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or if its a lot of money -- you're probably under-valuing what you're learning (assuming a semi-rational labour market..)

I dont usually bring it up, but curious - am I the only one who finds a blurb like this a bit unseemly: If you enjoyed this post, I’d be humbled if you’d follow me on Twitter.

You just might reconsider (and that is what bb is banking on), at the end of the day having to police the number of repos you can have is a pain(esp in a startup, where people are …

In my humble opinion, in the vast majority of cases, yes. Because " C ", " D ", " C# " should be easier for search engines to disambiguate (at least working with Lucene, it is, and…

It was kind of interesting comparing the quotes from the various network operators. For instance, this management-speak gem could apply to any product at all: "Etisalat aim to enri…

Read Labyrinths by Borges, and found it to be fantastic, the kind of stuff that leaves you a different person. So, HN, any good fiction you've read of late that I may have missed?

I saw them but those are but single datapoints (and apps seems to vary wildly in requirements). would be handy to have a slider so you could answer the 'what-ifs'. also, was an ear…

Ruby logging ~3x as fast as Python, is this normal?

wow. i didnt realize what an aesthetic achievement the dropbox sync checkmarks were until i saw the google drive ones...

funnily enough - it records the text in GA as a custom event http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmwv=5.2.8&ut... .

In fact, I tried on-instance storage too -- this didnt help substantially. The reality is that many (most?) stacks these days need to be able live happily on AWS...

You'd think -- but the 10gen guys weren't surprised when we were struggling at this level (periodically), on a RS with two AWS large instances and relatively large objects. Absolut…

For the moment to Cassandra but very tempted to look into hbase in more detail soon...

We had a very similar situation ~300 writes per second on AWS. but I suspect some of this has to do with the fact that most people address scaling by adding a replica set, rather t…

maybe im just paranoid, but a bit wary of installing chrome-ext without a quick perusal of the source. Is this github'ed?

Far more likely than 'abuse' (they could have just charged afterall) is probably Google's realization that they have an uncontested lead in machine translation - and there is a lot…

why is why, i suppose, the author has (so considerately) provided the code on github...