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8 years ago
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on: Quick Tips for Fast Code on the JVM
Not really disagreeing with your sentiment, but he laid it out nicely in the "Defining the Hot Path" section. That is honestly the most valuable lesson a newer programmer could take away from this gist.
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8 years ago
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on: Vagrant 2.0
Just wanted to drop a note to say thanks for your nicely done ansible recipes.
kevindication
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9 years ago
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on: Snakisms
Something I don't get to say every day: Nihilism made me smile.
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9 years ago
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on: Panoramio no longer available after Nov 4
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9 years ago
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on: Panoramio no longer available after Nov 4
It says that they will upload the results to archive.org, which is good news. But is it possible to join a torrent now to make a copy of the dataset?
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10 years ago
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on: North Korea announces successful hydrogen bomb test
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10 years ago
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on: Mr. Wizard, Television's Original Science Guy
Amazing! That's the one episode I think of when I think of Mr. Wizard.
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10 years ago
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on: What's Really Warming the World?
Does it work better if you click the black arrow at the bottom of each slide?
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10 years ago
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on: Data hacked from U.S. government dates back to 1985
Anyone who has worked on cases involving APT from known foreign actors can identify common TTPs and attempt a best guess at the group involved.
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
HumanGeo -
http://thehumangeo.com - Washington, DC - Technologists/Developers
HumanGeo creates innovative geospatially oriented products and solutions for government and commercial clients. We usually get to work on blank slates to build large scale databases and applications. We also like to brew beer and play Mario Kart.
Citizenship required.
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
HumanGeo -
http://thehumangeo.com - Washington, DC - Technologists/Developers
HumanGeo creates innovative geospatially oriented products and solutions for government and commercial clients. We usually get to work on blank slates to build large scale databases and applications. We also like to brew beer and play Mario Kart.
Citizenship required.
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What is this triangle in the Philippines?
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11 years ago
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on: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
I did enjoy Slackware as a learning experience all those years ago, but nowadays I like to spend more time building things and less time futzing with the OS.
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11 years ago
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on: Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
My primary professional OS progression went something like:
Slackware -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> OS X.
As with the author, I'm pretty sure I'm done with OS X. If I want to go back to Linux, what is the best path? Mint? Back to Ubuntu? Something new?
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12 years ago
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on: Graph of Netflix speeds shows the importance of net neutrality
Correct, data is a plural. OP either doesn't know that or is making a more nuanced complaint about stodgy old style guides that used Latin to decide things like this.
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12 years ago
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on: Google’s Scientific Approach to Work-Life Balance
Both of these positions on the subject are needlessly binary. I often find it the case that, even though I erect careful boundaries between work and non-work, when I leave a problem on my desk, I will continue to ruminate about a solution throughout the weekend, say. Similarly, I will Strategically avoid email when I'm recharging. I don't think it's so easy to boil down as black and white.
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12 years ago
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on: With Amazon Redshift SSD, querying a TB of data took less than 10 seconds
But to call that a Postgres variant seems to suggest that they have way more in common than they really do. The trade offs that vertical databases are making are kind of alien for someone who is used to using Postgres.
Really cool work though!
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12 years ago
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on: With Amazon Redshift SSD, querying a TB of data took less than 10 seconds
It's not a Postgres variant at all. Postgres is emulated as an interface to the columnar ParAccel database underneath. ParAccel does neat things (compiles your SQL into a program that it runs to answer the question, for instance) and really rips if you can order your data on good keys up front (and then use those keys in your query, of course).
Source: I helped build a very high speed network data analytical tool on top of ParAccel (before it was bought by Amazon and rolled into redshift).
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12 years ago
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on: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
This. I love Chrome, but their target market is using Windows, and asking them to click "Yes" to upgrade Chrome (or leaving this question up to the administrator) is not a barrier worth circumventing.
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12 years ago
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on: Center of the universe
He was reinstated apparently upon appeal.
