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by toddh 14y ago
RDS as a scaling strategy is also a good reason.
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by toddh 14y ago
The core moneyball idea, for me at least, was identifying an undervalued potentially winning strategy with the help of data and then using data to identify players to best cary out that strategy. Interestingly, in baseball, the A's are back
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by toddh 14y ago
Not to mention if anyone will have the resources to create and host the singularity, it would be Google.
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by toddh 14y ago
1) Guilds could form more through the power of evolved authority and authentication. The assumption is the role of the University is reduced and education becomes more specialized and short term results driven. In that world how do you know
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What Will Programming And Architecture Look Like In 2020?(highscalability.com)
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by toddh 14y ago
This really sucks for the engineers. Not a fun way to spend xmas at all.
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by toddh 14y ago
So it's a lot like gold prospecting?
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by toddh 14y ago
Resistance is futile.
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by toddh 14y ago
Interestingly Master craftsman operate to a detailed contract where the patron specifies virtually everything of interest. It's very far from a results only mindset. All those people we thought of as great artists before Michelangelo were c
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by toddh 14y ago
Programs are just wires. We just pretend some of the wires are different.
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by toddh 14y ago
It helped monetize your content. It provided metrics. It was pretty savvy about handling non-standard feeds. And it was reliable. All valuable ideas for a stream based open web. Long live the open web!
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by toddh 14y ago
I thought about this too. But the timing plane is not typically available at the application level in telecom systems, nor would it be distributed to millions of different hosts, so it's not quite the same thing.
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by toddh 14y ago
To continue the analogy it would be as if George Washington agreed to become King instead of continuing the revolution and becoming president. Twitter promised to be a platform. A shining message bus on the hill. Twitter rejected the revolu
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by toddh 14y ago
Titles are hard. Usually nothing great comes to mind so you just settle. What title would you use?
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by toddh 14y ago
Since errno is now thread local it's not the big deal it used to be, but it still contains no data, so returning objects is superior because it can provide error context and the error information can be chained together as flows up the stac
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by toddh 14y ago
5. People who hope something good this way might come.
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by toddh 14y ago
Recall that wealthy conscripts could buy their way out of serving in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.
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by toddh 14y ago
This is pre information revolution thinking combined with ideas generated by the fears of an age when socialism/communism was really was competing with democracy as a form of social organization. This muddled thinking makes no sense present
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by toddh 14y ago
The rise of the bureaucratic corporation and the rise of a white collar managerial class during the industrial revolution was a natural pre technology evolution of the corporation because lots of people we required to carry out all the nece
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by toddh 14y ago
What did Romney make that improved the material lives of the human race? Capitalism had the slam dunk existence proof over medieval and socialist forms of organization because people's lives had actually improved. If you could make that arg
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by toddh 14y ago
Is mirroring on the same machine really more reliable?
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by toddh 14y ago
This is like saying helping a little old lady across the street isn't a big enough good, what a waste, ignore the lady and figure out how to save all of the peoples. Only then have you done something truly good. But the little old lady migh
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by toddh 14y ago
Some say you should have such a strong vision that listening to users stuck in the past is a mistake. Others say shame on you for not listening to users, how stupid. Apparently it's only OK to ignore users when it works out.
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by toddh 14y ago
Here's the IRS pub that's the basis for the article: The 400 Individual Income Tax Returns Reporting the Largest Adjusted Gross Incomes Each Year, 1992-2009 http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/09intop400.pdf The Tax Foundations take ( http://
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by toddh 14y ago
Being pro property, primarily in the form of land, in the US is linked to virtue. A republic eventually is founded on the virtue of its citizens, not laws or paper. So property owners, as steak holders in society, are thought to be better b
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by toddh 14y ago
5-8 are clearly extra constitutional and the constitution is so vague as to make 1-4 more or less unanswerable. The constitution is not a set of unit tests.
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by toddh 14y ago
Some people like to set a fair price and live with the consequences. It may not be clever, but it is simple and rewarding in a personal sense.
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by toddh 14y ago
I don't think you can escape circular logic because the terms are vague and overlapping. The focus on private owners is also a dehabilitating diversion. The core is economic competition. Any self-interested actor will try disable competitio
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by toddh 14y ago
Be part of the slow network movement? I was so excited when a friend agreed to connect to me and bring in email and usenet via UUCP. Good memories, but I like the real-time fast food world a lot better. Though for interplanetary communicati
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by toddh 14y ago
If there's so much DC energy available can we store it?

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