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At first when I saw yet more name comments on this thread I felt disappointment that people can't leave the subject alone.

But then I realized that as someone who doesn't care about the name, even positively enjoys it, I have a competitive advantage over those people.

Now I feel good again.
The subsequent DMCA notice that's filed is the problem. DMCA has a huge problem with abuse from automated filings. Every takedown notice should be prepared by a human. Writing software that automates the process is a crime against culture.
That is, until they go back to using similar and open protocols, we won't see this again. That's the sad part, there was a concerted push away from this by quite a few of the major players (either initially, or in response to others, or for technical reasons, or a combination thereof). :/
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> As dire as the situation in Washington may seem now, democracy hasn't fallen. We as the citizenry haven't lost any power we had back then. If anything, we have more now given the surge in online activism (that also leads to real life activism more readily, at least from my perspective).

Ehhh let's not assume the future is alright quite yet. The prez did just fire the guy investigating his campaign's links to a foreign adversary.
Imagine hand waving here. This is from memory and there are certainly details missing.
Exactly my thoughts. Raised stakes in the discourse. This either delivers, or will become a shower of BS.
No single thing, rather it's been displaced by using specific targeted libraries instead of enormous frameworks.
The edginess got your attention, did it?
It's just a matter of degree. You're drawing an arbitrary line here. Nobody is prohibiting anybody from construction, they're prohibiting certain types of construction. You can build a house, it just has to follow the rules and guidelines that the community has established.

It's a pretty common thing in the United States. There are historical neighborhoods for example. People pay a lot of money to live in these neighborhoods. You can't just waltz in and tear down an expensive house and turn it into a property with a couple of trailers on it.

The area has housing problems, no doubt about it, I'm not arguing that they don't, but there is clear legal, and social precedent for establishing rules for communities throughout the United States.
I think the parent's point was that people and companies make mistakes. Voting with your wallet is a great idea -- often times when I pull funding from a company for a perceived slight, if they react to my vote, I'll vote again by paying for their service.
With Cosmos DB, Microsoft wants to build one database to rule them all
I don't have a "concern," I merely stated what most people think of anything Google. I don't know enough about this project (the article didn't either) and I don't have a dog in this race. However, I do remember my grandma saying to never put any eggs in Google's baskets. She always said that she heard that from her grandma.

Google will look after it's own interests, all the time. That's every quarter.
Yep I think you are right. Satya just mentioned bots. Also, I'm pretty sure they'll show off Microsoft Home Hub in Windows 10 today.
But that's just it. Different art says different things to different people.

To me, Inferno read like historical fan-fiction, where Dante put some well-known figures and some people that he just had some personal grudge against into his own version of Hell. The words were well chosen, but I didn't like it. Yet there it was, in my Norton Anthology. Someone liked it well enough to decide that I had to not only read it, but also dissect it and write BS essays about it.

That's a horrible enough thing to do to art you actually enjoy, but to chop up and rehash something you feel nothing for is even worse.

From my perspective now, as 2017-me, I wouldn't say that Planescape: Torment was "sublime". But 1999-me thought it was just the best thing to ever grace my hard drive. And 1999-me was able to look back on 1994-me and think "This is way better than Dante's Inferno." Dante took the concept of Gehennom from the Judeo-Christian-Muslim religious tradition and turned it into an epic poem. Black Isle Studios took the Planescape campaign setting from D&D 2nd Ed. (aka AD&D) and turned it into an epic CRPG. In it, the ordered layers of Hell had to be renamed to Baator because of the moral panic from D&D 1st Ed. When Nameless One actually (re-)visited renamed Hell, I thought that the pillar of skulls was at least as good as anything Dante ever dreamed up, and the protagonist actually had a plot-essential reason to see it.

I think I actually need the gamey bits. I have tried the artsy walking-simulator games where the story is on rails, and I don't like them. For me, an essential part of enjoying the art is in the discovery. I tend to like it more if I had to work to get it. So as tell-a-story games go, I much prefer something like The Stanley Parable over something like Dear Esther.
I think you're advocating for dropping compatability with a little under half of all c++ projects.
Even if we have no say, it is pivotal we make a record that we tried. Regardless of the circumstances.
Happen to have any of those pictures?
Hey now, the newest TI 84s use the eZ80!
> If people want to steal your content, it's going to be stolen. You cannot solve that. It's better to spend your time making more content and better content so your paying customers pay more and refer more paying friends.

