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by mpercy 1y ago
Quite literally a fender bender.
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by mpercy 1y ago
It doesn’t give any examples of open- vs closed-skills sports in the abstract…
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by mpercy 2y ago
I believe it. Denying delicious El Farolito burritos to New Jerseyans would be tantamount to a war crime.
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by mpercy 3y ago
He has the advantage of knowing what is there and they can create an arrangement to license or sell the IP to another entity… if it’s just gathering dust, why not?
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by mpercy 3y ago
How are people actually using vector databases? The closest explanation to a use case architecture I've seen recently was https://mattboegner.com/knowledge-retrieval-architecture-for... - it basically describes doing k
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by mpercy 5y ago
Who is developing this product? Under what circumstances is it 30% faster than Parquet?
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by mpercy 5y ago
Cuy is guinea pig, not rat, but I hear you on the rodent flavor. Worth it once for the experience but I wouldn’t eat it a second time!
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by mpercy 5y ago
This is really neat. One piece of feedback is it begins and ends TeX expressions by saying “dollar” which is distracting. Probably best to strip the TeX syntax while retaining the expressions. Simple ones like O(1) should be understandable
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by mpercy 5y ago
There is no doubt.
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by mpercy 5y ago
Most people have good health care plans through their employer that pays for most of this stuff. I paid a few hundred dollars to the hospital when my child was born and we were there for several days. There are just a lot of people who for
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by mpercy 5y ago
FF as in Firefox?
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by mpercy 6y ago
Not true. Carter gave a blanket pardon to all Vietnam draft dodgers, many of whom fled the country before being convicted.
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by mpercy 6y ago
Lovely article. Allosaurus is amazing and terrifying. Very cool factoids about the bunny hands, first time hearing they were incorrectly depicted.
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by mpercy 6y ago
Since I mentioned performance, one other area that makes flexibility nontrivial is how you decide to serialize different types of messages on the wire and on disk. If you don't need extensibility, it's easy to keep things pretty e
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by mpercy 6y ago
Sure, here are a couple examples of things we've had to include in the log APIs: 1. Kudu uses a special "commit" record that goes into the log for crash consistency, related to storage engine buffer flushes. So we need an API
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by mpercy 6y ago
From experience working in this area, I believe there's a significant tradeoff between performance, flexibility, and time to delivery when it comes to consensus and the things it's used for, like database replication. It's li
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by mpercy 7y ago
Interesting. Just last year we implemented improved re-replication ( https://github.com/apache/kudu/commit/79a255 ) which sounds very similar to what you did with LEARNER roles, and we added manually-triggered
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by mpercy 7y ago
FWIW, we implemented dynamic consensus membership change in Kudu way back in 2015 ( https://github.com/apache/kudu/commit/535dae ) but presumably that was after the fork. We still haven't implemented leade
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by mpercy 9y ago
I have been working full-time on Kudu since its early development. As others have mentioned, Arrow and Kudu are quite different. Despite the controversial-sounding title of Daniel Abadi's article, his content was actually reasonable an
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by mpercy 10y ago
I think it's because Qt has traditionally had a pretty weird dual- or tri-licensing model: https://www.qt.io/faq/#_Toc453700684 which resulted in less adoption by developers because of the viral nature of the GPL.
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by mpercy 10y ago
Run your tests against clang (as well as gcc) and then ship with gcc. Last I heard, gcc still had the speed advantage for optimized code anyway.
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by mpercy 11y ago
Fred, really interesting article! Thanks for posting it. For those in the Bay Area, if you'd like to hear more about Kudu, I'm giving a talk about it in Palo Alto tomorrow (Wed) at the Big Data Application Meetup at 6PM: http:&#x
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by mpercy 11y ago
Fair enough, but here's another example. Say someone is trying to move from IC to management. They might have no mgmt experience so they put "seeking engineering management position" as their objective. Is there a better way?
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by mpercy 11y ago
Hrm. I'm not looking, but I like reading these things. Regarding "Objective, seriously? It's not 1992 anymore", I've always put an objective on my resume. Typically something short and sweet, like "seeking a se
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by mpercy 11y ago
We're using libev (actually libev++ which is cross-platform, has a decent underlying C impl, and a C++ bridge API). It seems to work well and is fast and cross platform. It can be a little tricky to figure out what is going on with the
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by mpercy 11y ago
John does a good job of explaining the difference between software patents and traditional hardware patents to the layperson. He notes that while hardware patents are usually very specific, software patents can be so general as to cover ide
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by mpercy 11y ago
If you haven't seen Brendan Gregg's Linux performance tools page & slides, you should check it out. He explores a wide variety of great stuff, especially perf and ftrace (as mentioned in the article) as well as a few dozen oth
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by mpercy 12y ago
Wow... I understand that you'd be much more productive with a large monitor and good keyboard, but to the extent that you couldn't perform in a coding interview? Give me a break... In the past, I've used CollabEdit for "
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by mpercy 12y ago
I thought you were wrong but not so. Here's the proof that they are indeed the same company: http://pivotal.io/labs
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by mpercy 12y ago
Whoops, looks like our posts crossed on the wire. I definitely think Steve's post is worth the read - it hits home.

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