit 14y ago|13 comments
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by mlmilleratmit 14y ago
Solid summary of some powerful tools, no wonder python is the new default for academic data analysis.
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by mlmilleratmit 14y ago
See my comment above, but so far very happy with them.
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by mlmilleratmit 14y ago
The bricks are quite old. They may be treated, but you can flake them off with a screwdriver if you dig in.
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by mlmilleratmit 14y ago
Thanks, the rounded/tapered legs are a surprisingly important addition. Staining them would be wonderful, but that's more time intensive than staining the doors. We offer Aeron chairs if folks want them. I tried the ProGrid (~10 way adjust
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by mlmilleratmit 14y ago
Hah, nice! Ironically, my mom is an interior designer. We're still working on what to hang on the wall, furniture and layout, but I have some ideas of how to make it personal/local, hopefully that'll take it a bit out of the Starbucks gen
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by mlmilleratmit 14y ago
I'd like to think that we addressed many of the ergonomic issues of the generic door desk, but time will tell.
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by mlmilleratmit 14y ago
Wow, you're totally right about the links. You caught us in a transition to new web properties, embarrassing. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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by mlmilleratmit 14y ago
As the Cloudant Founder (YCS08) that opened the Seattle office, I really enjoy the diversity of this comment stream. I wrote this post because I thought it would provide some insight into our company, and because others may find it useful.
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How we chose and furnished an office the Y Combinator way(blog.cloudant.com)
49 points by mlmilleratmit 14y ago|55 comments
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by mlmilleratmit 15y ago
I might as well ask it first -- when does it go live on cloudant.com?
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by mlmilleratmit 15y ago
We're certainly hoping to reduce the complication by removing the boundary between (clustered) BigCouch and Apache CouchDB by making the clustering an optional and transparent part of the Apache CouchDB project.
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by mlmilleratmit 15y ago
It ain't all about hand size. My beat-up 3G definitely spends more time in my left front pocket than in my hand, so that's a personal priority.
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by mlmilleratmit 15y ago
Good point. A binary protocol is certainly the ultimate play. Tim has some promising initial estimates, but the gains depend on the document properties (mostly size). In the meantime an alternative solution is to spread the server-side l
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by mlmilleratmit 15y ago
Come and kick the tires!
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by mlmilleratmit 15y ago
Indeed there are plenty of alternatives, that was the subtle theme of my post, but unfortunately I didn't have the space to go into any more detail... Follow up piece!
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by mlmilleratmit 15y ago
Interesting, I haven't looked at disco for quite awhile. How does disco compare to hadoop streaming these days? (I'm highly biased, so I reach for bigcouch most of the time now)
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by mlmilleratmit 16y ago
Great summary of our paper! From the amount and ratio of the different isotopes you can do a tremendous amount of nuclear forensics, which I knew nothing about before this happened. Not everything is in books (some is still deemed top sec
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by mlmilleratmit 16y ago
While we're honored to see that Cloudant plays a roll in the their app, I imagine the real answer to your question is the phrase "Experiment" at the bottom of the page. I imagine this is about learning/testing, not the most optimized way t
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by mlmilleratmit 16y ago
whoops! Will fix.
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by mlmilleratmit 16y ago
Plenty of reduce queries, you just didn't need to write the code ;) Good point, though, good material for the next round. I'm open to suggestions if you have an interesting data set or question.
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by mlmilleratmit 16y ago
Hi Aheilbut, apologies if I over-simplified. Perhaps I also undersold scalability -- that's a key point of this type of approach, but non-obvious on such a small data example.