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They've been hiring for this for a while now, https://www.facebook.com/careers/department?dept=engineering...

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When you essentially don't try to defend yourself but instead insult and berate the court and opposing council in the legal documents you submit to the court you open up a very large window for the judge to side against you when there is any sort of leeway...

http://www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/2011-... reads as if they asked you to remove the article and apologize and you rejected the proposal.

By representing herself and appearing largely ignorant to the law she not only lost the case but essentially made it so that the judge could rule no other way. Ignoring the sensationalist article and looking closer at the actual trial documents as linked http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/obsidian-finance-group-v-... You can see that in many of her responses instead of trying to make a legal argument she just rants about how much she hates the plaintiffs and thinks they are idiots and states things like "This connection is further reason as to why Defendant [sic] Crystal L. Cox Feels [sic] that Kevin Padrick of Obsidian Finance is involved in a plot to kill her."

In addition, she replies to the platiniff "So I want to Let you know and Obsidian Finance that I am now offering PR Services and Search Engine Management Services starting at $2500 a month to promote Law Firms... Finance Companies.. and to protect online reputations and promote businesses.." Which the legal firm didn't take kindly to, "It could hardly be clearer that Ms. Cox is attempting to use her outrageous and utterly false payments about plantiffs as leverage to extort a payment from them."

Also, she ignored a deposition in Montana for which the plaintiffs are requesting the court place sanctions on her which if she didn't would also have made it trivial to move the case to another district court where some weird wording in the Oregon shield law wouldn't have mattered.

The Judge probably wanted to hang himself after reading her motions.

It's not from a dc to the speedtest node; its from the campus. It wouldn't matter anyway. I work at Cisco and I have gigabit link to the core from my laptop. Problem is the speedtest nodes can't push the traffic fast enough to fill the pipe which is something I regularly do when working with campuses in MA and NC.

knowing the old cisco that's very doubtful, but maybe this new "we have to do a whole lot very fast or we're screwed" cisco will handle it as one would expect.

Pure Digital CEO Jonathan Kaplan left cisco over two months ago.

Part of my job is working on a in-kernel key/value store for a data center network operating system. The problem it is the context switching between user and kernel space kills your performance if you're targeting sub-millisecond read/writes. That may not matter for something like acunu when you factor in network latency but when you're using the database as part of the packet path it does. In addition, under a high system load your user space process has a high likelihood of getting scheduled out at the ioctl call which makes latency even worse. Although being in the kernel allows you a little leeway in terms durability constraints and all that because if you screw up the entire system comes crashing down anyway.

It will never be in the mainline kernel. Also, although I haven't actually looked at what they did yet, I assume they're just loading a regular old kernel module instead of actually really messing with a lot of the mainline code.

The spike probably had a lot to do with the release of Tron: Legacy on December 17 who had a character named Quorra which could easily be misspelled as Quora. The trend for Quorra largely follows this spike as seen at http://www.google.com/trends?q=quorra&ctab=0&geo=all...

Nothing happend to Quora.com.

They are very interesting but in practice often preform poorly due to the cpu not being able to figure out what to cache.

Dont have immediate access to the paper. I agree it is a hurdle to overcome, but I don't really know how many startups ultimately don't get started or fail because of it especially if you look at the number of startups and entrepreneurs consistently popping up in the US compared to some countries where the government provides universal healthcare.

That's the idea of buybacks but there's no guarantee it will result in an increased share price. Take Cisco for example, by the end of this year they will have made around $82 Billion in buybacks while their stock has remained flat over the past 10 years.

Being a good athlete is only part of what he did.

He also created a brand around himself becoming far and away the most marketed sports figure in history that generated billions of dollars and boosted sales of many brands he was affiliated with. That doesn't happen by just optimizing your ability to play a game.

F# is used in quite a number of firms, especially in the Chicago area I am aware of a handful of companies. Initially it was used just for prototyping/modeling type stuff, but more and more it is seeing the light of day in production. It will never see the adoption scale of Java/C# but that isn't the point or the goal.

