jmix

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by jmix 2y ago
This is obvious if you took a DB course, and if you didn't, you have no business building a DB. Sadly, all the NoSQL junkware was built by people who didn't.
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by jmix 2y ago
The example is flawed -- if there is an exception incurred before or during the sending of the email, the operation will be erroneously marked as "cancelled" without having completed all of the cancellation flow. Namely, with the
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by jmix 2y ago
What a self-indulgent writeup. The article came nowhere near answering the central question: what are the devs doing other than constantly changing the name of the project and how is this thing better than gimp.
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by jmix 2y ago
Good riddance to these tools because this technique, of relying on embedded strings in the code, is inherently insecure and unreliable. You can only really on it when you know you can trust the build, and yet they are used in cases where th
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by jmix 14y ago
Thanks for the clarification. On a related note do you understand where the X.509 Name Constraints effort sits? Which, if any, browsers implement it? If it's not 100%, do you know why browsers are hesitant to deploy it?
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by jmix 14y ago
Since it takes a while to digest the report after having seen it, chances are that they were in possession of the report far earlier than T-400ms but waited until they were in a time window where they knew the regulators would not come afte
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by jmix 14y ago
If a data store touted as fault-tolerant isn't fault-tolerant, it's broken.
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by jmix 14y ago
These articles invariably end in "does not follow" fallacies. In this case, he gets his accounts hacked, and his advice is "don't use any cloud-hosted email." Ok, but what evidence have you presented that shows that self-hosted email is any
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by jmix 14y ago
I have mixed feelings about this announcement. On the one hand, I really enjoyed Triumph of the Nerds. On the other, Cringely came off as a self-oriented, egotistical guy (I remember the scene where he threatened the TV crew with a piece of
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by jmix 14y ago
He does not need to be able to point to an extant, better alternative for his criticisms to be "credible." BTW, I can't believe you're implying that his post is not credible. The practical outcome of your demand for a solution is to shut do
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by jmix 14y ago
In what entitled universe do you live in where a guy who carefully and patiently points out problems is also obligated to solve every single one of them? Also, do you really need someone to spell out the alternatives to MySQL? There are too
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by jmix 14y ago
LaTeX is the geek's connection to Gutenberg and his legacy. Surely your grandma knows Gutenberg.
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by jmix 14y ago
Yes, we all follow what you have said, but I see no guarantees offered by Wolfram, the service provider. You can pretend to be offended and avoid the question, but at the end of the day, the assurance you are trying to provide here is not
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by jmix 14y ago
These is non-responsive PR: 1. The PP explicitly says that Wolfram can collect and retain data indefinitely. The FAQ promises a horizon of 1 hour. 1 != ∞. Which of these documents is to be believed? Which of them constitutes a legally bindi
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by jmix 14y ago
Great, then you can respond to some observations and answer some questions: 1. Your FAQ is at odds with your privacy policy ( http://www.wolframalpha.com/privacypolicy.html ) which states that you can collect and retain Personally Identify
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by jmix 14y ago
It used to be that, in order to get access to someone's rolodex, you'd have to befriend them and do a ton of things with them to maintain that said friendship. And even then, you still had to go through them to take advantage of that rolode
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by jmix 14y ago
Section 1.1 starts out by listing some "principles": availability, reliability, cost, etc. None of these are principles. At a higher level, the main point of the book, a Service Oriented Architecture composed of independent, separable, smal
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by jmix 14y ago
It's strange that when you cite a tweet, MLA wants you to include the tweet contents, whereas for every other citation, they want you to embed just enough info to form a pointer to the actual content. Tweet citations are closer to footnotes
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by jmix 14y ago
Consider the case where the grad student, acting alone and not as part of an officially sanctioned project, invented something awesome using some resources from MIT like an internet connection and lab space. How eager do you think MIT would
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by jmix 14y ago
Pointlessly awesome. Care to describe why it would make sense to run LaTeX on JS?
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by jmix 14y ago
I see your legalistic approach to MIT's responsibilities, but this fascination with "endorsement" is missing the point. Universities are not government labs, where you'd expect every participant to clear every activity with their superiors.
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by jmix 14y ago
I wonder how much time the OP provided to FB to respond.
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by jmix 14y ago
Let's not revert to ad hominems so quickly. If you looked through my submissions, you'll see that I explained the problem elsewhere. Here it is again: Imagine two nodes, both initiating updates to the same row. One has observed a number of
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by jmix 14y ago
Imagine two nodes, both initiating updates to the same row. One has observed a number of node additions and deletions. The other has not. They will perform their updates on disjoint sets. > There's not really any way that nodes can disa
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by jmix 14y ago
I always find these video logs to be a very inefficient way to communicate. Having watched through the whole thing, the main argument that Ariely is making here is that there is a much larger problem than just the "Lance Armstrong problem."
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by jmix 14y ago
>You don't have to understand ... consistency This is a recipe for disaster. Cassandra requires careful understanding of its claimed consistency guarantees to be used properly. Proper use of the ConsistencyLevel argument is pretty criti
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by jmix 14y ago
I have looked through the code to conclude that Cassandra's consistency claims are overblown.
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by jmix 14y ago
False -- if there are nodes being added or deleted from the system, Cassandra provides no guarantee of consistency. Two nodes might disagree on quorum membership and thus quorum accesses may fail to overlap, leading to inconsistency. The co