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571.
Farmers Didn't Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming.(ben.casnocha.com)
49 points by neilc 17y ago|14 comments
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by neilc 17y ago
Exactly. I think there's an interesting story here, but calling it "socialism" is just shameless linkbait.
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by neilc 17y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you, but simply using multiple processes + IPC wouldn't have really affected this bug: you'd run into the same issue with one process reading from a shared memory region while another process memcpy()'s into it. T
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Tesla Model S(uncrate.com)
1 points by neilc 17y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 17y ago
Here in The Netherlands, poverty is defined as the lowest x% of income Wouldn't that mean that, by definition, it is impossible to eradicate poverty?
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by neilc 17y ago
"The New New Thing" by Michael Lewis is great: entertainingly written, and actually quite instructive about SV culture. "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" by Jerry Kaplan was also very good.
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by neilc 17y ago
The fact that he calls it "Memcopy()" doesn't exactly lend confidence. I don't really see the problem with memcpy() anyway: memcpy() copies exactly the given number of bytes. If the programmer gets the source buffer length wrong with memcpy
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by neilc 17y ago
It's funny that the Cassandra blog post talks about bloom filters as the "hot new thing". They were an old idea when System R* used them to do distributed joins in 1986. http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/cis650/papers/r-star.pdf
579.
Eclipse 3.5 RC1 released(h-online.com)
18 points by neilc 17y ago|2 comments
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MapReduce Tips(cloudera.com)
5 points by neilc 17y ago|0 comments
581.
by neilc 17y ago
Yeah, my bad. Still, I think it's quite expensive. If all they are offering is some simple runtime stats, then a 15% surcharge on the cost of a small instance is pretty expensive. If you have 50 instances, you're paying $540/month just for
582.
by neilc 17y ago
AWS CloudWatch seems remarkably expensive: 15 cents per instance per hour! Considering that all they are doing is aggregating and distributing per-VM statistics. Woops: Brainfade. Yes, 1.5 cents/instance/hour, not 10x that. Still, quite exp
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by neilc 17y ago
you might as well just throw that RAM at the DB. With any sane DBMS this will result in the same performance improvement. That is obviously false. A memcache hit is much cheaper than a DBMS query, even if the DBMS query is accessing data
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Dennis the Denver dentist and Laura the Louisiana lawyer(stat.columbia.edu)
6 points by neilc 17y ago|3 comments
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Common Questions About Hadoop(cloudera.com)
4 points by neilc 17y ago|0 comments
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More Teens Say They Like Their Parents (in Canada)(parenting.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by neilc 17y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 17y ago
you could theoretically struggle to write C code to work like Erlang Lots of people write non-blocking network servers in C (epoll, kqueue, etc -- libevent); that does not constitute "struggling to write C code that works like Erlang", bu
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Monty: Open Database Alliance Founded(monty-says.blogspot.com)
1 points by neilc 17y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 17y ago
I don't think the point the original commentors were making was "don't question requirements." It was: (1) Sure, the problem was somewhat unrealistic/simplified. It's just an interview question; you're not being asked to actually build the
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by neilc 17y ago
Try being a liberal arts grad in this economy. CS grads are still in a comparatively very strong position.
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by neilc 17y ago
I'd actually be curious to see what would happen if you tried to sort a petabyte with 3800 EC2 nodes. I wonder how much worse your performance would be? EC2 instance-local storage is pretty slow by default (the "first-write" problem), but i
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by neilc 17y ago
Sure, you also just need 3600 machines.
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by neilc 17y ago
Furthermore, students can remain interested in a subject, but just not search Google as actively for it as they did during the school year: you typically search Google when you have a specific question, not a general interest in a topic.
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On making fun of Starbucks and being discerning(marco.org)
11 points by neilc 17y ago|17 comments
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by neilc 17y ago
Yeah, obviously. The OP's point is that attributing the drop in CPU usage to PHP5 (which was the answer to the original Flickr poster's question) is non-obvious (or it is a plausible candidate among a bunch of possibilities).
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by neilc 17y ago
The line that says "Answer is: PHP5" was presumably added later.
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by neilc 17y ago
Surely the optimum case is to have all your machines pegged at 100% CPU True, but given the typical difference between average load and peak load, you wouldn't want to have your systems at 100% most of the time anyway. Of course, what you
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by neilc 17y ago
Flyposting is by definition illegal ("Flyposting is the act of placing advertising posters or flyers in illegal places"), but that doesn't answer the question about whether these particular ad billboards are illegal. The question is whether
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by neilc 17y ago
This just seems like vandalism. If the original billboards truly are "illegal" (which I'm skeptical of), it is a matter for the city government, not a bunch of "artists".
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by neilc 17y ago
That would just give clueless analyst types more time and companies to write their "$X must buy Twitter" linkbait stories about, I think.

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