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According to the article, Yelp had 7 different data sources and similar number of targets. If they wrote a loader for each combination, they'd end up with 49 combinations. Not to m…

required.acks works together with min.insync.replicas. Basically "required.acks" lets you choose between "no acks", "leader only" and "all in sync replicas", while min.insync.repli…

In this case, you will enjoy the new consumer in 0.9 a lot!

I already use Houzz for something similar. Houzz lets me browse products by similar categories, but also lets me see how the product looks in actual rooms and has lots of social fe…

Scala: Java has tons of boiler-plate code and is not "functional" enough.

Obviously the author doesn't have kids. I don't think anything can prevent them from breaking and changing things. Maybe they won't do it with iPad (although I doubt it), but they'…

If you are currently living and creating wealth in Somalia, then I agree - society doesn't help you much and if you pay any taxes, you can stop. If you live in a first world countr…

Years ago I've read an article that recommended doing this manually as a way to assist the flow of traffic. I thought its a nice idea and tried it. Unfortunately, I tried this in T…

I love the explanation of terms. Highly useful. It also highlights the near complete lack of correlation between how much a plan costs and how much benefits you get.

... and ZFS copy-on-write has been known to cause severe performance degradation for databases. Not to mention that too many SAs keep the default ZFS block size, which is far too l…

That's an awesome idea and I hope it works out well. I'd love to be able to follow my favorite hair stylist and beautician around. I also hope my customers will want to follow thei…

You see, passwords suck. Big time. They are extremely vulnerable to brute-force attacks, people forget them, people write them down on post-it notes, and people use the same passwo…

What I'd really want to see is public-key authentication for website. Let me upload my public key when I create an account on a website, and let the browser interact with my ssh-ag…

(2) It is very easy to be super busy and bored. Having lots of boring work does not magically add up to become interesting all of the sudden.

This is almost like Oracle support telling me "There is no problem" after I call them about my database corruption. The author, who obviously loves your software, couldn't find you…

I did both, and in my situation it seems that travel is a bigger issue. Even with crazy startup hours, we could usually get at least one shared meal a day and you know... see each …

Consulting often means lots of travel time. Even remote customers will usually want to meet face-to-face at some point, and requirement gathering is often best done on-site. This b…

Follow up research I'd like to see: Some research has been done on effective group problem solving. There are several possible methods - pick a leader and let him decide, reach con…

Actually the article says "the more women the better". I don't think an all-women group could count as diverse. The researchers explained the findings in terms of "social sensitivi…

The gap between exceptional developers and average developers was proven in some planned experiments, as described in Peopleware. This article, on the other hand, contains lots of …

Heh, its nice to see a version of "don't wear a short skirt when you go out, and don't drink" aimed at the 50% of the population that normally don't get blamed when they are victim…

Also, the lack of any scalability charts or diagrams of architecture is suspicious. If you can't make it opensource, at least write a serious paper to support the claims. Like Goog…