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New comment by houseabsolute in "So, that was a bummer"

houseabsolute — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:38:31 +0000

http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html

New comment by houseabsolute in "So, that was a bummer"

houseabsolute — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:32:54 +0000

I'm also wondering why this kind of intervention is necessary at all. The NoSQL solution we use at work has load based automatic splitting, and I'd have thought (though I haven't confirmed) that this would be an obvious feature to include.

New comment by houseabsolute in "Time lost by driving fast"

houseabsolute — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:39:06 +0000

> suggesting American's do something inferior to other countries

No, it very clearly is only suggesting that Americans are doing something inferior compared to the ideal.

New comment by houseabsolute in "Here comes Google TV"

houseabsolute — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:10:02 +0000

Roger, but I'm talking about how it was announced months ago at Google IO, not this current announcement.

New comment by houseabsolute in "Here comes Google TV"

houseabsolute — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:08:23 +0000

It was announced many months ago. I'm using this opportunity to talk about how unfortunate it is that we announced it so long ago and are only launching it now. I'm not saying this current announcement itself is a fail. :)

New comment by houseabsolute in "Bubble Cursor Bookmarklet"

houseabsolute — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:55:09 +0000

Cool. Unfortunately I can't use it because I have this nervous tic where I click all over the page randomly.

New comment by houseabsolute in "Here comes Google TV"

houseabsolute — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:45:31 +0000

My thing is, whatever happened to Google just launching things without announcing them? They still do it for features, but no longer for products. Maybe it's something you can't do with physical products because consumers might postpone their buying decisions for competitors until after the launch. Still, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth when I see us announcing things that are not even nearly done yet.

New comment by houseabsolute in "Subtle bug in Google can get you banned"

houseabsolute — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 06:12:24 +0000

> Of course that would 'give away' . . .

Meh, I have trouble believing that spammers cannot experiment to find this number out themselves. The binary search on rate would require only a handful of IPs before you acquire it to a sufficient resolution for working purposes.

New comment by houseabsolute in "Microsoft sues Motorola over Android patent infringements"

houseabsolute — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:21:08 +0000

That is extraordinarily unlikely. I can't think of more than one or two big products that have ever been totally shut down as a result of patent infringement. It simply is not done.

New comment by houseabsolute in "Microsoft sues Motorola over Android patent infringements"

houseabsolute — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:29:30 +0000

I guess you are a Motorola shareholder or something? If not, is this likely to harm you in any way?

New comment by houseabsolute in "Microsoft sues Motorola over Android patent infringements"

houseabsolute — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:12:57 +0000

You might benefit from rereading this article.

http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-read-a-patent-...

New comment by houseabsolute in "There is no sane reason for the dock connector to not be micro-USB. Discuss."

houseabsolute — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:07:31 +0000

I always thought so too, but it was surprisingly much less than this at my local Fry's. I didn't opt to buy, but these services ran in the $200-400 range there, IIRC.

New comment by houseabsolute in "Going Nowhere Really Fast, or How Computers Only Come in Two Speeds."

houseabsolute — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:35:51 +0000

> Why can't we get interfaces right? We have all this processing speed available and yet our computers are slow.

My computer is not slow. I rarely see issues like a cursor that is delayed with respect to my typing. What kind of device do you have? Have you actually tried doing any performance analysis to see why it is slow? Did you buy your computer based on it not being slow, or, to put it another way, give an economic incentive to the outcome you want? (Clearly not, based on your post.) Or was there something else you opted to prioritize over that quickness you say you want so much?

New comment by houseabsolute in "Michael Stonebraker: Why Enterprises Are Uninterested in NoSQL?"

houseabsolute — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:57:33 +0000

On the contrary, almost all of Facebook's data is stored in SQL systems. Cassandra and such were developed as ephemeral stores for certain types of data, like lists of people who "Like" certain things, but ultimately even that data is backed by SQL. (As far as I understand from my friends who work there.)

New comment by houseabsolute in "Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie"

houseabsolute — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:05:32 +0000

Maybe. On the other hand, people do things every day for the love of it that get little traction in the market place. It seems more likely this confluence is just a coincidence.

New comment by houseabsolute in "Young, Single, Childless Women Earn More Than Men"

houseabsolute — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:57:52 +0000

I agree that it's not about competing to see who can be the biggest victim. I doubt most women wish to be victimized in any way at all. Nonetheless, considering women have been oppressed by men historically and still are in many countries in the world, it seems like a lot of confidence would be required to assert that we have fully eradicated such systemic oppression here. It would require a level of confidence I do not have.

New comment by houseabsolute in "Young, Single, Childless Women Earn More Than Men"

houseabsolute — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:49:43 +0000

I can think of a few ways they continue to be discriminated against:

- More likely to be the victim of a rape. - Representation in the media. http://bechdeltest.com/

I'm sure there are more that a better feminist than myself could share with you.

New comment by houseabsolute in "AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken"

houseabsolute — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:14:17 +0000

Sure, but there are already a number of machines you can do that with. I'm sure there is some reason to do this, but I can't think of many good ones.

New comment by houseabsolute in "Why is Microsoft giving away web traffic and abandoning users?"

houseabsolute — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:40:46 +0000

A rare moment of clarity, maybe? Let's stick to things we can do for a profit?

New comment by houseabsolute in "Young, Single, Childless Women Earn More Than Men"

houseabsolute — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:17:43 +0000

Temporary overcorrection seems more equitable than a longer time before reaching true equality. I.e. this[1] is OK. Or, even better, in this image[2] we prefer the light blue line to the green line, because it is more equitable overall.

[1] http://www.newport.com/images/web600w-EN/images/1231942.gif

[2] http://i.cmpnet.com/embedded/gifs/2000/0010/0010feat3fig17.g...