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I have a friend who works in Canadian immigration as a marriage interviewer (i.e., that guy who interrogates you both, separately, to determine if yours is a green card marriage). According to him, it's very difficult to sneak past them - they've seen it all.
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Who'd want it, unless someone is looking to launch an inferior Netflix competitor.
I will say that the SQL Server Management Studio is a great tool, but because it's a GUI tool everything has to be buried in menus. If you plan on using it, read a guide first, because it's not entirely intuitive. It has the occasional cryptic error message or even unhandled exception, but my biggest annoyance is this: You can copy in rows from results and paste them to insert rows, but say you made a mistake and paste in hundreds of rows that don't fit the database schema: you will get hundreds of messagebox popups. The only way out I've found is to end the process.
I would be extremely disappointed and disheartened if it's Zynga.
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Can someone explain to me what a "clean room" implementation is in this context? (Wikipedia already read and it didn't quite compute.)
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It would but none of the players have the mindshare, capital or cred to do this. We are at a near perfect astable state in terms of competition. I am really stoked about all of this.
Did you miss where Microsoft just paid double what Skype was worth?

Exclusives for WP7, makes sense and reminds me of exactly what they did with Bungie to build X-Box.
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"Absent a way to live legally, he has little other choice."

No he has a choice and he chooses to risk being busted and live in the land of opportunities. He can live legally. He can choose to go back to the native country of his parents and start a legal life there. He has graduated from a university in the US. He has done work in the US. He is much better off resume-wise than many of his peers.
I'd much rather it be what it is..But that's a case of its incentives.

Banks don't necessarily have the incentives of being any more user friendly than fits the needs to attract and keep customers, and they can use, to some degree, lockin and acquisitions to do that job. Bank Simple, on the other hand, doesn't make money from anything but attracting savings and checking customers, which is the service i want from it, and as that's its only profit stream, its likely to work pretty hard to keep us happy...by doing the work of securing the best banks to work with, rather than leaving that work to me.
What really has to sink in is that there are at least 11 million people in this guy's situation. I can't think of a single example in history of 11 million people being forcibly removed from a country, and any analogous parallels are quite ominous. Fact:(1) they are staying here Fact:(2) there are real, tangible costs to them, you, and society as a whole for them to remain undocumented. Conclusion: There should be a path to citizenship for them.
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I agree.

Let's extend the article's advice. Suppose, for the sake of argument, your minions do work harder when you remind them how much they have to do and how little time to do it. It follows that they'll work harder still if you mislead them about how much time they have left, and set an artificial deadline.

Now, class, pick up Peopleware, and turn to page 1.
I've got the exact same feeling
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I tuned into NHK online and there was nothing.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/r/movie/

EDIT: There was a brief mention in passing on the news. Given the magnitude, I expected live bulletin coverage. Stand down.
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I don't think that's superficial. That's the same reason that I used to love programming in C++ but began to see its foibles when I started working with large groups of C++ programmers. People tend to work in a stylistic cul-de-sac which doesn't play nicely with others.

Criticising Java seems to be a favourite passtime of IT snobs, but theres a lot of real world payoff to having a language which is simple and tends to have one (idiomatic) way of doing things. Not that its perfect - not by a long shot.

Writing languages is easy (I've written a couple) but writing one which people actually want to use is a hell of a lot harder. That said, I like quite a few of Scala's ideas. I'd love closures, type inference and traits in Java.
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unjust to whom? lets open borders ?

vargas, when he was smuggled into this country, was not "special case" at that time. This is a typical, hallmark fraud case. The coyote, fake passport, fake student visa, fake greencard the list goes on.

you want the Law to be just in above case? i am just saying there needs to be punishment and accountability.

Believe me, the US immigration law is lot better, just and clever than most other countries. There are lot of legal aliens that comply with it, and grateful for the opportunity.
Take a look at this: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server/for-nosql/

There is one for mysql: https://github.com/ahiguti/HandlerSocket-Plugin-for-MySQL

But i would urge to go with XtraDB.

I use mongo for everything but the money (where cash is not involved) and for things not needing transactions. Have been sticking to MySQL for everything else (now moving to XtraDB).

For big big big projects and pure nosql I go with Cassandra (as long as you can feed it enough RAM). Otherwise, XtraDB can go the distance.
Hey, without disclosing names, come back and tell us how many emails you got from this posting in a few days, yeah? :)
"Kicking out the people who are already in the country doesn't achieve anything other than waste more money and ruin more lives."

