News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: Trapped by knowledge. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Trapped by knowledge by partisan on Thursday December 29, 2016 @03:28PM (#13279847)
Did you ask him why he took the approach he took?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Trapped by knowledge by emmelaich on Sunday January 01, 2017 @08:16PM (#13298437)
Yes, and why random data? Possibly he needed 'real' data because the store used compression/RLE.

But certainly they should have got an estimate first - given a probability and size.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Trapped by knowledge by scawf on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:33AM (#13299833)
He was not using real data because we anticipated that with this new feature, the usage would change. (Making our existing data meaningless).

And there was no compression or anything fancy.

[ Parent | on HN ]