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by pkj 13y ago
From the website: "Here from HackerNews? This was originally posted several months ago. Check back in two weeks for an updated benchmark including newer versions of Hive, Impala, and Shark."
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by pkj 13y ago
A really good intro to Raft --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbZ3zDzDnrw Very useful if you are into distributed systems and would like to see a practical implementation with clear examples.
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by pkj 13y ago
I would argue there is more than sufficient interest :) All you have to do is scan the angularjs google groups for ngRepeat issues. Infact, one of the solutions proposed for ngRepeat issue (with lot of caveats) has 300+ stars no github htt
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by pkj 13y ago
The top comment by moskie points out one such chrome extension. Just installed it and works great for collapsing threads. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
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by pkj 13y ago
>"That plays well to our market development program where 1,200 big company management teams are coming through our office every year -- we ask them what they think about new ideas and they tell us." How about asking BigCos the
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by pkj 13y ago
>Running an all layer2 network requires devices that have large enough CAM tables to support all connected devices, many vendors newer full line rate cards were coming out with smaller CAM tables, as such layer2 simply wasn't an opt
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by pkj 13y ago
Sure, we are trying through global warming :) On a serious note, take a look at cumulus networks[1] who claim to solve the hw/sw disaggregation problem. They have a linux OS distro which can run on h/w of multiple vendors ( not th
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by pkj 13y ago
I had taken a course designed by him at stanford: object oriented programming from a modeling and simulation perspective. I also have the lecture notes for the follow-up course. It was mentioned that the course was based on his real world e
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by pkj 13y ago
Duplicate (mobile version) of an earlier submission. See the earlier discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6305671
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by pkj 13y ago
If you are ok with CentOS/RHEL, there is a scalable way to boot multiple machines simulataneously using ........ bittorrent ! http://www.rocksclusters.org/rocks-doc/papers/two-pager/pape... Rocks is used
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by pkj 13y ago
Similar relative results, except that method 1 is always the fastest and even better than method 6. Ran loop count with large numbers (10 million & 30 million) to reduce measurement noise. Profiling was with cProfile on Core i3 2.53Ghz,
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by pkj 13y ago
Just tried it out and it is excellent ! The integration of various aws services is really neat. The help and correction-suggestion are nice too. Great to hear that this is built on the awesome boto library. Will serve as an useful reference
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by pkj 13y ago
Absolutely. Very interesting talk. Definitely deserves a submission. BTW, the person asking the last couple of questions is Ed Bugnion, one of the co-founders of VMWare. He is a faculty now at EPFL.
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by pkj 13y ago
US Navy did not fire it. From Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-syria-crisis-us...
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by pkj 13y ago
Nothing wrong. This is standard industry practice. Check out glassdoor salaries for companies in diverse locations.
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by pkj 13y ago
Thanks for the comprehensive clarification. Yes you are right that the use of revision-id would allow "first change to reach the server wins" for case (i). It would result in a simple and fair outcome. I did not see the mention of
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by pkj 13y ago
Trying to wrap my head around this. Seems difficult without clear usecases. Let's say I have 10 devices d1,d2....d10 making updates to "a" on the server and went offline. a==20 and last update was by d5 before everyone went
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by pkj 13y ago
If a client app is processing the cust record, how would cust.email look like ? Typically I would assume a single value, but in case of unresolved conflicts will it be a iterator/array ?
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by pkj 13y ago
What you describe is very close to how hundreds of thousands of grads are hired into Indian software service industry. Aptitude test followed by training and plenty of time to come to speed and be evaluated. It has worked out fine for them.
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by pkj 13y ago
"plenty of talented developers.." ^^^^^^^^ From my experience in bay area & india, I never saw shortage of resumes for open positions. Large enough even if you assume people applying to multiple companies. The shor
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by pkj 13y ago
"The government of India has said it needs to add 800 new universities, in part to avoid a shortfall of 1.6 million university-educated engineers by the end of the decade."... That's wildly optimistic. The reality is unemploy
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by pkj 13y ago
AppFog was built originally around another PaaS, Cloud Foundry. Wonder how this offering will compare with that. I can understand that there would be more control because of the IaaS nature of the offering. Anything stopping them from doing
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by pkj 13y ago
Most companies use a variant of stack ranking. If you agree with the core philosophy that more productivity => better pay, then you need to implement some sort of a differential pay algorithm. Having said that the implementation really s
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by pkj 13y ago
Have been a vi user for a long time. For c/c++ it is awesome and good enough. Sublime is fine too. Surprised no one mentioned Source Insight though ( unfortunately only windows ), was used in pretty big projects I was involved in. Spee
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by pkj 13y ago
>never had to download "random codecs" from "random codec packs" Second that. I have had videos which couldn't be played on VLC (codecs or missing frames) play nicely with mplayer. Easily the best versatile playe
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by pkj 13y ago
I doubt people really know ON/OFF by reading the text. More of a sense of alignment. In India, you don't have text on the switches. Also, it's opposite to the direction of the switches in US (Pressing down is ON). Further, if