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by temuze 11y ago
“The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.”
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With nuclear subs, it really doesn't matter.
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by temuze 11y ago
I admire iteration - the idea that you make a basketball game and you keep making it better makes sense to me. Eventually, it'll be as good as it can be, right? When you're out of improvements, you can just update it every year wi
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by temuze 11y ago
Just noticed this was already on the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810857 Sorry for the repost!
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Running Quake on an oscilloscope (2014)(lofibucket.com)
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by temuze 11y ago
Oh god stories like this scare me. One of my friends used to intern for a very large company that maintained software for flight control towers. His entire summer was spent writing bash tests for these old Fortran apps that kept planes from
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by temuze 11y ago
> So basically, a data lake is a fancy word for a file system? Well, when you get down to it, any database is a just a file system with an API :) I think a "data lake" might be a combination of raw files with metadata. For exam
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by temuze 11y ago
The product page is live now: http://www.apple.com/music/
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Is there a font nerd here who can describe what makes Roboto unique?
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by temuze 11y ago
Or, for the second problem or correlations: Do you have a Y chromosome? a) Yes b) No Do you have two X chromosomes: a) Yes b) No Each are 50-50 questions, but the answer to A is correlated to the answer to B. It's hard to find question
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by temuze 11y ago
Assuming you get 1000 hours per CD, you're saying CDs cost about $1.65. You could probably get CDs in bulk for an order of magnitude or two cheaper. Assuming the CDs are $0.01, that's 440 trillion free hours. Great deal for Verizo
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by temuze 11y ago
Great great great professor. Very anti-surveillance. Did a lot of work finding vulnerabilities in voting machines!
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> The best — maybe the only? — real, direct measure of “innovation” is change in human behaviour. It just goes to show you - even if it's not a "new" product (group chat existed before) - really understanding an area and m
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by temuze 11y ago
Maybe? It would be interesting to see what a Postgres - Elasticsearch foreign data wrapper would look like...
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by temuze 11y ago
I'm pretty pleased with Elasticsearch's progress on durability. The snapshot/restore feature has been pretty nice to work with! That said, having a "single source of truth" and regularly refreshing Elasticsearch is
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by temuze 11y ago
HyperLogLog is an algorithm that allows you to find an estimate of the distinct elements of a dataset with very little memory. Here's a simple explanation: http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/02/04
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by temuze 11y ago
Or building a bridge. Or coding software for medical machines. Or being a pilot or a bus driver. Or construction.
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by temuze 11y ago
Ubuntu 12, Firefox - could only see three lines before a scroll bar happened. Also, I was able to type outside of the main textbox for some reason.
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by temuze 12y ago
I agree. Slack needs to hustle right now and increase the barrier to entry. Not sure how - integrations help. Maybe asynchronous communication as well?
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New York City - Moat Moat is a growing analytics startup with products in two core areas: 1) Analytics Moat Analytics analyzes content and advertisements for many of the most trafficked websites on the Internet. We give customers metrics li
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by temuze 12y ago
That'd be a 185,000 dollar prank!
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by temuze 12y ago
For reference: https://twitter.com/holman/status/569957689624694784
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by temuze 12y ago
New York City - Moat Moat is a growing analytics startup with products in two core areas: 1) Analytics Moat Analytics analyzes content and advertisements for many of the most trafficked websites on the Internet. We gather terabytes of data
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by temuze 12y ago
So uh, how did you find out that you match for this phrase?
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Not always. Finance is a pretty big industry and its hard to make a sweeping generalization like this. For example, let's look at your checking account. A banker's not a middleman here - they're providing a service that allow
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by temuze 12y ago
> I think the best strategy is to try to legislate sensible safeguards but work very hard to make sure the edge we get from technology on the good side is stronger than the edge that bad actors get. Some suggestions would help. I mean, w
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by temuze 12y ago
A surprising number of people either make N queries because they don't what their code is doing (really easy for a beginner to do with Django models when not using prefetch) or, more commonly, they make queries that get N rows back. Yo
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by temuze 12y ago
Fair enough - probably not in an IO bound webserver :)
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Memory perhaps? Presumably, the threads would be a little heavier. I would be curious to see how much memory each of your test cases used. However, if you have memory problems in your webserver, it might be worth just spinning up more webse
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If you have a Python CRUD app, there are many steps you should take to speed up the app before parallelizing queries. The first couple that come to mind: - Caching. The 90-10 rule applies to most CRUD apps. Use varnish to get rid of some re

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