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by vegabook 10y ago
Actually I think the nonlinear and binary mapping is what gives this quite an artistic effect. Reminded me of the predator self destruct countdown.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Haha...love the cat and dead body idioms. Captures the fail perfectly.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Ever since I learned R and Python, I have dumped Excel. All my heavy lifting is done in a proper programming language, and for all the spreadsheet things that I need, Google Sheets is perfect. There's also something pretty magical abou
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by vegabook 10y ago
7700k is a 4 core / 8 thread. AMD appears to be pricing its 8 core / 16 thread chip at 480 USD which is about 390 GBP. So if the leaked pricing is anywhere near reality (and I'll admit that's contentious), then it's
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by vegabook 10y ago
personally hoping for ECC support on the AMD consumer chips, because Xeon pricing right now is just a total and utter ripoff. For the growing in-memory database world this would be huge.
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by vegabook 10y ago
an i7 6900k costs more than 1000 dollars. The top spec AMD chip which is supposed to be within spitting distance, also 8/16, is less than half that price. It's going to take a real benchmark letdown for these AMD chips not to fly
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by vegabook 10y ago
No Linux. Buh-Bye
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by vegabook 10y ago
this looks suspiciously identical to what software engineering has always been about. There's nothing new in "data science", as per this post, than what has always been true of building a piece of software for non-technical c
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by vegabook 10y ago
Flink, Spark, Samza, Kafka (Streams). All under the Apache umbrella. All doing similar things. Competitors. There is a risk of spreading resources too thin on the space, there is a risk that some of the projects will be guided towards sub-o
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by vegabook 10y ago
also, note Apache prepended every time. Can't help thinking there is concentration risk there.
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by vegabook 10y ago
yes indeed. It looks like the iphone 7's time is around 150ms (Safari), whereas my galaxy s7 takes well over a full second (Chrome).
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by vegabook 10y ago
Is this in the same space as Storm, Flink, or Spark? Does it do streaming data such as Flink or Storm? Or is it batch-optimized? What languages does the compute engine support?
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by vegabook 10y ago
you don't need to travel from Wisconsin to Washington to experience a slow internet connection. Try any mainstream commute on the South West Trains Wimbledon to Waterloo (London) and you'll a) still get blackouts for about 1&#x2
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by vegabook 10y ago
not high enough if it's prepared to licence usurious b-tards like this: http://citywire.co.uk/wealth-manager/news/wonga-wins-fca-aut...
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by vegabook 10y ago
the author's "about" pages are a cringe-inducing hubris-fest, and that's being charitable. https://chrisskinner.global/#about-us
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by vegabook 10y ago
It seems to me that many of the banks' concerns are legit. I personally am not particularly keen on yet another API being made available to a bunch of rapacious VC-funded startups that facilitates my intimately personal financial info
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by vegabook 10y ago
the "stateless" bit precludes a whole bunch of use cases, for example databases as per the post. For me the issue with containers is that they don't feel very "contained" when you have files ("images") all
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by vegabook 10y ago
Aerospike touches most of your points at much higher speed and scale. It is next gen redis, basically, with disk, with auto-sharding scale, with cross node queries. Cassandra is not difficult once you wrap your mind around column storage, a
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by vegabook 10y ago
Honestly what needs to happen next is a serious effort to explain why or when rethink is better than mongo, cassandra, arango, aerospike, memsql, mysql, riak, or postgres, ++, not to mention all the TSDBs. On the event pushes I am unconvinc
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by vegabook 10y ago
yes financial data is a big, cartelized mess. That, by the way, is probably in itself an excellent business opportunity for a law firm.
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by vegabook 10y ago
hey I hadn't seen that. I will check them out. However personally am sceptical of the "full frontal" approach (ie multi asset class etc) because you'll just never be as good as bloomberg, or even a fraction as good, on f
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by vegabook 10y ago
taking on the Bloomberg terminal. They've got over 300 000 subscribers each paying circa 2000 USD every month. That's 600 million dollars of revenue per month. They're running a labyrinthine functionality on a 1970s System&#x
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by vegabook 10y ago
teafiles
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by vegabook 10y ago
Honestly, tmux is not hard to use. It has some contorted key bindings, sure, but its benefits are so immediately huge that the motivation to learn its quirks is huge too. And, unlike say, vim, it only has 3 things you really need to know: p
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by vegabook 10y ago
Having tried Elementary OS, various versions of Fedora, Suse, and even Mageia and Bodhi (e17 desktop), I have never found a compelling story away from Ubuntu's overwhelming advantage in online resources for non-greybeards like me. Last
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by vegabook 10y ago
quote restored for you ;-)
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by vegabook 10y ago
The government is an enormously rich potential source of revenue for any company or investor. Unless Trump burns out, Thiel is probably now the most powerful financier in tech. Which sane businessperson wants to make an explicit enemy out o
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by vegabook 10y ago
I love Terminology, and the entire 90s vibe of EFL and Enlightenment generally. So unashamedly not flat design in a world of Jony Ive / Google Material Design conformity.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Yours is an entirely appropriate response. While I appreciate the gushing solidarity in the rest of this thread, non working backups really is an elementary IT error, accurately attributable to incompetence.
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by vegabook 10y ago
This has been a very informative sub-thread. Many thanks to all contributors for your thoughts and experience. You have helped to move me forward in confidence on using Erlang/Elixir(basically BEAM) for the distribution and routing sid

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