Famous last words?

> Or that they will make a team that writes a completely new version of the code

Isn't that one way of the "cleanup and re-design work"?

> Laws are not beliefs they are societal contracts.

Societal contracts are just collective beliefs. When the number of people upholding a particular societal contract goes to zero it ceases to exist. Just as any other belief, it requires believers to exist. Unlike, for example, the space rock that some group of sentient organisms decided to call Mars.

it is not about "believing a societal contract". It is about believing that other people follow it or not. Contract is not a belief.

This Team Used Apache Cassandra Without Reading The Fine Manual… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

  “You honestly expected that adopting a data store at your scale would not require you to learn all of its internals?”

These aren't even internals, these are basic facts about Cassandra.

I do believe Cassandra requires a much more intimate knowledge of its internals if you want to do anything serious with it - more so than any other database I've worked with.

I have to agree. But with the clarification that it isn't significantly more. Spend a few days and you will be an expert.

And I think it's worth noting that the "serious" things you would do on Cassandra more often than not you couldn't do on most other databases.

I agree as well. However, it seems a common mistake to assume you can just "deploy", especially coming from traditional RDBMS.

Great power, great responsibility.

Some of what the article suggests (their own serialization format, using COMPACT STORAGE) isn't in or directly contradicts what the manual suggests to do. This isn't just a case where reading the documentation would tell you everything they found worked for them.

The nice guy ;) behind linux and git.

How does Uber compare to Mechanical Turk in this regard? Would Amazon (or a requester?!) be liable for accidents happening to (or caused by) turkers while they are working on a request?

Why is the word "actor" absent both in the original article and in the HN comments?

and "process calculus" too, imho.

Is this possibly a canary?

I was actually wondering the same.

For those curious: https://github.com/therealplato/dhs-mtgox-warrant/blob/maste...

For what?

I believe he may have been implying that the cause is somehow linked to an outside agency, which in the case of Bitcoin discussions usually implies a government body somewhere.

> Going forward, making the combustible engine and hybrids more efficient will do magnitudes more to curb carbon emissions than all-electric vehicles.

Simply stating it as fact does not make it true.

Do you mean intersection?