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by vegabook 10y ago
430k a month is not "<strike>huge</strike>", it is a modest sum at best, and for 5m USD a year you can bet your bottom dollar that Visa/Mastercard will match/beat Amex. This is definitely not enough mone
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by vegabook 10y ago
precisely. Seems like somebody is keen to overlay some homeschooling "angle" on this.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I doubt anybody wants a bendy battery in their phone anytime soon, given heightening consumer awareness of how dangerous high energy Lithium Ion can be, and how sensitive they are to damage.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Almost irrelevant, because MapD software charges dwarf the price of the hardware. https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01M0ZY2OV?qid=1475606...
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by vegabook 10y ago
fair enough but software cost 3-4x the (already high) hourly hardware cost seems excessive.
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by vegabook 10y ago
thanks, but at 5 bucks an hour for an entry-level instance (single 12GB GPU) I'm looking at 120 bucks a day if I don't want to constantly re-upload my dataset into MapD (a very slow operation judging by Mark Litwintschik's po
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by vegabook 10y ago
Very impressive technology, but is there an open source version? Even a limited one? That one can try on something more modest than 100 grand's worth of pro GPUs?
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by vegabook 10y ago
disingenuous to use a highly charged term like "blogspam" and then qualify it as "kinda". kettle/black. Why say "blogspam" if you don't mean it? And while I agree that the OP is not indepth, it is not
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by vegabook 10y ago
...and so we risk shuffling even further away from what made Python great. Simple pragmatism. Now in addition to unicode hair tearout, xrange forcefeed, dict access strait jacket, print function dogmatism, and extraneous unused async librar
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by vegabook 10y ago
you have inadvertently indicated exactly why the desktop, up front cash drain as it might seem, is actually a huge cash gusher. That is because it is the piece of the ecosystem which users bond to most intimately , and if they don't l
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by vegabook 10y ago
you are almost certainly using some laptop with optimus graphics, given your symptoms. On a standard PC, and I have tried dozens of permutations, the upside of Unity 7 being so "old hat" is that it is absolutely 100% rock solid.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I don't agree with this. I have done Gnome 3.18 for 6 months, did i3 for another 12, and tbh, I found myself with a bog-standard Unity interface on a new machine about 3 months ago and I haven't bothered to change it. Why? Because
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by vegabook 10y ago
actually that was the first thing that came to my mind, what a ginormous job it must have been with a team hunkering down and working with multiple experts from around the world, for many unsung months (maybe years). However I personally be
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by vegabook 10y ago
Ooh the delicious irony... The very demographic (overpaid valley types) who ruined burning man now upvotes a story about Who Ruined Burning Man.
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by vegabook 10y ago
please do introduce me to your generous VC. At current low interest rates, building a stack that is reliant on KDB, will cause a large valuation hit because you're effectively locked into a negative -250k/year cashflow in perpetui
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by vegabook 10y ago
I make extensive use of vectorization and use as many calls as I possibly can to the built-ins and/or c-based libraries. However as you well know, part of the fun in R is applying your own functions and unless you write these in C, you
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by vegabook 10y ago
> KDB knocks the socks off everything else ...but the licence is 250k dollars a year so big fail for startups.
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by vegabook 10y ago
and I'm not a java lover as you can tell, but I can super-appreciate that for java guys, having some fork that tries to be java-not-java and confuses the ecosystem, is a pain in the butt. Be java fully committed and move it forward, or
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by vegabook 10y ago
So well put. But what is Rho? Intrigued...
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by vegabook 10y ago
I have, thanks for asking. I must admit that I have a very real priority on (soft) real time. Flink appears attractive but I also have a slight bias to non JVM which is where Concord appears interesting. I also just love Concord's &quo
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by vegabook 10y ago
perhaps you might not have started your own comment with the erroneous view that 'bad coders' are to blame when R proves to be deficient at extra-design tasks. Oh I further note your R consulting vocation. There you go. Vested int
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by vegabook 10y ago
this is not software engineering or production. It is batch jobs / exploratory analysis. It requires little or no structure apart from the analysis itself. also in anything that has not been coded in C directly underneath, Python is 20
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by vegabook 10y ago
R just does not have robust software engineering tools for anything that even begins to resemble scale and anybody who says otherwise is denying reality. R can certainly be used in production but the skeleton framework cannot be R. RPC only
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by vegabook 10y ago
I have 20k lines of (my own) R code running in production (used intensively by a salesforce of up to 20 people who price bonds with it) and it's an unmitigated nightmare to manage. Slow as crazy. No threading to manage concurrency so c
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by vegabook 10y ago
What does it matter what's underneath? At the visible layer which most of us have to use, it's java.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Look. The gist of the comment is that Android forces you to use java, or at the very least, a java API. You can dance around semantics as much as you like, but it will not change the fact that, unlike Linux, Android is intricately interlink
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by vegabook 10y ago
Larry Ellison doesn't seem to agree with your "nothing to do with [...] JVM" assertion, to the tune of a 9.3 billion USD lawsuit, and indeed Google itself is developing Fuchsia with no java stack at all in it. Moreover, it&#x
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by vegabook 10y ago
Unfortunately it's also JVM [edit: Java] on the phone.
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by vegabook 10y ago
does it now support 1080p ?
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by vegabook 10y ago
In finance this is a classic problem and is why you see traders with proliferations of monitors, trying to track everything, and they are anyway outmatched by the machines. The irony is that the vast majority of tick data points do not cont

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