These guys offer distributed, 96-way encrypted RAID (32 parity slices, 64 data): http://www.symform.com/. Check them out. You will have to pony up the same amount of disk space as you consume, though, but to me this does seem a heck of a lot more reliable than RAID 5 or 6, and the drives can be super cheap.
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Oracle is the primary driving force behind btrfs, which is a ZFS-like next generation FS for Linux. Now that they own ZFS, continuing development of btrfs makes far less sense.
And some other Solaris tech. Heck, they should GPL the whole thing and get a group of engineers to port the juiciest morsels of it to Linux. That way, Solaris going away would be much less of a loss, and Linus would be a happy man (he said, half-jokingly, he wants Solaris to die:-).
Teleatlas is owned by TomTom. TomTom won't allow turn-by-turn navigation with its maps, since it makes their core business redundant. I guess MSFT could just buy both, but that's unlikely to happen.
That's how the US gets those staggeringly low unemployment numbers - at least one spouse has to work, unless you want to die on the street in a carton if you get cancer.
I didn't say they should sell the ticket for 1/5th the cost. I'd be happy with a 30% discount to account for 130 pounds less weight than an average adult.
Vacations get EXPENSIVE when one's kids are over 2 years old.
This ain't gonna help Bing maps, for one simple reason. Google has THEIR OWN full map of the US. I don't know if you've noticed, but since a few months ago, the copyright on the maps says (c) Google. They've actually invested a shitload of money and mapped everything (or close to everything) out.
This means they can actually _update_ the map, add and remove POIs, provide turn-by-turn directions (and compute them more effectively), and do all the other nice things that anal retentive contracts with map data providers did not let them do previously.
Guess what, Microsoft doesn't have that data, and as far as I'm aware, there's no effort underway to collect it. This is epic fail which no amount of Silverlight eye candy will be able to fix.
Yet airlines want me to pay a full fare. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to charge the fat folks extra, you gotta give the rest of us the price break on kids' tickets. Otherwise, just reduce the passenger density and charge everyone the same.
Not even Google has Strong AI, moreover, there's scarcely anyone, anywhere even working on the basic fundamental underpinnings of it.
The current crop of "AI" tech is best described as pattern recognition (which in turn can be described as function approximation). That's all there is to it. There's no cognition, no logical inference, no consciousness, none of that. No one has a foggiest clue how to do this at a sufficiently large scale to get something even remotely resembling a human brain.
I wrote down a lot during the lectures, and I feel this helps memorize things, and get a better understanding of the formulas as well. See, when you're writing down complicated math, you can only do it at a reasonable speed if you understand the notation. This forces you to really _understand_ what all the subscripts and superscripts mean. In addition, you reinforce your memory by writing stuff down because several types of memory are involved at the same time. As if this wasn't enough, you're forced to systematize and abbreviate things, because writing down every single word would be stupid.
I think pen and paper have a bright future. Eventually someone will figure out a way to digitize them (i.e. actually recognize handwriting, and to some extent, diagrams and formulas). So I'm keeping my written notes until that happens.
Android beats the crap out of whatever Nokia is capable of producing. And it's 100% open source, so you (or "the community") can just as well "carry on supporting it forever".
Cell phones need a different kernel than servers, with different drivers, graphics and security requirements. Maybe this fork is justified? Maybe this doesn't need to be in the mainline?
... and getting away with it. See, in the environment where more and more countries have their own nuclear weapons and means of their delivery all over the globe, that $500B a year army the US has becomes almost worthless, since you can't really attack anyone due to fear of nuclear retaliation against the US or its allies. See e.g. North Korea and Iran. And US army has not done any actual defense before or after WW2.
For everything else, AMD's price/performance ratio can't be beat, Intel's superior marketing notwithstanding. It would cost me twice as much money to get an Intel processor and a decent Intel chipset mobo for the desktop I'm running right now. Quite frankly, I think this price differential is much better spent on a 128GB solid state drive.
