AlimJaffer

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by AlimJaffer 8y ago
I genuinely don't see many people doing it, at least not enough to make a tangible difference to the papers bottom line. The only answer these days is a subscription service, but I don't want to subscribe to 50+ different ones...
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by AlimJaffer 9y ago
A couple of our use-cases include: good KV access (stored user data etc.) and listing blocks of data that has been pre-sorted on disk at insert time (leaderboard records, chat message history etc.). As well, the clustering technology is pa
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by AlimJaffer 9y ago
raises hand we're using them extensively. They're our database of choice that we've paired with Nakama[1] which is an open-source, distributed server. Have nothing but great things to say about the database itself in terms
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by AlimJaffer 9y ago
These are fairly different offerings. Improbable is about enabling the creation of massive worlds with various actors and players interacting in the same world server - effectively large-scale MMO's with a lack of sharding. But it is a
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by AlimJaffer 9y ago
Isopropyl alcohol is a godsend when it comes to smelly athletic gear. If you want to clean hockey gear, some of the worst smelling athletic gear in existence, put it in a spray bottle in a 50/50 mix with water and spray profusely. It d
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by AlimJaffer 9y ago
Who are the VC's? Emperor Palapatine and the Siths?
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by AlimJaffer 9y ago
One of my favourite reviewers. He can be a bit hokey at times, but he truly understands and appreciates cars.
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by AlimJaffer 9y ago
It's quite trendy at the moment, but Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari was quite the life changing book. As well as An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Commander Chris Hadfield was a rather inspirational tale.
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by AlimJaffer 9y ago
Seconded on Apache-2.0 - it's what we use. GPL is not attractive to enterprise and will limit the adoption of the tech.