What can I say, being an asshole is one of my diversity dimensions. We just had that training at work, it was very helpful. Also, I hope you aren't a Python dev in your spare time. Guido would be appalled.…
I know. And I'm sorry, bitterly sorry, but I know that... no apologies I can make can alter the fact that in our thread you have been given a dirty, filthy, smelly piece of technical argument.
Those optimizers you are fighting with have thousands of man hours of research behind them. For every silly choice they make, they make hundreds or thousands of correct ones.
You are either being dishonest or just patently out of your mind if you think that you can query 100MB and 100PB in the same way. That's not even reasonable by HN standards of hyperbole. Do you have any idea how many…
You can have locked cage space leased from a datacenter if you want to be in control of all the things you have any business being in control of.
Except for the fact that you can explicitly contain the potential damage by controlling which accounts can do what. It's not like you have to have one god account with no MFA that has the keys to the city.
Not trying to be snarky, but why on Earth would I mind that my government is trying to prevent a rival government from gaining nuclear capability? World politics are what they are, and they are unavoidable, so my…
That is total bullshit and you know it. This whole culture of self-loathing was cute at the beginning, but it's descended into absolute absurdity. You are patently out of your mind if you actually believe what you…
> I'll be over here riding out the inevitable with my own file sync, git server, chat server, web server, and making my internet how I want it to be To me, this is exactly why we're not headed for an…
> when the last user of it finally gives up and moves to gmail so they can continue to communicate with their contacts or maybe they give up entirely Between the title and the quoted, I think you have used up your…
> the poor rarely can take advantage of them I'm pretty sure the solution to that is clean public transportation, no?
There are lots of good sibling comments to this one, but I want to get one more point in before we all move on. Spending an hour yielding to something larger than yourself is probably good for the soul and definitely…
I liked the article, but this is like the cultural equivalent of Not Invented Here. Does it really matter that organized Christianity believes that a guy woke up from the dead? If you want a sense of community and the…
We have a POC running where we stream web hit data onto HDFS in near real time (several seconds of latency perhaps). There's no reason to think you couldn't do it with other streams of data as well. edit: Not sure about…
> separately managed relational dbs all over the place On the BI side, this is overwhelmingly the outcome for large companies. The business units get silo'ed, they build their fiefdoms, a consolidation project gets…
The enterprise I work for won't touch cloud with a 10 foot pole, and I know this because we literally got told to quit asking about it. :) So yes, even we are building out a pretty beefy internal Hadoop cluster, so I…
> The one big vertically scaled database at the hub of everything is definitely disappearing. Maybe in Startupville, CA. But I think you're forgetting that it's a big world out there and there are lots of systems that…
Administrations often change their tunes to maintain a populist backing. They could have just said plainly, "Look, he did the crime and we are required by the rule of law to bring him to trial." and left it at that. But…
The story this tells is so stark, I don't know what else there is left to say on it. They guy sealed his own fate when he made himself an enemy of the state, and I fear he will never get to set foot on his homeland…
It changes over time, and ranges anywhere from the use of force to achieve an objective all the way to simply humanitarian. Sometimes a mix. (delivery of supplies + security) The world is not in a steady state, so as…
> I have zero respect for someone that was there Serving isn't for everyone, and I don't expect you to understand it if you haven't. But either way your attitude is as discourteous as it is pretentious, and you have…
From TFA (although I realize he's not advocating for this): “Two of my colleagues will be joining us in a few minutes but I think we can get started. I’d like you to whiteboard an answer to the following prompt: given a…
Agreed, I just meant I choose self-sufficiency over dependence when possible/practical. As I get older, it seems to impact my choices more and more--and I'm not (just) talking about basic necessities, it's also guiding…
The internet changes a lot of rules. Who will make the most effective use of these new rules remains to be seen, but the game has changed nonetheless.
