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by vijucat 10y ago
Yes, I wonder if they're over-engineering things. I've seen MongoDB, Cassandra, and MySQL, all 3 used simultaneously, for example (until a more sensible CTO came along and consolidated everything into one database).
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by vijucat 10y ago
Ha, thanks for inspiring me with your terse "What?" that made me laugh!
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That you bring some core competencies to the table that are actionable [1]. That you can calc the ROI on data-driven paradigm shifts [1]. That you can ensure there are enough boots on the ground to manage customer expectations. That you can
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by vijucat 10y ago
Rather, controlling what information software can get it's hands on (focusing on the input rather than output) seems to the only way out? This is what app permissions on phones and applet sandboxing, chroot jails & containers, etc;
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by vijucat 10y ago
I see what you're saying. So DLP is useful only for naive attempts.
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by vijucat 10y ago
Please steal this idea and make a product; I'll be your first paying customer: Data Loss Protection (DLP) for retail consumers. DLP (see http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/data-loss-prevention... for a defini
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by vijucat 10y ago
If I remember this correctly, research indicates that if the portfolio is being driven by a random walk process, a stop-loss always causes a reduction in returns (negative stopping premium), i.e., stop-losses are useful only if the return g
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by vijucat 10y ago
I wouldn't bother with building one myself, either; it's a huge time investment, not to mention the art of thermal paste application, cuts from sharp motherboard edges, and losing my BIOS settings to static electricity (although I
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by vijucat 10y ago
Also see the relative growth of /r/buildapc vs. /r/apple: http://redditmetrics.com/r/buildapc#compare=apple (click on Total Subscribers). March 2013 was the crossover point. I'm trying to compa
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by vijucat 10y ago
That worked well, thanks!
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by vijucat 10y ago
Great idea! That worked quite well, thanks.
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by vijucat 10y ago
https://radiant-rstats.github.io/docs/install.html I'd love to try this out, but "Important: Windows users must install R in directory C:\R\R-3.3.1" is a problem: the default Windows R installer installs
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by vijucat 10y ago
I also like the myTube app on Windows 10. It's the only Metro app I use.
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by vijucat 10y ago
As an aside, I find Quora much easier to read with a sans-serif font: https://imgur.com/jdu9fw4 I use the Stylish Chrome extension with this override for Quora to achieve this: html,body,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,.box_feed,.b
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by vijucat 10y ago
Brilliant site, thanks for the recommendation.
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by vijucat 10y ago
I remember looking at this one. Be careful, though : no bluetooth, probably because it was meant for point-of-sale / other Retail industry use cases.
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by vijucat 10y ago
We've got you covered, mate. Here we have retro computer fan and server room sounds in the age of these pesky-quiet, small form factor fanless PCs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeESf9aCZHQ https://www.you
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by vijucat 10y ago
> I would worry that with no physical presence on the keyboard, I would spend a lot more time looking at the keyboard figuring out where the function key I need is than actually getting things done. Exactly. In Eclipse, F5 steps into a f
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by vijucat 10y ago
> Mashing two buttons that are literally side by side vs. pressing one button is not really a huge usability boost. I have a feeling you're saying that while being a Mac user 99% of the time, and using Windows 10 1% of the time. Cor
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by vijucat 10y ago
On the other hand, there's this claim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Dependence "The person who is carrying out amae may beg or plead, or alternatively act selfishly while secure in the knowle
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by vijucat 10y ago
I guess Elementary had to copy the Cmd+spacebar shortcut to mimic the Mac OS experience (Spotlight), but on that count, Windows' just-press-Win-and-start-typing experience is much better. It's just one key less, but opening up a p
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by vijucat 10y ago
> You see the Node.js philosophy is to take the worst fucking language ever designed and put it on the server. Had to laugh at that! In the recent Westworld episode (S01E05), the lab tech was trying to program the bird's AI and his
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by vijucat 10y ago
> cannot take high-speech train This is one of the best Freudian slips / unintended puns that I have ever read. Damn right he's not taking the high-speech train anywhere in China by standing on a soapbox and complaining about B
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by vijucat 10y ago
I was reminded of this article in the context of the on the front page about OVH setting up a data center in Virginia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12657227 Moderators, please feel free to edit the somewhat clickbai
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Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country(theatlantic.com)
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by vijucat 10y ago
Thanks, this is all quite useful! I faced crashes with REngine + rJava, too, and thought of a DB as a intermediary, but your in-memory DB idea adds an interesting twist that adds performance, too.
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by vijucat 10y ago
Did you guys separate out the R process (or multiple processes?) from the rest of the transaction-processing / other server infrastructure or embed the REngine (which sounds like a bad idea to me; incorrect data serialization can easil
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by vijucat 10y ago
True. Maybe (non-technical) team lunches / one-on-one lunches together before one seals the deal?
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by vijucat 10y ago
Experiment : hire 10% of candidates without conducting any interviews. Use Machine Learning to quantify internal or external candidates' code quality. Use that model to score candidates' GitHub. Hire them. Well, OK, throw in a soc
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by vijucat 11y ago
3 suggestions: "Library Background Noise for Relaxation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTm2oQRsISk "DISTANT TRAINS ECHOING IN THE RAIN.. Relaxing SoundScape to help Sleep, Study & Meditate" https:

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