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by rbranson 16y ago
I doubt it'll head to the US. You have to understand the difference between the UK and US markets. T-Mobile is a dominant player in the UK market, while they've only managed to grab roughly 10% of the US mobile market. T-Mobile's HSPA netwo
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by rbranson 16y ago
To be honest, probably nothing. Rich people are pretty much pros at operating tax shelters, which explains the famous Buffet quote about how he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
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tl;dr: Don't work on an "idea," design a "product."
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Thanks for the clarification, but I'm not sure I follow what I was wrong about. I wasn't saying that it should have 99.9% availability, I was just stating that in most situations, using Paxos to elect a master provides very nearly all the b
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by rbranson 16y ago
I'm going to assume the later. Why would they need to perform Paxos on every single transaction when just using it to elect a master gets 99.9% of the benefits? That would be consistent with the implementation of BigTable in general. EDIT:
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by rbranson 16y ago
The problem is that C systems have masters. What happens when the master becomes network isolated? The election and recovery process is tricky. If 100% consistency is assumed, there MUST an outage period until this is recognized and correct
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How are they providing consistent get/put/delete in the event of network partition? Is it CP?
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Let's not conflate "unfunded liabilities" with actual current debt load though. While both dollar figures, they are wildly different in nature.
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If they track it by using consumer credit reporting bureaus, they track your balance as the amount shown on your last bill, regardless of if it was paid in full or not. If that is the case, I would assume a decent chunk of this is debt that
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by rbranson 16y ago
While consumer debt does include mortgages, the term covers about any other form of credit given to consumers. Consumer debt includes secured debt as well, such as auto loans and certain kinds of household goods such as furniture, appliance
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If he was part of the SA team for their production systems, it's likely he DID have root access to all of them, and that it was legitimate and had business justification. Even if he didn't have explicit root access, it's even more likely he
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by rbranson 16y ago
I disagree with the notion of "No single point of failure" with HBase. While it's true that they got rid of the old hard SPOFs, if a data ("region") node fails, there's a decent chance you lost some data (there's a short period of time wher
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by rbranson 16y ago
Most of the financial sector is eventually consistent. I'm not just talking about traditional banks, I'm also talking about the markets as well. Most revolve around batch settlement processes where consistency essentially occurs on a schedu
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It's not as lop-sided as this article might have you believe and has largely been mitigated as of late. This is because Cassandra uses read repair, which is a big component of it's strategy to make both reads and writes to scale linearly wh
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by rbranson 16y ago
Not in the same sense as an SQL database. You can freely add columns and rows, just not Column Families or Keyspaces. This is because a KS+CF combo is stored in it's own file, in a certain order, so that it can be efficiently traversed usin
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Seed Hatchery in Memphis now taking applications for up to $15K(seedhatchery.com)
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by rbranson 16y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about that 99% on the retina display. While there were existing (relatively) cheap, production 3-4" screens approaching the 300+ PPI resolution of the iPhone 4 when it was announced, there is nothing like that in the s
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by rbranson 16y ago
What's wrong with function pointers? Did you know that when you call most I/O functions in GNU libc they go through function pointers? It's a bit of faux OOP.
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by rbranson 16y ago
I'd absolutely love to pick her brain about what she thinks is wrong with enterprise calendaring.
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The bottom line is that it's a cute futuristic fantasy. We need to get PEOPLE off of the farm land and into vertical buildings FIRST. There are millions of acres of arable land totally wasted by people's unused front lawns and abandoned par
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by rbranson 16y ago
I also think that being able to carry around a P+S in your pocket (like my credit-card-sized Panasonic DMC-FX35 -- with it's fantastic 25mm-equivalent Leica Lens) gives you more opportunities to take shots you would have not been able to ta
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by rbranson 16y ago
Nitpick: a Cadillac CTS hardly has a "huge engine up front." In a head-on 85MPH crash (closing speed would make this similar to hitting a parked car at ~125MPH), what likely saved her was a lot of luck and wearing a seatbelt.
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by rbranson 16y ago
So Boston, Bay Area, NYC, etc are more expensive than Denmark? Almost all of the universities in the US where getting a PhD would be worth a damn are in high cost of living areas.
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by rbranson 16y ago
... also a race against time. You can only capture and hold people's attention by doing the same thing for so long. They will need to continuously evolve their product to attract new users and also keep existing ones. Twitter's valuation is
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by rbranson 16y ago
Article lost my attention when the author stated that "Android is essentially a modified version of JavaME." This isn't just vague or cute, it's just plain wrong, and the tone of the language seems to position the author as an authority on
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by rbranson 16y ago
I think what you're not getting is that within his field of work, the sums of money on the line are not high enough to justify most litigation, so it's all bluffing. The plaintiff tries intimidation first, which is cheap and probably works
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by rbranson 16y ago
The people who donate to the Red Cross are very unlikely to receive back in any tangible form. The average American church is more like a club which collects money from it's members to maintain the clubhouse and provide weekly entertainment
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One thing that's never mentioned in these types of articles is that the top two categories for donations are churches and schools. Fully one third of US donations are to churches and another 13% for educational institutions (including priva
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by rbranson 16y ago
As someone who's been arrested for a misdemeanor due to a case of mistaken identity and basically forced to take a plea entirely because of a falsified police report, the FOP spokesperson's claim that we must trust the police is laughable.
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by rbranson 16y ago
We have automated the hell out of programming (compilers, shared libraries, higher level languages, etc), but as soon as we do that, they just expect us to be more productive :) I think it will be still be a long time before robots replace

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