Get a fucking life. Don't work 12 hour days. Don't come in on Saturday. You may be passed over for a promotion, but you won't be laid off. If you are, sue the sonofabitches and get your money that way. Then find a company that doesn't rape your ass for a paycheck. There are plenty of those around.
Bing just has a lot more data now than it had before. IE8 "suggested sites" feature sends everything to them. After a certain point the costs of having a dataset of enormous size begin to outweigh the benefits, so people either sample the old data, or delete it outright.
I suspect this is what's happening in this case as well.
Not necessarily, unless that's something you enjoy.:-) I'm just saying that the further you are in your career, the less the formal interview will matter.
As someone who's just gone through the process with both Microsoft (internal referral), and Google (just submitted my CV) and got offers from both, I can say that 12 years into my career the thing that seems to matter most is the reputation.
Of course it also helps if you don't botch your interview (which in itself is not a trivial thing to accomplish, given all the randomness inherent in the process), but having a few references (preferably ex-bosses) who will speak highly of you helps a lot with getting a good competitive compensation package, even now, in the middle of the "recession".
The point is, if you're not a noob in this industry, when doing your current job think of what people will say about you when you move on. And don't suck. That's all there is to it really.
I wonder why MySQL is even considered as an option these days. Honest question -- I don't have much experience with it. I just tried to port my DB schema a couple of years back to it (from MS SQL) and run a couple of queries and it showed ridiculously poor performance on complex joins, so I went with Postgres instead. Postgres has been great.
Is there a good technical reason why people choose MySQL over Postgres?
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These guys offer distributed, 96-way encrypted RAID (32 parity slices, 64 data): http://www.symform.com/. Check them out. You will have to pony up the same amount of disk space as you consume, though, but to me this does seem a heck of a lot more reliable than RAID 5 or 6, and the drives can be super cheap.
Oracle is the primary driving force behind btrfs, which is a ZFS-like next generation FS for Linux. Now that they own ZFS, continuing development of btrfs makes far less sense.
And some other Solaris tech. Heck, they should GPL the whole thing and get a group of engineers to port the juiciest morsels of it to Linux. That way, Solaris going away would be much less of a loss, and Linus would be a happy man (he said, half-jokingly, he wants Solaris to die :-).
Teleatlas is owned by TomTom. TomTom won't allow turn-by-turn navigation with its maps, since it makes their core business redundant. I guess MSFT could just buy both, but that's unlikely to happen.
That's how the US gets those staggeringly low unemployment numbers - at least one spouse has to work, unless you want to die on the street in a carton if you get cancer.
I didn't say they should sell the ticket for 1/5th the cost. I'd be happy with a 30% discount to account for 130 pounds less weight than an average adult.
Vacations get EXPENSIVE when one's kids are over 2 years old.
This ain't gonna help Bing maps, for one simple reason. Google has THEIR OWN full map of the US. I don't know if you've noticed, but since a few months ago, the copyright on the maps says (c) Google. They've actually invested a shitload of money and mapped everything (or close to everything) out.
This means they can actually _update_ the map, add and remove POIs, provide turn-by-turn directions (and compute them more effectively), and do all the other nice things that anal retentive contracts with map data providers did not let them do previously.
Guess what, Microsoft doesn't have that data, and as far as I'm aware, there's no effort underway to collect it. This is epic fail which no amount of Silverlight eye candy will be able to fix.
Yet airlines want me to pay a full fare. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to charge the fat folks extra, you gotta give the rest of us the price break on kids' tickets. Otherwise, just reduce the passenger density and charge everyone the same.
In the meanwhile, we're spending $1 TRILLION a year on the military and two pointless wars. And Guantanamo is still right the way it was.
Hope and change, my ass.
Rather, Dave Winer is considered too stupid for us to read the click-bait drivel he throws up on his blog.
