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Yugabyte is an open source distributed database that has a Postgres compatible query layer as well as a Cassandra compatible one. https://www.yugabyte.com/

This article talks about a few factors that have created this crisis: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/09/the-fed-has-not-cove... "What were they thinking?" indeed.

I'm not sure why you're downvoted, but I think that this nails the biggest reason for runaway inflation in housing prices. When money supply is cheap, asset prices will be bid up. …

I agree. While there are many articles that are questionably sourced and there are many articles with which I profoundly disagree (mostly advocating Austrian style economics and un…

I had an ultra 10 in my bedroom closet and it was impossible to sleep with that thing on. But I don't think it was much worse than HP 9000s or IIRC DEC alphas. Feeling nostalgic no…

In the 90s, it was frequently referred to as 'Slowlaris'. Yeah, in the early days of Solaris, I definitely used to miss SunOS 4.

Tarkovsky's works are generally demanding works of art. They are definitely slow paced and almost boring, but I've always found myself in a much more thoughtful frame of mind after…

IntelliJ for Java. Emacs for everything else.

My favorite olive oil anecdote. Last year, I was traveling from Venice to Paris on an overnight train and I'd brought along a bottle of wine to share with my cabin-mates. One of th…

I think the key is seasonality, though I'm sure that regulations and customer willingness to pay for quality do play a role. For instance, I find that fruits and vegetables taste b…

Well, if a company is willing to pay top dollar for a year to hire a candidate for a specific skill, I'd say that the specific skill should be in high demand. So it would be easy e…

Actually, I don't see a big problem with SV companies getting the lion's share of H-1B visa allocations if they are for the highest paying jobs. I would argue that this would ensur…

If you have easy H-1B transfers (which we do), then this is not an issue since the H-1B worker would have no motivation to stick on in a lower wage job.

That is $100k or $25K per year assuming a 4 year vesting schedule. Even assuming that you did not take a pay cut relative to working for a bigger or more established company, it se…

Sorry if this is an ignorant question, but can you elaborate on this? It's not clear to me why this would lead to memory leaks.

I suspect that the majority of the cases where H-1B workers are paid less than the prevailing wages are at body shops like Wipro, TCS and yes, IBM. IMHO one potential fix for the s…

Samza can run on a Hadoop 2 cluster using YARN. As far as I know, there is no other connection to Hadoop or HBase.

This is an unfortunate display of bad judgement by all parties concerned. The disgruntled employee, even if he had not signed an NDA, did something fairly stupid and verboten -- na…

The one question no one seems to be asking is how much of PayPal's revenue is due to transactions on eBay. I suspect that it is the majority. If that's the case, then with the spin…

Perhaps I am missing something, but color me skeptical... immutable on-disk structures essentially means that you have to perform run-time compactions on every query... unless your…

I would say that a technical interview consisting of coding questions that test data structures and algorithms is about as standard as you can get. True that some interviewers will…

Did I read correctly that you have to sign up for a Gold Support Package @ $400 / month before you have access to GCE?

Am I the only one who thought that this article was tongue-in-cheek? I mean, who seriously advocates for such a dystopian world? It has to be ironic!

So the objection to JSON comes down to a couple of things: no comments and fragility in face of a trailing comma. I wonder if the right thing though would be to fix JSON (maybe eve…

Well, obnoxious may be too strong, but it is definitely ironic and self-unaware (or should that be un-self-aware?)