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by tlack 16y ago
EC2 is pretty complicated. You really have to restructure the way you work your app to make it scale well with EC2. You can usually get a lot of scalability out of a normal web app without going that far. Start "top". Is MySQL using a lot o
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by tlack 16y ago
How's the tech scene in South Africa? I would imagine it has its share of startups and investors, etc.
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by tlack 16y ago
Tell us more! What country are you in? Were you raised there, or did you move there by choice for some reason?
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by tlack 16y ago
Wouldn't you agree with the general idea that Microsoft has lost their ability to successfully innovate and release products that anyone cares about? They've failed so many times in the past decade that their reputation is greatly tarnished
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by tlack 16y ago
The author of this article seems to totally forget that Microsoft sells something other than Windows.
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by tlack 16y ago
So you feel that randomly applying corrections that you make up to data from specific intervals (between date X and Y) is totally kosher in terms of modern scientific practice? If the data doesn't fit, you don't make it fit.
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by tlack 16y ago
And let me guess, I read the source code out of context too? ; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
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by tlack 16y ago
I agree that technology, in general, aides the cause of public trust in science. In some cases, such as the case of ClimateGate, the data itself -- the specific sample values -- were manipulated before their interpretations of it were even
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by tlack 16y ago
Are you serious? Have you read the direct quotes from their email? They're clearly colluding to change the data and get the report out there. Furthermore, on the subject of the peer reviews, it's almost possible for someone's peers to revie
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by tlack 16y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with you but can you give some examples? I can think of counter examples, all things that went from commercial business tool to consumer not the other way around: - computers - internet - email - blackberry - un
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by tlack 16y ago
I'm on the fence on this one. I think it is very very dangerous to blindly trust Perfect Science as we've seen with ClimateGate. Scientists are of course humans, and all humans are prone to competitiveness, greed, and deception. Science is
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by tlack 16y ago
Java isn't very "symboly" in practice. Any idea why they made such an unusual choice? I'm not against it (I prefer symbols to long words generally, even if they have a slightly longer learning curve), but it seems unlike the rest of the Jav
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by tlack 16y ago
This article takes the cake for hyperbolic headlines
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by tlack 16y ago
This is a serious question that I've been wondering. You seem like you might know. The drill goes very deep below the sea floor into the earth to find the pocket of oil, right? Why can't they just collapse the hole they dug using explosives
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by tlack 16y ago
I love how the screenshot has all the UI buttons in awkward, weird locations.
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by tlack 16y ago
Of course you can compare them. You can compare the speed of Oracle on a huge RAC cluster vs. text files on an Amiga 500 floppy drive. But no one would, because it's stupid and worthless. I guess that's what I meant: this is a stupid and wo
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by tlack 16y ago
That's like benchmarking Berkeley DB vs. MySQL. They are on totally different levels of complexity. You can't compare memory-only db performance against a disk based db, period.
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by tlack 16y ago
I've been thinking about this for some time but you put it into words very well. However, I'd like to suggest that Twitter is more than a protocol; Twitter is a decent protocol and a great, huge user base. It's more than the sum of its part
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by tlack 16y ago
In-memory DBs can take a lot of excellent shortcuts but I have to wonder if their usability is limited. After all, I'd think most interesting data sets end up quickly eclipsing the available RAM in most off the shelf/affordable servers.
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by tlack 16y ago
Wow, that sounds like a serious undertaking. How much PL/SQL are we talking about here? How long did writing the Perl -> Prolog solution take?
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by tlack 16y ago
Does anyone else have any war stories about using Prolog in their day jobs? It's a tool I'm always on the look out to use to simplify some of my more complex tasks, but so far I haven't had any luck in that regard.
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by tlack 16y ago
There's a reason most of the world uses TCP.. even for things that sound ideal for UDP.
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by tlack 16y ago
The idea of using JSON in a very informal, global messaging system is a really strong one. Messaging is huge these days but pub/sub systems still aren't as commoditized as they should be. However, Telehash's reliance on UDP means we'll stil
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by tlack 16y ago
Though I don't feel like this is a particularly great example, I think "lisp for people with day jobs" could be a thought provoking series of posts. Focus on solving specific hard problems that real people have at work, without hand waving,
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by tlack 16y ago
It's a great idea but I feel like this protocol is a bit more heavy than it needs to be.
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by tlack 16y ago
Does Google allow third party tags to fill unused inventory via Doubleclick? Or perhaps do they allow SWF as the trafficked creative? If so, either could be a vector for the code to slip through.
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by tlack 16y ago
Wouldn't you say the nature of the benchmark is probably the most important detail, yet it is the one that is omitted from this blog post?
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by tlack 16y ago
This guy sounds so terrified of the inevitable
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by tlack 17y ago
Has anyone read an official statement from Comedy Central about this? This situation seems so counter to their reputation and public image I'm surprised they'd let it stand and not respond to all the trashing.
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by tlack 17y ago
I feel like if we knew who he quit to go work for, we'd have a better idea of why Mr. Calacanis was so upset. Must have been a powerful direct competitor - I hope..

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