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Great comment! Yes, there are many other approaches that are more true to reality, to the point where they are fairly thorough simulations of physics. My approach is somewhat like …

Author here. Thank you! Yes, I think you have the basic gist of it. Split each line, then move an endpoint. There's nothing too complicated about the algorithm, the trick is really…

If you read the quoted portion of his comment, you'll see he's talking about the officers being sentenced, not the offense happening in the first place.

I'm assuming both you and your spouse are earning money, in my numbers. Additionally, you would presumably make investments with the money that you're saving, so you don't quite ha…

3% of $1.5m is only $45k. If you and your spouse can live off of $45k while you're still earning, you can save ~$100k per year and accumulate $1.5m by the time you're 40, easily. S…

> And apartment blocks had shops on the ground floor. This is one of my favorite features of the Mueller area: the apartments do have shops on the ground floor. I actually live in …

Thank you! (I'm the author of the post.) I am indeed writing my own code; I'm just using simple functions from Processing. Thank you very much for the video link. It occurred to me…

Hi, I'm the author of the post. I don't normally release my code, but in this case I did post a gist of the main function to Twitter: https://gist.github.com/thobbs/e879b7dad8f3733…

This is true. Most companies either start using Cassandra when their existing database infrastructure is struggling with a particular workload or they're planning a new feature tha…

Cassandra isn't designed to replace relational databases for all use cases. There are certain use cases where Cassandra excels, certain use cases where an RDBMS excels, and plenty …

"Cassandra [...] isn't real-time in the sense that you can do immediate, fast queries about the relationships across those records as they are hitting the system." That depends on …

Cassandra uses a technique known as consistent hashing to allow each node to independently determine what nodes are replicas for a given row. The process really just involves hashi…

You would need to define "consistency" in order to have a more reasonable discussion about what each system provides, but Cassandra certainly isn't only eventually consistent. You …

Some of these are a bit dated, but it's still a reasonably accurate list of companies that have publicly disclosed their usage of Cassandra: http://www.datastax.com/cassandrausers …

Submitter here. For those who are short on time, these are a few of my favorites: 1. For those unfamiliar with Cassandra, Patrick McFadin's talk (Building a Cassandra Based Applica…

A nice alternative is to do: " Allow easy navigation to relative files cmap %/ %:p:h/ This basically replaces everything before the slash with the directory of the file you're edit…

We have been using Clojure for a product for about 9 months now, and in my experience, I have no trouble identifying what different blocks of code do. It may depend on proper synta…

S3 isn't where the SSDs will go, it's the EC2 instances. Many, many, people would pay those numbers for local, dedicated SSDs when their instance is running a database.