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The new garbage collector should be based on well-researched and proven algorithms, together with a couple of thoroughly evaluated innovations, where appropriate. The real innovati…

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>Things still felt very new then, like Christmas. The excitement and freshness was like that. > I had hit a ceiling in terms of what I was learning and I got bored, to be totally h…

You may want to try using an ML algorithm called association rules, which produces rules automatically. Though acccounting for the sequence of events would be harder.

I once reduced the running time of a report from 45 minutes to 3 seconds (900x improvement) by moving the code inside the database. If a programming language wants to stay fast it …

A friend proposed another theory, inappropriate as it may seem. That it's a way to draw attention to Reddit needing to make money, and Steve, being the CEO, has to find a way to do…

I don't see a Twitter clone getting enough users any time soon.

I want to get a job within 3 days, not 3 months.

by relaxing constrains, constant expressions became so powerful that a C compiler can be implemented in! I wonder how long it will take before C++ accidentally becomes a Lisp.

There are similarities. A database is also a way of processing data. For the kinds of processing both Spark and MemSQL do (e.g. join operation) is Spark faster than MemSQL?