You can solve a lot of it. I wrote a book that took me a lot of time and effort to produce. People started posting it for free. I forced them to take it down. That was much, much easier than writing another book (which would take me about a year)
It's not that they cannot, it is that they do not want to. Seriously, any software dev saying they "cannot live" on their salary is simply out of touch with the rest of the world. Not to say they should take a below market salary, but comparing a hyper-crazy salary of SF to Toronto is unreasonable.
I'm looking for a similar solution, but I'm more interested device that isn't tied to a particular platform. Integration with an app is not high on my priority list, I just want to wake up without waking up my wife.

So far, the more interesting devices I found are:

- Sonic Alert Sonic Bomb: A digital clock with a bed shaker. I would turn of the extra loud alarm and just use the bed shaker (a vibrating disc you can place under your pillow). Highly rated on Amazon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Sonic-Alert-SBB500SS-Alarm-Shaker/dp/...

- Shake-n-Wake: A vibrating wrist watch style alarm. It's fairly bulky compared to fitness trackers, but it's quit cheap. Only 3 stars on Amazon, has apparently some quality issues. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Vibrating-Personal-Alarm-Shake...

- iLuv Smartshaker 2: just a bed shaker, a vibrating disk with sound alarm. You need an app for it though, available for Android or iOS. 3,5 starts on Amazon, so not a clear winner. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Smartshaker-iLuv-Portable-Vibrating-M...

I've tried a Fitbit fitness tracker, but the vibration isn't always strong enough to wake me up. And you have to remember to charge it (enough!) before you go to bed. Just forget the Lifemax 331 Under Pillow Vibration Alarm Clock: it's really crap.

Any suggestions, experiences or recommendations are welcome!
I mean the big issue is really the inherent positive/negative association. I wouldn't over-think it.

Amazon - big, marvelous jungle. Yahoo - an expression of Joy. Apple - a delicious sweet fruit.

Cockroach - a disgusting plague insect.
Choosing technologies based on first-hand review and first principles rather than things like Gartner magic quadrants, big company brand recognition, feature lists, and "serious" sounding names is a competitive advantage that startups often have over big businesses. The latter are forced by their procurement departments and other forces to use old, inferior, and more costly technology.

On the flip side though if I were in charge of CockroachDB I would look at doing something about the name. Maybe rename it something like "Resilient" as part of the "exit from beta" milestone. It's going to be a serious liability for them selling to the kinds of customers I described above, and unfortunately that's where most of the money is in these devops/infrastructure markets. The key to success is to make a superior product and then figure out how to sell it to pointy haired bosses. The latter often means making it look more boring than it actually is.

Fun factoid: scientists sometimes do this with grant proposals. I've had two scientists independently tell me that they often take cool, fascinating research proposals and "make them boring" to sell them to bureaucrats. "You have to hide all the interesting stuff and make it sound like you are doing boring incremental research. If you talk about anything 'revolutionary' you will never get funded."
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> have questionable legality

I don't read the previous post as complaining about legality, but instead about taking an actin that could cost him as a user either financially (through bandwidth charges) or inconvenience (through reduced bandwidth available to other applications, or getting cut off or speed limited instead of charged for the extra bandwidth which is how some mobile plans work).
Skype used to do that too, although according to them they also moved away from it[0]

[0]https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA12381/what-is-the-cloud
The good old Skype strategy, with super nodes.

For those who didn't use Skype at the time, they had an algorithm which would promote some nodes to "super node" status. Those nodes would then be used for processing power, uploads, etc.

I guess Microsoft didn't like the possible legal implications and this "feature" went on the chopping block quite early after the acquisition (unless my memory's failing me and Skype dumped it even before the acquisition).
Like mentioned, this has been in the news, small sampling:

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/25/workers-involved-in-union-act...

[2] http://prospect.org/article/charge-time-electric-car-workers...

[3] http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/18/toxic-waste-spill-at-tesla...

[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-launches-investigat...
I built a relay computer for a science fair in the 60's. The power supply was from a pinball machine. The relays were mercury-sealed, from an aircraft.

It had seven words of five bits each (that's all the relays we had). It could add, subtract and store results.

We got honourable mention.
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You obviously haven't spent much time in internet marketing. People who are somewhere in betweeen a non technical user and developer are productive because they use Wordpress for everything. There are entire ecommerce stores built around Wordpress. At this point Wordpress is like an operating system for web apps; it doesn't matter what the apps do, only that they're easy to install/run/customize for semi-technical users.
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Thanks. Haha, me too. :) I'll try to write one when I feel comfortable enough with lifetimes myself.
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I could counter your point with an article about peer pressure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_pressure). For example there might be less stigma about old people dating young people or groups of friends with massively different age ranges due to the infinite life and good health factor allowing more diverse social groups. This would result in groups of people exchanging opinions and being influenced in ways that aren't as common currently.

