throwaway_exer's comments

Cassandra is not a solid solution.

After problems with a node, often the management tools cause additional problems.

I suggest anybody follow the cassandra-users list for a while before committing to it.

This article made me feel uneasy since knowing the names of several particles doesn't mean we understand them.

And superconducting would change our world, yet it's still early days for both the science and engineering of efficient applications.

Maybe a follow-up is needed in 2110.

HN sentiment is that startups are only worthwhile if you're a founder.

> Oh no! I need to buy a $5 piece of hardware to run this Java code? What kind of nonsense is that?

4 GB per program absolutely destroys VM consolidation. I love the look on managers' faces when they ask for a 1 GB VM and I ask them, "Is this for a Java program?" :)

I read the link.

As a working DBA, it's breathless drivel.

Unless you're an academic trying to get a grant or tenure, of course.

The IRS will say that you "owe" quarterly, but there's no penalty for not doing so.

The Yahoo board hired an incompetent business executive in Meyer, so the outcome was pre-ordained. (Not putting ads on Tumblr was a fatal revenue mistake.)

The only thing that improved under Meyer was that Yahoo mail is a fairly good product now, as it was improved a few years ago, then they started using it internally (dogfooding.)

K&R used short variable names, and C programmers are proud not be programming in Java, which encourages longer names.

I personally think the variable name length should match the scope size, bu then I'm reasonable like that.

I worked for a well-known startup in downtown Berkeley once. They talked everyday about moving to SF because of the difficulty in hiring people. Also, one employee was paying $8,000/month for a rental house downtown.

Fremont has been Indian-ized, so it's fine to live and work there if you're Indian, otherwise it's just a long commute to nowhere.

If payroll taxes are shifted to the driver, then their take-home pay would go down.

> subsidised through Obamacare provisions

Obamacare mandates access to insurance (from a dwindling group of participating insurers), it is not a direct subsidy.

In fact, Obamacare has raised insurance rates for most people, as insurers cancelled most plans because they "were not compatible" with Obamacare, and re-enrolled members at higher rates than before.

The assets of Eclipse were bought out, and the ~259 unfinished EA500 airframes were completed and sold.

Then a new model, the EA550 was built by the new company.

What killed Eclipse was gross mismanagement, lack of funding to cover that, and Cessna's Mustang.

Well ... Richard Branson sponsored balloon flights primarily as a cheap form of SEO for his young companies. He rode as a passenger with a qualified pilot.

In a normal market, yes it would.

But there is literally no residential construction in most parts of the Bay Area.

Tumblr was a week away from missing payroll, so it did not have a business model to support a $1 billion valuation.

Yahoo pulled another broadcast.com on that one.

Despite the silly comments in this thread, we're so far away from drone airliners that the question is in the realm of science fiction because of human judgment:

- airports and terminal areas are very busy

- en route diversions can happen anytime due to weather observed in flight

- airports like SFO can be fogged in most any day.

Military drones aren't being landed in busy urban areas.

I've been watching this government-made crisis develop over the last 24 months.

Currently, you need 1,200 hours experience from a designated aviation college or 1,500 hours experience from GA.

I believe airlines will lobby Congress to halve the number of hours in the very near future as they get data on the massive pilot shortage.

pg wrote that he could out-compete Java shops at the time by using lisp or perl. (If you look at Web 1.0, most of the marketing/event space winners were perl shops.)

However, focusing on lisp is pointless because of its low adoption commercially.

(If you want me to provide stats for your class homework, sorry.)

> "Not nearly as much as if you lived in another developed country, where your money would be paying for healthcare for all, higher education for all, etc. etc. "

Really, you're going to trot out American healthcare? There is no place on earth with higher healthcare costs than the USA.

If by "increasingly few" you mean "virtually none" in 2016, then you're correct.