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Still no linux support? Any plans for that or even just an API so I can write one?

Is there anybody here who has run MongoDB at moderate scale with good results? As in a few terabytes of data, >10k ops/second territory. I've been really disappointed with its reli…

Sorry, didn't mean to come over completely negative. I appreciate the work that's gone in to Spark and it's clearly well designed. Developing with Spark after coming from a Hadoop …

Has anyone had some good experiences with Spark? I put several weeks in to moving our machine learning pipeline over to Spark only to find I kept hitting a race condition in their …

Very interesting.. Do tell. What kind of misconceptions are there and how have they changed? I still labour under the assumption that NREs make doing anything like that _extremely_…

The problem with the Monument Valley numbers is that they expected a hit game on iOS would magically translate in to a hit game on Android and that's really not the case. The two s…

To be fair, the market put such a small premium on the non-Alibaba value in Yahoo largely because they weren't confident that Yahoo wouldn't just squander it. Yahoo's purchase of T…

Over 10,000 people died in drink driving incidents in the US along last year. Distraction from mobile phones also led to thousands of accidents, should they be illegal too? Let's n…

That sounded like a fun course. Has anyone taken that and say Andrew Ng's or Yaser's courses? How did they compare?

Just as another datapoint, I used to keep a couple of virtual machines at Linode. After seeing how they acted after their security breaches, I left for DigitalOcean. I've also reco…

The 8GB ram limit on the X1 and X250 is still pretty crazy. I have virtually no reason to upgrade from my X220 (i5 2410, 8GB/SSD+HD) unless it breaks. Sad.

Can I ask what network and what plan you're on? I am clearly on a vastly inferior one with t-mobile and should switch.

So something I've been wondering about with all the talk around The Pirate Bay recently is why aren't people using the blockchain to store data needed to bootstrap your joining of …

I see the latter case used as an argument lots but I just don't seem to understand it. OVH will rent you servers for as little as a month at a time, for a _massive_ reduction in co…

Presumably those were a while back? Do you think the climate has changed since then to make it much harder?

"Although your product may not be very appealing yet, if you're a startup your programmers will often be way better than the ones your customers have or can hire." Is this really t…

The reference to the unmanned large planes at the bottom: "Mr McAuslan said there was an urgent need for rules to be tightened before much larger unmanned cargo planes - potentiall…

As an aside, does anyone have any experience using Aerospike? Any impartial thoughts?

That's because this was never about Microsoft investing in the Nook. Microsoft's investment was really just a settlement with Barnes and Noble in everything other than name. Micros…