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The distributed database systems of the mid 80s such as the Teradata DBC 1012[1] are better prior art for Map/Reduce. 1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBC_1012

HTSQL[1,2] by Clark Evans is similar. 1- http://htsql.org/doc/overview.html 2- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTSQL

Jepsen[1] is the killer app that's leading me to learn more about the Clojure and Go ecosystems. I mostly write Python by day but since Jepsen revealed consistency problems in etcd…

If you are interested in SSD optimizations you may want to read this research from Microsoft: The Bw-Tree: A B-tree for New Hardware[1] 1 - http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/…

I'm about as old and I've lived in the bay area all my life. I've seen the popularity of things on his resume rise and fall. I'm not on any social network and my bank account has n…

Says the game developer who sells virtual goods... I've lived in the bay area longer than BART has been in operation, and I'd rather see my fares raised to pay the BART employees e…

You'll need to deploy your own private log analytics. While there are plenty of products developed over the past decade to help you do this, the "in" approach these days is a combi…

Both my kids spent considerable time "role playing" and focusing on non-combative activities like chatting and trying out different variations of character choices so I'd say the a…

A similar thing happened in my own family a while back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226987

It looks like it did. The internet archive crawled bits of Lycos Circles from 2005 to 2009[1] as well as the original eCircles all the way back to 1998[2] 1- http://waybackmachine.…

You may be right - logic programming isn't easy and the semantics are different, so it may make things more confusing for a complete beginner (I learned Prolog long ago). For a dee…

Erlang is easier if you know a little Prolog. Perhaps you could download SWI-Prolog[1] and spend a little time doing simple logic programming[2]? 1- http://www.swi-prolog.org/ 2- h…

A "dot.com" company called eCircles[1,2] took exactly this approach between 1998-2001. They were later sold to Classmates[3]. 1- http://www.pcworld.com/article/9704/join_hands_in_e…

A former employer of mine in the financial sector used Scalable Informatics[1] and Dell[2] servers for that sort of thing. 1- http://scalableinformatics.com/ 2- http://www.dell.com…

the wheel was such a clever interface choice ... first seen on the ill-fated Modo four years earlier. http://www.ideo.com/work/modo/

Dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859468 And here too http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=690656

Presumably you could also write it in JavaScript or some other language with excellent JSON support No surprise since JSON (aka JavaScript Object Notation) was designed for interpr…

One interesting thing from the "What's new in 3.2?"[1] page: After the 3.2 release, there are plans to switch to Mercurial as the primary repository. This distributed version contr…

Care to elaborate in your own words why you think so? I will be quite peeved if something I have been doing for years with combinations of tools like Dropbox and Truecrypt becomes …

Not so. As I commented earlier[1], SO's data/ink ratio sucks compared to YC. 1- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=305304

Prior art? 2009 - http://www.randomwire.com/storing-sensitive-data-in-the-clou... 2008 - http://firmit.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/truecrypt-virtual-enc...

I would think that this should be obvious, but sharing your password in such a circumstance appears prohibited by the Facebook terms of service[1]. More specifically: You will not …

Space filling curves are also good for building multi-dimensional indexes for databases. http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/TriStarp/pubs/bncod17.pdf

I don't trust this guy, especially given his connections to EMC's competitors.