jdcryans

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by jdcryans 10y ago
I think you are misattributing his snark. In his regular column he has a recurring section called "Blockchain blockchain blockchain" such as in [1] in which he covers how the finance industry itself is trying to apply blockchains
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by jdcryans 11y ago
Well TBH you do get to pick which Hadoop-related components need to run, HDFS's Datanode itself is happy with just a bit of RAM. I do understand the concern though. You're probably happy with what you have in prod but if you get s
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by jdcryans 11y ago
You seem to have a pretty typical use case that we're targeting. One thing to understand about Kudu is that it doesn't run queries, it only stores the data. You can use Impala or Drill, they'll figure out the locality and app
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by jdcryans 11y ago
Hi, I work on Apache Kudu (incubating). Analytics is what Kudu was designed for (it's not just marketing), so some tradeoffs were made. You'll get the biggest bang for the buck if your use cases are heavy on inserts and big scans
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by jdcryans 11y ago
Yeah, the title in the article does says "Apache Kudu", maybe it was changed later. What it should really be is "Apache Kudu (incubating)".
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by jdcryans 11y ago
Heh, Poe's Law, etc :) I guess you could also call it Quantum Consistency.
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by jdcryans 11y ago
The issue isn't that MongoDB is eventually consistent, it's that the documentation claims that in some cases it's strictly consistent[1] while Kyle found that: "MongoDB, even at the strongest consistency levels, allows r
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by jdcryans 12y ago
Will it be the end of eat24's weekend coupons? When they started they were regularly giving 3-4 bucks per coupon. Now, I can't remember the last time it wasn't $2, apart from those times when they teamed up with other compani
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by jdcryans 12y ago
That along with: "Many of you use Direct Messages to reach the people and brands you’re only connected to on Twitter." So the blog post's target audience seems to be their own users (you experience/use), but spoken in ad
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by jdcryans 12y ago
Well you really... saved the day!
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by jdcryans 12y ago
Ah that makes more sense, thanks.
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by jdcryans 12y ago
> and me for French > The French guy actually translated "Garbage day" to something like "Shitty day" So you translated it to "jour de merde"?
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by jdcryans 12y ago
Merci :) I wonder why Google translated "huis-clos" to "camera" in the header text. Best I could find is that Sartre's Huis Clos was originally called "in camera" which means: http://en.wiktiona
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by jdcryans 12y ago
> I think it's more likely they didn't understand the law fully rather than malicious intent. The workers were after-all, temporary and were not going to be staying in the US permanently. Oh yeah, we agree there, what I meant i
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by jdcryans 12y ago
Best I can tell, they have a presence in India: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-EFI-RVW5844... http://www.justdial.com/Bangalore/efi-india-pvt-ltd-%3Cnear%... So my guess is that
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by jdcryans 12y ago
For those interested, a good source for a lot of publicly reported crashes, accidents, incidents and whatnot is The Aviation Herald. Here's the list of all their recorded crashes sorted by occurence date (toggle the icons next to &quot
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by jdcryans 12y ago
Ah I see where you were coming from, so you're saying that it's ridiculous since most spouses probably gave up/found something else to do, and those who would really benefit from a relaxed rule are those who just got their H1
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by jdcryans 12y ago
I don't think it's ridiculous, and the current 97k H4s that will now be able to work are probably pretty happy about it [1]. Regarding the L2s being able to get their EADs but not the H4s, keep in mind that the latter are not the
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by jdcryans 12y ago
As whitenoise mentions below, it's only if your I-140 has been approved or your H1B has been extended that your spouse can work. Even if you are getting your H1B this October, and assuming that you could qualify for EB-2 in ROW and tha
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by jdcryans 12y ago
> First, people traveling together tend to sit next to each other, so ordering by "columns" instead of rows breaks them apart in the queue You can order by column but still let families together, for example with United you can
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by jdcryans 12y ago
I come from one of the towns mentioned in the article, Thetford Mines (they somehow misspelled it), which is about 45 minutes drive from Asbestos. Reading the local newspaper is always entertaining, it seems everyone in town has an opinion
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by jdcryans 12y ago
From the same article: “All the dot-com ideas were correct,” he said. “They were all too early. They are happening now.” The article's title is clickbait.
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by jdcryans 12y ago
Maybe, but I'm not sure if it matters. Like the article says, spouses of L-1s are already doing it, same for the spouses of Australian E-3 holders. From wikipedia: "spouses of E-3 visa holders may work in the United States without
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by jdcryans 13y ago
(not a flightfox user but my 2 cents) Booking an award trip can be much harder to do unless you have an easy route like a domestic non-stop. The ITA matrix won't show you those flights, expertflyer.com used to be really useful but righ
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by jdcryans 13y ago
Not really. What counts is how many MPs you get voted in, including the leader who's going to become the PM (see footnote). Let's say there's 100 counties, then you need to win 51 to have a majority government and you can bas
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by jdcryans 13y ago
Not sure about the nameless part: "'He was definitely pushed out by the board,' said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, in an interview Friday"
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by jdcryans 13y ago
I was in Montreal for 4 years before moving to SF so maybe I can help a little. I've also been using uber from the moment they started and have used it in multiple cities. Apart from the basic benefit of not having to get your wallet o
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by jdcryans 13y ago
Congrats Sam! Funny meeting you virtually ;)
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by jdcryans 13y ago
My thoughts exactly, this is useless. Benchmarking is something everyone can do, so people do it, but it doesn't provide any real value unless you put an insane amount of time into it, and even then you'll get a lot of hate mail :) For exam
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by jdcryans 14y ago
I found one nugget: “You want very small, tight teams, same thing with running an engineering department.” I can think of reasons why you'd want that, but yeah the article wasn't about making that point.

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