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by yid 13y ago
> What is maybe interesting to users is that there are people at Facebook who think it isn't right for the user to self-censor, that it apparently robs Facebook and your "friends" of the value in that self-censored post.
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by yid 13y ago
That was not implied. Google employees generally have high salaries, and therefore pay a higher net dollar amount than the average taxpayer.
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by yid 13y ago
> Why should that bus get to do something that common citizens are not allowed to, simply because it's owned by a company instead of a person? It shouldn't, but that's not an issue for a mob to take up. Call the police, or
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by yid 13y ago
That is actually remarkably clever. Spam would indeed seem to be an excellent vector for sending hidden messages!
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by yid 13y ago
I agree, but it's early days yet for the genre. You're looking at the Netscape of algorithmic music. Most people qualified to innovate in that algorithms space are busy writing programs to improvise jazz solos (i.e., they're
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by yid 13y ago
Thanks for the information, and just so you know, my tone wasn't intended as skeptical. I genuinely wanted sources.
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by yid 13y ago
> PostgreSQL evolved and fixed the most annoying issues like JSON support and schemaless key-value store support. As I recall, automatic sharding was on that list, and pg doesn't attempt to tackle that afaik.
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by yid 13y ago
> Actually, there's precious little that an application can do if a memory chip fails, or if ECC gets too many corrupted bits. That's where replication and (distributed) consensus comes in, usually at the application level.
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by yid 13y ago
I feel like you're banking a little too heavily on external measures for error protection/durability like UPSes and ECC memory, rather than embracing the inevitable fact that corruption and failures will occur. In short, I'd
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by yid 13y ago
> UPS systems will stay active for a few minutes, based on their capacity, and the manager process will gracefuly shut down each daemon and write data to disk storage. This will ensure durability--even against power failure or system cr
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by yid 13y ago
Which is why UberX was originally advertised as being "hybrid uber". As for the higher cost per mile of urban driving, I genuinely would love to see a source.
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by yid 13y ago
> I’m just guessing that I’ll average a speed of 30 miles/hour while I’m doing my Lyft job. So my expenses will come to about $22.80 per hour. You're implying that you will driving 30 miles each hour, on average. That is a rid
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by yid 13y ago
From TFA: "...said the Menlo Park police department violated his client's rights during the internal affairs investigation" I actually support his getting his job back, because it seems to have been found that the police depa
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by yid 13y ago
Don't be so bitter. Your post above was informative to me, and it's telling that you alluded to the community blaming ops troubles on "bad code", and the two people who replied to you did just that.
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by yid 13y ago
Please do not submit with linkbait titles.
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by yid 13y ago
> Is this really true? Facebook's TAO is a giant graph database built on top of MySQL [1]. I'd say it's pretty production-ready, because Facebook's social graph probably has at least hundreds of vertices. [1] https:&
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by yid 13y ago
So you're majoring in hubris then?
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by yid 13y ago
> pets form an attachment with you, doing it as a short-term rental isn't an acceptable way of building a relationship... I will adopt any cat that forms an attachment to me in 15 minutes of petting (I don't own any cats).
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by yid 13y ago
Sounds like your engineer friends just gave you a way to implement your business idea, why aren't you selling it?
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by yid 13y ago
Looking at the benchmarks, I'm trying to rack my brain about how it outperforms redis consistently on every single benchmark for a simple associative map. I don't know if this is likely, but it looks like redis doesn't lock m
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by yid 13y ago
did you actually think that ddg runs its own crawlers, indexing, ranking, etc.?
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by yid 13y ago
> People use Gmail's tag-syntax (i.e. matt+whatever@gmail.com) to sign up for stuff all the time. Are you allowing those? Minor nit: this is not anything Gmail invented. This is RFC 5233 -- subaddressing: http://tools.iet
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by yid 13y ago
Yes, that would have been a great way to do it as well. However, the most interesting aspect of the study to me was that they used Microsoft's methodology, comparable sample sizes, and examined the effect of changing search terms from
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by yid 13y ago
Not in this case, no. They were trying to replicate Microsoft's results, which entails using a similar sample size.
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by yid 13y ago
> I'm pretty sure I'd have no trouble hiring good developers. Honest question -- you have a bit of a reputation, I'd say mainly from your Hacker News rants. Do you think that those will help or hurt your recruitment prospe
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by yid 13y ago
One interesting thing that stood out in terms of Google-the-startup: they incorporated on Sep 4, 1998 and raised $25 million in June 1999, and made their first acquisition in February 2001. The traction they must have been able to show must
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by yid 13y ago
Are you by any chance a former Inktomi developer?
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by yid 13y ago
> I find it somewhat ironic that you say this in a comment! Why not read the damned blog post and be left alone? Because he said Youtube, not comments in general. It's perfectly non-ironic to expect different things from different s
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by yid 13y ago
> suddenly understanding the attraction of living in SF/SV Don't get your hopes up. I've had drunken engineers come up to me in a bar (Bourbon & Branch, no less) -- slurring words -- times I was sure they wanted to hi
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by yid 13y ago
If you set expectations for any large Internet community, you are bound to be disappointed.

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