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by pj 17y ago
Cloud computing is still a very confusing topic for many. If you think, like techies do, that cloud computing is a technology that enables rapid scalability of information systems, then it doesn't mean you have to leave your privacy in the
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by pj 17y ago
The same thing will happen in the United States. It's only a matter of time. It has been talked about plenty of times. It's interesting to see Sweden is actually being a leader in the financial markets.
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Hack your own fireworks for the 4th of July(sciencefriday.com)
3 points by pj 17y ago|1 comments
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by pj 17y ago
At about 29:00 in, they ask if there is an example of a "true free market monopoly". If microsoft was a monopoly, would it satisfy the criteria? It wasn't around when this film was made, but sounds like it may be a contender.
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by pj 17y ago
I appreciate the thinking outside the box on the security issue, but I'm really surprised anyone would even think for a second that it's a good idea not to hide passwords from those looking over your shoulder. Maybe an option to "show passw
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by pj 17y ago
Aren't submissions killed through flagging? It's the community that kills posts, rather than the moderators. I haven't looked at the code, but I think it's something that is automatic. Some clarification on that? Preface: I love meta-con
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by pj 17y ago
just as DNA may have replaced an earlier form of life. What might that form of life have been like? Was it on earth? Where did it go? Why don't we see any fossil or other remnants of it?
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by pj 17y ago
Then go for it. Life is about new experiences and loving every minute.
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by pj 17y ago
hmm... you shouldn't because you have expectations? Do you? You say, "The thing i want to do"... why do you want to do it? What do you expect to get out of it. what is it that you really want? More knowledge? more earning potential?
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by pj 17y ago
You could probably make a lot of headway on something like this using existing technologies. Serialization for example. If an object impelements serializable (in java), then the caching mechanism could hold it in memory, remember how long
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by pj 17y ago
The post says that they are talking about the nonrelational database systems in general, that's why i added noSQL to the header. I posted it because it is a post that supports the contrary position to many of the pro-nosql comments going ar
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by pj 17y ago
People meet each other before their thoughts on gay rights, or really any thoughts are known. I would say physical location would be more of an indicator of whether or not you'll meet someone gay. If you go to the Castro for example, it's
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MapReduce (NoSQL): A major step backwards(databasecolumn.vertica.com)
4 points by pj 17y ago|2 comments
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by pj 17y ago
I agree with you. There's a lot of hype around these nosql databases, because a lot of people simply don't understand sql databases or how to make them performant or they haven't run into the problems RDBMSs solve yet. I would like to add
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The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good (to a point)(newsweek.com)
4 points by pj 17y ago|2 comments
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by pj 17y ago
I think it's ridiculous that you can build a company on illegal activity, go to jail for a year because you were convicted of that illegal activity, and then sell the illegally built company for 7 Million dollars. Really, what does inside
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by pj 17y ago
Which economists? Most economists I listened to 3-5 years ago thought everything was fine. I can justify it by looking around at the world. I see an over-abundance of debt. I see too many imports and not enough exports. I see a housing m
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by pj 17y ago
I'm not sure this is true. I asked someone in my university's donation department and they said whenever the football team wins, it's like a hurricane of donations coming through the door.
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by pj 17y ago
jerf, you aren't looking at it from two perspectives. Both employers and employees have options. If an employee could do teaching or job x, and teaching pays $30k and job x pays $60k, which should the employee take? If teachers earned mor
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by pj 17y ago
These people are us . They include me, you, America, the world. It's not just my problem, because what I do, what you do, what everyone does affects everyone else. I can produce tons of value and our society can still crumble because o
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An Evolutionary Perspective of Software Development(infoq.com)
1 points by pj 17y ago|0 comments
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by pj 17y ago
clever, thanks for that. I need a laugh in this state of mind. :)
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by pj 17y ago
"The solution to the problem is, without a doubt, education," the adviser says. "Change won't happen until grown men start wanting to learn." That sums it up right there and by "it," I mean "all of it." The problem. The problem with o
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by pj 17y ago
or no job with debt or no job without debt.
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by pj 17y ago
The question is: Who is the customer? You could say the customer is the student who pays the university for the education. Or you could say the customer is the employer who hires the graduate. There has been the impression in the past tha
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by pj 17y ago
The supply may match demand if the supply of doctors weren't limited by the AMA. And I wasn't speaking only of Russia, I was speaking in general and especially about the U.S. I'm not arguing that we should stop the practice, just offerin
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by pj 17y ago
it's cheaper. just like off-shoring IT. Lots of patients needing complicated or expensive medical procedures go to India, China, Thailand, etc...
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by pj 17y ago
How about the burden on an already overwhelmed medical system because doctors are focusing on nonhealth related distractions.
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by pj 17y ago
But even if we did it in this naive way, the total execution time is still a very reasonable (48 3 ms) + 260 ms = 404 ms* I can't read things like this and avoid wondering why people keep reading him. He is so wrong so often I ... it's
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by pj 17y ago
yep, that's a good point. I guess there's just no saving it then...

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