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In 1996, the US government decided that large numbers of its nuclear weapons would require replacement, refurbishing, or decommissioning. Accordingly, the Department of Energy set …

Starlite, meet FOGBANK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank

Another benefit of this approach is that it allows you to save storage space by eliminating the need to create a copy of the JSON data in the DB's own internal format.

It's genuinely refreshing to have a senator who isn't embarrassed to admit that his newest legislative proposal is inspired by the plot of a Hollywood thriller.

The CIA also covertly funded an "Anglo-American left-of-centre" literary journal named "Encounter". More details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounter_(magazine) And here: h…

Matt Taibbi practically makes a living writing takedowns of Thomas Friedman's Op/Ed pieces and books. Here's a selection: http://nypress.com/flathead/ http://nypress.com/flat-n-all…

Several years ago I had the idea of using Markov chain algorithms to auto-generate Thomas Friedman articles. I was going to build a site around it called mechanicalfriedman.com. I …

Author here. Believe it or not I originally had the compression ratio graph rotated 90 degrees, and had manually modified it to run from 0.00 to 1.00. Google docs for some god awfu…

> as ZFS is likely caching the reads in the ARC Each of the seven queries we used in our benchmark required a sequential scan of the 32GB dataset. It's unlikely that the ARC had an…

I wasn't aware that Reiser4 supported compression. Thanks for pointing that out. As for why we chose to use ZFS instead of Btrfs, we feel that ZFS is closer to being in a state whe…

While I can't claim that we logged CPU load while running these tests, I can say that I watched the output of top and iotop and that the CPU load was relatively light. It's also wo…

old-gregg's point is valid. Since we didn't benchmark ZFS without compression we can't say for sure how much of the performance improvement is attributable to compression vs. just …

Disclaimer: I'm a committer on the Apache Hive project. A couple points in no particular order: * EMR Hive is a closed source fork of the upstream Apache Hive code base. The EMR do…