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by mmt 8y ago
> Could be 300, or 400 per person I just pulled an arbitrary # out of my arse. That's part of my point, though, that what the number is (or at least its order of magnitude), actually does matter. For something like a per-person ch
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by mmt 8y ago
I don't think that works that way with giant services like Gmail. I routinely see marketing e-mail that I want to see erroneously auto-sent to Spam by Gmail. Since this has even happened for infrequent explicit-opt-in lists, I have to
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by mmt 8y ago
> would improve their chances of succeeding at a given interview loop, by preparing It seems to me that you're presupposing that "success" equates to ending up with an offer. I posit that for some professionals, success is
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by mmt 8y ago
I suspect the assumption is that this cost will go down if insurance/liability (i.e. injury and property damage) costs are drastically reduced by self-driving cars and fuel and maintenance costs are also reduced by all-electric drivetr
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by mmt 8y ago
The trade show situation, however, is entirely different, however, because the whole thing is purely about marketing. There's no trial product whose real value could be substituted for that marketing. That said, I'm having trouble
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by mmt 8y ago
Check which inbox for what? For a new disposable address, presumably no "inbox" even exists until the first e-mail message is delivered to it.
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by mmt 8y ago
> Why do a lot of people on HN assume everyone is single That's an easy one.. for the same reason they assume everyone is a young, urban, technical professional living in a major tech hub. I recall this being a source of criticism (
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by mmt 8y ago
> For a family of 4 or 5? Presumably for the "young, urban professionals" the GP referred to, which I'd expect are, at most, a family of 2 (in the GP commenter's eyes). Even given this assumption, even that may be deb
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by mmt 8y ago
> Xeon is still better for complex workloads like databases since its inter-core latency is lower. Has that been demonstrated to be true, though, especially in light of Epyc's much wider PCIe bandwidth? For example, would a high-con
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by mmt 8y ago
> Some shops will literally buy from the same vendor even if perf/$ is 3x higher going another route. How many is "some", though? More specifically, what portion of the market do they represent? I'm actually genuinely
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by mmt 8y ago
Agreed. It may be safe to compare BBS culture with Usenet culture, not least of which because Fidonet enabled so much overlap toward that tail end you mention, but the sheer ubiquity alone makes today's Internet a different situation e
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by mmt 8y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I never understood why they don't just obfuscate the MX names. A service like yours would certainly have no trouble noticing the fact that the MXes all have the same IP address as Mailinator, but
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by mmt 8y ago
> Marketing for a service you have registered is not spam From a legal standpoint, this is broadly true, but I'd say from a user's perspective, this is only very narrowly true. For example, if I'm receiving an advertisemen
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by mmt 8y ago
My read on it is that it was to avoid anything taking damage, especially the screw (and screw head, other than, perhaps, the slots themselves, insofar as they could be used for future driving purposes).
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by mmt 8y ago
> then a team of engineers builds a crazily complex pipeline to make the python perform in some reasonable time frame. (Hi, Spark!). Having seen at least a couple of similar setups, I remain skeptical that this isn't, at its core, j
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by mmt 8y ago
The effect that you mention is already cited for the trend of lowering average tenure of technical professionals, in general, so, absent specific evidence that this subset's market value differential (market value less existing employe
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by mmt 8y ago
How many of those characteristics identified on that page are really shortcomings rather than, as the parent comment says, freedom-enhancing (if not performance-enhancing) features? The workarounds seem to have more to do with SQLite's
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by mmt 8y ago
> also have problems with publication bias, as do all sorts of other scientific studies. This is a problem with science at the moment There is also the "reproducibility crisis" which can be very closely related to publication b
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by mmt 8y ago
When it comes to health, yes, I prefer science. To me, that falls well within the same category as laws of physics, where the best method of finding truth is science. Even picking a roofing contractor (or anything else that merely has to do
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by mmt 8y ago
> Hell, in 12-step programs and other support groups, people with similar problems just talking to each other clearly helps. I would take issue issue with the word "clearly", as there is controversy, at least according to Wikip
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by mmt 8y ago
That's an important point, especially with the oft-repeated statistic of 2-years as the average tenure of an engineer. Of course, averages (even if true) are like stereotypes. It would be interesting to see the tenure data on the exper
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by mmt 8y ago
I consider this an important perspective, because it illustrates something I have heard criticized (and which I criticize in its narrow form, as well): overspecialization/overfocus. > I've been doing Ops for 20 years and even b
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm obviously not the parent commenter and have no inside knowledge of the HPC world, but my guess is the main open source supercompting projects would be from NASA, the US national labs, and CERN. You might search HN for the recent an
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by mmt 8y ago
Sorry.. I forgot to respond to the last part of your message: > I don't think it's an obvious decision Certainly, which is why I even bother with discussion like this, in the hopes of making the decision clearer (of not obvious
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by mmt 8y ago
> calling external APIs probably isn't something you want to be doing in Hadoop anyway And yet I've seen it done. At least they weren't truly external, just external to Hadoop. > In the former case, we're taking ra
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by mmt 8y ago
Thanks. Where "everything" is in the context of a transition or migration, rather than any kind of deployment, including an initial one, 2 months seems like a very reasonable minimum. It's certainly in line with technical new
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by mmt 8y ago
> Development abilities would entail having the ability to take a task, or feature, write code around that task or feature including tests, and then submit a PR. No dissonance from my end, and I'd say that other than the very narrow
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by mmt 8y ago
Thanks for that detail. I knew there were more interesting, technical reasons than my oversimplification for why I had never seen it. > People who design codes for supercomputers are often familiar with parallel orchestration idioms that
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by mmt 8y ago
> It makes zero sense to pull a bunch of records back from the db using multiple network calls to join and then filter. Let the db do its job. But then it wouldn't be distributed processing! :) Seriously, though, consider it for a m
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by mmt 8y ago
That's as may be for Kubernetes, but the GP specifically stated "that's the case for everything, not only for kubernetes", which struck me as an extraordinarily broad claim. One might reasonably expect "everything&q

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