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by wicknicks 11y ago
Yeah, I am not sure how multiple queries will co-exist in this strategy. Especially, if you have two queries which are not commutative (say, one which increments a column and the other one which replaces the column with its square root). Al
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by wicknicks 11y ago
The fact that we can do parallel reads from an SSD does give more flexibility to DB developers.
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by wicknicks 11y ago
I'm going to provide basic answers here. You can look at the homepage for more detailed answers (the video linked there is very helpful too) [1]. Main use case: Multi-threaded low latency data access. It is optimized for use cases wher
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by wicknicks 12y ago
Germany with 2.8 million is equally interesting. The country's population is 80m. Atleast one in 35 people there is in the top 1%.
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Classic CompSci papers every Software Architect should read(blog.valbonne-consulting.com)
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by wicknicks 12y ago
It depends on personal taste. But if I were going to a country I never visited before, there would be very little time to do anything else other than sightseeing, mingling with the locals, learning about their culture, their history, the fo
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by wicknicks 12y ago
I couldn't find any documentation about it, but is there any way to achieve forward/backward compatibility with Transit?
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by wicknicks 12y ago
Yeah, I hope I am interpreting this the wrong the way. But instead of doing X.getA().getB().getC().getD() we have to X.flatMap(X::getA) .flatMap(X::getB) .map(X::getC) .orElse("UNKNOWN"); //[1]
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Candy crush is NP-Hard(arxiv.org)
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by wicknicks 13y ago
The problem is not to to just get from point A to B, but to have a good experience doing it. Air travel is getting worse every year. Starting from the airport checks to the long immigration lines (when traveling internationally) and super e
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Microsoft Cloud Design Patterns(msdn.microsoft.com)
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by wicknicks 13y ago
The above link is a summary to the paper. Here is the actual publication: http://cnlab.kaist.ac.kr/~ikjun/data/Course_work/CS642-Distr...
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Turn Raises $80 Million in Investment Round Led by BlackRock (bloomberg.com)
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Two Techniques to Understand Complex Data: Topology and Compressed Sensing(wired.com)
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Alcubierre Drive(en.wikipedia.org)
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by wicknicks 13y ago
> The world is wide open to you. In the United States probably. The author doesn't sound too old, and says that he/she got access to the internet much later. Which means the author is probably from the Middle east or China or S
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by wicknicks 13y ago
Took me a while to figure it out too. I think the title would have been best written as "Hadoop and Go". Its maybe because I'm new to the language, but I have to add 'lang' to all my Google searches for Go documenta
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by wicknicks 13y ago
Rich Hickey is a genius. I love how he connected music to software engineering [1]. He should write a book on some of these topics. He has a lot more than 45 mins talks to offer to the world. [1] http://www.infoq.com/present
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Jacob Appelbaum at European Parliament: Privacy, security, spying issues(vikingvpn.com)
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Why I Believe That This Will Be The Most Innovative Decade In History (2012)(forbes.com)
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Privacy and Google Glass(cacm.acm.org)
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by wicknicks 13y ago
You should give it a try. RethinkDB, imo, embraces a lot of good ideas from the SQL world. Given a few years, I feel they will have a great DB with good ideas from both the SQL and NoSQL worlds.
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by wicknicks 13y ago
A precursor to the compilers class is the Formal Automata one. This is very useful in understanding fundamental computation models (what is computation, why, how can we do it etc..). I was recently reading [1] to refresh some concepts and f
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by wicknicks 13y ago
Can't wait for this feature. I am wondering if they would do the opposite: Offer paper books for a lower price to customers who own the kindle?
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by wicknicks 13y ago
Reminds me of this XKCD http://xkcd.com/927/
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by wicknicks 13y ago
The video game community might misinterpret it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frag_%28video_gaming%29
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by wicknicks 13y ago
I'm hoping for a not-that-far future ... Jokes apart, does Rust perform as well as C++?
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by wicknicks 13y ago
Smart idea. Good job! Could you extend bd to jump to bookmarked directories. I often jump between /data... and ~/dir/containing/code/ -- would be useful to have one command help with both scenarios.
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When Science Goes Silent(www2.macleans.ca)
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by wicknicks 13y ago
Very interesting technology. I used your website, uploaded three pictures -- it failed on the first, and worked somewhat on the others. I'm guessing it needs a more experienced user base? Assuming that model generation requires human s

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