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berito

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I can make meaning out of an array of words
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berito··on Why MongoDB is a bad choice for storing our scraped data
No mongo natural order is just order on the disk. It is not always in reverse insertion order
berito··on Ask HN:untracked vacation days - what does it mean?
I have been apprehensive about asking that question, lest they judge me for a slacker. I want to ask in an email, but want to learn something about how this works before I email them
berito··on Ask HN:untracked vacation days - what does it mean?
Then really, "unlimited vacation days" is more of a PR spin than a valuable benefit.
berito··on Mongodb - "grep" through a database
I just ran collection.fields() on a collection of books. Surprised to find keys that I didn't even know existed.
berito··on 23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M genotyped customers
Ok, all done. Ordered just now from london, never mind the 79 USD shipping cost. Next I installed their iPhone app. Shocked to see that it's gamified.
berito··on Ask HN:working with a company with anal coding standards
Sure, if it lasts 10 years, it's good code :-)
berito··on Ask HN:working with a company with anal coding standards
Edit: (addition) I mean I hate camelCase as an enforced standard. I use it when it feels useful. I use underscores as well when I think they are fit. I just don't like being one standard pretending to be absolute truth for a company. If the company is a startup, it's even more important that we get to release as fast as possible, instead of fretting over if the code looks like poetry or not. The odds are, the bit of code will be obsolete as a feature in two months.
berito··on Ask HN:working with a company with anal coding standards
I mean I hate camelCase as an enforced standard. I use it when it feels useful. I use underscores as well when I think they are fit. I just don't like being one standard of absolute truth for a company
berito··on The 61 Countries a Mad Despot Could Instantly Unplug From the Internet
Surprising that china is low risk in their map. Their metric is clearly flawed, for china already "blocks" off the whole Internet.
berito··on Melinda Gates at Stanford: "All lives have equal value"
No lives have different values. Bin Laden != Paul Graham
berito··on To Smuggle More Drugs, Traffickers Go Under the Sea
Working on this kind of hack sounds much more compelling than coding for an overhyped Internet startup.

To my mind, solving an impossible sounding challenge is larger than ethics.

berito··on India Launches Beta Version of Its Data Site
The burden of proof is on you if you are making the outrageous claim that ayurveda works.
berito··on India Launches Beta Version of Its Data Site
The Indian government shamelessly squanders tax money on both Ayurveda and homeopathy. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/no-extra-fund-for-ayurvedi... check this link. Some quacks in the Indian state of gujrat were denied additional funding. On a side note, gujrat is also the state where state sponsored ethnic cleansing happened not so long ago! To be fair, I'd rather they use tax payer money to fund quackery than kill some of the tax payers!
berito··on India Launches Beta Version of Its Data Site
Notice the use of the phrase "allopathic hospitals" in a database of number of beds available! It always cracks me up how modern medicine is referred to as just another form of medicine, like Ayurvedic or homeopathic. The Indian government is clearly of the opinion that forms of quackery that are homeopathy and Ayurveda actually work and are worthy of tax payer money.
berito··on AIDS vaccine in final testing
I am going to go get some with the filthiest tonight!