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What can I say, being an asshole is one of my diversity dimensions. We just had that training at work, it was very helpful. Also, I hope you aren't a Python dev in your spare time.…

I know. And I'm sorry, bitterly sorry, but I know that... no apologies I can make can alter the fact that in our thread you have been given a dirty, filthy, smelly piece of technic…

Those optimizers you are fighting with have thousands of man hours of research behind them. For every silly choice they make, they make hundreds or thousands of correct ones.

You are either being dishonest or just patently out of your mind if you think that you can query 100MB and 100PB in the same way. That's not even reasonable by HN standards of hype…

You can have locked cage space leased from a datacenter if you want to be in control of all the things you have any business being in control of.

Except for the fact that you can explicitly contain the potential damage by controlling which accounts can do what. It's not like you have to have one god account with no MFA that …

Not trying to be snarky, but why on Earth would I mind that my government is trying to prevent a rival government from gaining nuclear capability? World politics are what they are,…

That is total bullshit and you know it. This whole culture of self-loathing was cute at the beginning, but it's descended into absolute absurdity. You are patently out of your mind…

This is a good thing even for those outside of San Antonio proper. I was able to upgrade to 1 Gbps on a small-time ISP this weekend, and it's because Google is coming to the large …

No, I value any 1 human over all 30000 remaining lions. How could you not do otherwise?

> I'll be over here riding out the inevitable with my own file sync, git server, chat server, web server, and making my internet how I want it to be To me, this is exactly why we'r…

> when the last user of it finally gives up and moves to gmail so they can continue to communicate with their contacts or maybe they give up entirely Between the title and the quot…

> the poor rarely can take advantage of them I'm pretty sure the solution to that is clean public transportation, no?

Who cares how many lines it takes to do Hello World? Honestly, that isn't a benchmark for any meaningful thing.

There are lots of good sibling comments to this one, but I want to get one more point in before we all move on. Spending an hour yielding to something larger than yourself is proba…

If you join a fundamentalist cult, then yes. Lots of modern churches are non-denominational and quite relaxed. In fact, they are surprisingly similar to the entity being described …

I liked the article, but this is like the cultural equivalent of Not Invented Here. Does it really matter that organized Christianity believes that a guy woke up from the dead? If …

We have a POC running where we stream web hit data onto HDFS in near real time (several seconds of latency perhaps). There's no reason to think you couldn't do it with other stream…

> separately managed relational dbs all over the place On the BI side, this is overwhelmingly the outcome for large companies. The business units get silo'ed, they build their fief…

The enterprise I work for won't touch cloud with a 10 foot pole, and I know this because we literally got told to quit asking about it. :) So yes, even we are building out a pretty…

> The one big vertically scaled database at the hub of everything is definitely disappearing. Maybe in Startupville, CA. But I think you're forgetting that it's a big world out the…

Administrations often change their tunes to maintain a populist backing. They could have just said plainly, "Look, he did the crime and we are required by the rule of law to bring …

The story this tells is so stark, I don't know what else there is left to say on it. They guy sealed his own fate when he made himself an enemy of the state, and I fear he will nev…

It changes over time, and ranges anywhere from the use of force to achieve an objective all the way to simply humanitarian. Sometimes a mix. (delivery of supplies + security) The w…

> I have zero respect for someone that was there Serving isn't for everyone, and I don't expect you to understand it if you haven't. But either way your attitude is as discourteous…