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For somebody so full of technical vitriol (note: I've yet to form a serious opinion on Web3 so I'm no apologist) this person seems pretty green: > Unbeknownst
by alexjplant 4y ago
For somebody so full of technical vitriol (note: I've yet to form a serious opinion on Web3 so I'm no apologist) this person seems pretty green:
> Unbeknownst to me, modern filesystems write data in "blocks" of a predetermined size.
>Unfortunately, I had to rerun the generator script since I did not include a way to pick up where I left off if I ever stopped part-way through, but with the revolutionary optimization of removing the logging which somehow reduced the runtime from several days to several hours
> With my suspicions confirmed I turned to other cloud services to host the files.
[...] And by "cloud services" I mean an AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Instance. If you aren't aware it's just another computer managed by Amazon that I'm able to remote into.
> Then I had a realization: IPFS is a piece of shit. Retrieving a single file using IPFS takes minutes to do if it isn't cached by several nodes, which mine weren't since I had just added them to the network.
...then I read:
> Despite having a degree in Computer Science, this was my first time actually launching a website.
We can tell.
- HairyDan 4y agoWhat's the issue with someone who's "pretty green" writing a post-mortem like this? If anything, I thought your comment held more vitriol than the article.
- alexjplant 4y agoMy comment has no value judgments, only an observation. They refer to a service as a "piece of shit" and sarcastically deride EC2.
- HairyDan 4y agoFair enough. For what it's worth, I interpreted that choice of words as an element of the casual writing style and the EC2 comment as a fairly accurate, albeit non-technical, description of the service. To each their own I guess.
- scotty79 4y ago> We can tell. This is pure vitriol. I couldn't tell. And I'm a frontend dev with over a decade of experience.