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jdcryanson Switch Your Databases To Flash Storage

The "weird stalls" can be attributed to GC on lower end SSDs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(SSD)#Garbag...

jdcryanson One Bad “Policy Change” Email Can Kill Company Culture

Now have I have a long email to parse AND a policy change sigh.

More seriously, I doesn't seem to me that the author demonstrated how one such policy change can kill "company culture". At best he showed the way he personally likes it done, at worst he's trolling us by presenting a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist and now everyone comments on how they agree/disagree/have a better solution. The fact that a policy change is needed or not isn't even discussed.

jdcryanson Heroku is down again

Then you'd have to change the link too?

jdcryanson Berlin's new 107,000 ft² startup factory

If there's one thing that's always been proven true it's that startups are made the same way objects are manufactured.

More seriously I do wish them success, the tech scene in Berlin seemed vibrant when I was there for a conference and it's a beautiful city.

jdcryanson The Recruiter Honeypot

I was intrigued reading this to see what my inbox would say about Meebo's recruiting.

In May 2010 a recruiter spammed the Hadoop mailing lists with a "Data Engineer (Analytics)" in MV. A month later I was blessed with an email from the same recruiter for the same job sent to my @apache address. Another month later he posted the job on LI's Hadoop group.

Fast-forward one year, a new recruiter spammed the mahout user mailing list saying he was looking for "Engineers with Machine Learning expertise".

Finally 2 months later I got an email sent to my @apache address from the second recruiter for a "Data Engineering Lead" position.

So it seems that they haven't used LI a lot and mostly rely on those "other channels" and direct emails. I personally find it disrespectful to send recruiting emails to user mailing lists but I guess recruiters don't know/care about it.

jdcryanson Jeff Bezos Taught Me When to Quit

So he reads The Secret? If so, I guess I don't need to read the post.

jdcryanson Introducing Facebook Camera

My experience with their app is that it's just so slow that being able to jump directly to Messenger when I need to use it saves me some time. I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing.

jdcryanson The only way to get hold of a human at Google

Also the mailbox/rake has targeted ads on it.