ryanpers

eg: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6659 still open and no movement for over a year

Patches have been rolled back, commits vetoed, and the direction seems to be providing a pluggable thrift/protobuf/? RPC option, which seems weird to me. In any case, there was a lot of back pressure to avro.

Also given it's complexity I dont think I can recommend it in the RPC area.

Hadoop is NOT converging on avro, there are significant political barriers, and at the very least Owen is dead set against it. The comments on the latest JIRAs are rather pessimistic.

Avro is interesting but it is VERY complex. The schema negotiation is something I never felt comfortable with in an RPC context. You want something simple, and therefore bug free. This is why we like HTTP and JSON.

My vote goes for Thrift, but there are some features of protobuf which are interesting, notably the APIs for dealing with messages you dont know everything about, and ways to preserve unknown fields when you copy messages from A->B, this is in part how dapper works.

not so, he was able and willing to pay for the land, but the BLM doesnt allow people to buy land w/o drilling for oil. So he was charged with "disrupting a lawful government activity" - even though in fact those BLM auctions are NOT lawful.

maybe it isnt "elitist" but it is most definitely attended by the ELITE. Sayings that $10,000 attend a conference is anything but expensive is being elite.

Just deal with it and roll on already. Let's face it, only the BEST speakers doing all sorts of things are invited to speak at TED.

I found that reading SCIP while stoned helps understanding. Give it a shot! I finally understood big-theta!

The strange thing about python is it is almost TOO easy. I have worked with developers who preferred python because basically they were not great developers. The ease of development and attractiveness of the speed of development was a lure.

The only problem is the overall systems they wrote were bulky, not efficient and generally over-engineered. Very not hacker like. For example using threads in python, a very big no no that can and does cause many performance issues. Designing python middleware that had no reason to exist other than to be a cool project to build.

And so on and so forth. Painful.

As a male who was raised by a feminist and in an all-female household, including the pets, I have a lot of things to say about this matter.

First off I find that a lot of feminism in the 80s was implicitly anti-male. Take back the night is great for women, but what is the message you are sending to young boys who are often there? It's a subtle message and may not be a big influence on all males.

Or the anti-rape messages? The more extreme is the mis-attributed quote "all men are potential rapists". This is a horrible message to be sending to young men, not as bad as "women are things", but if our goal is to raise fully formed males, "you are a rapist" is not a good one to give.

Bringing it back to the subject at hand, this author reminds me a lot of the kinds of messages, rhetoric and material that was common in the mid to late 80s feminism. The material I grew up suffused in. I think it is very harmful for the normalization of male-female relations. Are there differences between male and female sexuality? Yes. Does this article overplay them? Yes absolutely.

As long as we have articles describing male sexuality as a negative force that must be controlled and tempered I don't think the goal of a better society will be reached. The implicit message of "female sexuality is normal and healthy" and "male sexuality is dark and evil" is really disturbing to me.

In the end this article is completely and utterly sexist. If we reversed the genders we'd just have tripe from the 1800s about how female sexuality needs to be controlled and how women are evil. If that isn't acceptable, then why is this?