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by rit 16y ago
10gen, the company behind MongoDB (whom I work for) is hiring in NY: http://www.10gen.com/jobs Python, Java, C++, etc
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by rit 16y ago
There is still a lot of PHP and Java in NY. I don't see as much Perl but there are still a few places that do a lot of hiring for Perl. Scala seems to be the other growing area in NY right now---Foursquare obviously but a number of other c
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by rit 16y ago
Having witnessed it in person I didn't think it was particularly "interesting".
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by rit 16y ago
I don't know if it still works/compiles, but there's an actual coded version of this called Vigor: http://vigor.sourceforge.net/ Based on an old Userfriendly strip.
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by rit 16y ago
Without an article or sources to back this up it's rumor mongering, and questionable content. A tweet alleging torture? Really?
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by rit 16y ago
Just to note: Copyright, IP and trademark don't only apply when profit is involved. I reserve judgement on the appropriateness of appropriating the Hacker News name---but please don't labor under the impression that you can use someone el
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by rit 16y ago
Well - in many cases they leave the decisions in the hands of developers because they have made a conscious choice to let the developers decide. BigTable is more than anything a filesystem - it is NOT a database. It lacks true user configu
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by rit 16y ago
They migrated to MongoDB from Postgres. Specifically because they needed distributed sharding which Postgres didn't have. Jorge Ortiz, one of the developers at Foursquare said it best on twitter yesterday: "Baffled by the Mongo haters. If
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by rit 16y ago
The described problem - imbalance in shard allocation - is not one that's specific to MongoDB. In fact one of the huge choices one has to make when deploying say, Cassandra, is the partitioning algorithm. Sequential partitioning (saying s
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by rit 16y ago
Point of clarification - They bought the source code for SQL Server from Sybase; the foundations of the product weren't created at Microsoft. The wire protocol is still heavily compliant with sybase.
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by rit 16y ago
Academics writing papers is not the same thing as people actually solving problems in production. Not to be ornery about this or anything.
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by rit 16y ago
I was looking for that one. In one paragraph he says they didn't do anything and the algorithms must have changed. And then he called his SEOs.
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by rit 16y ago
What's the big deal with setting up a "JVM Environment"? Working with Scala for me involves the latest Scala distro and a copy of VIM. Is there something in particular that makes it so painful that I"m missing?
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Monadologie: Talk at NY Scala Meetup on Monads & Delimited Continuations(vimeo.com)
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by rit 16y ago
Very amusing, but can we leave the reddit banter at reddit please? I like Futurama as much as the next geek, but this isn't what I come to HN for.
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by rit 16y ago
I like the message given about taking time for yourself - relaxing, etc. I do it far too infrequently and every time I do take a real vacation I realize how badly I need to. But to walk in with no notice and tell your employer that you're
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by rit 16y ago
Lately, the majority of my experience with LinkedIn has been endless recruiter spam (They wardial all the tech people at my office by looking at who is listed as a "Developer" at my company, or just keep sending me email spam offering crapp
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by rit 16y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. I sure as hell don't think just because Person 1 went to Stanford and Person 2 went to State School that one is better than another. Maybe part of it is that I'm from Pennsylvania and we happen to have some
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by rit 16y ago
yet again the important question: Which version was he using? I've never had data loss in a year of production using the "stable/production" version of MongoDB.
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by rit 16y ago
To be fair, I don't think much of "SEO Best practices". It's still attempting to game an algorithm to push crap to the top where it doesn't belong. I'm a fan of natural search results. I just don't care to see the constant beating on any
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by rit 16y ago
This obsession with Calacanis/Mahalo is becoming a Hacker News tic along the lines of the reddit obsession with Bacon/Narwhals/Keanu Reeves. Most of the content is regurgitated as well. If you have such an issue with Mahalo and/or Mr. Cala
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by rit 16y ago
But that isn't what happened here. They didn't fly him to Apple and have him sit there for weeks. He solicited them with something he purported to have built, then essentially said "Oh, I need access to your private data to really make it
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by rit 16y ago
Don't worry aboot it.
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by rit 16y ago
Going back to the "if" here - the output he did send them may also have been his sample code of sorts. When I interview people we bandy about a lot of "ifs". But if the interviews don't go well, or if they submit crappy sample code, things
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by rit 16y ago
I've been in that situation before though, with some outside vendor/supplier a manager has hooked me up with. discussions go back and forth, I have an idea, and "Hey, let me see If I can get a login for that for you". And then you actually
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by rit 16y ago
Emailing Steve the first time he was lucky it got handed off to someone in engineering. But to continue to pester the engineer and worse, Steve... What kind of response do you expect? Further, does he think the software engineer has nothing
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by rit 16y ago
Is it possible that the picture the author had in his head of "Being acquired" was skewing things here? I don't see any clear indications that an "Acquisition" was ever in the offing here. He emailed Steve, Steve forwarded it to an engine
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by rit 16y ago
I'm attempting (apparently poorly) to be humorous.
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by rit 16y ago
I say, you european languages, using 26 or slightly more alphabets, you had a great chance to make your language simple and easy to learn, why do you make it so complicated? Except, of course, most European languages are intermingled with
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by rit 16y ago
You can of course deal directly with credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard - they have well documented APIs for interfacing with them directly. Back in the late 90s, RedHat bought a small company in Pittsburgh which made a rather a

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