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by qhoxie 17y ago
So don't people just publish client libs that handle the details for you? Sometimes, but oftentimes sharding issues are unique enough that they require custom solutions when the backend technology does not support it natively.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
One such bad situation would be if you have numeric keys that you shard based on a mod 2. You do this because you want to distribute data between 2 servers, so one will get all even keys and the other will get the odd keys. A few months do
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by qhoxie 17y ago
He's pointing out a situation where it becomes a bigger deal, to answer your question. While there are solutions in practice for this situation, it can be painful.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Hopefully you don't always stop reading thoughtful pieces for trivial reasons.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Am I wrong in finding a happy medium between multiple technologies? No, you are correct. The main source of contention lies in people trying to use a particular technology outside of its comfort zone. Many in the NoSQL crowd suggest tha
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Just to clarify, client-side == application-side, or the application as a client of the database. Is client-side hashing really that big a deal? No, it's not that big of a deal, but I tend to feel that any layer of logic that can be don
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by qhoxie 17y ago
I'll be there. We should consider organizing an HN meetup if attendance is good.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
It makes the assumption that everything that can be known about a system is already known No, it does not. I'm not sure where you extracted that from in my comment. Also, if you are aware that your environment was terrible, it seems pres
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by qhoxie 17y ago
To me, your comment spells out quite conclusively that you have not been part of a good pairing environment. It is good that you see the knowledge transfer benefits, but I much prefer thinking of it as knowledge distribution rather than
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Probably talking about ready-built libraries. Poorly worded though.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Look, at that kind of scale, you're going to have problems with any solution to any problem. Handling that kind of scale is going to be expensive no matter what solution you implement, whether it's map/reduce or flat files or some other so
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Your comment would hold more weight if you elaborated some more. Are you referring to scaling by his standards? Please explain.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Clickable: http://www.aboutus.org/AboutUs.org/Jobs
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AboutUs is Hiring for Multiple Positions
7 points by qhoxie 17y ago|1 comments
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by qhoxie 17y ago
The interview is disappointingly light. Not that I was expecting to read a bunch of Sequoia's secrets, but given their previously good judgment in tough times, more specifics would have been nice.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
I could actually see it working in the other direction. Things like YSlow highlight good technique in a (seemingly) objective way. As for your issue, I would hope that if a client is savvy enough to check with these tools, they could also
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by qhoxie 17y ago
What is it you do not like about Colloquy? That will probably lead to better answers to your question.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Nice and thorough explanation but most of all you seemed to handle this gracefully. Well done.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Every thing worked OK for me when I signed up aside from what I mentioned in my other comment.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Little disconcerting that they plaster 'you will not be billed' all over and then you see a charge on your card from them. It's only $1.10, and obviously just a verification charge, but still a bit frustrating. Also, the billing screen on
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by qhoxie 17y ago
I've worked quite a bit with both LH and Tracker and I can easily say that the latter is far superior, especially in terms of the UI. It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you have your feet wet it is quite smooth. What makes it the
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by qhoxie 18y ago
Yes, and it has been discussed many times. Some of the proposed work-arounds are quite good. Check http://searchyc.com
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Tucson-area cable TV broadcast porn during Super Bowl(azstarnet.com)
6 points by qhoxie 18y ago|3 comments
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Why Using require ‘rubygems’ Is Wrong(rubyinside.com)
3 points by qhoxie 18y ago|0 comments
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by qhoxie 18y ago
It may not be exactly what you are after, but check out http://aboutus.org In short, it's a wiki that houses information about domains and what their purposes/uses are.
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Rewriting PHP(pooteeweet.org)
24 points by qhoxie 18y ago|35 comments
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Jinni: Wants to be Pandora for Movies(readwriteweb.com)
4 points by qhoxie 18y ago|0 comments
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Kickfire: Data Analytics for the Masses(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by qhoxie 18y ago|0 comments
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by qhoxie 18y ago
* Ranking algorithm * Following users' submissions/comments * Filtering submissions * Ignoring users' submissions/comments
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by qhoxie 18y ago
I'll second this. If you feel it is fitting for HN, then it's perfectly fine to submit it yourself. There are no rules against that, and if you put in the work to write a thought-provoking piece, it deserves attention.

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