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by rbranson 15y ago
Given their reaction, it would be nice if they were more upfront and honest about it on their website. A lot of people -- including myself -- were bitten by the unexpected. Less issues with durability than performance, of which we had very
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by rbranson 15y ago
QUORUM reads & writes in Cassandra are still stronger than guarantees given by async master/slave systems like MySQL, MongoDB, HBase, or Redis.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Cassandra has CouchDB-esque replication?
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by rbranson 15y ago
Just to be 100% clear -- so people don't misunderstand your explanation of Mongo's compaction: Mongo does have a free space map that it uses to attempt to fit new data or resized documents into "holes" left by deleted data. However, compact
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by rbranson 15y ago
10gen has focused strongly on ease of adoption, which seems like the highest priority of MongoDB at this point. From what I can tell, the idea is to get everyone using it, and then "scale" it once you've got people willing to pay out $ for
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by rbranson 15y ago
Remember when Sinatra and Ruby on Rails were the new, hot, trendy technologies? I'm sure EY was humming a different tune back then.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Eh, it's good for basic stuff and getting to MVP, but I tend to agree that if search is a core feature, ElasticSearch or Solr are the way to go.
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ElasticSearch Major Version Release -- 0.18(elasticsearch.org)
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by rbranson 15y ago
Not exactly. While you are correct that their profits would not necessarily be impacted, it's because the purchased goods or raw materials are booked as inventory (asset), and not part of COGS (liability). The cost of constructing the new K
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by rbranson 15y ago
I'm sure the employees and shareholders in the know are taking it with stride -- in 6 months they'll look back and laugh.
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by rbranson 15y ago
I'm pretty sure their vendors would disagree.
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by rbranson 15y ago
I think you have a valid point -- but my point about asymmetry of risk still stands. Even if cyclists cause more accidents because of this swerving to avoid maneuver, the injury risk to the cyclist in any accident (fatal or otherwise) is st
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by rbranson 15y ago
I'm not excusing poor behavior -- but that there is a significant statistical advantage to automobile drivers -- and that this should be taken into consideration. With great power comes great responsibility.
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by rbranson 15y ago
One thing you miss here is the asymmetry of risk. Cyclists are at highest level of risk while on the road. They're moving at enough speed to cause serious injury to themselves, but they're still usually about half the speed of cars. Modern
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by rbranson 15y ago
The ordasity of your leftist signature, sir.
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by rbranson 15y ago
The "post-PC era" is a myth. The only thing that's stayed constant about computing is it's growing ubiquity.
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by rbranson 15y ago
I'm not suggesting that a K/V store is better, just that an RDBMS isn't a good solution to this problem either. How do you effectively utilize the query capabilities of an RDBMS with semi-structured data? You're better off sticking the data
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by rbranson 15y ago
What about a highly-structured ACID datastore designed primarily for short transactions reading & mutating small sets of random rows makes you think that? Log data is semi-structured and very heterogenous. I would choose the filesystem
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The Gervais Principle V: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose(ribbonfarm.com)
13 points by rbranson 15y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 15y ago
LeveledCompactionStrategy is still a new piece of kit for Cassandra, and probably should be used sparingly. If I've understood anything I've been told, it's best fit is if the workload involves many random overwrites distributed over a larg
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by rbranson 15y ago
The lack of good urban schools and healthy mass transit is a self-perpetuating problem in southern cities, originally stemming from racism. Over decades, a near separate but equal environment within the framework of existing civil rights la
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by rbranson 15y ago
Rent is only steep because the supply far outstrips the demand for these neighborhoods. The government heavily subsidizes the incentives that make low density so economically attractive, skewing the construction and real estate industries t
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by rbranson 15y ago
Lest we not forget the number one killer of otherwise healthy people in the US -- the automobile accident. Curiously, drops in accident fatality rates[1] correlate with spikes in unemployment[2]. I'll let you draw the conclusion there. [1]
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by rbranson 15y ago
Many employers are able to get away with their location decisions because as the original article states, most people do not prioritize commute mode & duration when they make major life decisions such as where to work and where to live.
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by rbranson 15y ago
This is the first "celebrity" death in recent history that's really upset me :/ I feel like he really truly had a rare combination of drive, personality, and talent that is extremely rare, dare I say one of a kind? Our field owes him a grea
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by rbranson 15y ago
That's a limitation of Rails, not Ruby. One could use Node.js in the same manner. Ruby has been doing async I/O in the form of EventMachine longer than Node.js has even existed.
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by rbranson 15y ago
I think the upside for a PHP PaaS is the existing market of commercial & open source deployable PHP application packages. A sort of app store could be created where vendors package their application with some special hooks for the platf
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by rbranson 15y ago
Indeed. Worse is better[1]. [1] http://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
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by rbranson 15y ago
Would be cheating, man. Micro-benchmarking is all about using fictitious tests to show off fake performance in blog posts.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Just because something is successful doesn't mean it's right. I get what you're saying, but it doesn't mean that successful systems are exempt from intelligent discussion about where things went wrong. A lot of poor decisions are propagated

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