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Go to https://giphy.com/ and take a look. Does this random collection of animated images give the impression of a service worth 600 million dollars? It's just fluff, it doesn't solve any real-world problem, how on earth would any VC be brave enough to invest $150m in this juvenile idea?

As far as I can see, the design shares some similarities with ClickHouse.

LittleTable sounds less performant than ClickHouse:

LittleTable - "returns 500,000 rows/second"

ClickHouse - "processes hundreds of millions to more than a billion rows and tens of gigabytes of data per single server per second."

LittleTable also seems to be much less flexible (e.g. ClickHouse offers quite a few different storage engines, views, materialized views, and other goodies).

ClickHouse rocks.

"a culture in which the truest sign of intimacy is not needing to say a thing" - what a wonderful sentence! I must have been Japanese in a previous life :)

This list just screams "corruption". How can it be legal for companies such as Facebook, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Cisco, Apple, etc. etc. to donate directly to a politician? Isn't it obvious that these corporations think they have something to gain from it? That's bribery in plain sight.

There's also a need for a solution to give somebody your email address over the phone. Often when talking to representatives, they want to send you something by email (e.g. a receipt). But when I spell my email address over the phone, there's a 50% chance that the other side got it wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6UxGCyhQY (caution: NSFW language, but funny)

Even if it is possible to generate so much data, where would you store it? You would need to install 333 units of VNX5800 per day (each one stores 3PB): https://store.emc.com/en-us/Solve-For/STORAGE-PRODUCTS/VNX58...

Here's an idea: build a website that collects reliability statistics about home appliances by maker and model. Let users report when exactly they bought a specific appliance, and how long it lasted without repairs (or following repairs). Such statistics could help users make an informed choice, and also put some pressure on manufacturers to improve the reliability of their products. Or maybe they'll just sue the site out of existence...

I've heard about an Israeli guy who started a mushroom-growing business in Russia. Something similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcrCtVGEsZE At some point when it was starting to become successful, a gang of Russian criminals simply told him: "this is ours now", and that was that. Organized crime and corruption is a serious problem there.

Never thought of using EXPLAIN to get an estimated count... nice trick!

I find it surprising that only in the past few years someone started to use statistical analysis (Markov, bigrams, trigrams) on this script. These are techniques that have been in use by cryptanalists for decades. Sounds like something very basic that you would do in the initial efforts to analyze any ancient script.

That sounds horrible. It also sounds like a game that should definitely be played on a computer, not as a board game.

INFINIDAT | OpenStack Developer | Herzliya, Israel | http://www.infinidat.com/

In this role you will be part of the OpenStack development community. You will develop INFINIDAT block (Cinder) and file (Manila) drivers. You will own INFINIDAT OpenStack CI infrastructure, working with both Cinder and Manila core teams. In addition to INFINIDAT storage drivers' development, you'll be involved in the wider aspects of the OpenStack development - including Cinder and Manila API and scheduler work. You'll also help with OpenStack certification as needed and may be required to provide consultancy to key customers on drivers configuration and tuning. The majority of development is in Python, but knowledge of C/C++, Java, JavaScript and other languages would be useful.

Required Skills & Experience:

Proven experience in Python: the words generators, decorators and partials should not surprise you OpenStack development, preferably in the storage-related projects. Github profile is required. Experience with OpenStack continuous integration environment Very strong in one or more of the following: - System programming - Network programming and/or development of distributed systems - Automation for system / integration tests - System administration Fast learner who is eager to face new technological challenges and come up with innovative solutions Curious to learn how things really work Excellent teamwork and interpersonal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Deep knowledge of enterprise storage environments Involvement in open source projects: Github profile or link to open source work Experience with continuous integration and delivery Experience with test-driven development

INFINIDAT | Python Developer | Herzliya, Israel | http://www.infinidat.com/

In this role you will build applications and infrastructure for our customers, partners and internal teams. Those applications can range from massive testing infrastructure, through complicated distributed systems to stand-alone web applications and plug-ins for 3rd-party enterprise applications.

