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   Standing on Distributed Shoulders of Giants(queue.acm.org)

   3 points by rusanu 10y ago|0 comments
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   by rusanu 10y ago

   Madagascar should be related to India, though. Separated 80mil years ago, if I remember correctly.
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   by rusanu 10y ago

   OP points to SPARK-12795 [0] and is all open source. They generate Java source code. You can read more at the prototype pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/10735 (I couldn't find a spec do
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   by rusanu 10y ago

   Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques [0] by Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter. Not so much relational algebra, but everything you need to know to implement a classic relational engine. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Transac
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   by rusanu 10y ago

   To put this into context I would recommend reading 'MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution' [0]. Vectorized execution has been sort of an open secret in database industry for quite some time now. For me, is particular
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   Looting of the Fox (The Hack at ShapeShift)(moneyandstate.com)

   1 points by rusanu 10y ago|0 comments
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   by rusanu 10y ago

   Can't rly answer since I have never ever tried an audio book, but I can tell that imho there are important visuals every 4-5 pages or so.
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   by rusanu 10y ago

   I have a question for the HN molecular biology aficionados: Where can I find some good critique of Nick Lane's ideas? He sure convinced me, but I would like to see what the experts say about it.
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   by rusanu 10y ago

   Oxygen, a previous book from Nick, cover these topics in great detail. The Vital Question deals with events that long predate the cyanobacteria, the Great Oxygenation Event and how we avoided oceans evaporating into space under UV radiati
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    by rusanu 10y ago

    I have read The Vital Question, after hearing about it from BillG's blog. And it did blew me away. I immediately read also Oxygen, by same author, and I found it equally interesting (it goes in more detail on some topics, but some of t
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    by rusanu 10y ago

    video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMnK_llHoK8
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    Stupid-EasyMotion: vim easy motion for current line only(github.com)

    1 points by rusanu 10y ago|1 comments
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    The Only Ship in America's Fleet That Sunk an Enemy Ship Is 200 Years Old (2015)(popularmechanics.com)

    10 points by rusanu 10y ago|0 comments
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    by rusanu 10y ago

    > Disney ceases console game publishing, roughly 300 jobs cut.
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    Disney Infinity cancelled, Avalanche Software shut down(eurogamer.net)

    2 points by rusanu 10y ago|2 comments
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    Disney ends Infinity, shuts down game production(bbc.com)

    1 points by rusanu 10y ago|0 comments
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    by rusanu 10y ago

    You mean Bf109 I think. The P-51 started 3 and then moved to 4. Ditto P-47. FW-190 and F6F stayed at 3 whole time afaik. Tempest started with 4. So it varied. But there is a trend of the early (1939) designs to have 3 and the late (1944) de
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    by rusanu 10y ago

    Case in point: (much of the) $100M donated to schools in Newark NJ evaporated into union contracts: http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerbergs-failed-100-m... Sure, it benefited the teachers and perhaps many deservingl
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    by rusanu 10y ago

    TFA is not strictly about the fact that there is a tax break, but about a great increase of the break in recent years and some possible shenanigans vis-a-vis some Nevada operations. My reply was driven by the comments here that why breaks e
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    by rusanu 10y ago

    States/Cities offer tax breaks to attract/keep the business in the first place. The Pacific NW city wanted to become a tech city and offered incentives (=tax cuts) many years ago for companies like MS to settle here. Successful co
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    Halley VI Antarctic Research Station (2010)(architectural-review.com)

    1 points by rusanu 10y ago|0 comments
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    by rusanu 10y ago

    Perhaps one day I will learn how to write HN clickable URLs...
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    by rusanu 10y ago

    There is a fundamental difference between code deployment and DB upgrades: DB upgrades must preserve (and upgrade) the existing state. Code deployment only needs to ensure that the new code is in place. It can do so by deploying to a new
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    by rusanu 11y ago

    I don't like this because it leads to the misleading assumption that it doesn't matter which value you refer (left or right), since they are equal. But once you consider collations is easy to see the fallacy: left.id = '
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    by rusanu 11y ago

    Thanks, I will
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    by rusanu 11y ago

    I worked +10 years in Redmond, WA as a microsoftie and came back to Romania in 2012. Since March 2016 I quit Microsoft and focused 100% on my startup, DBHistory.com. I now rent space and work at a local tech incubator www.techhub.com. I wan
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    by rusanu 11y ago

    Presumably one would catch such a blatant error early in testing. The problem is the odd case, the code that only crashes in a rare state, never seen in test. When the odd state does occur the effect is mild, as only one actor dies as oppos
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    by rusanu 11y ago

    Article is correct, only the HN title has the s
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    by rusanu 11y ago

    What makes you sure? Central nervous system neurons are incapable of regeneration[0], so is anybody's guess what would happen if they did get replaced. And, long term, "significant" has to be "all". [0] https:&#x
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    by rusanu 11y ago

    Oxygen[0] by Nick Lane makes a pretty compelling argument why this will not happen. With perfect health you can at best achieve ~120 years age. I think this paper A unifying view of ageing and disease:the double-agent theory[2] covers som