alexro

This is definitely a change in the startup scene. If successful, other incubator will start copying it, making the whole experience better for founders. Good stuff.

It's a bit of a stretch to say they solved it. I'm not on FB and so FB to me don't matter. On the other hand, I'm part of an Active Directory of my company, so AD solves this problem for me at work. But none of them guarantee that the email came from the particular person and not from a dog.

I got it. You're from MySpace, not even from reddit

From what I gather skimming through the paper, you should be more concerned comparing HyperDex to Riak, than to Cassandra or MongoDb. The potential use cases seem to be quite different for the last mentioned.

Not even HTML/CSS?

Maybe. On the other hand, which risks we estimate properly? What if humans are incapable of properly estimating risks, especially related to themselves?

It all comes down to the ability to predict future, and we are really bad at it.

In every serious development the db architecture gets selected on the use cases specific to the business, so without describing which use cases HyperDex addresses there will be no real interest for it, name it 2.0 or "on steroids".

History has proved that any ethic is ineffective by itself and needs to be supported with brute, unethical to others, force

We would be able to reason if we had the other historic outcome for the comparison. But since we don't, we go with the "winners don't get judged".

So, as usual, the whole debate will be solved with brute force and whoever wins will get the right to speak like you.

Missing out the RDF data model

To the program participants: are these 40000 USD meaningful for doing a startup there? Is it like living on noodles or better/worse?

Your comment makes a lot of sense, much more than many comments above you.

I can only add that managers at BigCo want to cover their ass first and only then do the job. And how you gonna cover your ass when you 'try before you buy'?

Why focus on client vs. webserver communication layer? Think about using websockets between your app and database api. REST wouldn't do there, but websockets opens up new opportunities for dynamic languages.

AFAIK, Ghostery doesn't prevent the tracking scripts from running, it just checks for known bugs

Governments get sick when they hear 'freedom' in any form, especially if they cannot shut it up at will. So be prepared to more fighting over the years, as the stake - the amount of free Internet users - grows every year.

Can anybody share any "Aha!" moments coming from crunching big data? It would be interesting and useful to know how you went from theory to actual validation, especially if the result couldn't have been obtained any other way. Thanks

You can sell on ebay before you bought anything!

If I'm passionate about stuff that won't bring money for sure and there is an idea that I hate but feel it could be profitable, which way shall I choose to build a startup in your opinion?

It's easy to pick up to be passionate when doing a side project, and it's a completely different thing when you think about "going head-on" and need to pay the bills.

And in real life the choices are more subtle and have more dimensions.

Didn't they know her family situation and how many children she has before looking up the facebook?

It looks like either we adapt a new habit of protesting against such threats, or 'they' make us to change our habits in the way 'they' see it.

I know many people who recommend it

amazon?

Your experience with their support was excellent because mine was very poor ... in the sense that they charged me money and didn't gave it back - they have auto billing enabled by default.

So yeah, go enjoy on the expense of other people both money-wise and liberty-wise, support the damn bastard

That's what versioning is for, isn't it? You still can submit old data under the previous version, and old apps will works just fine as they won't see the new data.

New apps will have to deal with old versions somehow, or some back-end job will produce new data out of the old.

It looks like for the amazon-type companies the company's culture gets replaced by the founders image, as people need some way to grasp the company as a whole.

I'm not noticing it on a VERY large project, but my installed RAM is 12GB. The trade-off between RAM and productivity is in the Reshaper's favour IMO.

Everybody using VS should already know about Resharper. But just in case someone doesn't - this is a must to have if you work for enterprise, request it from your employer now!

So, how SOPA makes anything better? You cannot blacklist a botnet, right? You cannot blacklist a scummer, as he would just setup another domain, right? Who you can very well blacklist is a small guy with his blog giving a honest opinion about reality, right?

Last time I read about IndexTank I noticed that their query language isn't that sophisticated, it could basically find only matches. Did it improve, is it possible to do fuzzy matches?

ADD: also, does it support non-english languages at all?

Outside of Google, Facebook and another top 10 internet businesses, can someone share a realistic example of employing M/R in a typical corporate environment?

I'd be really interested at moving forward with the tech but for the time being I do have to stay where I'm - in my primitive cubicle cell.