eliwjones

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by eliwjones 9y ago
Doesn't anyone remember that it's "UNABOMer"?
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by eliwjones 10y ago
My working definition of "too clever" is: If you have to spend time explaining 'what' the code is doing, it is "too clever". If you have to spend time explaining 'why' the code is doing something.. th
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by eliwjones 10y ago
The Romans called it decimation. Though, Twitter would need to make the layoffs random, force co-workers to escort the laid off off premises, and take away perks for a few weeks... If that's what they were angling for.
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by eliwjones 10y ago
You don't raise a rebel by telling them it's okay to play on the roof. You raise a rebel by telling them "I don't want to see you on that motherfucking roof!" Then, when they are ready, they will go to the roof. You
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by eliwjones 10y ago
Then the marauders will thank you for your pile of guns as well.
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by eliwjones 11y ago
A lot of the back-and-forth here reminds me of: "Note that, with careful optimization, only 14 gajillion messages are necessary. This is still too many messages; however, if the system sends fewer than 14 gajillion messages, it will b
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by eliwjones 12y ago
I don't engage devil's advocacy.. only pedantry.
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by eliwjones 12y ago
1. I see your pedantry and raise you a "Honduras is in Central America"
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by eliwjones 12y ago
To me.. the core idea is that (given one chooses, over and over, from a bunch of independent and identically distributed events.): There are more ways for everything to happen than there are ways for one thing to happen over and over.
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by eliwjones 13y ago
His point about the bastardization of "cut and paste" is very important in my opinion. Hell, he ends with this.. Bringing a complex tangle of code to heel becomes tractable if you just print it out, cut it up, and rearrange the p
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by eliwjones 13y ago
Its a sexy read. James Mickens is AKA "Galactic Viceroy of Research Excellence" http://microsoftjobsblog.com/viceroy-james-mickens/
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by eliwjones 13y ago
Hmm, thanks for this bit (pun?) of information. So, I guess the question becomes.. is there a (or what is the) difference between: 1. [0, ∞) 2. (0,1] when it comes to a currency? I think that the traditional "boil the frog" approa
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by eliwjones 13y ago
Bitcoin is "doomed" to fail (as a currency) by the simple fact that the supply is capped at 21 million. This relegates it to the status as a "virtual collectible" (as someone so humorously put it). Maybe Bitcoin 2.0 will
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by eliwjones 13y ago
According to the quote I provided from the article, failure of the Zookeeper cluster will bring down their entire architecture.
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by eliwjones 13y ago
I don't know... sounds like they just shifted the 'single point of failure' to the Zookeeper cluster. Is it somehow sexier to have your SPOF be things running Zookeeper instead of things running loadbalancer or DNS software?