It achieves fairness about who gets in. Rules may need to be revised, etc. No arguments here. But while the revision is taking place or not taking place the rules need to be followed.
Let's start naming that one OS X feature that was functioning incorrectly and was addressed with Lion. I thought so!
He had a real social security number. It had work restrictions, so he usually used a photocopy with the restrictions hidden.
There are a bunch of people claiming to be sensitive to things like cell towers and wifi. I know the radio-wave science makes most of these claims far-fetched.

But it also seems it would be simple to test those claiming the effects in a controlled trial. ("Is the Wifi Access Point you can't see or hear transmitting now, or not?")

Does anyone know if such tests have been done and documented?
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Does this actually register profiles?

I've had to do some FB development recently, and was really surprised (and annoyed) that I couldn't test my private application without having to register a new, public profile, where people could see wall posts pointing to localhost from a test service I wrote.
I like Microsoft as the buyer here but here's a more interesting idea: one of the big Android vendors looking for differentiation.

They've had weak results with their ui layers so exclusive apps is the clear next step to take. This could be Amazon, Samsung, Motorola or Sony. Amazon would be my bet.
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What other non-SQL databases have you used with success?
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Apple has very successfully marketed OS X as being "virus free." When every browser but IE is suffering serious vulnerability problems, IE will look very good.
I really do think there is a great opportunity for a better bank! However, I think BankSimple is making a big mistake by not becoming a real bank, and instead acting as a front end interface. BankSimple claims that all accounts will be FDIC insured "at launch." However, from what I am gathering, it will be impossible to keep these accounts FDIC insured in the long term especially since the company claims it will be transferring money around from bank to bank in order to acquire the best rates. Really? Banks are going to be open to opening a new account for every new customer (which is what would have to happen in order to be FDIC insured)? I am skeptical.
Also, a big concern of mine is the claim they will move money between savings and checking automatically for you. Recent legislation prohibits more than 6 electronic transfers from the savings to checking accounts in a month. So if a computer is pushing your money around; you might be out of luck towards the end of the month when you need some extra cash, but all six of your transfers have already been used. Also, at the credit union I work at, we charge the normal returned ACH payment fee if you surpass these 6 charges ($25! yikes!!) and BankSimple states all fees will be passed onto the consumer. So in actuality, BankSimple is really just a nice mobile experience that moves money around the top few banks (which really aren't that great). You still incur the same fees. Just doesn't seem like a very good business structure to me.

However, I would invest in BankSimple because a big bank would pay big $$$ to acquire the technology the company is developing. Mobile is the future of banking and that is what BankSimple recognizes so perfectly. Look for a big acquisition in the next few years.
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As described, that's just way too complicated. It also fails completely as advertising since the people have to start out wanting to eat or shop at the place.
I personally picked PostgreSQL instead of MySQL since I don't trust Oracle. Why support a free database server when it competes with Oracle RDBMS? Granted Oracle RDBMS is extremely expensive, but still, something doesn't sit well with me...
Didn't AOL search release a lot of "untraceable" data that, in reality, proved to contain a lot of personally identifiable information? ("Yes, you, Mrs. Brenda Watkins, of 433 Apple Ln., Omaha, Nebraska - I'm glad you have an interest in romantic novels, and I'm sure that rash will clear right up!")
This is makes sense, esp with regards to the scalar core that is being included in the CU. Most likely that scalar core is ARM derived.

I made noises that AMD needed to remove 32 bit and SSE and just focus on OpenCL. What is being speculated actually reaches much farther than that and is a better design. Thanks for the clue stick.

Also more corroborating evidence, Anton Chernoff one of the main creators of FX!32 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32) works for AMD Boston. FX!32 was/is one of the most badass dynamic recompilation engines I have ever witnessed. It could load X86 executables and effectively JIT them to Alpha. This is the kinda of technology needed to support a virtual ISA.

Anton Chernoff http://www.linkedin.com/pub/anton-chernoff/1/59/6b2

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/useni...
I'm no longer a database "poweruser" due to changing requirements in my job, but not too long ago I used to be and MySQL had no CHECK constraints. Also triggers are less flexible than in Postgre, like in a cascading delete/update won't fire them.

Historically, PostgreSQL has been considerably more SQL-feature-rich than MySQL. It still is, yet to a lower extent (see previous paragraph) due to MySQL caching up. For example, MySQL only has views, triggers and stored procedures since version 5, and Postgre had them since at least 7 or 8 which were already mature at the time MySQL 5 was still development. I guess a lot of people became adepts at that time.
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My understanding is that one group/person takes something apart, documents it, and passes the documentation off to a second group/person to build a new implementation.
Good insight... but New York City is in the northern hemispshere.
(speaker here)

You're absolutely right about the working set being the important bit to keep in memory (and all the indexes you use). I clarified that in person thanks to a great question from the audience.

