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by spotman 9y ago
that’s funny. i have the exact inverse problem. when i ask siri to call my wife ( by her first name only ) it gives me a list of two to pick from, whereas my car does the opposite and calls my wife. darn computers!
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by spotman 9y ago
"the first actually open phone will have longevity" you mean like openmoko?
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by spotman 9y ago
database rule #1, do not use your database as a work queue. this article does a great job discussing why not, and finishes with a sane implementation that would work, but would fall over and shutter to a halt with a moderate amount of load.
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by spotman 9y ago
also not op, but share same thoughts largely. for me makepkg/PKGBUILD and abs keep me coming back to arch.
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by spotman 9y ago
tldr: mysql is getting worse for small, in memory workloads with low concurrency. for the average medium to high traffic mysql install, i find 5.7 to be much faster than 5.6 or mariadb where concurrency and varying workloads prevail. ymmv,
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by spotman 9y ago
Some systems do up to 1mbps. MIDI for example is nowhere near this. It's not the right protocol for media or bandwidth intensive applications but for control systems or reading sensors its often enough.
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by spotman 9y ago
Disclaimer: I work on this project w/ the author. The author writes about how he used this system to solve a case of a slow query. However, this is really sort of the wrong query to illustrate why we built this. It's more of a &
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by spotman 9y ago
CAN Bus is great. I highly recommend reading the CAN Open Spec if your going to be implementing new systems using CAN Bus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANopen Many more things besides auto's use CAN. One of my
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by spotman 10y ago
Imagine that! Working backups! nice job not losing data digital ocean.
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by spotman 10y ago
From my experience, I have found that a properly designed schema in an RDBMS is going to outperform a graph database for OLTP style queries _if_ your graph traversal is light. So, if you just need to build a system that finds similarities a
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by spotman 10y ago
If you give up, yes your screwed. Don't give up if you want this career to work. Some times things can be discouraging in this industry, so look at this as training for in the future when you have to get through a discouraging or tryi
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by spotman 10y ago
Sigh. Some instances can not get to level 3 at all. Go go gadget google cloud! Having said that Kudos that this is on their status page!
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by spotman 10y ago
This has a feel of it solved a race condition due to scheduling something on a few ticks later. So it might accomplish not only running something on the main queue but also sneakily after something else finished. For example if you call som
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by spotman 10y ago
It's hard to know where it's going and concurrently learn the right pieces of that thing in the right time to not be late or early to the party... So, learn the thing you can either learn the deepest or the fastest, or both... bec
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by spotman 10y ago
With many modern cars, especially luxury ones, they come with a way to put a sim in it, so that they can provide you with ways to locate your own car (to remember where you parked), provide a wifi hotspot, integrate google maps, among other
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by spotman 10y ago
The fact your even asking this means your ahead of a lot of your peers. None of this comes overnight. Many of us start out incredibly messy, and there is nothing wrong with that. In fact it might give you an edge over folks that start out v
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by spotman 10y ago
Yes, you will need an SOW, (statement of work) that articulates very clearly what you aim to accomplish. Near the latter part you should have another section ( there is more than one way to accomplish this however ) that clearly states what
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by spotman 10y ago
Except for Peter Theil, one would guess. Heh.
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by spotman 10y ago
Some of the Blairs brand of hot sauces claim up to 16 million on the scoville scale. I have tried the 4am sauce which claims 4M on the scoville scale, and it was not a laughing matter immediately, more crying, then laughing days later. (I
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by spotman 10y ago
My point is that if they are advertising rock solid distributed data, I don't think they have achieved that without putting it through some more paces. I agree, actual numbers are great. We also agree, jespen is great. But I am saying,
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by spotman 10y ago
2 billion writes over 8 years? Cool if so, but many database systems both MySQL, and others are capable of getting this in a day. I know this because I maintain some high availability MySQL systems that see about 4 billion writes per day
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by spotman 10y ago
This is the story of many "enterprise" companies sadly. Some I work for, and while they are slowly changing, I would not say their own data centers (yes, read: data centers) are "little co-located hosting" companies. U
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by spotman 10y ago
Here in Los Angeles some locations that were less busy are now never a long wait and can even appear desolate at times. Ones that were super duper line-out-the-door popular almost never have the line out the door anymore it seems. I don&#x2
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by spotman 10y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but another piece of the puzzle here should be considered: Playing fast and loose with health care, that may be key to determining whether you have some life-threatening disease, is a big deal. This is not like
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by spotman 10y ago
Take a job, or a gig, or a ticket that is beyond your skill level, and don't give up until you solve it.
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by spotman 10y ago
Fair game sure, but unfortunately confusing. If there was another dart that was an actual programming language ( Is there ? ) you would have to qualify every time which dart programming language you meant. I imagine searching for things on
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by spotman 10y ago
Performance is great, but what is more interesting is maintaining that performance in the midst of failures and things going wrong. I don't know anyone who chooses InnoDB and says "gee I wish it were faster". While it isn&#x
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by spotman 10y ago
Four thousand dollars to ride a single-wheeled skateboard, marketed as a hover board, for a total of 16 minutes, seems like a scam. Shouldn't a hover-board, hover? Having said that, with a small marketing and price adjustment (with a l
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by spotman 10y ago
Can you elaborate on the cognitive overhead vs a GC language like golang or java? (With regards to memory) To me sure there is things you think about but generally memory performance is less of a mental burden. Also, swift 4 is supposed to
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by spotman 10y ago
I don't work at google but have many friends that do. (so take this with a grain of salt) But just because they may put all their code and commits in a giant common repository, does not mean that its hosted, scaled, and deployed as a m

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