From the fine article: > individualism replaced collectivism and solidarity I find myself wondering if I am part of a remaining few who treasure that. I value self-sufficiency over dependency, moreso as I get older. I…
What can I say, being an asshole is one of my diversity dimensions. We just had that training at work, it was very helpful. Also, I hope you aren't a Python dev in your spare time. Guido would be appalled.…
I know. And I'm sorry, bitterly sorry, but I know that... no apologies I can make can alter the fact that in our thread you have been given a dirty, filthy, smelly piece of technical argument.
Those optimizers you are fighting with have thousands of man hours of research behind them. For every silly choice they make, they make hundreds or thousands of correct ones.
You are either being dishonest or just patently out of your mind if you think that you can query 100MB and 100PB in the same way. That's not even reasonable by HN standards of hyperbole. Do you have any idea how many…
You can have locked cage space leased from a datacenter if you want to be in control of all the things you have any business being in control of.
Except for the fact that you can explicitly contain the potential damage by controlling which accounts can do what. It's not like you have to have one god account with no MFA that has the keys to the city.
Not trying to be snarky, but why on Earth would I mind that my government is trying to prevent a rival government from gaining nuclear capability? World politics are what they are, and they are unavoidable, so my…
That is total bullshit and you know it. This whole culture of self-loathing was cute at the beginning, but it's descended into absolute absurdity. You are patently out of your mind if you actually believe what you…
> I'll be over here riding out the inevitable with my own file sync, git server, chat server, web server, and making my internet how I want it to be To me, this is exactly why we're not headed for an…
> when the last user of it finally gives up and moves to gmail so they can continue to communicate with their contacts or maybe they give up entirely Between the title and the quoted, I think you have used up your…
> the poor rarely can take advantage of them I'm pretty sure the solution to that is clean public transportation, no?
There are lots of good sibling comments to this one, but I want to get one more point in before we all move on. Spending an hour yielding to something larger than yourself is probably good for the soul and definitely…
I liked the article, but this is like the cultural equivalent of Not Invented Here. Does it really matter that organized Christianity believes that a guy woke up from the dead? If you want a sense of community and the…
We have a POC running where we stream web hit data onto HDFS in near real time (several seconds of latency perhaps). There's no reason to think you couldn't do it with other streams of data as well. edit: Not sure about…
> separately managed relational dbs all over the place On the BI side, this is overwhelmingly the outcome for large companies. The business units get silo'ed, they build their fiefdoms, a consolidation project gets…
The enterprise I work for won't touch cloud with a 10 foot pole, and I know this because we literally got told to quit asking about it. :) So yes, even we are building out a pretty beefy internal Hadoop cluster, so I…
> The one big vertically scaled database at the hub of everything is definitely disappearing. Maybe in Startupville, CA. But I think you're forgetting that it's a big world out there and there are lots of systems that…
Administrations often change their tunes to maintain a populist backing. They could have just said plainly, "Look, he did the crime and we are required by the rule of law to bring him to trial." and left it at that. But…
The story this tells is so stark, I don't know what else there is left to say on it. They guy sealed his own fate when he made himself an enemy of the state, and I fear he will never get to set foot on his homeland…
It changes over time, and ranges anywhere from the use of force to achieve an objective all the way to simply humanitarian. Sometimes a mix. (delivery of supplies + security) The world is not in a steady state, so as…
> I have zero respect for someone that was there Serving isn't for everyone, and I don't expect you to understand it if you haven't. But either way your attitude is as discourteous as it is pretentious, and you have…
From TFA (although I realize he's not advocating for this): “Two of my colleagues will be joining us in a few minutes but I think we can get started. I’d like you to whiteboard an answer to the following prompt: given a…
Agreed, I just meant I choose self-sufficiency over dependence when possible/practical. As I get older, it seems to impact my choices more and more--and I'm not (just) talking about basic necessities, it's also guiding…
The internet changes a lot of rules. Who will make the most effective use of these new rules remains to be seen, but the game has changed nonetheless.
From the fine article: > individualism replaced collectivism and solidarity I find myself wondering if I am part of a remaining few who treasure that. I value self-sufficiency over dependency, moreso as I get older. I…