My entire point wrt it slowing-down-outside-of-RAM is that it happens with any database. My point was that any database can be fast if it's in RAM and non-durable; yet Mongo trumpets performance under these unsafe scenarios while other databases use safe defaults.

To make matters worse, MongoDB data can suffer from poor data locality over time. Since caching is completely left up to the kernel, 1 hot document, even if it's only 200 bytes, will cause an entire page to remain in memory. The other bytes in the page may be cold documents or null data.

This is why flip/flopping is useful in current versions and in-place compaction so important for future versions. For prior research see defrag.exe.

I wish you luck in your attempts to tune performance by tweaking _id. I could only take doing hacks like that for so long before I looked for greener pastures.
Exactly. Many, many laws were broken to get this person in and let him stay in the US. I don't see how "feeling like an American" justifies all that.
I wrote @timbray to get attention on those bugs - maybe you can too?
I was looking for a job because I am graduating this summer, and after I had some interviews, I realized that I need to learn some programming like c/c++, data structures and algorithms, socket programming and multi-threading programming. I like hackerbooks.com but found that the database is quite limited there. So I spent around two weeks to set up the website.

The idea is to use the amazon tagging to connect books. it seems to be a very light-weight app, :D
If this was the case then you wouldn't be FDIC insured. BankSimple very clearly states that:
"Sure. For day to day banking, we envision no fees. There are some things, like international wire transfers, where we will directly pass our costs on to customers. For example, if our partners charge us $15 for an international transfer, we will charge you $15. We won’t use these fees as a source of revenue and will always be on the look out for lower cost partners."

So in actuality, they will charge you whatever the bank your money is currently in charges them.
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yes he got social security card from SS office but the grounds for it are not valid - making the SS card invalid (when somebody catches him for illegal entry to US).

The secret service is supposed to be able to pull up entire background check - not simply make sure if SSN checkouts against Vargas name.
Bullshit. The refutation of this would be titled something like: "Team smartness doesn't rely on sex of individuals".

That's not a "Thing you can't say".
Failure. You don't know your audience.

Fortune 500's will pay you to spit out graphs, but they don't use bleeding edge tools like Redis.

Anyone who uses Redis in any serious fashion already knows that the numbers you show on the homepage are easy to get to. Just write a script to pump them into $graphing_software.

My advice would be to give the current product away for free (yes right now), making the barrier to entry lower than doing it yourself and capturing future customers. Then focus on selling people things that are hard, like real actionable intelligence. Everything you charge for should answer a question like "what", "who", "where", "why". Free stuff should answer questions like "how many".

[Edit: Just realized you are the Hoptoad guys (of which I am a happy user), so I know you have the potential]
> ask your local pizza place for a discount and they could instantly reply whether they granted it or not

Sure, that's haggling, it's done pretty much everywhere in the world and throughout all of history. Where it hasn't worked is with franchises staffed by dummies working out of a handbook as it's considered too risky if one lets staff have such control over prices in case they grant their friends discounts. WalMart allows their staff to set prices though and it works there. They don't haggle though. It would be pretty nice to see haggling implemented in modern strip mall sorts of places.
Microsoft has key-value database on Azure as Azure Tables. They also have Azure SQL which is different than just SQL Server (though very similar).
I'm assuming for this example that every request has equal CPU impact. Preempting the running thread in this case won't improve overall request throughput on a single-CPU system. Adding concurrency here will simply increase response latency.
Amazingly sparse (stupid) code snippet .. LOL
TCP is kind of the full feature kid on the block. You might do better making up a protocol that has what you want and skip on the rest. There are real latency costs for parts of TCP that a game will never use i.e. Nagle's algorithm(sure you can turn that one off but every thing has its cost and you can't turn off everything you don't need in TCP).

I am surprised how infrequently RTP comes up in these conversations. Something close to RTP seems like it would be ideal for games.
I suspect a lot of those 14 billion downloads are games. If my experience is at all typical then most users go through an initial frenzy of downloading "productivity" apps only to eventually erase or ignore most of them.

Apple likes to tout its $2 billion in app sales but consider that's what one really big blockbuster film might make worldwide. Proportionally it's a tiny market.
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Many cheap/consumer devices let you disable some automatic adjustment, but rarely do they let you disable everything. For example, I've seen webcams that can fix the white balance but have automatic saturation adjustment that can't be turned off.

