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by rpedela 12y ago
Yes I can see that happening too. :)
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by rpedela 12y ago
Yeah that sucks. I do think it is important that the potential employer make it easy to complete the sample work within a reasonable amount of time. As in your case, they should have taken care of the system admin and given you a Vagrant im
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by rpedela 12y ago
If the "sample work" only takes a few hours, then I think it is okay. As an interviewer, I would much rather this than ask candidates a bunch of technical questions which probably don't relate too much to the actual job. I al
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by rpedela 12y ago
It is certainly isn't obvious to me. NPM is the best package manager I have used for a specific language. I do think there are things that can be improved, like everything else, but overall I think it is pretty good. And the vast major
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by rpedela 12y ago
I am unsure what some of the graphs measure and labels mean when viewing the demo. Tooltips, descriptions, etc would be helpful in my opinion. Overall it seems like a great start though.
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by rpedela 12y ago
Yes. LLP Fusion is building such a device. There are a couple others, but I don't remember their names off the top of my head. http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/
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by rpedela 12y ago
BBC Horizon just did a piece which talks about this topic [1]. The gist of it was that the hygiene hypothesis probably isn't correct, but it is close. Rather it is the diversity and makeup of the microbiome in our body that plays an im
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by rpedela 12y ago
I think OP wants at least one machine that is healthy and fully operational at any point in time. But the cost of a three machine setup is too great. There are three main failures scenarios. 1. Primary fails and standby takes over. Sync mod
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by rpedela 12y ago
I agree that is a little weird. It should at least be configurable if you want that behavior or not. 9.4 introduces the ALTER SYSTEM command which may make it easier to automate the process of disabling synchronous_standby_names when a fail
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by rpedela 12y ago
The last time I looked at Postgres-XL, it required handling standby data nodes yourself. Has that changed?
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by rpedela 12y ago
Why isn't the built-in master/slave replication plus WAL archiving to something like S3 sufficient?
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by rpedela 12y ago
Depends on the particular PhD program, but if you are in science or engineering in the US then you should be able to be a teaching assistant, research assistant, or both and have free tuition and a stipend. If the author is solely talking a
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by rpedela 12y ago
In that context, NASA was the customer. They didn't bail them out. It wasn't charity.
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by rpedela 12y ago
> Node easily does arbitrary sized numbers. No it doesn't. Having to use buffers is not easy and the BigNum OpenSSL stuff is slow and limited (only integers). I have personally had a hell of a time supporting PostgreSQL's numer
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by rpedela 12y ago
Based on a quick look at the documentation, it looks like it can read, write, and store data. Is the functionality for versioning, diffs, different storage backends, etc there yet? I know it takes time to build these things, I am just wonde
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by rpedela 12y ago
Apache is probably okay for data, but I would recommend Open Data Commons or Creative Commons licenses. http://opendefinition.org/licenses/
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by rpedela 12y ago
When would one need a SVG version of a PDF instead of just using pdf.js by itself?
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by rpedela 12y ago
Absolutely. I was trying to make a larger point that often the tooling for the stuff that can be easily automated or semi-automated is currently sub-par. If we fixed that tooling as a community then that would reduce the majority of the &qu
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by rpedela 12y ago
Very cool! I guess my particular ETL complaint above is solved for log data. :)
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by rpedela 12y ago
I completely agree. However I think there is also plenty of room for improvement in the ETL process that doesn't necessarily mean a one-stop solution. For example, the common denominator data format for many use cases (not all) is a re
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by rpedela 12y ago
I know the dog walking statistics are in the ballpark for San Francisco at least since I know a few people who do that. Regardless, I do generally agree with your point of view.
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by rpedela 12y ago
In the US, universities were far more affordable when Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc were that age. Harvard like other Ivy League schools was probably still expensive, but many were not. My father (slightly older than them) was able to pay tui
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by rpedela 12y ago
> It's rare for a college dropout to become obscenely successful, but conversely it is also not uncommon for someone obscenely successful to be a college dropout. Reference?
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by rpedela 12y ago
Bill Gates is an outlier as are other famous college dropouts.
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by rpedela 12y ago
I completely agree except for your implication that the behavior of Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, etc was just some sort of trivial Silicon Valley nonsense. They actually committed a serious crime if it is true which it seems to be based on the
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by rpedela 12y ago
Very cool, but why doesn't it tell you what the correct answer is when you get it wrong?
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by rpedela 12y ago
Typically startups just rent one or two instances big enough to handle the first set of users/customers then expand as needed. So the cost per free user depends greatly on the product. I think it is unusual to give one instance per fre
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by rpedela 12y ago
I honestly don't know, but Ruby does seem to be on its way out. It might be a long death since there are so many Ruby developers, but I think it is probably on the way out. The main reason is that Ruby doesn't do anything particul
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by rpedela 12y ago
This is quite cool. What is the difference between raw and disambiguated? I have an educated guess, but I would appreciate a definition.
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by rpedela 12y ago
Okay, that sounds better. Thanks for clarification.

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