obecalp

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by obecalp 17y ago
Pair programming is good for UI/HCIish code and so so for other types of code. Studies have shown that human are not good at multitasking even though it makes them feel productive. Personally I think pair programming is overrated while co
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by obecalp 17y ago
Most web designers don't grok <your_favorite_langauages>, but some limited template languages/tags. A web framework without template doesn't scale in terms of development resource unless you figure out a way to automatically transla
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by obecalp 17y ago
Good lessons, except for 1, without doing that there'd be no Google map-reduce and Hadoop. Of course, this means you should be using Hadoop now.
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by obecalp 17y ago
Short summary: he thinks that every line of code is design because the final code is the precise spec. This is an interesting but narrow POV. What if you "design" an algorithm in Haskell and what to "translate" to another language? Calling
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by obecalp 17y ago
Retrieving data to process and storing back to some giant "storage units" are becoming more and more obsolete. The future is google style: data is replicated and backed up at all times and you push computation to data to explore data locali
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by obecalp 17y ago
If you want to compare repository sizes you should compare the size of .git directory only.
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by obecalp 17y ago
-d'<tab>'
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by obecalp 17y ago
The singularity is near!
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by obecalp 17y ago
Paxos and consistent hashing on top of BerkeleyDB? This is getting old. 3-way replication levels at 12MB/s? Have they heard of replication pipelining?
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by obecalp 17y ago
PostSQL is better than NoSQL
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by obecalp 17y ago
Then your point is moot. The context is startup . Eric does a good job for a post-startup , which is already very profitable with a revenue of $86m in 2001 ( http://investor.google.com/fin_data2003.html ). As a matter of fact, many think