moonpolysoft

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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Sorry, but this is basically grid computing with a slightly different client. As pointed out many times before, most interesting problems right now are IO bound. It turns out that data locality is the most important thing in processing ex
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
All companies are valued entirely based on what other people think they are worth. See also: the stock market.
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
How does it deal with events like disk failure, network partitions, and concurrent updates? The design documentation is rather light, so it's really hard to make out how this actually distributes data. You say it doesn't have any concept o
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
I really cannot stand the idea of making message queues that speak the memcache protocol. That's like having a RDBMS that only speaks HTTP. Memcache is an impoverished language for messaging. Which is ok, because it's designed primarily f
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
People see patterns everywhere. See also: the Martian canals.
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
There is no such thing as rogue people on a sales team. In most of the phone jockey shops I've ever been in/around (mostly in the credit card industry) they teach you what is in compliance, but then set unrealistic sales quotas. The idea
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Those erlang bindings are very immature. I wouldn't use them in production.
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Awesome. I've been wanting something like this for a while, but have been too busy with my projects to start it.
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Wow, ever the master of the non-sequitur. Even when he's being serious.
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
The powerset crew plays a good bit, we either use the lan or setup a virtual lan with hamachi.
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Why is their logo an M&M?
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
A lot of people talked trash on Powerset, but the following comment from wired was pretty awesome: "i tried out the beta demo thing and this thing sucks. i would rather use a manual card catalog in a library staffed by josef stalin. serious
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
I've been working a lot on the performance aspects of Dynomite and I think it is a better solution now than memcachedb. One big issue with memcachedb is that it leaves replication management completely to the user. So if you want to be ab
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Well, what happened to me was that I was having a tough month, and a couple of automated ETF's came in unexpectedly. They all got returned NSF on the same day and the next day without any warning they just shut down my account without noti
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Careful with ING. In November they closed my account with no advanced notice and no chance for me to make any arrangements for my money. I couldn't access my savings for 2 weeks while I waited for a paper check. I also had to wait for a
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Or at least extending the javascript specification to include an API that all of the engines can implement. I think this is basically the one thing keeping javascript from entering the mainstream as a general purpose language. As soon as
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Cool. I really think there needs to be a concerted effort to build a standard library for general purpose javascript that all of the javascript engines will implement as the standard. It's kind of frustrating that we have this amazing V8
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
It's not easier to implement. You actually have to go to a lot of trouble to build in sideband data that can be used to establish causality in the system. And everywhere your data passes through needs to be able to handle multiple diverge
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
"Even designers can use it." Why does everyone assume that designers are stupid luddites who can't wrap their heads around complex systems? UI design is full of nuance and complexity. It's insulting to designers to assume they cannot deal
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Lay off the entire HR department? The only reason you'd do that is if you were in a permanent hiring freeze death spiral. Recruiting works as a pipeline. So even if you're in a hiring freeze, which Google likely is, you still want to hav
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
So I guess that most programming languages would qualify as bad tools to you then? Seeing as how they force you to spend a lot of time "understanding" them before you can be productive.
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Of course. They can't make money directly off of Ruby. Neither can EY or 37signals. For that matter, Sun doesn't directly make money off of Java either. And Microsoft doesn't make a lot of money from .Net (it's arguable over whether you
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Microsoft pays John Lam and the DLR team to work on IronRuby full time. Sun pays Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo to work on JRuby. Thoughtworks pays Ola Bini to work on JRuby as well. So there are some larger companies that are investing
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
For the lulz: http://github.com/cliffmoon/fake-tpw/commit/2f5a0c888c784a9a... http://github.com/cliffmoon/fake-tpw/commit/df2fbc653e928624... http://github.com/abhay/fake-tpw/commit/f81f8577111f6e82cdee...
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Yes, it's about not being able to see their eyes. The idea being that you don't want a close-quarters attacker to know where the agents are looking at a given moment.
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
So that brings up a good issue, namely the proprietary nature of the code you're distributing. For instance, stock market analysis firms zealously guard their algorithms. Let's say I'm a potential customer: How will you protect my bytecod
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
One of the issues that I see with this approach is that for most applications the scaling issue is data scaling rather than CPU. Here's why I think you will run into scaling issues: Lets assume you have a gigabit line out of your colo. Le
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Help Zed find Matt(zedshaw.com)
38 points by moonpolysoft 18y ago|21 comments
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Well, if you made 50k a year and there was someone in a comparable position bragging about their 200k/yr how would it make you feel? How would your boss take it? How would you deal with the situation if you were the boss? Companies make o
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by moonpolysoft 18y ago
Great read, but I have to say that I'm disappointed that Tom felt the need to publish actual numbers. There are other folks still working at Powerset/MS who would rather that the details of our offers stay confidential. Very classy, choos

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