That's not what Big Data means. Big Data is about finding patterns or trends in a large amount of possibly unstructured data. A simple search is a totally different scenario.
the LIKE %abc% part makes it a bit difficult on the index, but overall, yeah, I totally agree with the general idea.
FB is not Google. They don't have to index the entire internet. All they have to do is let people search in the data they've entered in 3-4 different fields. How the fuck can they fail at this.
One of the problems nowadays is that people put too much stock into fancy graph databases. They build apps on top of those because it's easier to persist data from a developer's point of view (no data model, no need for an ORM, no need to learn sql), but then things like search become almost impossible to do without complex and unreliable algorithms.
There's no magic. Searching requires a decent data model and a reliable indexing/partioning scheme. Young developers should stop jerking off with Big O notations and just apply common sense.
To this day if I had a thousand dollars to spend on music, I'd spend it on performance tickets rather than upgrading my sound system.
The most amazing live experience is stuff like brass bands, such as Empire Brass. No recording can give justice to the physical impact of natural harmonics of perfectly tuned brass instruments. Amazing experience.
But his works for "listener" music, such as opera or jazz, but not for pop/rock concerts, where the sound quality is not there, the event is more about decibels and the social experience. Also instruments such as guitars tend to be tuned for intervals, not chords, and this minimizes the audio impact.
I am capable of judging the finished product without having to take the word of someone who has achieved fame by some method other than judging movie scripts?
But why would Harrison Ford exaggerate the quality of the script? Sure, he has a stake in the financial success of the film, but nobody in Hollywood is going to prostitute their integrity just for the sake of money, and an occasional Oscar. I think you can just take his word for it.
I wonder what integrity means for a famous movie actor. TV used to be a big no-no but now it's cool. Same with voice-over and video games. What's left that one should not do? Infomercials? Porn? GOP fundraisers?
No, Americans did not "take the burden of defeating the Axis powers". That part was done by the Soviet Union. As far as the glorious victory over Japan, achieved with the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocents (also known as the biggest war crime of History), then yes, it was 100% American.
The truth is that Americans of that generation (and many others) were far from being as great as Hollywood movies made you believe. They were like the dullard who hangs out with the cool kids and that puts himself in the center of every event when he writes his diary.
\Neither fire, the wheel, the printing press or the spork came from the "greatest generation". I don't know what they achieved to deserve that moniker.
The defeat of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy don't ring a bell? Ending the death camps and the Holocaust? Helping to rebuild Europe? Nothing?
What about the Nazis, the Japan Imperialists, the Italian Fascists and the people who destroyed Europe? Don't ring a bell either?
I had a quick look. The subject is mildly interesting but what really disturbed me was that scene at 9:14. Why is there a towel under that woman and her dogs? WHY?
Call me a ludite or an amish, but I'm fucking happy that so far there's no mainstream technology that can provide a smell track with video.
Neither fire, the wheel, the printing press or the spork came from the "greatest generation". I don't know what they achieved to deserve that moniker.
But they did not come up with switch rape or yo (the app) either, so when it's all said an done, I'd say that at least they are not the worst generation.
Life is not that simple. I've never seen a major IT project where the PM had any power to say NO to anything important. The PM is usually trying to facilitate communication and provide metrics, and sometimes his opinion will be requested, but the decisions are made by the project owners, which is usually a big team of people who disagree with each other, get quickly hypnotized by vendors, and have zero trust in what their own IT people tell them.
Also unless this is a tiny company I've never seen a CEO actively involved in a project. If there's a C level executive involved it's usually a COO or CIO, and yes, they will easily fire the PM if he is not "a team player". PM are often contractors so they are easy to silence.
That wouldn't change a thing. If that guy applies to your company, it's doomed. He's not bringing bad luck with him, he has a death wish and a sixth sense allowing him to find potential disasters.
Slashdot will probably go bankrupt or get hacked pretty soon.
In more than 15 years I haven't met a certified PM who lasted more than a few years in that kind of job. The good ones evolve towards senior management, the bad ones end up leading scrum master workshops where people spend their time openly playing angry birds on their phone then use the cheap printout certificate of achievement as an ironic prop in their cubicle.
I wish some stats were available to back my claims, but I suspect that PM is the discipline in IT with the highest burn-out and/or suicide rate. Other good candidates to gasket blowing: people who manage DR sites, business analysts who become specialized in writing test cases (aka the kiss of death), and anyone who feels like they won the lottery when the quorum is not met for the CAB meeting.
Those certifications are very expensive, and they require a fair amount of relevant experience. They are not a good way to get started in a field, they are a strong commitment to an existing career path. Same as a PMI certification. Very bad choice for someone who comes on Slashdot to ask for general career advice.
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That was easy
I heard the new version comes with Red5 bundled to let people use the new Flash control panel.
Indeed.
Last 3 patches since October have all been nuisance to sysadmins.
Ah yes, Windows "sysadmins"... Cream of the crop. Unless there isn't a GUI for it.
Is there a GUI for systemd?
THANK YOU! You just opened my eyes! I will immediately get rid of Windows and spend the next 4 weeks getting OpenBSD to somehow work on my laptop.