It makes sense as well if you follow the history of most of these trading firms. Most of them started out just manipulating excel spreadsheets. Then brought in vb macros and such and then from there some diverge into java or go straight to some functional programming solution like ocaml with jane street, but others stay tied to msft with C#. Then F# comes along and allows intelligent developers at these msft firms to express themselves more clearly when dealing with the type of math problems they are solving.

If the firm is using C# I am almost certain that F# is in the mix there as well.

At the same time though, you're saying you failed solely because you used HBase? Sure twitter's architecture evolved out of necessity but starting out with some NoSQL solution doesn't automatically set you up for failure.

It will be interesting to see what comes of these grants.

I feel that the companies that were successful when their founders dropped out of school were driven by a founder who believed so intently and was committed to his idea that he was willing to drop out and pursue it despite the lack of incentive to do so. Instead of the alternative where a halfway decent guy who just isn't that happy at school goes off to pursue some startup because someone gave him a decent amount of money which i suspect will end in failure almost all the time.

Google's birthday, I am assuming. Although they tend to flipflop between the 7th and 27th.

This sounds like he is the kind of guy who in less than a year will be writing about how he wished he owned one and will be first in line for the next revision later blogging about how awesome it is.

I don't think those are the problems that led to the "failure" of podcasts and companies like odeo. Sure they are nice problems to solve, but they don't fix the real issue.

Even if the people who actually become billionaires are small those who attempt and fail are often better off than they started. The middle ground between ones current status in life and reaching billionaire status is an immense landscape with many opportunities. In contrast to the counterpoint in his article the middle ground between playing basketball in say high school playing in the NBA is very slim; it is very much an all or nothing game where as the quest for wealth is vastly opposite.

They are not obligated to reply to you in any way. While the registrar can technically cancel the registration because of an invalid email addr, I don't know of a single registrar who will. Certified mail is the best way to contact them, but again if they aren't looking to sell don't expect a reply.

A follow up article with a more in depth technical component would be nice to see as well. ;)

Coroutines bring their own headaches and baggage. To say that callbacks are behind "state of the art" is a little misplaced,; its just a different way of doing things. With coroutines you have to worry about IO all over the place and have to make your functions coroutine safe and Ryan Dahl, the node.js creator, will argue with you all day long about coroutines vs callbacks.

I do agree, though, that developers should not ignore other ways of doing things, just don't discredit the callback way of doing things as it can be useful.

It's not like they take a camera and snap a few pictures of it playing Star Trek anyway, every one of the pictures showing the ipad with some image on the screen is 'digitally altered' or any image on any screen in actual marketing data whether its from apple or htc or dell anyone else. This is because taking a picture of the actual screen actually doing something doesn't turn out very good when trying to emphasis the device. Apple wasn't the first to do this and they certainly won't be the last.

iPhone preorders are why there are a line apparently, not this.

With Oracle slashing it's Sun acquisition into profitability and the fact that the licensing issues still surround ZFS and their apparent doubling down on the btrfs effort it may not be ready for a few releases but in the longer term it definitely shows more promise especially if they end up slowing zfs work. ZFS is certainly an amazing and well written fs, but its starting to look like its future is a little uncertain.

More times than not, I've found rewriting code leads to more problems than fixing some trivial error. Some small bug in the code is not necessarily a symptom of a horrible design that will destroy your project.

I don't know about the random guy who wrote this article or his experiences, but I rarely find myself with a few weeks to throw away rewriting code that works.

I submit to you http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?RewriteCodeFromScratch for a more reasonable and comprehensive discussion of the topic.

For a brief time I worked at a startup where all founders were remote by the time development began. It seems to be much more difficult to stay committed and focused on the tasks at hand when you only interact via email and irc, especially in the early stages where little is invested in the project by most of the members. Needless to say, it fell apart, and at least from my perspective looking back I would say that the remote working part definitely hurt the project. It was also bad that two of the three guys involved weren't entirely committed seeing as they had an easy way out three months into it if it didn't work out.

/me is in. might bring friend. don't know if you need me to tell you.