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by siculars 16y ago
Indeed, bloom filters work but, as with all things, do have limitations in practice. You have to make specific choices as to which type of bloom filter you will implement. You have to optimize for variables like n, m or k or you quickly beg
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by siculars 16y ago
Sergei Vassilvitskii (of Yahoo! Research) went over this first class of "COMS 6998-12: Dealing with Massive Data", http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~coms699812/ just a few weeks ago. Very interesting stuff. The class is dealing specifically wit
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Realtime view of traffic to Al Jazeera's site as Mubarek stepped down(borthwick.com)
2 points by siculars 16y ago|1 comments
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by siculars 16y ago
It's not the method. It's the data. The fact that anybody with the know how now has access to public data is what is great about it.
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by siculars 16y ago
Powerful. I'll put this in the yet-another-reason-why-twitter-is-important-column. Makes beautiful, informative visualizations like this possible.
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by siculars 16y ago
Guilty as charged. I am a "True Believer" in Democracy. Also, I believe truly that power and the right to govern is bestowed by the people. Clearly the people carried the day in Egypt. Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring but it will not b
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by siculars 16y ago
Why would it matter?
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by siculars 16y ago
I am so happy for the people of Egypt. This is one for the history books. Our kids will be reading about this revolution as an example of the peaceful power of the people. I have to congratulate AlJazeera for their tremendous coverage of un
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Facebook Buys Old Sun Campus in Menlo Park(techcrunch.com)
39 points by siculars 16y ago|34 comments
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by siculars 16y ago
Google should buy these guys and integrate their stuff into google docs.
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by siculars 16y ago
Big day for Nosql news. First Couchone + Membase = Couchbase and now Basho get some big bucks. Just shows that there are real companies out there making real money on alternate database technologies. Congrats to Basho.
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by siculars 16y ago
++. I don't know why more people don't do this. The library is a great place to work - for free - and it comes with built in offline distractions for when you need to step away from a problem. I used to spend a lot of time at Columbia Unive
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by siculars 16y ago
if you follow various twitter tech talks you'll notice that they spend a lot of time talking about 'fan out'. they basically prefer writing many things asynchronously vs. having to aggregate later. makes sense... disk is cheap and only gett
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by siculars 16y ago
Watch this talk[0] from Qcon SF November 2010. Ryan King goes into a lot of detail about many nosql implementations at twitter. This is the first time I had heard about distributed counting by way of Cassandra to implement tweet counts spec
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by siculars 16y ago
re. unions.
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by siculars 16y ago
I think the point the author is trying to make is that antirez should not be wasting his time re-inventing the persistence wheel. As in, there are already many persistence plays available that are proven to work within known bounds.
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by siculars 16y ago
hey, i'm all for selling out but im not into rewriting history. either leave the post or write a new one saying why it was wrong or what has changed. dont go rewriting history by trying to delete it.
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by siculars 16y ago
This version was obviously built for people who only use one application at a time.
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by siculars 16y ago
Does that startup-y environment include options?
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by siculars 16y ago
Oy vey.
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by siculars 16y ago
I heart Posterous. Not only because they're great at what they do but because they take a stand.
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Google Pro Tip: Use Back-Of-The-Envelope-Calculations To Choose The Best Design(highscalability.com)
5 points by siculars 16y ago|0 comments
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by siculars 16y ago
Ok so this is interesting to me from a data distribution model. Twitter is accessible natively (from their own web page/applications) and via third party applications over their API. I imagine the connection flow goes like this: you ->
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by siculars 16y ago
They should have sold to Microsoft when they had the chance.
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by siculars 16y ago
Dropped out of college. I think that disqualifies me. (Probably not but close enough.)
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by siculars 16y ago
What is interesting is how entrepreneurial and "start-upy" this post is. He is basically trying to appeal to all the engineering candidates who would be qualified to work for Google and not any of the other opportunities that are available
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Google I/O 2011 (incomplete) Sessions List(google.com)
3 points by siculars 16y ago|0 comments
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by siculars 16y ago
So how long before people have autoscripts that game this... game. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/checkin
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JetBlue + Facebook Places = let the games begin(mashable.com)
1 points by siculars 16y ago|1 comments
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by siculars 16y ago
This is the second release of the Riak Search product which is based on the main Riak system. You can think of this as a superset of standard Riak. Comes with all the standard Riak features plus search. Lots of bug fixes re. analyzer/tokeni

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