I should stress though that I do feel you're missing my point. I'm not saying people give up attitudes easily. What I'm saying in an infinite life there is infinitely more opportunities for ones preconceptions to be challenged. I'm not saying it's easy for ones preconceptions to be challenged but it does often still happen and thus with an infinite life span there is both significantly more time and significantly more opportunity for this to happen.

What I'm suggesting is that where we don't observe significant adaptation in preconceptions within a shorter time scales, we might discover that humans are more capable to adapt over a much longer scale. We might even beg for change just out of pure boredom (eg I doubt many people could stand doing the same job for hundreds of years). Change pushes us outside of our comfort zone, into new social groups, and most importantly, change can often force us to evaluate our preconceptions through personal experience which is far more valuable to reconditioning than debate and 2nd hand reporting (which is what your articles focused on).

Ultimately though, and as I said to the GP, this is all speculative. However I would be amazed if infinite life + good health didn't affect human psychology given the massive impact it would have culturally and the significance that mortality, the fear of growing old and ill health, all play in human psychology. There are so many variables that would change (economic, social, psychological, etc) beyond just the numbers on our birthday cakes that I find it weird to assume our lives would just be the same but longer.
Are there published benchmarks for multi-key operations and more complex SELECT statements? I apologize if I missed them.

I'm trying to determine whether there's a place for Cockroach within what I think are the constraints in the database space.

* Traditional SQL Databases

- Go to solution for every project until proven otherwise.

- Battle tested and unmatched features.

- Hugely optimized with incredible single node performance.

- Good replication and failover solutions.

* Cassandra

- Solved massive data insert and retention.

- Battle tested linear scalability to thousands of nodes.

- Good per node performance.

- Limited features.

It seems like many new databases tend to suffer from providing scale out but relatively poor per node performance so that a mid-size cluster still performs worse than a single node solution based on a traditional SQL database.

And if you genuinely need huge insert volumes, because of the per node performance you'd need an enormous cluster whereas Cassandra would deal with it quite comfortably.
> Hardware is primitive and some enterprising company can devise a much nicer interface and probably at 1/4th price.

But nobody bothers, because they all know that HP can offer it at 1/4 the price, too—and less. Nobody touches HP's margins, because HP can survive on much smaller margins than any startup ever could. Why start a price war you could only lose?
Thanks. I'm glad my post was useful to at least some folks. :)
Have every reason to believe this story:

My instructor in a corporate decision making class talked, ironically about luck in this way

He and his college friend just received PhDs. He was hired by a consulting firm. His friend took a job in wall street.

At Christmas they got together. The friend told him of the time his "firm" manager called him into the office.
The manager handed him an envelope and said this is your bonus. The friend said he was so new he didnt think he would get one.

He thanked his boss and left his office.

The friend returned to the bosses office shortly after opening the envelope. He said to his boss "there must be some mistake."

The boss said no, there isn't. We have a small group [of 13 he said later] and this is your share.

My instructor wondered out loud if he should have taken a job in wall street too.

The check in his friends envelope was for $5,000,000
I thought it was more about punching through firewalls than borrowing processing power
I'm fascinated by the idea that this person loves C++ and also Rust...
> raising environmental concerns is a lever folks can pull to make specific proposed development more expensive and possibly cancelled

Environmental concerns under CEQA aren't "black-boxed" or generic, they have to be categorized, detailed, and public. Mitigation measures are sometimes expensive, yes.

Rubber-stamping construction permits in my island is how we ended up with rows of hotels destroying the coast illegally. Once the buildings are there, the harm is done, and no one has the money to demolish them. "Going after them after the fact" can work for arbitrary zoning requirements, but it doesn't work for environmental ones.
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K so I'll buy the houses surrounding yours and build some huge barbwire walls, then on the outside of the walls I'll just paint them with horrific images, just gross stuff that anybody would find disgusting to look at. You spent 1.5mm on that house, and now because it's surrounded with these walls the property value is cut to basically nothing. House appraised as worthless, financial ruin for you.

But hey fuck you right?

>Are you seriously suggesting that someone else should be prevented from living the life they want, the job they want, affordable rent, enough space to raise children, etc. to protect someone else's view? That's an unbelievably fucked up level of dystopian.

Me me me me me.

