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by smlacy 16y ago
Okay, removed the name of the internal cluster management systems.
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by smlacy 16y ago
I tried to only use names that were commonly known infrastructure components at Google, so I don't think this is really an issue. I've searched for each of the internal projects (i.e. "google blobstore") and if there were no reasonable resu
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by smlacy 16y ago
Really good point. Mostly, I was amazed at the amount of time devoted to doing "manager-ish" things like writing up perf feedback, snippets, and also the laborious interview task. Part of my frustration there was seeing myself doing 2+ int
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by smlacy 16y ago
Agreed 100% on making dual infrastructure. Google Search and other high-reliability products need to stay on time-tested infrastructure. Making a "wild-west" of infrastructure (a-la an in-house EC2) would really be the right way to go. An
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by smlacy 16y ago
Yeah, sorry for all the Googlisms, but I really wanted to target a Google audience.
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by smlacy 16y ago
Actually, not. LCE's get involved with launches of new products, and have a very long list of requirements & procedures that you have to follow. It's well known that going through this process for a new launch can take weeks. This is
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What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots(slacy.com)
212 points by smlacy 16y ago|76 comments
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by smlacy 16y ago
This doesn't actually look like a Genetic Algorithm to me. What I would expect is that with each generation, the "most fit" car or cars from the previous generation are combined with small mutations, and then "duke it out" in the next gener
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by smlacy 16y ago
Spam link. Seems designed to sell magic kits.
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by smlacy 16y ago
Explain? Assuming that storage costs are halving every 18 months, I would assume that charging $N/mo for backup (amortized over a lifetime of say, 4 years) would be a really reasonable business model. As they say, there's always going to be
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by smlacy 16y ago
Well, it depends on your application requirements. And, remember that MongoDB itself is schemaless, so any schema validation must happen at the application layer, and thus, is always going to be "soft". For example, just because you declar
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by smlacy 16y ago
Yeah, I saw another library called on Object-Document mapper. I'm thinking I'm going to call it something like an Object-based interface to MongoDB. I don't really like the name "mapper" :)
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by smlacy 16y ago
I found plain pymongo a bit too bare. I was starting to write connection pooling better DBRef support, etc. and that's what morphed into this library...
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by smlacy 16y ago
Yeah, I've seen libs like this, and because I'm using the MongoDB native JavaScript shell for a bunch of other random tasks, I wanted to keep my Python query syntax as close to pymongo and thus to the native JavaScript as possible. Thanks
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by smlacy 16y ago
Yeah, I know the term "ORM" is misleading, but I think it most succinctly expresses what it is. I certainly know that the "R" part of ORM isn't right, so should I call it an Oject Mapper? An Object Data Mapper?
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by smlacy 16y ago
Just looking for some feedback, useful ideas. I was unsatisfied with both MongoKit and MongoEngine, so I decided to write my own very lightweight ORM for MongoDB in Python. Let me know what you think.
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Minimongo: A micro-ORM for MongoDB & Python(github.com)
11 points by smlacy 16y ago|11 comments
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by smlacy 17y ago
There'd be a backup physical key, just like on my car. And/or it could be run via battery backup for 24+ hours. Short-range wireless devices like this don't draw much power.
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by smlacy 17y ago
This is the kind of narrow thinking that surprises me. Here are some random possibilites: - Solid urethane or other material tires. - Some other unpressurized (i.e. mechanical, rubber, electromechanical) device instead of pneumatics. - Bu
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by smlacy 17y ago
So, they're 2^13 (13 * 18mos = 20yrs) times thinner than they were in 1990?
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by smlacy 17y ago
Arguably a keypad is worse than a key when it comes to being easy to open. Think about carrying a heavy load or box. You can (usually) still reach into your pocket, pull out a key, unlock the door and go inside. It's likely impossible to
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by smlacy 17y ago
The thing you're forgetting (at least, for the A/V space) is that these days there's pretty much no such thing as video content that hasn't been compressed at some point along the way. Broadcast ATSC tops out at 19Mbps (yes, mega-bits per
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by smlacy 17y ago
Better yet -- the car senses when the keys are inside and just doesn't lock the doors. This is the actual behavior. I believe there are 3 sensors on the outside of the car (2 front doors, 1 on the trunk) and 2 inside the car, one in the t
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by smlacy 17y ago
<sarcasm>Well then clearly IPv6 will resolve these issues.</sarcasm>
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by smlacy 17y ago
Explain? Why do we have HDMI,DVI,RCA,BNC,Optical,Composite,Component,S-Video etc. in home theater setups? Why not one simple unified cable? Why don't we have good wireless home entry systems? Does physics explain this? Why haven't displa