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by dgottlieb 3y ago
Writes in MongoDB are persisted before the server returns acknowledgement. For a typical replica set deployment, this additionally means replicated and made durable on disk for a majority of nodes. MongoDB has tunable durability guarantees;
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Patterns in Confusing Explanations(jvns.ca)
16 points by dgottlieb 5y ago|1 comments
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Challenge: Write a Bouncy Window Manager(jvns.ca)
16 points by dgottlieb 7y ago|0 comments
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The Most Efficient Office in the World(slate.com)
3 points by dgottlieb 13y ago|0 comments
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by dgottlieb 13y ago
I think there's a meta argument encoded in the sampling bias discussion. That being: some people want to expose NPR as just another media center that produces watered down content labeled as science with a complete lack of journalistic inte
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by dgottlieb 14y ago
The original patch/commit that Linus calls out: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...
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by dgottlieb 14y ago
Despite not knowing anything about your dataset and insertion/deletion patterns, you may want to consider power of two allocation. It's a new feature in 2.2 that costs some additional disk space up front (new documents potentially get 2x pa
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by dgottlieb 14y ago
13 men and 8 women for 21 total people. The article also mentioned on multiple occasions the small sample size.
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by dgottlieb 14y ago
N.B. I use the term employer throughout where it really can also mean manager or generally anyone responsible for figuring out what employees would value as compensation/perks. One thing I've noticed being an employee is that when employers
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by dgottlieb 14y ago
In fairness to the rest of the article, in Listing 9 the author does protect the call to empty() with (the same) lock and also moves the condition inside of a while loop.
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by dgottlieb 15y ago
For what it's worth, I had used MySQL on a table with ~20 million rows and doing a count on an index would also be extremely slow. I put in triggers to do counts which worked perfectly for 99% of the sites, but there was some issue (either
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by dgottlieb 15y ago
With an acquisition I went through, none of the unvested options (after acceleration) turned into anything (meaning those remaining shares were never issued/created). However the acquiring company put forth their own stock incentive plan in
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Monkeypatching in Python: Neatly hacking test behavior for coverage(blog.fiesta.cc)
3 points by dgottlieb 15y ago|0 comments
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Fiesta mailing lists on your own domain(fiesta.cc)
2 points by dgottlieb 15y ago|0 comments
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by dgottlieb 15y ago
I saw the line you edited out. I hope that means there was some minor mis-communication because as far as I can tell, we're on the same side of the fence!
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by dgottlieb 15y ago
A lot of the arguments I hear about why making jokes of women in computer fields is wrong is that these jokes make women (and some men) uncomfortable which is irreproachably wrong. I couldn't respond to the thread directly on google because
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DNS 201: What they don't teach you in college(blog.fiesta.cc)
2 points by dgottlieb 15y ago|0 comments
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by dgottlieb 15y ago
Now I'm merely trying to raise awareness, not offer an argument, but there are alternate gravitational theories for galaxy rotation (that I believe are more elegant, but at the expense of breaking more things than it fixes) such as MOND. h
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Iterative Innovation(blog.fiesta.cc)
1 points by dgottlieb 15y ago|0 comments
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From Java to Python: type safety to test safety(blog.fiesta.cc)
4 points by dgottlieb 15y ago|0 comments
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by dgottlieb 15y ago
We're using tumblr for our blog if that offers any insight. Otherwise I'm not sure what could be causing this.
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by dgottlieb 15y ago
In Python: Importing urllib hangs zlib imports, but the compress and compressobj methods fail > import zlib > zlib.compress("askldas") Internal error: ReferenceError: _deflateInit_ is not defined
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by dgottlieb 15y ago
The reason a particle would have infinite energy as it approaches the speed of light is because its mass (relativistic mass) would also approach infinite. Thus the understood reason a particle could not attain the speed of light is because
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by dgottlieb 15y ago
2nd engineer, started right out of college. Was always being paid what I felt to be market value. Had ~2% in stock after a re-incentivizing due to a near bankruptcy after failing to close a Series B. Turned into 180K after 5 years at the co