I have a -wikipedia suffix in my search macro in FF. Works pretty well.
Sorry dude but Myspace is not coming back. Let it go.
That's not what Big Data means. Big Data is about finding patterns or trends in a large amount of possibly unstructured data. A simple search is a totally different scenario.
the LIKE %abc% part makes it a bit difficult on the index, but overall, yeah, I totally agree with the general idea.
FB is not Google. They don't have to index the entire internet. All they have to do is let people search in the data they've entered in 3-4 different fields. How the fuck can they fail at this.
One of the problems nowadays is that people put too much stock into fancy graph databases. They build apps on top of those because it's easier to persist data from a developer's point of view (no data model, no need for an ORM, no need to learn sql), but then things like search become almost impossible to do without complex and unreliable algorithms.
There's no magic. Searching requires a decent data model and a reliable indexing/partioning scheme. Young developers should stop jerking off with Big O notations and just apply common sense.
To this day if I had a thousand dollars to spend on music, I'd spend it on performance tickets rather than upgrading my sound system.
The most amazing live experience is stuff like brass bands, such as Empire Brass. No recording can give justice to the physical impact of natural harmonics of perfectly tuned brass instruments. Amazing experience.
But his works for "listener" music, such as opera or jazz, but not for pop/rock concerts, where the sound quality is not there, the event is more about decibels and the social experience. Also instruments such as guitars tend to be tuned for intervals, not chords, and this minimizes the audio impact.
Fail.
He was pretty good in Knight Rider and in The Karate Kid.
Fuck the haters
This is gold
I am capable of judging the finished product without having to take the word of someone who has achieved fame by some method other than judging movie scripts?
But why would Harrison Ford exaggerate the quality of the script? Sure, he has a stake in the financial success of the film, but nobody in Hollywood is going to prostitute their integrity just for the sake of money, and an occasional Oscar. I think you can just take his word for it.
I wonder what integrity means for a famous movie actor. TV used to be a big no-no but now it's cool. Same with voice-over and video games. What's left that one should not do? Infomercials? Porn? GOP fundraisers?
No, Americans did not "take the burden of defeating the Axis powers". That part was done by the Soviet Union. As far as the glorious victory over Japan, achieved with the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocents (also known as the biggest war crime of History), then yes, it was 100% American.
The truth is that Americans of that generation (and many others) were far from being as great as Hollywood movies made you believe. They were like the dullard who hangs out with the cool kids and that puts himself in the center of every event when he writes his diary.
\Neither fire, the wheel, the printing press or the spork came from the "greatest generation". I don't know what they achieved to deserve that moniker.
The defeat of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy don't ring a bell? Ending the death camps and the Holocaust? Helping to rebuild Europe? Nothing?
What about the Nazis, the Japan Imperialists, the Italian Fascists and the people who destroyed Europe? Don't ring a bell either?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I had a quick look. The subject is mildly interesting but what really disturbed me was that scene at 9:14. Why is there a towel under that woman and her dogs? WHY?
Call me a ludite or an amish, but I'm fucking happy that so far there's no mainstream technology that can provide a smell track with video.
Neither fire, the wheel, the printing press or the spork came from the "greatest generation". I don't know what they achieved to deserve that moniker.
But they did not come up with switch rape or yo (the app) either, so when it's all said an done, I'd say that at least they are not the worst generation.
It proves he is a Republican and their kind is stupid. They hate anyone that isn't rich and white
Yeah, been like that since Abraham Lincoln.
most of us have secrets that we wouldn't want anyone to know about.
Anyone but Ccbill and Google Analytics.
Life is not that simple. I've never seen a major IT project where the PM had any power to say NO to anything important. The PM is usually trying to facilitate communication and provide metrics, and sometimes his opinion will be requested, but the decisions are made by the project owners, which is usually a big team of people who disagree with each other, get quickly hypnotized by vendors, and have zero trust in what their own IT people tell them.
Also unless this is a tiny company I've never seen a CEO actively involved in a project. If there's a C level executive involved it's usually a COO or CIO, and yes, they will easily fire the PM if he is not "a team player". PM are often contractors so they are easy to silence.
That wouldn't change a thing. If that guy applies to your company, it's doomed. He's not bringing bad luck with him, he has a death wish and a sixth sense allowing him to find potential disasters.
Slashdot will probably go bankrupt or get hacked pretty soon.
In more than 15 years I haven't met a certified PM who lasted more than a few years in that kind of job. The good ones evolve towards senior management, the bad ones end up leading scrum master workshops where people spend their time openly playing angry birds on their phone then use the cheap printout certificate of achievement as an ironic prop in their cubicle.
I wish some stats were available to back my claims, but I suspect that PM is the discipline in IT with the highest burn-out and/or suicide rate. Other good candidates to gasket blowing: people who manage DR sites, business analysts who become specialized in writing test cases (aka the kiss of death), and anyone who feels like they won the lottery when the quorum is not met for the CAB meeting.
Those certifications are very expensive, and they require a fair amount of relevant experience. They are not a good way to get started in a field, they are a strong commitment to an existing career path. Same as a PMI certification. Very bad choice for someone who comes on Slashdot to ask for general career advice.