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by cmccabe 13y ago
I work at Cloudera (although not on Impala). I work on HDFS. Impala was about creating a low-latency SQL engine for Hadoop, so that queries could be done interactively by a human at a keyboard. This is something that you don't really
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Let's try wikipedia: The three-strikes law significantly increases the prison sentences of persons convicted of a felony who have been previously convicted of two or more violent crimes or serious felonies, and limits the ability of t
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Three-strikes laws are dumb, but so are you. Take your anti-US agenda somewhere else. I suggest North Korea, China, Venezuela, Iran, Russia, or any of the other countries not allied with us, so you can see how much "better" they
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by cmccabe 13y ago
why not just kill them right away? Because evidence might come up later that proves them innocent. Because killing someone deprives them of all of the rest of their life, whereas life imprisonment offers them some fraction of it. I actua
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Most languages that have "traditionally" shipped with a REPL don't feature compilation at all. So yeah-- I guess that's fast? (Before you start, I'm not interested in pedantic arguments about how any language can
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't find anything on http://golang.org/doc/code.html#PackagePaths that seems to forbid what you're doing. In fact, it says "in practice you can choose any arbitrary path name
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by cmccabe 13y ago
You don't really need a REPL when compiles take literally only a second or two. It's only the fact that C++ had a static type system where programs took (literally) hours to compile that made dynamic typing look so great in compa
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by cmccabe 13y ago
The ChromeBook has been explicitly designed and marketed as a low-cost alternative for people who just want to access the web. Most ChromeBooks are around $100-300. Windows RT machines are usually between $300-$600, and were marketed as &q
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Speaking as someone who lived through that period of time, I think anyone using Win9x would scream.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Yeah. One thing that some people seem to miss is that you can have multiple man pages for a topic-- perhaps one that lays out the general outlines, and one for more specific information. git does this: it has "man gittutorial" an
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by cmccabe 13y ago
In the future, Man in Business Suit Levitating will be the only form of communication.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I have had good luck with OpenSUSE. They package the latest stuff (I am on kernel 3.7.10 now). They're also very community-focused.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I work at Cloudera. We work on Hadoop, HDFS, and other open source technologies full-time.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
An internet search will give me many different choices of documentation of unknown provenance, authorship, official status, datedness, accuracy, and comprehensibility. True. But the documentation for GNU programs, both man and info, is o
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by cmccabe 13y ago
There are lots of ways to bribe, and most of them are legal.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Cupertino already is fairly high-density, at least downtown. And I don't think anyone suggested bulldozing anything, just allowing people to build what they want, which they currently have a very hard time doing.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
If I want an introduction to complex topic, I usually won't use man pages. I will open up a web browser and search. That will give me web pages that have pictures, diagrams, and possibly even introductory essays about the topic. Ther
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by cmccabe 13y ago
If corporations are banned from trying to persuade people (i.e., advertising), they'll turn to bribing politicians (i.e. hiring lobbyists). Which is worse? I think that's clear. I don't agree with Comcast's position he
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by cmccabe 13y ago
"They see your mail." Ooh, scary. Email is effectively a postcard. It gets sent in cleartext all over the internet. If you think that email is even slightly private, you are misinformed. I don't see why I should trust Li
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Pretty much everywhere in the San Francisco bay area is sunny year round, except San Francisco itself. So if you have seasonal affective disorder, you could always just live in the east or south bay during the winter months. As a bonus yo
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Based on everything I've read, LinkedIn didn't develop this technology. They bought it when they acquired Rapportive (which, by the way, was a Y Combinator startup). Can someone explain the technical details here a little more?
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by cmccabe 13y ago
For some reason, a few people at HN seem to have a hard-on for criticizing LinkedIn. I never hear the same criticism of Facebook or Twitter here, even though their privacy policies are just as bad, or worse in many cases, and they also sen
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Yeah! We should artificially push the price of rentals down, so that there will be no incentive to increase supply, ever. I can't see any problems with this plan.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
It's Google Island! www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/on-google-island/‎
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by cmccabe 13y ago
News flash: most technology companies don't really pay dividends. Probably, the main reason is because dividends are taxed at a pretty high rate. It's easier just to keep the money overseas in some tax shelter or other (Apple, G
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Hacker News, if anything, is probably to the right of most Americans, due to the number of libertarians and entrepreneurs. Also, referring to "the Left" as if it were a single thing qualifies you as the "ignorant" one.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Don't be fatuous. If you wrote all of the code, you should be able to tell exactly what it does. If there's some code you're calling that was written by someone else, you have to trust it to do the right thing. Exceptions
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by cmccabe 13y ago
It seems like you missed a lot of the other things he said, such as "testing is built into the language," and "binaries are statically compiled and will work on any reasonable kernel." These may not be sexy features, bu
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by cmccabe 13y ago
In the past, GPUs weren't that practical for big data, since they offered a lot of CPU power, but not much in the way of I/O. It's possible that PCI-e 3.0 and 4.0 will change that, since they supposedly offer up to 15 GB&#x2
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I wasn't trying to be negative about FPGAs. I was just pointing out that there are good reasons to use GPUs in some scenarios. If your company can put FPGAs within reach of more people, that would be awesome. I used to work at a star

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