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   by rjurney 15y ago

   Would you rather have: A complete game that people love, and is growing like mad, except for that damned skip at 60fps... or A very smooth 60fps game nobody plays.
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   by rjurney 15y ago

   The author seems to be more interested in obsessive technical improvements than shipping a game many people want to play. One slow frame out of sixty prompts a rewrite? Product doomed. Wait until someone complains to fix anything. Somethi
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   MongoStorage for Pig now supports complex types(datasyndrome.com)

   1 points by rjurney 15y ago|0 comments
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   Set the title of a bash terminal on OS X(datasyndrome.com)

   2 points by rjurney 15y ago|1 comments
5. 575.▲
   by rjurney 15y ago

   Thanks for taking the time to explain it!
6. 576.▲
   by rjurney 15y ago

   I don't get it - why are people so interested in Backbone.js? It seems to impose the same kind of baggage in interfaces/front-ends that operating systems impose. Lots of configuration, tons of conventions to learn, lots of little files...
7. 577.▲
   by rjurney 15y ago

   Godaddy is a scam. Fuck Godaddy. Easy to sign up. Impossible to unsubscribe. Down with Godaddy.
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   by rjurney 15y ago

   Don't write MapReduce. Check out my tutorials of late on http://datasyndrome.com and check out Apache Pig. That you can understand easily. It will MapReduce for you. Try Amazon Elastic MapReduce wih Pig on some logs.
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   by rjurney 15y ago

   I've operated this way in practice, at scale, and it works fine. You're rebuilding your entire store and swapping it out frequently, so data consistency isn't a problem. The key is to have a painless pipeline setup, so that one person can
10. 580.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    Lily looks cool, thanks.
11. 581.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    I think occupying Sutro Tower would be pretty cool.
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    by rjurney 15y ago

    HBase integration is good. But having to deal with column families, etc. rule it out for me in terms of solving the usability problem. I just want to push records and retrieve them as JSON. This is the most common use case when publishin
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    by rjurney 15y ago

    I don't have anything against Cassandra. I will take a look at your link, and see how easy it is to integrate with Pig. I would be pretty excited to have another painless option available. The fact that Cassandra works with Whirr is very
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    by rjurney 15y ago

    Maybe all us angry nerds should OCCUPY something. Something big, related to SOPA. It would be cool to see EFF type concerns channeled into that movement.
15. 585.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    Hey, whatever you think about Mongo... it can probably work well as a read-only key/value store. Which is all that is needed to publish data from Hadoop, because you've already batch processed it into presentation form.
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    Mongodb IS web scale: hadoop-mongodb(datasyndrome.com)

    29 points by rjurney 15y ago|12 comments
17. 587.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    heer heer
18. 588.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    Hacker News lacks a feature that would 'close entire thread,' and so the top troll comment is disproportionately rewarded with attention. You could fix this with a simple feature.
19. 589.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    Here here. Long live the one page web app.
20. 590.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    I am working on implementing this example in Python. There is a problem, however - python-snappy doesn't currently build on OS X. So I can't build the Python Avro bindings :(
21. 591.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    Very good to see an example of working with the common crawl. I would encourage YC applicants to think about what kind of opportunities it presents.
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    by rjurney 15y ago

    I'd like to see a demo on the site, and there isn't one.
23. 593.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    What of the Paypal mafia?
24. 594.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    There is if you want to try dataflow programming, and hope your dataset grows to exceed RAM :)
25. 595.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    Evidence that "most" good founders were employees at hot startups, and that most important companies that generate the most wealth occur in 'networks of success': https://s3.amazonaws.com/rjurney_public_web/images/Atlanta-S... https://s3
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    by rjurney 15y ago

    Didn't know that was Trevor, but I do have hard data on this. I took the time to collect it for the Atlanta security cluster. Most Y Combinator founders are young, so sample bias is likely present. Then again, Atlanta sucks, so only old f
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    by rjurney 15y ago

    I do, and it is basically the same. Substitute the python avro library for the ruby one, the python voldemort library, and bottle.py for sinatra and you're there.
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    by rjurney 15y ago

    Post it. I have data to the contrary.
29. 599.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    It looks neat, but it does look like you have to think in mapreduce, which is a big barrier of entry for most people.
30. 600.▲
    by rjurney 15y ago

    I, the writer, am trying to get more ruby people using Pig and hadoop. Feedback appreciated.