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by lalmalang 14y ago
or if its a lot of money -- you're probably under-valuing what you're learning (assuming a semi-rational labour market..)
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by lalmalang 14y ago
I dont usually bring it up, but curious - am I the only one who finds a blurb like this a bit unseemly: If you enjoyed this post, I’d be humbled if you’d follow me on Twitter.
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by lalmalang 14y ago
You just might reconsider (and that is what bb is banking on), at the end of the day having to police the number of repos you can have is a pain(esp in a startup, where people are seemingly forever going off to hack away on random stuff). S
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by lalmalang 14y ago
In my humble opinion, in the vast majority of cases, yes. Because " C ", " D ", " C# " should be easier for search engines to disambiguate (at least working with Lucene, it is, and I imagine Google etc are similar-ish). As for Java, Python
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by lalmalang 14y ago
It was kind of interesting comparing the quotes from the various network operators. For instance, this management-speak gem could apply to any product at all: "Etisalat aim to enrich the user experience and improve the life of its customers
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by lalmalang 14y ago
I saw them but those are but single datapoints (and apps seems to vary wildly in requirements). would be handy to have a slider so you could answer the 'what-ifs'. also, was an early beta signup, really liked dotcloud, but have to agree th
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by lalmalang 14y ago
Ruby logging ~3x as fast as Python, is this normal?
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by lalmalang 14y ago
wow. i didnt realize what an aesthetic achievement the dropbox sync checkmarks were until i saw the google drive ones...
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by lalmalang 14y ago
funnily enough - it records the text in GA as a custom event http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmwv=5.2.8&ut... .
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by lalmalang 14y ago
In fact, I tried on-instance storage too -- this didnt help substantially. The reality is that many (most?) stacks these days need to be able live happily on AWS...
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by lalmalang 14y ago
You'd think -- but the 10gen guys weren't surprised when we were struggling at this level (periodically), on a RS with two AWS large instances and relatively large objects. Absolute ops/sec in and of itself is relatively meaningless tbh.
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by lalmalang 14y ago
For the moment to Cassandra but very tempted to look into hbase in more detail soon...
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by lalmalang 14y ago
We had a very similar situation ~300 writes per second on AWS. but I suspect some of this has to do with the fact that most people address scaling by adding a replica set, rather than the much hairier sharding setup ( http://www.mongodb.o
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by lalmalang 14y ago
maybe im just paranoid, but a bit wary of installing chrome-ext without a quick perusal of the source. Is this github'ed?
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by lalmalang 15y ago
Far more likely than 'abuse' (they could have just charged afterall) is probably Google's realization that they have an uncontested lead in machine translation - and there is a lot of money to be made here.. They recently won a contract w
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by lalmalang 16y ago
why is why, i suppose, the author has (so considerately) provided the code on github...