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by nwatson 17y ago
Or you can use a tool that has already scaled for ages and has been in production since 2002. SenSage ... http://www.sensage.com/customers .
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by nwatson 17y ago
For scalability use SenSage ( http://www.sensage.com/customers ). Their some of their customers gather 200GB-500GB of log data daily and at least one customer has a petabyte of historical log data under management. Query performance over
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by nwatson 17y ago
My father is American, approaching 80 years of age, and has been living away from Brazil (in the U.S.) for the last 25 years. Even so every few English sentences he pauses to find the English word he's looking for, often saying the Portugu
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by nwatson 17y ago
What is the customer's industry sector and what kind of data do they store there? Is SenSage have much success pushing their solution to other similar companies? And also how is SenSage doing overall? I don't hear much in the press these
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by nwatson 17y ago
If your goal is write-once archival and subsequent query of large volumes of data, e.g., log/event data, you can't do much better than some of the column-oriented databases. Two examples are SenSage and Vertica. See customer profiles for S
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by nwatson 17y ago
I hope Adobe et. al. have deployed some log archival & query (SIEM) solution like SenSage ( http://www.sensage.com ). If so they'll have records needed for forensic reconstruction of the attack, and find a way to remedy their problem.
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by nwatson 17y ago
I have a G1. Android apps I use: DoggCatcher -- podcast fetcher and player, mostly for NPR and various tech shows. News on my schedule. I've used this since before Google Listen was available and haven't compared them, though many say Dog
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by nwatson 17y ago
I saw a presentation by Expensify once: https://www.expensify.com/ It looked like a very full-featured system that does what "Just the Bill" seems to do and more. It was integrated with various credit card company backends.
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by nwatson 17y ago
The article and its nested link http://www.progressivefix.com/spooks-in-the-machine-how-the-... recognize the "Sisyphean task" of trying to secure networks. No matter how hard you work at designing a good network, your inside users will
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by nwatson 17y ago
Many have and will continue to have their homes foreclosed during this recession, and they will have "bad credit" for a long time. If/when the economy turns around in a few years, any bank that decides to not fund these same peoples' mortg
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by nwatson 17y ago
Yes, I had read that article recently, and it must have been from the HN reference. A quick google search doesn't bring up an obvious HN link or the original article, I wish I could find it. edit: hmmm ... HN reader 'spokey' has found it,
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by nwatson 17y ago
The dissatisfaction is real but temporary. People hate their jobs because they feel trapped. As soon as the recession lifts, prospects for the old bonuses return, and they have more job options, most will stay instead of leaving as the ar
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by nwatson 17y ago
RDBMSs aren't that opaque ... A relational database exists to store rows of data in tables and to relate them, making CRUD operations possible in this context. At that level it's very abstract. But it also starts to expose some implementa
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by nwatson 17y ago
I'm using "Turing complete", perhaps incorrectly, in the sense that Larry Wall (inventor of Perl) did in a related article at http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/997 , where he says: "Basically, you can say pretty much anything in any human languag
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by nwatson 17y ago
In this article Larry Wall (inventor of Perl) says that Wycliffe Bible Translators taught him that all human languages are Turing complete. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033741 (Pirahã: a non-Turing-complete human language) fo
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by nwatson 17y ago
I submit this post in response to the article on scripting by Larry Wall (inventor of Perl) (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033677 , linked article http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/997 ). In his article Mr. Wall says: "So it's rather
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Pirahã: a non-Turing-complete human language(newyorker.com)
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by nwatson 17y ago
Sounds like a market. Who'll be first?
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by nwatson 17y ago
Or presumably, as in another post here, that engineers tend to be more educated in the west and work more in the west than those in other disciplines, and so have more exposure to the west.
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by nwatson 17y ago
An article I read some time back explored why many terrorists of the Islamic bent seemed to be well-educated, had spent some time in American/European universities, and often had established careers in "the west". The speculation was that
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by nwatson 17y ago
I live in San Mateo County and can already check out, along with other Northern California public library patrons, full color editions of a limited but hopefully growing selection of quite good books. The system uses Adobe Digital Editions
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by nwatson 17y ago
That figures. The rapture comes, and in San Francisco, yes, I'd expect the sea lions would be the only ones to go.
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by nwatson 17y ago
Does anyone have more details? What did the Zenprise Blackberry/BES monitoring/diagnosis tool say about the outage?
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by nwatson 17y ago
In "Les Miserables" a poor and needy Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread to feed his family and that one act haunts him for a long time, even after he becomes a very wealthy man. For an interesting contrast, see this article about those who
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by nwatson 17y ago
A company I worked for in the south-bay area decided to order fruit from a "farm fresh office fruit delivery" service. I don't know how much the delivery company charged. It worked well for the first several months. The delivery company b
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by nwatson 17y ago
As this involves dealing with data sources, flows, and presentation, Actuatr may get some scrutiny from the reporting/reporting-services company Actuate (see http://www.actuate.com )..
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by nwatson 17y ago
For each company in this list there are another 50 failed attempts at cracking the same market. Several of which probably had the same or superior technical merits but the wrong business approach, had personality issues, or had plain bad l
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by nwatson 17y ago
i use my G1 to read news and articles everywhere ... when awake in the middle of the night, while eating lunch, at a coffee shop, etc. You can't beat it for convenience, I suppose in a few years when my eyesight gets worse I'll need to re
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by nwatson 17y ago
Before you buy your servers make sure the "4U" space is really all about space and not about power consumption. At Hurricane Electric in bay area California you can rent sub-rack space that could hold, say, 8U. However, if you try to fill
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by nwatson 17y ago
On Android one can switch to C++/NDK for real performance-sensitive components. Other than that most Java use is either in tracking data structures, performing simple operations on them, or else in managing/responding to systems services a

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