The majority of development is in Python but some of it is in C/C++, Java, JavaScript and other languages. You will use a wide range of operating systems, technologies and architectures. INFINIDAT is growing and we have openings for Python developers on multiple teams.

Required Skills & Experience:

Proven experience in Python: the words generators, decorators and partials should not surprise you. Very strong in one or more of the following: System programming; Network programming and/or development of distributed systems; Automation for system / integration tests; System administration; Web development.

Fast learner who is eager to face new technological challenges and come up with innovative solutions. Curious to learn how things really work. Excellent teamwork and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Deep knowledge of enterprise storage environments. Involvement in open source projects: Github profile or link to open source work. Experience with continuous integration and delivery. Experience with test-driven development.

I don't like typewriters, but who knew they were so interesting? Some of them are really exotic.

In The Fox & the Grapes, if you try to move the fox over to the grapes they move away. Nice touch :)

Computers are not apriori better - you can always develop a stupid or buggy algorithm that fails often. But Tesla is working to PROVE (using real-world data) that autopilot is better than a human driver, and IMPROVE it constantly until it is ten times better.

That's true as long as you ignore the fact that your server's IP address might change when you restart it. Once you understand that, you realize that you have to rethink how you're using AWS, and that it's quite different than using Rackspace. So you get sucked into the complexity, and start thinking about availability zones, auto-scaling... it's a slippery slope into devops hell.

  "I can handle basic Linux devops. But AWS is not Linux
  devops. AWS has become its own specialty. With over 70
  services offered, only a full-time AWS specialist can
  properly understand how to build something in AWS."

Truer words were never spoken.

It may be pleasant for you, but not so pleasant for the next developer who needs to maintain your code. Perhaps he likes picking different cherries than yours...

According to the writer's LinkedIn profile, he comes from the world of High Frequency Trading. That's an area where performance is so important, that it might make sense to design your own hardware. And you certainly don't want to distribute it to anyone...

I do agree with the writer that with each release, C++ has become more and more complicated, seriously hurting the maintainability of C++ code.

That is why you have the FDA - to make sure drug companies test their products properly.

That's probably true for any benchmark - YMMV.

Anything with XML in it would do that to you...

My mom thought so too. At some point she took me to the doctor and asked him why I had orange feet. He told her to stop feeding me so much carrot.

In case anyone else isn't seeing the emoji characters on Ubuntu - "apt-get install ttf-ancient-fonts" and a browser restart solved the problem for me.

These guys already did something like that - https://www.emailonacid.com/mozify

The main problem if I understand correctly is with pensions. They have 10 more years to invest your money, but they also have to pay you for 10 more years... so the longer you live, the less they profit. Live long enough, and they will lose money. And if enough people live longer than expected, the insurance company could go bankrupt.

"the owner bitterly congratulates me on striking a bargain he would never had agreed to in less desperate times. I am as crafty as a Bedouin, as wily as a serpent, and his only request is that I not tell anyone how good a deal I struck tonight lest he become the laughingstock of the city. Then he undermines his words by throwing in a couple of pieces for free."

One of the funniest things I've read this month :)

Well, I made an initial decision to keep Red Stamp Mail very affordable. It wasn't built to make money, but rather to help people. But I did not want to make it totally free for various reasons - I wanted it to at least cover its operational costs.

So the subscription price is very low - $18 per YEAR. This means that most marketing channels are simply too expensive (customer acquisition cost > customer lifetime value).

I gave Google Adwords a very serious try, but the results were unimpressive. Other guerilla-ish marketing attempts also did not succeed.

So basically the most effective channel is ranking high in search results for relevant terms (e.g. "email for seniors").

As the developer of Red Stamp Mail I can tell you that there is in fact such a market, albeit small (or perhaps I just suck at marketing).

The problems you describe are exactly what I tried to fix, and users seem very happy to have a simple email application that is free from advertisments, and does not get a "face lift" that makes everything worse every few months.

There's also PawPawMail, which is even simpler and caters to users who need a family member to help them (e.g. manage their contacts list).

http://redstampmail.com http://pawpawmail.com/