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by toddh 16y ago
Would you like your surgeon who is charging you money to save your life to also take out a life insurance policy on each operation?
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by toddh 16y ago
Maybe they are good writers and this guy has a very peculiar sense of what is good writing? His essay didn't fill be with awe. He's not complaining about results. He's dumping on students because he doesn't like how they write. Could there
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by toddh 16y ago
It's a little ironic given slow startup time was a major reason why we switched away from CGI in the first place.
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by toddh 17y ago
The likes also feed into the advertising system, which may be obvious but I didn't read that connection. With the likes being so ubiquitous it's quite possible, given their broad reach, that Facebook will be able build a better model of you
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by toddh 17y ago
Latency is impossible to guarantee with both threads and events, so neither is very good from that perspective. They don't talk about dead lock either or thread pool exhaustion. Meaningfully assigning thread priorities is nearly impossible
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by toddh 17y ago
Yet they only listen to 3K.
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by toddh 17y ago
Economics seems to be the only officially recognized form of utopianism.
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by toddh 17y ago
The article has a list of ways it is inferior, but says that's OK because it's cheaper. That's not Apple's market.
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by toddh 17y ago
You'll also need income stmt & balance sheet to prepare the annual tax returns.
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by toddh 17y ago
Love it.
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by toddh 17y ago
You have to incent repetitive, boring, skillless tasks. Altruism might work if there was some higher purpose involved, but that's hard to imaging for a survey. So you are left for paying for results.
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by toddh 17y ago
You are obligated to do what your contract says. Your contract says you can walk away and the bank gets the house. If the bank didn't like that potentiality because they were speculating on a loan, then apparently that's all of our problem.
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Building Super Scalable Systems in the Ambient Cloud(highscalability.com)
13 points by toddh 17y ago|1 comments
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by toddh 17y ago
What will Murdoch do when Twitter hijacks the links?
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by toddh 17y ago
System 5 was process based. You start processes, monitor process, kill processes. Processes share data through message queues. You entire architecture is process based so you need a way to start processes. Simple embedded system don't have
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by toddh 17y ago
What should I use in a title that is informative and gets people interested enough to read an article? A munin graph isn't quite as punchy.
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by toddh 17y ago
It should be illuminating that a site of this size doesn't need to have a lavish description of arcane scaling strategies. It's fairly straightforward so the how they make the site becomes most interesting.
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by toddh 17y ago
I think you are right and have Worse-is-Better to the post. We are still telling and learning from 2000 year old stories so it probably doesn't hurt to play dress up :-)
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by toddh 17y ago
It is quite strange, but it does reflect the needs of finding a real solution to a real problem. I'm not aware at least of similar multitenant site that serves so many customers, with so much data, with so few servers, and such extensive cu
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by toddh 17y ago
It was indeed scraped from all the sources listed in the article. I would have like more too, but for me the emphasis was more on the viability of scale up.
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by toddh 17y ago
If you paid tax on gross income only this could work. But because the government can't know your deductions it would only work if you disallowed deductions for expenses etc. Businesses might not like that. There are also a lot of decisions
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by toddh 18y ago
Yes, early in the article it says "Facebook has northwards of 800 memcached servers creating a reservoir of 28 terabytes of memory enabling a 99% cache hit rate." I've covered this stuff before so I don't explore the topic. It's a device to
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by toddh 18y ago
I keep a fairly comprehensive list of startup job source here: http://possibility.com/wiki/index.php?title=JobSearchSites
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by toddh 18y ago
The Crucible in Oakland has a few good courses.
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by toddh 19y ago
I have some team room links here: http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/SoftDevOfficeLayout.html
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by toddh 19y ago
I am biased, but Linda Coleman is the best. She has her own blog at http://www.biztaxtalk.com and her email is lgc@possibility.com. On her blog she talks about tax issues and answers any and all questions for free. You can get a good feel
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by toddh 19y ago
You can plug into someone else's crawler. For example http://spinn3r.com/ . In general take a look at http://highscalability.com/ .
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by toddh 19y ago
The labyrinth at Grave Cathedral is cool. http://www.gracecathedral.org/ Definitely visit a beach: http://www.sfguide.com/sports/beaches.htm . This is a lovely time of year to watch the waves. If you have time take a win tour of Alexa
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by toddh 19y ago
The machine learning blog at http://hunch.net/ is a good resource.