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by mmt 8y ago
Again, the accusation isn't against the builders, but against the popularizers (subsquent users). To stretch the kool aid metaphor, they're the ones mixing the kool aid, not drinking it.
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by mmt 8y ago
> especially with some of the premium brands I'd venture to guess it's only with the premium brands, and only when buying new (or maybe used-certified) and only with a model with terrible fuel economy. 7 years would be, for t
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by mmt 8y ago
> The Zoe (the new 41 kWh) goes around 250 km 250km is 155 miles, which is close enough to the 150 miles claimed in the parent comment. It's also still below the 200 miles requested in the original comment.
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by mmt 8y ago
Worth mentioning the two links toward the end of your story: https://www.sisense.com/blog/postgres-vs-mongodb-for-storing... https://www.enterprisedb.com/node/3441 (mongo-pg perf comparison)
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by mmt 8y ago
I think the accusation was against the developers who caused the rise in popularity (i.e. the users), not the developers who created the technologies (i.e. the authors). In that light, it might be best to exclude BigTable, since it's o
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by mmt 8y ago
> Not everyone does the same job you do, even if they might share the same job title. That's true about any title across the entire computer industry (and maybe all technology), but it doesn't say anything about the categories
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by mmt 8y ago
I guess I was making the assumption that "tech" businesses are more likely to have data that's entirely generated by modern software (e.g. click logs) or at least pre-coerced into a consistent, if not structured format (e.g.
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by mmt 8y ago
> There are, however, a number of people in the field that are all ops and have no development abilities. There is less and less of a need for those kinds of people. I very strongly disagree, unless what you mean by "no development
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by mmt 8y ago
(I, like sibling comments, feel that greater restraint in tone and wording, such as avoid "name calling" would amplify, or at least keep the focus on your point, which I believe has at least enough merit to discuss.) Being in Ops,
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by mmt 8y ago
> People will realize that giving developers the keys to the kingdom and total freedom over their application is a terrible idea. (And smart developers don't want total freedom.) Sadly, I don't think it's actually develope
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Docker protects a programming paradigm that we should get rid of(smashcompany.com)
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by mmt 8y ago
> There's all kinds of reasons this is necessary and there's all kinds of reasons why provising a new hardware server, blasting a Linux distro on to it, and just running your server is a bad idea. By no means am I proposing we
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by mmt 8y ago
> want to get in production after 2 months [...] > it will give lot of problems. But that's the case for everything, not only for kubernetes Are you asserting that any modern production environment that takes less than 2 months t
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by mmt 8y ago
You're right that it's /bin/sh, but, since it could be (and is, in some cases) bash, it's not quite right to call it "not bash", either. I'll grant that the distinction is important, though, in the fa
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by mmt 8y ago
I don't recall seeing this explanation before, though I'm pretty sure I've read a version of it. What I noticed immediately was what I felt was something missing in explanation of fallacy #1 (The network is reliable), somethi
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by mmt 8y ago
I suspect that anyone who has worked in tech at more "traditional" non-tech businesses would be far more familiar with the challenges inherent in any ETL undertaking. It's usually critical business data, too, so there's
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by mmt 8y ago
In addition to all the features the sibling comments noted, it's important to note that there's no contradiction: bash is usually the scripting language one uses inside of a Makefile. It's the default, although one could use
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by mmt 8y ago
> MapR has made a business selling more efficient Hadoop-ishness, but also depressing how infrequently I see them deployed, even for pretty massive clusters. I'm only very slightly familiar with their features/value-add and not
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by mmt 8y ago
Citation needed! :) Joking snark aside, I'm actually doubtful this is true. Specifically, I don't recall the impetus for Hadoop (or Google's original Map-Reduce, as described in the '04 paper) being an all-in-memory work
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by mmt 8y ago
I don't think it's bytewise (just like nobody does RAID3), but, yes, they can and do. The keyword you're looking for is "interleaving". I think it's also not even by DIMM slot but by channel, so if the channels
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by mmt 8y ago
> I guess some people are defensive about their high performance computing approaches... Fortunately, when articles about real HPC clusters (aka Supercomputers) make it to the front page, they need no defense, only an occasional explanat
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by mmt 8y ago
> But I often wish I didn't have to and society would work around my communication preferences instead for a change. To me, this echoes an under-emphasized concept when discussing freedom and democracies, and things like free speech
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by mmt 8y ago
> but lupus was called "immune system disorder", Well, worse than that, even.. it would be like "immune systemism" (with "disorder" being implied). The ambiguity and implication in the article's title i
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by mmt 8y ago
> colo was ridiculously expensive That's slightly surprising to me, unless you were limiting yourself to a particular geographic market for colo that was unusually supply-constrained at the time. (The SFBA during certain years comes
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by mmt 8y ago
> Many of the alternates (including linux cli stuff) that are much faster require a re-thinking of attitude, don't work where there are tens to hundreds of people submitting queries, or require different skills. I doubt the point of
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by mmt 8y ago
> If they weren't, we couldn't have things like a free press. We could still have a free press, since "the press" is explicitly mentioned in the First Amendment. Whether things that resemble a free press (if that&#x
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by mmt 8y ago
Fair enough, for in-memory only, if 1TB is your raw data, by the time it's indexed, it's going to be bigger. Surely, though, workloads that require in-memory performance are fairly niche, and jumping from there to distributed (e
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by mmt 8y ago
> You can do job scheduling on a single machine too, of course, but you get it for free with Hadoop/YARN. You don't get it for free with chained bash scripts or a custom single-node solution. I'd venture to say that "
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by mmt 8y ago
To stretch the tub metaphor to include latency, you have to imagine someone turning the faucet off and on (or plugging and unplugging the drain) depending on how full the tub is.. and, with memory, there may be one spigot (the bandwidth), b
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by mmt 8y ago
I'll second the sibling comment about the original AWK book (The AWK Programming Language). I'd also suggest just using it more. If you find yourself wanting to use grep, cut or sed (especially if you need more than one!) for a on

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