I want an affordable house, with enough space to raise children, affordable rent, the job that I want and I want to live right next to Breckenridge so I can ski all the time! Oh and I want a short commute, freshly paved roads, bike lanes, HUGE parks, the best schools, and free community events. That's the life I want. So I guess I get to move in and start demanding those things?

Sorry. Life doesn't work that way. Whether it's somebody's view, or the neighborhood they moved in to, you aren't entitled to things like that. Housing will be expensive in desirable areas. You don't get to just move in and complain it's expensive. Move somewhere else or deal with it.

Ridiculous.
In this day and age of online user tracking, I'd be glad to have an extremely common name!
There's bad name, and then there's repulsive name.

All the examples you mention fall under "bad name", and it's not even objectively bad, I actually think they're great names, so it's subjective. And NONE of them are repulsive.

Then again, if you insist cockroaches are lovable creatures I have nothing more to say.
This strikes me as typical gambler mentality. I'd definitely bet against you. I saw your post above about skill and I agree there are people who have better skills at this. The problem is they are operating against a chaotic system. Their way of doing things may get huge returns consistently...until it doesn't.
Yep - there are ecommerce plugins (WooCommerce being the big notable one, owned by Automattic themselves), CRM plugins, project management plugins, etc.
If there was a way to really do it, I would not mind a x% tax on items that use plastic. Plastics make our life easier, much easier, so we can afford to pa x% more to safely recycle it.

The money would be going to getting rid of it...not pork projects or paying for $400,000 pensions for civil servants.
Terrible to code? Possibly. Terrible to maintain? Definitely!

Look at Pidgin's struggles.
Just clicked the link directly from HN, redirect ends up
"This domain is blocked due to a security threat."

no real info on that page that i can share though. My company is very aggressive with security and maybe out of date blacklist?
There is a bit of nervousness in the US market right now...

I talk to a lot of retailers (not job related I just talk a lot) and most of them are lamenting that things are slow right now.

The problem is that there isn't a problem, just the perception of one. If you cut the fat now your saving money for the bad thing that MIGHT happen.
So that's why there are 999 versions of 'flashlight' app. Not because everyone wanted to develop it, but because we now have the equivalent of pre-packaged bloatware/malware for the desktop, now for the phone.

Thanks for chiming in. I didn't know this kind of company or business model existed, so now I will be more wary about installing seemingly benign apps. (I am not an app developer).
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In a couple of years, I suspect that they will rebrand their name to just "RoachDB". It conveys the same meaning, while not being that awkward to discuss with users/clients
"Data has gravity and computation will move to it."

Eloquent as always.
Both sides are pretty evil in their own special, burning snowflake kind of way.
Microsoft doesn't plan on replacing Windows with this, right? They are just going to use this on lower-cost machines by obsoleting win32 apps? If not, this seems like a really bad move.
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Phones don't use Core chips, so almost certainly not.
I've also heard of using 30 (not 20) stocks as a sort of rule of thumb for sufficient diversification. I went ahead and looked it up though:

In 1970, Lawrence Fisher and James H. Lorie released "Some Studies of Variability of Returns on Investments In Common Stocks" published in The Journal Of Business on the "reduction of return scattering" as a result of the number of stocks in a portfolio. They found that a randomly created portfolio of 32 stocks could reduce the distribution by 95%, compared to a portfolio of the entire New York Stock Exchange. From this study came the mythical legend that "95% of the benefit of diversification is captured with a 30 stock portfolio."

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/11/illusion-of-d...

I would really read the rest of that link though, there's some good stuff in there.
Thank you for your tips, my friend! You are totally right: go slow, pick your gear one at a time and after some time I will have a great little home studio to play with :-)
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When I scroll on iPhone on this page: https://eventbrite.github.io/britecharts/tutorial-donut.html the chart keeps redrawing itself.

Edit: actually every demo keeps restating itself when I scroll up and down on iPhone
At the very least, sleep tracking can be used to wake you up at the best time.
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The old Yellowstone Trail [1] roadbed is still visible in Redmond, WA [2].

[1]: http://yellowstonetrail.org/
[2]: http://www.historylink.org/File/2363
They try, but there is not really predictable and simple way to select those fonts in CSS. I've had times when Courier was used on Linux because the MS fonts we installed.

I would prefer they just do font-family: monospace
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You're going to have a hard time convincing nontechnical managements they need to go with Cockroach instead of Oracle.

It's unfortunate the world works that way, but nevertheless, it works that way.

It could be the best database in the world. They did a real disservice to themselves by naming it after a bug people typically associate with filth, disease, and germs.

Would you use something called TurdDB or AssDB?
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