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by whakojacko 16y ago
Note: If you use scala, escape analysis can be particularly helpful. The "pimp my library" pattern for extending classes involves creating wrapper objects, and these can often be optimized away. http://www.decodified.com/scala/2010/08/27/s
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by whakojacko 16y ago
> There's nothing technically noteworthy about the idea or the platform. Don't quite agree, I think their real-time update system excellent and sets them apart. It definitely (IMO) makes the site more addicting. Not that it couldn't be
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by whakojacko 16y ago
"If you put your money in the stock market over the past decade, for example, your return would be zero." Another reason to look into a more balanced approach than just stocks. If you, for instance, put 70% in stocks and 30% in long term US
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by whakojacko 16y ago
I would guess its far too thick to fit in most women's pants pockets-Im not female, but I have a few coworkers who put iphones in their front pockets of jeans at work sometimes and they say its already a tight fit as-is. Even if that were t
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The Case Against Queues(teddziuba.com)
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Ah makes sense - Latency ought to be fine in the same availability zone.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
So I properly understand, this is centralized redis hosting on their servers? Isn't the latency gonna be a killer?
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Anyone know how big nginx is? I wouldnt at all be surprised if its under 2k LOC.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Well good luck with everything. Assuming the surgery goes fine, there aren't any long-term effects besides having to get vitamin B12 injections every few weeks (since your terminal ileum is where your body absorbs most of it), but itll be a
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by whakojacko 16y ago
As someone who no longer has his terminal ileum (Crohn's), I wish him the best, hopefully he can get better without surgery. Its really not something you want to go through if possible...
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Maybe because nobody else except Google values them at $100M?
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by whakojacko 16y ago
To be fair, they raised funding at more modest (but still crazy, depending on perspective) 25m pre according to the article. Seems like Google is just looking for ways to spend their cash.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
I hate to be "that guy" but "(...)When I compare our performance to similar sites that are running on the open source stack, we are using about 1/10th of the hardware that they are, unfortunately, and maybe that’s because they are not good
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Maybe its just me, but I have no issue with the size and weight of the 15" MBP (again, this could be because I came from previous larger 15" laptops). But I would love to see the optical drive dropped in place of more battery life.... Oh, a
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by whakojacko 16y ago
"Database" isn't entirely correct, its a distributed K/V store. Maybe its just me, but the word database implies a lot of additional functionality that Voldemort doesn't have.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Wow wouldn't have seen this coming. Any ideas on what caused this change? Seems like they are trying to move Schmidt to more of an operational role.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
please do this.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
I'd venture this is a problem for most engineers, regardless of their employer.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
He was a guest lecturer for one of my classes a few years back and talked about all the stuff he went through to keep up the Scientology documents. Pretty ridiculous all in all-I must say I almost certainly wouldn't be willing to deal with
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by whakojacko 16y ago
ditto 2006, they clearly like that introduction ;)
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Also remember that most companies arent willing to spend nearly as much recruiting effort per candidate for interns, and understandably so. I interned at NVIDIA a few summers back (although in software not hardware) and the university recru
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by whakojacko 16y ago
The search section is out of date now, they use the Realtime Lucene branch (with modifications). The link to the slides seems to 404 now, but you can see a video of their presentation at Lucene Revolution here: http://vimeo.com/16063395
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Just wondering, what do you think is wrong with it? (not affiliated at all with them) Besides the whole "enter brings up the ask question box instead of going to their search page", I think their search is pretty good. The autocomplete is s
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by whakojacko 16y ago
...And you havent even looked at scalaz yet!
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Why are you storing the whole salt in your database? Isn't it much more common to keep half of it in a configuration file? I know Django has a SECRET_KEY parameter for this sort of thing, and hopefully other frameworks do also. How is tha
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by whakojacko 16y ago
But I went even further, deleting my old email address from that list several months ago. That page only shows my (current) email, which was not on the Gawker list. LinkedIn seems to be keeping around the old email addresses, even after you
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Interestingly enough, my former LinkedIn email was on the Gawker list but my current email with them (to which they sent the alert) was not. Guess that means they are holding on to all previous email accounts?
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by whakojacko 16y ago
EDIT: I did in fact get the email, but gmail is classifying as spam, FYI.
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Honestly though, I doubt he is a loyal repeat customer of UAL, since he almost definitely would know about the "miss a segment, your itinerary is cancelled" rule if he was. IMO, US legacy airlines are relatively good to their valuable custo
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by whakojacko 16y ago
Best of luck to all involved.

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