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Comment My Last Amazon Shipment (Score 2) 108

Some bottled cleaning fluid. I received a padded envelope that wasn't sufficient to hold the weight of the cleaning fluid bottle. By the time it got to me, the item had fallen out of the envelope. The envelope was completely empty, no product and not even an invoice. Just a completely empty envelope. Not really much of a surprise. I'm speculating the robots won't do much of a better job of packaging than the people.

Comment Word to the wise (Score 2) 1056

As an employer, I always do a quick web search for the candidate's name. It almost never produces anything that sways my hiring choice. But, in this case, if I saw the nonsense she posts on twitter, I definitely wouldn't hire her even if she's fantastic at her job. I, and I'm sure many others, try to construct a great team of people who are low ego, accept criticism, and won't create drama. This person, I'm pretty sure, would make a real mess of my team, and a quick web search in the future will tell all potential future employers that.

Comment Two years worth of use (Score 5, Interesting) 438

I'm in the industry, so I have a little more background on this. They spent about 40M GBP building the system, and it's only been used for two years. It was (entirely?) outsourced to Accenture. Other reasons why the system sucks: It can only handle about 10,000 orders/second, and has latency numbers that are incredibly high (5 milliseconds+).

Looking at other exchanges, there are trading platforms that have been able to last 10+ years while scaling quite well.

TradElect was/is a project management and technical disaster.

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Submission + - Google shows cell phone prototype to vendors

taoman1 writes: Google Inc. has developed a prototype cell phone that could reach markets within a year, and plans to offer consumers free subscriptions by bundling advertisements with its search engine, e-mail and Web browser software applications, according to a story published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal.

Comment Oh, my! (Score 3, Informative) 79

So Google used horizontal partitioning to split load across servers? Wow, that's rocket science. None of us in the database community have thought of doing this before. :-) But, if you want to find some news here, you can. One nice thing that Google did recently was to donate their horizontal partitioning code for Hibernate to the open source community. Hibernate Shards definitely needs a lot of work to get it to the point where it does a lot of stuff that people would want, but, hey, release early and often!

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