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by skorgu 17y ago
Frankly even quitting via email would only be a minor count against him to me. Having difficult conversations face to face is a skill not everyone possesses, that was a polite and professional resignation letter no matter the delivery (or w
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by skorgu 17y ago
Anecdotally it seems like it can be pretty easily trained. It took me a few minutes to get it to switch at all but from there it was pretty easy to go from having to stare at the foot to having to look away to having a specific time in the
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by skorgu 17y ago
I'm wary as well. Think of how many revolutionary ram technologies have been just around the corner for ages. Mram, Feram, the "Upcoming" section of Wikipedia's memory pages lists more. Some of them were discovered in the 70s and are now 3-
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by skorgu 17y ago
Minor nit: Orion wasn't going to make any sense financially. It probably would have eventually worked technically.
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by skorgu 17y ago
None of these can be definitively affirmed or rejected by facts. They're interesting questions but they're either unanswerable (time, oodb) or entirely application dependent (pain, hiring).
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by skorgu 17y ago
Focus past the caps-impairment and tone, there's a meat further down. Choice quotes for me: > in the old days, reads used to outnumber writes to the database 100 to 1. these days, it’s more like 7 to 1. > ... in the last 14 days we
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by skorgu 17y ago
One thing that never gets mentioned but that seems important to me is the time factor of scaling. Say your web 2.0 disruptive foo.com starts out with whatever tech stack you'd like. The RDBMS upgrade path is several discrete and large incre
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by skorgu 17y ago
There's not actually any content in this article. It's just ranting. Flagged.
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by skorgu 17y ago
Cassandra is hugely biased towards making writes fast [1] and there's no indication in either Digg article that they (somehow) changed that fact in their deployment by tuning. Digg loads the complexity during the write by denormalizing
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by skorgu 17y ago
Not saying that Digg aren't clowns but the traffic balance makes a huge difference. It's not implausible that Digg has an enormously bigger fraction of writes to reads than SO does which changes the scaling dynamics considerably. Edit: To e
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by skorgu 17y ago
I wonder if it's too elitist to be useful to distinguish between high-quality and low-quality content. I happily pay for the Economist, Stratfor and other similar high-quality sources of information and they seem to derive sufficient income
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by skorgu 17y ago
The article itself lists several examples of ads that provided value and didn't garner hatred. Tech journalism aside it's perfectly possible to make ads that rise above the perpetual noise of CONSUME! advertising we all live with. Look at t
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by skorgu 17y ago
"..when picene (C22H14) is doped with potassium, it superconducts at a relatively toasty 18 kelvins (–255 degrees C)."
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by skorgu 17y ago
I appreciate your rationale and I agree with you and this article but frankly I'd rather see no AGW articles at all than continuing the kabuki play here as well.
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by skorgu 17y ago
Wikileaks is hosting it as well if you don't want to sign up to get the pdf: http://file.wikileaks.org/files/microsoft-spy.pdf
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by skorgu 17y ago
I don't think it was intentional but hopefully this will get people thinking more about the distinction in guarantees between a personal service and a business one. Am I right in assuming that Google for domains didn't do the same buzz opt
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by skorgu 17y ago
Coping automatically with hardware failures is feature #1 to me so I compared them all on that assumption, apologies if that wasn't clear. I couldn't quickly find an affirmative reference to shared storage on Lustre's so I gave it the bene
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by skorgu 17y ago
Mininova tried this [1] and got something like ~1000 MIPS out of it. That was using Firefox 1.5 though, running their IPS counter on Chromium dev on a modern Core2 duo gives me 71428571 IPS, more than a 30x improvement over the per-user num
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by skorgu 17y ago
Some notes on the production-quality filesystems listed in the article: PVFS2 requires shared storage [1] (i.e. a SAN/DRBD/GNBD), that alone makes it fall out of the "parallel filesystem" bucket for me. Lustre won't have distributed metadat
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by skorgu 17y ago
I'd be happy to be proven wrong but I can't imagine there are many sports analyses that aren't written for sports fans who have substantial knowledge of the rules, sides, strategies, etc.
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by skorgu 17y ago
My brain jumps straight to a javascript port of clojure. Potentially one with a websockets bridge between some of the concurrency primitives. Set a future on the server from the browser, use the promise to update an agent on the server agai
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by skorgu 17y ago
The docs for the javascript mapreduce are available here: http://hg.basho.com/riak/src/tip/doc/js-mapreduce.org
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by skorgu 17y ago
The way I remember it myself is by building it up in my head first: cows intimidate cows Scranton cows intimidate cows. cows Scranton cows intimidate intimidate cows Scranton cows Scranton cows intimidate intimidate cows Scranton cows Scran
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by skorgu 17y ago
> everything is done with oddly-named functions that take positional arguments in an inconsistent order, return error codes instead of throwing exceptions, and randomly spew warning messages These are all anti-features for programmers w
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by skorgu 17y ago
By itself it's a fun toy. As part of a larger system abstracting configuration and administration tasks it might actually be useful. I could imagine mapping a RESTful system around a filesystem path and embedding it in this 'os' to leverage
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Why Vector Clocks are Easy(blog.basho.com)
71 points by skorgu 17y ago|12 comments
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by skorgu 17y ago
I'm torn on this article. I'm very appreciative of a real-world example of using clojure to manipulate data but at the same time it treats a trivial and entirely unscientific analysis of one data set as a complete, concrete and comprehensiv
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by skorgu 17y ago
Hopefully one would also weigh moral costs in some way. As FiveThirtyEight[1] demonstrates trivial changes to global economies can mask tremendous changes to human populations. [1] http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/how-to-destroy-almo
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by skorgu 17y ago
We don't have temperature data measured by a thermometer at fixed locations for 50 years. There are many other sources of temperature data.
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by skorgu 17y ago
I'd use it as a bluray player and hope Boxee gets ported and can make use of the juice to accelerate media playback. I haven't bought one mostly because of the restrictions on linux ports.

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