vicaya

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by vicaya 18y ago
Yeah, SQLite is as lossy as MP3 :) FWIW, I've lost some of my mails at least twice in Apple Mail due to corrupt SQLite files, but that maybe due to OS X's crazy fsync implementation.
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by vicaya 18y ago
1. Find a rich spouse 2. Choose to have a job or not 3. ... 4. Profit anyway
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by vicaya 18y ago
Makes sense. I've been telling a competing startup about value-added open stack appliances. OTOH, the comparison numbers are completely BS. Nothing prevent people buying a similar Dell for less than half the price (I just configured a dual
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by vicaya 18y ago
The above statement lacks qualification. I meant for certain OLAP workloads, where data size are in petabytes.
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by vicaya 18y ago
Column/hybrid datastore is about performance per dollar. He doesn't get it.
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by vicaya 18y ago
It's both. Google is still technically superior to the rest as well. Technically, search is far from being done. There are many interesting approaches in HCI, IR and systems remain to be tried. I really hope that blekko can come up with som
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by vicaya 18y ago
Quick reference: cat /proc/cpuinfo Your processor is buggy if it's an Opteron family 15, models 32-63 inclusive.
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by vicaya 18y ago
IP match is so crude and laughable for local search. I was hoping they'd come up with something interesting.
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by vicaya 18y ago
I don't see how they can patent battery per motherboard design. Isn't that how laptops work? OTOH, this design makes a lot of sense. One of the biggest failure mode for rack-wise failure I've seen is human error from maintenance crews: trip
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by vicaya 18y ago
It's kinda weird to compare ruby with ocaml for object overhead. The former is a dynamically typed language that fully supports all kinds of introspection/metaprogramming at runtime, while the latter is a statically typed language that has
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by vicaya 18y ago
No. It's my opinion that people who twitter are either egomaniacs or who have something to sell. I have much higher respect for people who actually maintain strictly technical blogs these days.
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by vicaya 18y ago
Don't know where do you get that understanding from. Google's current market cap is 112B, its total revenue (2008) is 21B. It used to be that price/sale ratio is 10 for startups, which means they need 25M revenue to be valued at 250M. Even
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by vicaya 18y ago
Hard core projects like Thrift and Hypertable are hosted on GitHub as well. GitHub makes code sharing/review much easier than before. Sourceforge is mostly a place for people to upload/download a tarball or something. There is little reason
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by vicaya 18y ago
Again it usually happens when parents are not well educated. They only realize the importance of education, but they're not educated enough to evaluate their children's progress, so they often have to rely on the not always reliable associa
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by vicaya 18y ago
Fortunately, such treatment is less and less prevalent in China, especially in more developed areas (the student is from a poorer province, where a top-tier college education often means a rare ticket to the prosperity for the whole family.
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by vicaya 18y ago
The article has a rather narrow perspective on unit testing, given his product is not mission critical. He's basically treating live production as a giant integration test. Some of my perspectives: class/function level unit testing is only
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by vicaya 19y ago
The point is every good hacker doesn't necessarily want to bother with financial/legal aspects of a business, as they're not interesting to them. I know a top hacker who's not only good at system abstractions but also knows bare metal like
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by vicaya 19y ago
Not everyone is meant to be or want to be a startup founder either. If you look at the history, most substantial technology innovations are not from startups but universities and research labs of large companies. Startups are more about the
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by vicaya 19y ago
agree with most parts except for the use of perforce. most good programmers i know hate it, because it slows you down (as does subversion). git is the scm/vcs to use for doing feature experiments.