The cheap option that comes to mind would be an old and/or second hand Canon PowerShot capable of running CHDK firmware. Ask friends and family; you'd probably be able to score one free from a dusty cupboard draw.
We chose Chameleon because it provides for an awesome layer-backed environment to code AppKit in.

Everyone's all cuckoo about Chameleon because it lets you port iPhone apps — but the real win is a fully layer-backed environment with modern APIs (UIKit).

Our decision to use it has nothing to do with iOS at all.
My impression (having used mysql at a number of jobs over the years, and talked several very sharp pgsql fans) was that pgsql used to have a big lead in cool features that mysql didn't have. That lead has been eroding, but I don't think mysql is 100% caught up, though I could be wrong. In any case, even when mysql had implemented the various cool features, pgsql's implementations naturally tended to be more mature and stable for a while.

Disclaimer: I don't think of myself as a database guy, and I couldn't give you a definitive list of the differences. I remember some times in the past when things like transactions, triggers, and stored procedures were on the list of differences the pgsql fans quoted to me.
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Your assumption about the point of this project is incorrect, and you don't seem like a person who's interested in having a polite conversation about this or any other subject.

In a nutshell, however, there are arguments that people who are brought to the US as children may have more legal rights than is commonly supposed by those who are unfamiliar with immigration law. You would agree, I hope, that if the law actually allows something and most people had simply failed to notice it did so, that it would be legal for people to take advantage of that. Given the complexity of immigration law and of the institutional structures surrounding it, it is not very surprising that loopholes abound and are often overlooked. However, using such a loophole may still require a willingness to go through several years of expensive litigation. Suing the government is not a trivial undertaking.
What I mean is that you will be so focused and busy on the consulting piece you won't have the time to work on the product - trust me I have been there.
Let's hire the smartest people we can find to improve our crappy products and bring them to market- rarely works for startups and certainly won't work for a corporation.
It might not actually be that intrusive. As long as you have acceptance of cookies as a condition in your Terms of Service, you can say that the specific permission to store cookies is granted whenever the user signs into their account.

Heck, you could even write that as a separate provision (e.g. "In order to sign you in, we'll need to store a cookie in your browser") and it wouldn't be all that intrusive.
Why wouldnt netflix want it? Other than Adrian is pretty damn smart in saying that netflix will only be a cloud consumer - so if Hulu is heavily reliant on their own HW infrastructure for their current delivery - then I can see netflix stating its not a good fit for their model.
May I learn the reason of the down-vote? I am answering to the issue of the fairness of citizenship-by-birth raised in the parent. I draw a distinction between entrenched inequality in world order and the more amenable inequalities.
It does not have to be this way.

It doesn't, but it will be. :-)

I worked on bug, almost full time, about a decade ago, for about a month. A single bug. I hadn't anticipated the bug, and didn't plan for it. I've seen teams spend months trying to hit perf targets. It's the type of thing that isn't uncommon in our industry. I'm not sure how you plan for it.

What will it take for management to stop understaffing and overworking their employees?

Many tmies its not understaffing. Again, I've seen teams struggle to hit perf targets. If you doubled the size of the team it wouldn't make their lives much easier. It may even make it worse.

Our industry is one where you are fundamentally solving new problems (because if someone else solved it, you'd use their code).

Now maybe you're saying we need to toss schedules altogether. Things are done when they're done -- and no crunch time. You do it with 40 hours/week for however long it takes. I'd love to see that dream happen to, but I honestly don't think it ever will.
Factoring in the variance, it looks to me like groups that had an even split did the best. Groups predominantely of one gender suffered.

The "women are better" trend line may partially be accounted for from the fact that there were simply more groups with more men.
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Yeah, which is why I qualified it. I assume it's the opposite and the sun drops to the south in a northern winter, but I simply don't know if my assumption is right.
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I think the bias is huge. In my experience, if you go thru current job listings for developers you'll find a ton of mentions of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL and, to a lesser extent, DB2 and PostgreSQL (though of course job ads are biased too).
It seems that the main criticisms are:

a) Lack of online compaction (causing data set to be much bigger than necessary)

b) Broken auto sharding (complicating horizontal scaling)

c) "Scary" durability and scaling stories with auto sharding

Looks like auto-sharding has had a lot of work done, while online compaction still isn't there.

But in particular I'm curious about (c). What exactly is so scary durability wise with auto-sharding? Is it just the fact that it didn't work in 1.5/1.6?