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Sounds like a weird and bad situation. Here's a question, you are going into debt over this company... is the CEO also doing the same? Is it shared pain? Or... are you the only one…

The hype and "over-investing" is deliberate. Why? Well, let's face it, the most revolutionary things have all started sounding silly and insane. People will buy things over compute…

Given the legendary performance issues of Hadoop I am not really surprised. Hadoop is heavily horizontally scalable, but that's about it.

Interesting paper, I hope to see a follow on that actually describes the algorithm in full. As written, it doesn't cover the failure recovery, data-drift and timeout cases. Also ma…

Good non-answer. For many large, non-trivial systems have several requirements: - tends to have complex dependencies - needs fast builds This was a classic: http://www.amazon.com/L…

I'm sorry but this is possibly one of the worst comments I've seen... There is a conservation of complexity that you just can't get rid of in an application. To suggest that Scala …

Question, doesn't the full configuration require you to put your config stuff in multiple files? A lot of files? The sbt 'directory of configuration' was always a bummer for me. Th…

you can edit the pom.xml file, and have your project adjusted immediately. intellij will download and add the new jar to the classpath... BAM intellij is really a much better exper…

i really just want intellij compatability. sbt doesnt offer that. it's incremental compiling is not useful because I do my java dev in intellij. So SBT offered me nothing that mave…

It's too bad sbt isn't actually simple and is generally a disaster. I did scala in IntelliJ. The lack of tooling reduces the value a lot. I almost prefer plain java over the sheer …

if you have innate creativity and you aren't inspiring others, then you are just interchangeable, no?

more hallucinogens on the left coast. No surprise BSD was a left coast hippy idea, and mainframe OS was a IBM/east coast thing.

That was years ago when he was a teenager. Many people went thru an "illegal period", his was just... more successful than most. As for sociopathic, so what? Didn't you know that m…

I was neutral on this guy until I read the wired story, and then I became a fan. He is a self made man (way more so than romney!), he suffers from persistent discrimination (overwe…

"startups arent technical" I guess YOUR startup isnt technical... But there are in fact technical startups out there. It's just that they make more money than yours, do better and …

well, you got it in the first paragraph - because Windows isnt Unix, and people dont use it for production. F# is in theory nice, but devops'ing windows, I just dunno man.

It isn't like F1 at all... F1 is a multi-datacenter, transactional datastore and SQL, that google uses to replace mysql. This aint nothing like that.

MY NEW HERO

so much room for activities!

Awesome link, but already seen it on reddit yesterday. HUH

weird city support, austin before seattle... I guess perhaps the data is of different ease to consume, but I'm pretty sure Seattle is a substantially more transit using city than A…

The subsidy rate is the same regardless of which phone you get on AT&T/vz. This means the logical course of action is to choose the phone that gives you the most backend subsidy am…

I also gave the driving directions a shot, the voice cues are great, the visuals look fantastic and really awesome. Also when you deviate it doesnt give you some "ROBOT RECALCULATI…

I am not really sure the current state of things, but to "get real" I feel any GC needs to be able to handle: - multicore/multithreaded - heap sizes of 20-200GB and larger ideally …