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rojabuck

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About rojabuck

obsessed with crafting software, building teams and being CTO at riverford

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    Please sign and share this petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/173407/sponsors/aeX... It reads: Do not censor the internet. Please rethink forcing ISPs to Block “Adu…

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    (kind of off topic) considering a move? considered riverford.co.uk? if so fire me your CV...

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    The idea of charging someone for a plaster when they need it feels totally alien to me.

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    Comment #10063346

    Take a look at http://webhook.com as they have a similar offering that may give some inspiration.

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    Comment #9594720

    I'll just leave this here... http://tech.just-eat.com/jobs/

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    Comment #7737635

    I can see the SS Great Britain out of my window as I type this very reply :) Such an utterly wonderful piece of engineering, the combination of so many advances from it's iron cons…

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    Why are people investing in new top level domains?

    Ok. So domains have been much unchanged since the beginning. Well at least in respect to the 3 majors; .com, .org ,.net. Then there are some well established new-er TLD's i.e. .fr,…

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    Comment #5878544

    Is there anything in the roadmap for geospatial index support? Our major usecase for mongo is returning entries in ordered distance from a location and / or within some radius of a…

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    It isn't surprising, but it is worth talking about. I subscribe to "nothing to hide" but it would be nice to, at least, have some notification and callback over who had access to m…

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    I should have explained that my costs were calculated on a "per day" assumption. Thus the costs are for: 5000 x 60 x 60 x 24 = 432000000 Writes 50000 x 60 x 60 x 24 = 4320000000 Re…

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    Would be interested in details about any with Strong Consistency, decent replication across fault areas, which get the same level of performance (single digit ms) at a cost equival…

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    The cost per transaction, performance & ease. Reads per $0.01 = (50.60).60 = 180000 Writes per $0.01 = (10.60).60 = 36000 Assuming that you hit your usage is at 100% capacity then …

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    Comment #3479837

    Fast, Consistent, Secure & Replicated. Game changed.

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    Comment #3273749

    A clear & approachable piece of documentation. What a fantastic resource a library of such documents, for numerous major data formats, would be.

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    Not to take away from thrift in any way but could you not do this already using any portable serialisation method? Json has c++ and JavaScript (de)serialisation implementations as …

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    Given that the course starts in October I thought that a good old concerted effort on revision might get me past the need for MU123 (would be nice to aim for a 6 year degree not a …

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    You mention that your doing both 121 & 221 at the same time. When I was reading up about the course they recommended only doing this if you had A level (or above) and could commit …

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    I am just about to begin a part-time open university mathematics degree (mature student) as part of a process to get over my fear of mathematics. I have a GCSE in higher mathematic…