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by neilc 10y ago
McLaren is privately held. BTW, I'm curious which jurisdictions you're referring to.
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by neilc 10y ago
> Pete Wells only reviews the fancier restaurants This is not true; in fact, Wells is somewhat famous for reviewing more blue-collar restaurants, in contrast with previous Times critics. For example, here is his review of Guy Fieri'
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Uber beats Google to consumers with self-driving cars(recode.net)
1 points by neilc 10y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 10y ago
This comment from one of the Go maintainers (Russ Cox) is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817990
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Using State Machines to Run Databases(citusdata.com)
6 points by neilc 10y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 10y ago
This is a good summary paper on the database internals and major architectural decisions: http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf
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by neilc 10y ago
> a lot of the pain the Uber is feeling has to do with the way Postgres has implemented MVCC. Because they write new records all the time, they need to update all indexes, all the time This is not true in general: there are circumstances
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by neilc 10y ago
> In MBA-speak, "secular" means "non-cyclical." It's not "MBA-speak"; this sense of the word "secular" is used in economics, time-series analysis, astronomy, etc. https://en.wikiped
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by neilc 10y ago
I think another factor is just intuition: taking medicine when you feel ill makes sense, but continuing to take the medication for several days after you feel completely recovered seems intuitively wrong to a lot of people.
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by neilc 10y ago
This behavior should be fixed in Zk 3.4.7+ and 3.5.0+
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by neilc 10y ago
> Pensions could've been higher if they didn't take that much out Pensions would also be lower if they were invested in funds that made lower or negative returns. The theory (right or wrong) is that the high fees charged by the
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by neilc 10y ago
Personally I like this UX. I often pullup the directions to a destination without actually starting turn-by-turn navigation: I'd like to see whether Google recommends taking highway X or Y, and then I can drive the rest of the route my
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by neilc 11y ago
> PostgreSQL stores each record, regardless of attributes, in an 8K block of data (excluding TOAST fields and indices) on the disk. If you have a table with 5 columns of integers they will use 8K of disk space for each row, not 20 bytes.
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by neilc 11y ago
From the original paper: "We constructed a sampling frame and selection process to minimize selection biases and maximize generalizability of the accumulated evidence. Simultaneously, to maintain high quality, within this sampling fram
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by neilc 11y ago
> I thought that the go compiler would throw an error of your code is not in the format produced by gofmt. This is not the case.
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Kubernetes-Mesos 0.7.0: A big step toward production-ready Kubernetes(mesosphere.com)
1 points by neilc 11y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Concord – stream processing on Mesos(concord.io)
2 points by neilc 11y ago|0 comments
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Inverse offers in Mesos(mesosphere.com)
2 points by neilc 11y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 11y ago
> why the compiler shouldn't reorder structs so that they take the least space possible I think you'd get most of the benefit by writing a static analysis tool (a la "go vet") that suggests when reordering a struct&#x
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Fuzzing Raft for Fun and Publication(colin-scott.github.io)
19 points by neilc 11y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 11y ago
PG 9.5 will improve this situation somewhat, e.g., builtin functions like jsonb_set(), and overloading the '-' operator for jsonb values: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/functions-json.h.
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The Future of Deployment (2014)(evancooke.com)
2 points by neilc 11y ago|0 comments
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Code Combat(codecombat.com)
2 points by neilc 11y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 12y ago
"Architecture of Database Systems" by Hellerstein, Stonebraker, and Hamilton is a pretty good starting place: http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf
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$350M Might Not Be Enough to Save Las Vegas(theatlantic.com)
52 points by neilc 12y ago|53 comments
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by neilc 12y ago
> 50 years everything we've done will be superceded by something vastly more cool and interesting. Within 100 years it'll all be gone. Which professions don't have that property? Not many. Science and writing/art give
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by neilc 12y ago
Publications from the academic project that spawned this work can apparently be found here: http://stratosphere.eu/project/publications/
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by neilc 12y ago
> production distributed systems should handle Byzantine failures I don't think this is true, at least not as stated. You should certainly be thinking about more than crash-stop failures, but full-blown Byzantine fault tolerance is
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by neilc 12y ago
Note that using a sqlite wrapper like https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 , you also don't have any external dependencies and your application still ships as a single binary. However, there are other advantages of
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by neilc 12y ago
> Serializing access to shared data items fundamentally requires some serial execution. Sure, but typical MVCC systems that provide SI will serialize transactions in some cases anyway. For example, if two transactions try to update the s

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