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The expectation that a machine should not make these mistakes is reasoned, humans might make these mistakes but they will generally realise their mistake. The machine doesn't know …

Disagree on latency, for certain classes of applications it really matters. Latency can be caused by a myriad of things, but if that thing is your means for cut over, you haven't f…

Volt is another good example of solving this well. It's consistency guarantees are strong, and offers very high availability through it's replication which commits transactions to …

Bournemouth has a long runway, legacy of its WWII roots. It was chartered for £60,000 for some 20-minute subsonic flights. There were also some day trips to Cairo from Bournemouth.…

It is a real issue, I was amazed to find places such as Milton Keynes were seeing foreign investment on new build - friend is renting there and his new build place is owned by a fa…

Zwift and Bkool already have offerings in this area. Zwift is outstanding.

It is brutal and in some countries, likely to result in a law suit as it can be construed as 'Constructive Dismissal'. Extraordinarily damaging to the person on the receiving end. …

I think you've hit the nail on the head with Scala. It feels every conceivable concept in language research has been thrown in. The lack of coherency is sometimes quite jarring. Co…

Warrants are required in the UK, though there are special exceptions such as when a serious or dangerous incident, agreed its open ended but the onus is on the Police officer to pr…

They're useful where you need to grow a collection in constant time. Re-sizing arrays is potentially very expensive.

The one thing seems to have been omitted is housing costs? I am in the UK and housing costs have risen very sharply thus eliminating any other reductions on pricing. This is one ar…

HBase 90.4, problems with I/O we had a very heavy read load on top of a write load, write load bursting 14,000 TX per second, and an average of 8,000 per second - each record aroun…

Also they used an old version of HBase, 90.4 in the benchmark, HBase 94.0 has been out since May 2012, and has a lot of work to improve performance especially remove lock contentio…

My understanding of facebooks Pod Architecture for HBase was not the name node but simply scaling HBase, HBase gets rather unpleasant at facebook scales. The facebook HBase fork ha…

Bruce Eckel is releasing a book this year on Scala, Atomic Scala: http://www.atomicscala.com/ Eckel's Thinking in Java was a classic, I suspect he will this one out of the bag too.…

I find this quite curious, how would it work with clothing? I mean most clothes designs are the work of high end fashion houses, the middle market and lower end then produce very s…

This is a just discussion of the hype cycle, you can apply the very general rules to almost any technology. No new insight here, it feels like link bait.