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by vegabook 10y ago
anyway Ethereum feels like a cult. There's something weirdly disturbing for me about the ethos of blockchain technology, and how it jarrs with "The DAO" (note the capitalised definite article. There Is Only One. Hardly distri
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by vegabook 10y ago
Was just going to post at a higher level, but your comment nails it. These guys are feeling the pain. It's clear. There is honesty going on here - I feel a lack of cynicism from the post, real soul searching, and for that, I can mitiga
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by vegabook 10y ago
Actually, couple of things I forgot. First IMO Microsoft has always been properly credible on programming languages. Right back to MASM. There were 20 years of awful behaviour, but the languages side was always a highlight (I forgive VB but
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by vegabook 10y ago
fair enough. But let's compare them to the competitors, Facebook, Google, Apple. Only the last can legitimately be said not to pollute your life with more ads than Microsoft. MS is benign by comparison with the first two.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Wow Microsoft is tickin' all the cool boxes under Nadella. Never seen such a radical, and it seems, effective, corpo image turnaround. Open source? Check. Ubuntu on Windows? Check. Contribute to BSD? Check. Progressive on pot? Check. D
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by vegabook 10y ago
CHIP's $9 pitch is nothing special anymore, with that Rpi device for $5 now, but the PocketCHIP wrapper is still a strong USP. Here is an IoT device where you don't need a soldering iron to actually get basic, useful stuff going.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Ummm... because Westerners' prior beliefs about endemic corruption in Nigeria is a given, which is what the scams are usually asking you to facilitate.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I use a bunch of NUCs for prototyping cluster development for Cassandra, Celery, and Storm. I believe the economics are much better than doing the same with cloud, because I don't feel that nagging "tick tock" of metered usag
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by vegabook 10y ago
enough for me. I'm going to use this because the combo of Python (more accuratey, numpy and pandas ), plus Elixir, is pure goodness.
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by vegabook 10y ago
so this is basically Russian Cassandra? Written in C, not Java. Enough for me; will test it.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I have been looking at exactly this type of solution, as I want to use Elixir for distribution of python(numpy)-based computations to clients. Just a quick question.... is ErlPort maintained? It looks like it's been in alpha for 3 year
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by vegabook 10y ago
it's the most liquid market on earth, it's 24 hour for the majors, its depth is enormous, and it is less prone to event risk than individual equities (as long as you stick to unpegged currencies) so you can get tons of leverage on
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by vegabook 10y ago
Could not agree more. Windows WM as an option on Linux is a clear and logical strategy.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I've been heavily downvoted for the view, but the facts are, there are hundreds of billions of dollars being spent in the Linux ecosystem, by corporations. Microsoft cannot afford not to be present in it. It's as simple as that. C
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by vegabook 10y ago
Next step is Microsoft basically needs to turn Windows into a flavour of Linux. If they don't, they're under massive pincer threat from Android and Chrome, which are rapidly becoming the consumer endpoints of the future. Windows i
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by vegabook 10y ago
Just a question. I have gone to your site www.kniterate.com, and the image very clearly has a bunch of garments with seams in them, and if I am honest, they do not look revolutionary at all. Please could you comment on this fact? Is this a
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by vegabook 10y ago
nicely explained. Interesting product.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Or, it is how some programmers continue to find motivation and fulfillment in the activity as an intellectual pursuit, yes at the cost of maintainability, but as opposed to being good little corporate drones writing a zillion dull lines of
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by vegabook 10y ago
I am referring to anything that resembles a range query, ie, where you require a bunch of contiguous information queried on a single key. Think "give me all of this person's chat entries from x time to y time", or indeed &quo
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by vegabook 10y ago
Nice machine, but what exactly is "3d" about this other than the hype-factor? Knitwear is 2d last time I looked, unless this thing does pom poms too.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I have moved from Mongo to Cassandra in a financial time series context, and it's what I should have done straight from the getgo. I don't see Cassandra as that much more difficult to setup than Mongo, certainly no harder than Pos
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by vegabook 10y ago
and when I grow big, I will use Cassandra.
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by vegabook 10y ago
You obviously missed the point that all scientific paradigms, which, when they are in force, are full of all sorts of "proofs", but are ultimately just human constructs, fallible, and, history shows, vulnerable to being overturned
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by vegabook 10y ago
oh, because science that is "proven" is indisputable... You understand that humans are fallible, right, including when it comes to "proof"? Just go read Thomas Kuhn again.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Nvidia of course has a stock price incentive to pitch a very long period of further development ahead.
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by vegabook 10y ago
So France and the Benelux countries are the only countries that everybody agrees comprise "Western Europe".
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by vegabook 10y ago
yes it's about time, for example, that we had ECC ram capability in consumer-grade CPUs instead of having to pay double/triple for a XEON that doesn't even outperform (much).
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by vegabook 10y ago
actually - it was 14 000 transactions, but at 1400 different ATMs. stet
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by vegabook 10y ago
corrected
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by vegabook 10y ago
14000 transactions at 1400 ATMs in 2 hours?! Think about the logistics. That's 120 transactions per minute. And 1600 cards. Either an army of coordinated people, in itself highly risky as it vastly increases the likelihood of someone g

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