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We really ought to come up with some new terms in this space... it is just confusing to mix "strong consistency" in with "eventual consistency" in any way.

I’m pretty sure the term came from Google (at least that is where I heard it first described) and just referred to a backend engineer with speciality in this area. Now usually thes…

Anyone investing is in a k hole

Wet bulb temp would be better to look at for that reason IMO.

I wonder if any Romans evidence had any evidence of population-level delirium from lead consumption...

Personally I think an updated camcorder would be incredible. CCD with global shutter and in a pocketable format with modern stabilization, a video analog to the rx100. Way too nich…

I’ve seen people who seem to know what they’re talking about cast doubt that you could create your own probiotic yogurt in a typical kitchen since other strains are likely to domin…

Location: CO, USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: distributed systems, high-scalability data-processing, Scala, Java, Python, Spark, Cassandra Résumé/CV: h…

In my opinion it will or already has redefined our conceptual models of intelligence - just like physical models of atoms or gravitational mechanics evolved and newer models replac…

If jaw placement is an issue you can get corrective surgery without an apnea diagnosis (AFAIK). There’s a lot of info on Reddit, you can generally tell from your side profile or bi…

It’s way more about control for the free software crowd. I do get it for tools of learning personally - managing your own knowledge base is important.

Never trust a wealthy guru.

Fair enough, but this did read that way to me: > why I am very sad that we could not achieve reform without resorting to measures such as threatening the international student admi…

In what way does this or anything else Trump has done or indicated to do advance the state of education towards the goals of the reform you are talking about?

Well I don’t think it was kids still in school telling the truck drivers that so I’m not sure what karma has to do with it.

And what about the rest of human pyramid working under the director employed in these productions?

Nobody will watch anyone's "creations". The TV or whatever device watch on will observe what you and everyone else engage with and how you interact with it and create content for y…

> Often times, "Stream vs. Batch" is discussed as if it’s one or the other, but to me this does not make that much sense really. Just seems like a flawed premise to me since lambda…

The tooling is pretty easy to learn if scary looking at first and becoming a JVM expert, at least in the context of GC tuning, might take you a week or less. Some of the defaults a…

Good to get your hands in the dirt as well.

My school started us off in microcontroller programming in C then Java for intro to data structures and OOP then back to C (and MIPS assembly) for systems/OS/concurrency. One thing…

Having a hard time finding it now, but someone put together a benchmark with two categories - naive and optimized - comparing implementations across languages with a workload vague…