smegel

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by smegel 11y ago
Very good. Back to work now.
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by smegel 11y ago
> using money he raised by selling his home Holy cow, that's a brave move!
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by smegel 11y ago
I either here really good stories about working at MSFT, or really bad ones. And the really bad ones almost always seem to raise the performance evaluation system there.
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by smegel 11y ago
> Perl... performance? You have to remember this idea comes from the late 90s when Java was slow as a dog, and Perl solidly cleaned the floor with other scripting languages like Python, Tcl, (was Ruby even known then?). Perl even outpace
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by smegel 11y ago
Oh God yes. I look back my days of reading D&D novels (Krynn and TFR mostly) with some fondness. Yes they were part of much larger series, but the books were usually fully contained novels with strong story-lines and conclusions. Sci-fi
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by smegel 11y ago
Until you hit 30, then it's Netflix all the way!
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by smegel 11y ago
If you are programming in R, you sure better hope it does!
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by smegel 11y ago
Is it just me, or did it not actually explain why: > Bus bunching happens because, if a bus gets delayed, then there will be more people waiting at the next stop than anticipated. The extra passengers' boarding time makes the bus ev
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by smegel 11y ago
> You will have the constant whirr of machinery. You will have to plan outings down to the last bottle of O2. You will eat shit food. And you will gaze upon a dim Sun through a dusty porthole Swap O2 for money and this could describe the
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by smegel 11y ago
I am surprised they didn't go down the container route for OS updates like CoreOS. I think I like that approach.
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by smegel 11y ago
No words. RIP.
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by smegel 11y ago
I also find this "crackpot" quite entertaining: http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/PhD.html
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by smegel 11y ago
Sounds like a good outcome, for the software and community.
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by smegel 11y ago
Really so they are using a 3rd party hosted HR systems etc on the internet, or something on their own services? When you are talking about a company like Google that basically owns a large part of the internet (backbones, CDNs, hosting serv
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by smegel 11y ago
Koreans are also extremely image conscious and love parading around with prestigious international luxury brands - possibly even more so than the Chinese. They are also extremely proud of Korea as a nation and tend to favor Korean brands in
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by smegel 11y ago
Hold on...are they talking about extending Greece a loan or simply paying of it debts in return for said benefits? The problem with a loan is that loans need to be repaid, and Greece seems unwilling to take the kind of internal reforms need
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by smegel 11y ago
> "Magic Numbers and Strings" I don't know about this one...we need something have a chuckle (or cry) about over beer after work, and to make sure software archaeologists in 100 years time have an interesting job (not to m
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by smegel 11y ago
> and that’s one reason we should routinely test rape kits I don't get it, what else are are rape tests for if not testing? Why does this even need to be stated?
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by smegel 11y ago
When I read the first half of this the image that popped into my head was a sub with booster rockets strapped to the side taking off like the space shuttle!
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by smegel 11y ago
The bit where it's not so good for everyone else...?
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by smegel 11y ago
Lets me guess - it's really really good for all the poor people from impoverished, war-stricken countries? Or if you want a daily dose of extreme left-wing nonsense, subscribe to The Guardian or your country's equivalent.
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by smegel 11y ago
I remember about 10 years ago using UPSERT in a Teradata database to do delta-diff updating of tables. Basically, I was updating a table from an external file, and I wanted to add what was new, leave what was the same, and delete any record
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Watch SpaceX’s First Test of Its Astronaut Bailout System(wired.com)
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by smegel 11y ago
I thought Erlang relied heavily on threads...how does that even work without as OS?
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by smegel 11y ago
If there wasn't a new cool kid on the block every month making last month's cool kid look like a douche, it just wouldn't be JavaScript.
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by smegel 11y ago
Interestingly the word "mobile" did not appear once.
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by smegel 11y ago
SpaceX's first manned flight is going to be a momentous occasion.
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by smegel 11y ago
> unless Yahoo gets mobile right, right now. The people getting mobile right are those making dinky little apps and then selling them for a billion dollars or more. Yahoo is buying apps and websites for billions of dollars, and it is unc
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by smegel 12y ago
>>> OK its not simply that a node dies, but that disks on a node are replaced (which might sort of be related to a node dying). TSB 2015-51: Replacing DataNode Disks or Manually changing the Storage IDs of Volumes in a Cluster may
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by smegel 12y ago
Funnily enough I have seen a slew of technical bulletins from Cloudera warning of similar issues with HDFS. Maybe not so funny if your multiply redundant cluster loses data because a single node dies...

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