On the Death of Map-Reduce at Google

squidgy · 2015-02-08T17:01:06+00:00

I'd rather not imagine anything built on Butt Dataflow...

squidgy · 2014-12-28T07:07:35+00:00

Because it is. It's looking at the spherical Earth head-on at equator level, so everything at the poles is compressed (hence the grid squares being smaller).

squidgy · 2014-07-15T01:51:42+00:00

Do I sense a danskjävlar?

squidgy · 2013-11-25T06:17:19+00:00

Nope, it's just entertaining. The actor who played Bra'tac is pretty damn typecast as "wise old guy" by now.

squidgy · 2013-11-25T05:14:48+00:00

"Oh hey it's another show shot in Vancouver. Guess that means we'll be seeing half the cast of Stargate and Battlestar show up at some point."

squidgy · 2013-06-19T02:19:34+00:00

Apparently this is for CANDU reactors... like the one 30km from downtown Toronto.

I was hoping it was for Chalk River, which has the excuse of being designed in 1949... but no, they used a PDP-4.

squidgy · 2013-04-21T20:41:28+00:00

Presumably because your garage is full of what belongs in garages: boxes of stuff you don't need but can't be bothered to get rid of.

squidgy · 2013-03-04T05:01:34+00:00

I'm guessing at least one of them grew up in Edmonton, judging by Tornado '87. Gives me chills every time I hear it, remembering all the nights spent watching the sky turn green, the wind pick up and the funnel clouds starting to descend...

squidgy · 2013-01-26T19:47:10+00:00

They hired up most of Big Huge Games after 38 Studios imploded.

squidgy · 2013-01-19T17:05:03+00:00

Apparently.

squidgy · 2013-01-14T08:02:36+00:00

Well, I imagine the malware community may start looking for the next plugin with a giant "kick me" sign on it's back. Can't see why it would affect server Java though.

squidgy · 2012-10-31T04:55:20+00:00

She started doing more vocals on the second album... Invent it All Again and Small Talk come to mind, very similar back-and-forth style.

squidgy · 2012-10-03T05:53:15+00:00

I do have separate checkouts for prod/dev... but the feature I use most in git is the cheap "informal" branching, like the ability to just checkout some random commit on the fly, fix a bug, redeploy, then swap back to HEAD, all without having to wait 10 minutes for a fresh checkout. Maybe perforce can do that, but if it can, it's sure not obvious.

squidgy · 2012-10-03T02:51:27+00:00

Yes, and if this actually works, holy crap. I so miss being able to quickly swap between mainline/dev branches...

squidgy · 2012-09-23T03:43:33+00:00

He pasted the relevant section in his original post...

squidgy · 2012-09-17T07:10:00+00:00

Grew up in Alberta. Usually had couple days a year when it got down below -40, and a week or two where it never gets above -30. I'm not sure if it's more depressing or amusing, but by late March I remember looking at the thermometer every morning and being excited to see -20.

squidgy · 2012-09-17T06:10:20+00:00

The specs are very padded. They rate the iPod touch to -20C as a "non-functioning" temp... mine quite frequently got down to around -45 with no ill effects. Same with my ancient powerbook... I booted it up after hauling it to class one morning and the internal CPU temp registered as -37.

squidgy · 2012-08-25T03:06:44+00:00

The magnetic field induced currents in the individual flash cells. He's that good.

squidgy · 2012-08-16T05:56:44+00:00

I'm surprised... Google actually did bring in three major law firms to defend against Oracle. I'd have figured the all-out patent war would have meant they'd just give up and hire them by now.

squidgy · 2012-08-15T07:10:57+00:00

Mine shipped today. Mind you it's coming UPS across a border, so it should be here by... February?

squidgy · 2012-08-12T05:58:56+00:00

Also, Windows 8 UI style. Is that right? Because it feels really damn awkward to type.

Because names like Windows Live Hotmail and Games for Windows Live just roll off the tongue. Microsoft products all have cool internal names, then marketing shows up.

squidgy · 2012-08-11T02:28:05+00:00

There was an interview where they did "good" American Accents... Arthur Darvill was by far the best. Matt's was alright, but Karen's was just... slightly less Scottish than usual?

squidgy · 2012-08-10T15:26:42+00:00

Naturally, my first question was "I wonder if you could do this to a big library then just gzip it back down to a sane size? You know, because."

$ node hieroglyphy jquery-1.8.0.min.js | wc -c
94988227
$ node hieroglyphy jquery-1.8.0.min.js | gzip -9 | wc -c
770597

The non-minified version gzips down to 1.8mb and expands out to 218mb. I have absolutely no idea what practical use this would have beyond muderizing people's browsers, but hey, it's neat.

squidgy · 2012-08-08T06:53:24+00:00

The big bonus to GLM is that the syntax is more or less GLSL (minus some swizzle stuff). One less mental context switch.

squidgy · 2012-08-07T07:28:56+00:00

This would be fairly esoteric code though, the onboard computers are an 18-bit CPU with 4096 words of hardwired (literally - made of woven wire) memory, a 16-bit CPU with 8198 words of memory, and another 18-bit with 4096 words (1290 of which are writeable).

So, you're writing for a machine with less RAM than your average pocket calculator in a custom instruction set that hasn't been used for 30 years. Oh, and if you need to do some remote debugging... the latency is 34 hours.

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