seanmcq

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by seanmcq 13y ago
There are a few interesting choices in your comment that make it appear to be an Astroturf: 1. You state that it is "your experience" that "all" recent Netflix slowness is a result of peering contract disputes. Unless yo
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by seanmcq 13y ago
What bay area do you live in and who is your ISP?
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by seanmcq 13y ago
Ask them to write an essay.
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On JavaScript's 'new' operator(chadaustin.me)
2 points by seanmcq 14y ago|0 comments
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by seanmcq 14y ago
Can we just delete this entire meme before it gets started? This is pathetic. Edit: To clarify, I mean everything said by ESR here. Yes Turings accomplishments are great. However, it's because of those great accomplishments that what the Br
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by seanmcq 14y ago
I can confirm that my profile was modified to hide my real email address without permission. This appears to be more than a hype piece.
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by seanmcq 14y ago
Please profile tricks like this, as they may actually be significantly slower than their naive counterparts on modern hardware. The prefetcher knows what a linked list looks like, and it knows how to get it somewhere closer than main memory
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by seanmcq 14y ago
This was pretty painful to watch as a gay technologist.
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by seanmcq 15y ago
Why wouldn't universities just rase rates 10% to cover their projected liability? This would obviously only exacerbate the problem and hasten the fall, but that does appear to be how independent actors work.
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Bidirectional. Json. Json.(pubnub.com)
3 points by seanmcq 15y ago|2 comments
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by seanmcq 15y ago
This is true until you realize you'll need to support keepalive and chunked encoding to write a reasonbly good driver. Two things that often require significant effort, if not custom coding, to make work with http libraries.
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by seanmcq 15y ago
How could it not be?
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by seanmcq 15y ago
I note that you call gevent.monkey.patch_all() in async. I'm still fairly new to gevent and I'm curious if others consider this good style for a library?
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by seanmcq 15y ago
Yes, not yielding control from a function in any evented framework will block the main event loop. In programming languages that support coroutines, yielding a sleep every few loops will release the event loop. In languages without corouti
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by seanmcq 15y ago
You should pay more attention. Most middle age men on tv are fat. Zero middle age women on tv are fat. Super models aren't the role model. Raymond is.
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by seanmcq 15y ago
Sure. It's been more than a generation since women started making more money than men in some households due to increases in equality between the sexes. The phrasing and positioning used implies that a stay-at-home dad is something that we
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by seanmcq 15y ago
"or getting by on the paychecks of wives" This is pretty rampant sexism for 2011. Don't want it to go unnoticed.
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by seanmcq 16y ago
The limit justifications are fairly simple, you've already listed a dozen things you don't do that you know would take you over the limit. In the presence of no limit, you, and most people, would do those things. It would use radically mor
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by seanmcq 16y ago
This is an honest question: When did "liberal" come to mean "who think that human wellbeing consists in the consumption of goods and services" I presume this is a new political meme that I'd not heard. Where did it come from?
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by seanmcq 16y ago
Sorry for the slow reply. I can't speak about mongo's user base, but it does appear larger than CouchDB's. Both of them are several orders of magnitude less mature / well understood than MySQL. I'm simply trying to say, that technologies
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by seanmcq 16y ago
One of the biggest costs of a NoSQL solution in an early-stage startup: what's hot today may be abandoned by everyone else by the time you're a real company, leaving lots of effort inventing clever solutions to novel problems created entir
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by seanmcq 16y ago
As a general rule, switching from technology (x) which has actual users sharing lessons learned on the internet to technology (y) because it doesn't have many actual users and they haven't shared any lessons, is good way to become a beta te
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by seanmcq 16y ago
Try another 3 zeroes.
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by seanmcq 16y ago
This test gives an extreme advantage to lazy functional languages that they don't enjoy in any realistic context. Trying to come up with a single test that is good turns out to be surprisingly hard. In modern languages I'm looking for the
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by seanmcq 16y ago
Wonder exactly how insane the world was for letting me have such an important job.
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by seanmcq 16y ago
Lesson, don't let your CI machine talk to your production servers (firewalls are good at this).
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by seanmcq 16y ago
I can verify this behavior on Provigil. You shine at your full brilliance, but become incapable of having unique/new thoughts. I cut it completely, but I'm curious to see if the author has luck oscillating on it.
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by seanmcq 16y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Seeing official google branding on this is pretty impressive.
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by seanmcq 16y ago
Really, you think the all-time high unemployment rate among recent graduates is because they, as a group, are somehow uniquely unqualified? I wish I were that arrogant.
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by seanmcq 16y ago
Man, go try to buy a non-sexist "Congratulations" card for a new-baby. It took me three stores to find a green card without any gender-typed activities on it. The constant sexism starts at day one.

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