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What to listen to next? jq to the rescue(theguardian.com)
2 points by room271 12y ago|0 comments
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Guardian launches new website (for the UK)(theguardian.com)
2 points by room271 12y ago|0 comments
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Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?(theguardian.com)
51 points by room271 12y ago|89 comments
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by room271 12y ago
Some advice I've heard in the past: don't be pushed from existing stuff, but be pulled to new stuff. I.e. work hard to enjoy your current circumstances and only leave if there is a positive pull - something you really want to do -
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by room271 12y ago
Ah cool, just wanted to clarify as I'm only a beginner for much of this stuff, but found your posts very interesting. Thanks!
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by room271 12y ago
> Actually non-blocking logic becomes really easy, as you can always shove an immutable value into an atomic reference (note - I'm not saying "wait free", which still takes a lot of work :)) Why the atomic reference here?
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by room271 12y ago
I'm genuinely curious about this, and I don't know anyone who works at Amazon, but if they really do have such a bad work environment and low tenure then how are they managing to consistently produce such good products (I'm t
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by room271 12y ago
This is a fascinating article. Some innovative stuff to deal with the difficult problem of how to innovate without breaking existing customers. Some highlights: * when a client first makes requests store their version, so that they don&#x27
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by room271 12y ago
I really recommend you do whatever it takes to find close friends who you can talk to about this stuff if you don't have that already. Whether that means joining some kind of help group, church, whatever. Other people are a great norma
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by room271 12y ago
You're right that HTTP is not suitable for a wide-range of tasks. There are, however, very real alternatives which people use all the time to better meet specific needs. Wikipedia has a good source of protocols used across the Internet
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by room271 12y ago
Yeah, I read the title and immediately thought the Guardian had messed up! In fact, they simply upgraded their version of Play and yielded some performance wins (which the article then explains more fully).
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by room271 12y ago
Persistent data structures allow for the appearance of cloning (you have a new thing) but are much more efficient behind the scenes (you don't actually copy everything). So if you find yourself doing a lot of defensive cloning, then Mo
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by room271 12y ago
I think people are being harsh in the down-votes here. I suspect most people (HN people) hold pretty strongly the belief that everything can be quantified. However, within reasonable limits and current stats and science, lots of things i
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by room271 12y ago
The 'Nic' he quotes in the article is me :) This is seriously the highlight in my career folks! Although to be fair, he quotes me generously. Later on in that discussion I give up my wisdom and get confused again.
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by room271 12y ago
I feel like my original comment was a bit harsh so thanks for replying. Re: the debate about CA vs CP, I've seen this too, but I think it reflects confusion rather than genuine options. The 'P' of CAP takes effect whenever yo
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by room271 12y ago
Unfortunately, this guy doesn't understand the CAP theorem at all. Once you are distributed, P is not an optional. Rather, in the case of network failure, consistency or availability is what suffers. A system cannot be both CA and dist
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by room271 12y ago
The docs are pretty good and have been for a while: http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/ Admittedly they were pretty poor early on, but they've matured with the product.
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by room271 12y ago
As a member of the younger generation, I rarely think in imperial and I think the same is true for most of my social group at least. For example: - I struggle to visualise feet or inches, we always used metric units at school so metres and
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by room271 12y ago
While Piketty is quite polite, there are some strong criticisms of the FT team in here. For example: 'The FT journalists evidently did not read carefully the technical research papers and excel files that I have put on-line.'
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by room271 12y ago
In the vast chasm between pure monopoly (one supplier) and the perfectly competitive market (which is imaginary), is large room for firms which have competition but are still big enough to abuse their market position. It's not useful t
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by room271 12y ago
I have to disagree with this strongly. There are significant economies to scale in any streaming service. For example, in terms of costs (streaming services require a lot of hardware). But also in terms of branding and reaching a critical m
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by room271 12y ago
I submitted this link 6 hours before the OP but it didn't gain much traction. I though Hacker News had a way to prevent double submissions? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7772074
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Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit(theguardian.com)
62 points by room271 12y ago|6 comments
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by room271 12y ago
Surely this is a massive competition concern and should be blocked on such grounds?!
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by room271 12y ago
It doesn't matter whether a country is rich or poor, but whether people are rich or poor. And the USA has a lot of poor people.
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by room271 12y ago
I agree that using Elasticsearch as a primary data store seems risky. The situation is improving though; the v1 release introduces easy backups (for example, to s3) which from my experience work very well. Prior to this backing up was a mes
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by room271 12y ago
Yeah, the Dynamo paper is very clear about the rationale behind creating DynamoDB and its usage: - downtime (lack of availability) is very expensive to them, both directly and also reputationally - traditional ACID stores don't scale w
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by room271 12y ago
An interesting article and it does seem like people rushed to embrace NoSQL and are now trying to force it into some kind of consistency after the event - not a bad thing, incidentally - there's a lot of interesting work here (Vector c
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by room271 12y ago
You have to applaud this app. The title alone has value.
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by room271 12y ago
I mostly agree with this post, but I do wonder whether the difficulty of doing unit testing the OP describes is partially related to their use of RoR and the associated (complex) object-oriented design.

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