Not even Google has Strong AI, moreover, there's scarcely anyone, anywhere even working on the basic fundamental underpinnings of it.
The current crop of "AI" tech is best described as pattern recognition (which in turn can be described as function approximation). That's all there is to it. There's no cognition, no logical inference, no consciousness, none of that. No one has a foggiest clue how to do this at a sufficiently large scale to get something even remotely resembling a human brain.
I wrote down a lot during the lectures, and I feel this helps memorize things, and get a better understanding of the formulas as well. See, when you're writing down complicated math, you can only do it at a reasonable speed if you understand the notation. This forces you to really _understand_ what all the subscripts and superscripts mean. In addition, you reinforce your memory by writing stuff down because several types of memory are involved at the same time. As if this wasn't enough, you're forced to systematize and abbreviate things, because writing down every single word would be stupid.
I think pen and paper have a bright future. Eventually someone will figure out a way to digitize them (i.e. actually recognize handwriting, and to some extent, diagrams and formulas). So I'm keeping my written notes until that happens.
Sez common sense.
Android beats the crap out of whatever Nokia is capable of producing. And it's 100% open source, so you (or "the community") can just as well "carry on supporting it forever".
Cell phones need a different kernel than servers, with different drivers, graphics and security requirements. Maybe this fork is justified? Maybe this doesn't need to be in the mainline?
... and getting away with it. See, in the environment where more and more countries have their own nuclear weapons and means of their delivery all over the globe, that $500B a year army the US has becomes almost worthless, since you can't really attack anyone due to fear of nuclear retaliation against the US or its allies. See e.g. North Korea and Iran. And US army has not done any actual defense before or after WW2.
That's something new for them. Up to now they've only been developing new ways to milk the gullible VCs.
I hope this forces Amazon to drop Kindle DX to $299 and include an SD card slot. Fact is, with this device out there, Kindle DX is overpriced as hell.
For everything else, AMD's price/performance ratio can't be beat, Intel's superior marketing notwithstanding. It would cost me twice as much money to get an Intel processor and a decent Intel chipset mobo for the desktop I'm running right now. Quite frankly, I think this price differential is much better spent on a 128GB solid state drive.
Get a fucking life. Don't work 12 hour days. Don't come in on Saturday. You may be passed over for a promotion, but you won't be laid off. If you are, sue the sonofabitches and get your money that way. Then find a company that doesn't rape your ass for a paycheck. There are plenty of those around.
Bing just has a lot more data now than it had before. IE8 "suggested sites" feature sends everything to them. After a certain point the costs of having a dataset of enormous size begin to outweigh the benefits, so people either sample the old data, or delete it outright.
I suspect this is what's happening in this case as well.
Not necessarily, unless that's something you enjoy. :-) I'm just saying that the further you are in your career, the less the formal interview will matter.
As someone who's just gone through the process with both Microsoft (internal referral), and Google (just submitted my CV) and got offers from both, I can say that 12 years into my career the thing that seems to matter most is the reputation.
Of course it also helps if you don't botch your interview (which in itself is not a trivial thing to accomplish, given all the randomness inherent in the process), but having a few references (preferably ex-bosses) who will speak highly of you helps a lot with getting a good competitive compensation package, even now, in the middle of the "recession".
The point is, if you're not a noob in this industry, when doing your current job think of what people will say about you when you move on. And don't suck. That's all there is to it really.
This is one of those areas where patents are good. They prevent everybody else from doing this shit. :-)
I wonder why MySQL is even considered as an option these days. Honest question -- I don't have much experience with it. I just tried to port my DB schema a couple of years back to it (from MS SQL) and run a couple of queries and it showed ridiculously poor performance on complex joins, so I went with Postgres instead. Postgres has been great.
Is there a good technical reason why people choose MySQL over Postgres?
In the world where PostgreSQL also costs $0, I can fathom no reason why anyone would want to use the glorified hashtable that is MySQL.