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by seldo 16y ago
China is good at copying technology and selling for cheaper or improving an already existing product, but real innovation, such as creating new technologies that create whole new indsutries still will be from americans. This is exactly, t
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by seldo 16y ago
Once again, a study proves the obvious: there's nothing you can give your child that will magically make them smarter. As a parent, you have to be involved. On the other hand, the study keeps saying "only computer skills were improved" as i
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by seldo 16y ago
It's not that DoubleClick has done the terrible things, it's that Google has done them. The naked attempt to monetize wikipedia's eyeballs that was Knol. The careless lack of attention to privacy that was the Buzz launch. The very existence
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by seldo 16y ago
Oh Google. The sharks are circling and you're strapping on your waterskis.
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by seldo 16y ago
Google bought DoubleClick. They were tainted from then on, as far as I'm concerned. DoubleClick had a known shady history, and executives from DC moved into positions of influence within Google.
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by seldo 16y ago
I don't know about you, but to me this seems like a big blow to the reputation of Cassandra. I know a bunch of people (including myself) whose primary motivation for investigating Cassandra as a large-scale data store was "Twitter is using
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by seldo 16y ago
This seems biased against teetotal investors.
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by seldo 16y ago
I almost drowned when I was about 8 years old and I remember it very clearly. I did exactly as is described -- I was face up, mouth just at the water level, arms flat, completely quiet. My parents -- who had two older children and spent the
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by seldo 16y ago
I love this story. I remember reading a very abridged version of it in one of my Super Fact Books when I was 8 or 9 (it omitted the fact that he murdered dozens of people, for instance). Still, he's an amazing (if very, very dumb) character
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by seldo 16y ago
What I'd really like to know is: what are these guys doing with the 200 grand people pledged? Is it just paying their rent in SF or what?
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by seldo 16y ago
"I switched to TC to begin with because I was using SQL wrong, and it was too slow and clumsy. Once I figured out how to use SQL correctly, it was a no-brainer to go back." While k-v stores and other NoSQL solutions have many great, valid u
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by seldo 16y ago
I realize it still has its die-hard supporters, but are there really new developers joining the perl community these days? I'm not trying to start a flame war here; I would be genuinely interested to know if anybody is starting a new projec
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by seldo 16y ago
So by "better female representation" you mean "less than 100% male". And the team is 50% white, and 100% straight (I assume you'd have mentioned otherwise). And you admit they pressure you to drink with them. So it sounds like you agree wit
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by seldo 16y ago
It's worth pointing out that this is really only a viable career option if you are a straight, white, anglo-saxon male ready to work long hours, drink hard, and put up with a machismo-dominated culture. The financial sector and investment b
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by seldo 16y ago
The solution is to take a modern-day invention that isn't that complicated technically -- a lot of fad items fit the bill. Would the snuggie have sold as well in 1975? How about crocs?
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by seldo 16y ago
To be fair, I think there's a million or so iPad customers who would dispute that tablet computing is merely a "gimmick" (though even as an iPad owner, I'll admit that's not a done deal yet). I probably won't be using mine to send faxes tho
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by seldo 16y ago
I was in a similar situation, except I had an American co-founder to create the company and do the paperwork to transfer my H-1B. It took much, much longer than we hoped, but you can get there in the end. So that would be my advice -- don't
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Twitter experiences major, 2-hour+ outage(status.twitter.com)
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by seldo 16y ago
In defence of Excel, imagine it didn't exist. Then somebody says: "I've invented a program that allows non-programmers to input loosely-typed semi-structured data without needing to define a schema. It is automatically human-readable, and
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by seldo 16y ago
The problem with Microsoft's implementation is that it allowed any Javascript to be executed -- so CSS became a vector for XSS attacks (one of the early MySpace worms was based on this feature). This implementation only allows very basic
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by seldo 16y ago
I've had this thought every time I've tried to read The Economist on my iPad -- their homepage features a rolling set of four lead stories which are accessible via hover-and-click. Since hovering doesn't work, I have to wait until they roll
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by seldo 16y ago
Two things occur: 1. This is a better fit for memcache than redis, since you can get the counts to expire automatically 2. If you are fetching paginated results with a LIMIT (and you usually are) then you can use the SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS pre
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by seldo 16y ago
One of the graphs shows 30% of iPhone users "played pre-installed games" on the iPhone, which as far as I'm aware doesn't feature any pre-installed games. Am I misunderstanding the question?
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by seldo 16y ago
I didn't mean to imply that it was easy, merely that I'd got the impression from presentations that the migration had already happened.
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by seldo 16y ago
Remember that this is for Cassandra. Cassandra only allows you to sort records by the primary key, so if you want to sort by date, the time has to be part of the primary key while also being unique. So vanilla UUID doesn't work. Some UUID
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by seldo 16y ago
The most interesting part of this post to me is the implication that despite a lot of noise about Twitter switching to Cassandra, they haven't actually done it yet -- if they had, they'd need snowflake in production, and they say that it's
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by seldo 16y ago
The BBC has a fairly good diagram of what's going on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8651333.stm A visualization of how big the spill is relative to others: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10198201.stm
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by seldo 16y ago
A blog post giving a little clarity on the source of the outage would not go amiss, but I guess they're still investigating.
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by seldo 16y ago
Really, this is just "NoSQL for the web". And I have the same problem with it that I have with all NoSQL APIs, which is that it's not noticeably simpler or more performant, it just looks a bit more "object-y". As you note, it doesn't even h
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by seldo 16y ago
And truly smart people are too busy taking over the world to find time to listen to music anyway.

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