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by neilc 17y ago
Do you have any benchmarks to support that claim?
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by neilc 17y ago
Of course, this is a very old idea (predating the invention of relational databases, even) -- it just gets reinvented every decade or so, with a fresh helping of media hype.
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by neilc 17y ago
Sounds like you've just met a lot of bad C++ programmers. Given that most programmers are terrible and there are a LOT of people who claim to be "C++ programmers", I guess that isn't too surprising. People who actually know (sane, modern) C
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by neilc 17y ago
Except that the computational capacity of the universe is finite (see http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110141 ).
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by neilc 17y ago
Branches work just fine in SVN. Merging isn't great, but it is much better with merge tracking in recent versions of SVN.
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by neilc 17y ago
Signaling is all well and good, but the license text is a terrible the place to do it. "there's a human behind this, not just lawyers." MIT/2-clause BSD isn't exactly pages of boilerplate legalese, either.
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by neilc 17y ago
"Idiotic" and "hilarious" are not necessarily disjoint. Putting "hilarious" clauses in a software license is not usually a productive policy.
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by neilc 17y ago
To be fair, that clause of the JSLint license is idiotic.
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by neilc 17y ago
Although note that MacPorts currently has TexLive 2007, which is a few years old. Packaging TexLive 2009 is in the works, but will take some doing.
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The importance of investor signaling in venture pricing(cdixon.org)
18 points by neilc 17y ago|4 comments
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by neilc 17y ago
No one (certainly not the original article) has suggested that employees should be "obligated to give huge amounts of notice" to their employers. Dixon's point is just that the legalistic, "by the books" approach that is orthodox at a big f
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by neilc 17y ago
If you give 12 months notice, you should prepare to be marginalized in your last year at the company. I gave 12 months notice when working for a startup before leaving for graduate school, and I wasn't "marginalized" at all. Giving my emp
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by neilc 17y ago
That sounds like a " serial entrepreneur", not a serial businessperson: a "business person" doesn't necessarily ever start a new business, let alone a string of them.
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by neilc 17y ago
Who cares? The profile questions were probably written by some HR flack who doesn't know the details of the technology. Not really surprising, but not interesting, either.
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by neilc 17y ago
One thing that particularly annoys me is when websites like LinkedIn and Facebook ask for your webmail password so they can suggest new contacts based on your email history. They promise they won't store your password, but it is shockingly
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by neilc 17y ago
Helvetica's stature was established long before Microsoft Word was invented.
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by neilc 17y ago
let's say that I become good friends with some people of that race. Then, I will see that they are like me, and I will start to find some people of that race attractive too. You suggest that the primary reason you wouldn't be attracted to
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by neilc 17y ago
Well, replace "parallel databases" with your favorite term for the parallel databases that fall outside NoSQL (VoltDB, Exadata, shared MySQL, etc). My point being that the alleged need for high-speed interconnects is orthogonal to SQL vs. N
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by neilc 17y ago
Would would the need for "specialized gear like infiniband to reduce intra-node latency" be limited to parallel databases? (I assume you mean "inter-node"...)
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by neilc 17y ago
I'm biased (currently a PhD student), but I think your employment prospects are pretty good with a CS PhD, especially if it is (a) from a good school (b) in something practical (a PhD in theory might still let you get a job at somewhere lik
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by neilc 17y ago
US employers shouldn't have that power. Perhaps not -- but if we're debating a realistic change to the visa system, an argument that begins with rejecting the basic principle under which most visas operate seems pretty impractical. Addin
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by neilc 17y ago
This is a bill that proposes to give US venture capitalists the overt ability to terminate the residency status of founders and their families. US employers already have this power over employees that hold visas. Why do you trust employer
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Annual Escalating Patent Fee Proposal(feld.com)
1 points by neilc 17y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 17y ago
Another factor is that reviewers are sometimes inclined to reject papers that are too straightforward: if the final result is so simple, is the work really novel or interesting?
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by neilc 17y ago
We increase the initial 2 packet limit to 16. We do this ONLY for our html page in order to get it to the client faster. I'd be curious to know if you've measured the real-world performance difference from making this change.
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by neilc 17y ago
Without more information on what problem you're trying to solve or what system you're trying to build, it is hard to provide very helpful advice.
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by neilc 17y ago
Right -- at least on a per-capita basis, anyway. Zuckerberg made an interesting comment at this year's startup school, when he said that he explicitly wanted Facebook to be a "a great place to be from " -- i.e. FB wants to be a good compan
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by neilc 17y ago
I think another reason for this behavior is that programmers often define their identity in terms of their preferred tools (you're a " Perl programmer", not merely a "programmer"). That means that any perceived slight against a programmer'
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by neilc 17y ago
However, there might be some truth to the idea that Google alumni seem to be more successful at subsequent startups than alumni of, say, Microsoft, Amazon, or Sun.
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by neilc 17y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the info!

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