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by xaprb 10y ago
Justify that with actual math, please? I don't think you know how computers (processors, bus, memory access, etc) work. How exactly do you think an RDBMS can query an index at a hundred billion rows per second?
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by xaprb 10y ago
Why not PostgreSQL? (Sorry, someone had to say it.)
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by xaprb 11y ago
I'm the article's author. I don't think the headline HN chose is great but I don't mind if people have different interpretations of what I write. Hopefully all the commenters here are actually reading the original articl
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by xaprb 11y ago
This is an excellent point. The distribution of the measurements are the distribution of the sample, not of the population. In my experience very few non-statisticians understand the difference. Statistics is hard.
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Top Ways to Hack Your Way to a Cool Internship(vividcortex.com)
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How much paper waste does Celestial Seasonings save with unwrapped tea bags?(xaprb.com)
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Why Hacking Management is Bad(vividcortex.com)
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A simple lesson in customer service(xaprb.com)
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by xaprb 13y ago
I've been crossfitting for years at kylered's gym. I've also judged at the competition series he mentioned, and traveled and worked out at crossfit gyms all around the country. I've seen some bad coaches, but I've s
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by xaprb 13y ago
I agree -- I dislike when important technical concepts are redefined for marketing purposes. It's a bit like lightweight marital fidelity, where your spouse is faithful to you in specific circumstances.
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by xaprb 13y ago
I'm a sometimes-coder at VividCortex. Yeah, there are endless potential issues with this that make it a non-general solution. I mean, it works for us -- so far -- but it's easy to find cases where it won't. What if package X
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RRREmail: autogenerated replies that sound like you(rrremail.com)
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by xaprb 13y ago
Link to the Moleskine pocket notebook? IMO Moleskine is the Starbucks of notebooks. It's a crowded category, but for me, the Leuchtturm is the clear standout for quality and fit-and-finish, head and shoulders above the Moleskine.
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by xaprb 13y ago
Yes, the Whitelines notebook is a little bit self-promotional. It makes sure you don't forget that you're holding a Swedish, patented, revolutionary notebook.
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by xaprb 13y ago
You're awesome :-D Come work for us! https://vividcortex.com/jobs/
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by xaprb 13y ago
That's a good example, yes.
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by xaprb 13y ago
It's tough to give examples of this in Perl without a lot of narrative (and sometimes a lot of code), but the technique I'm referring to is currying: programs that write programs, via functions that write functions. This, of course, is what
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by xaprb 13y ago
I didn't put much code into the article, but ask me if you'd like more details on exactly what I'm talking about -- in terms of real code.