Arcsech

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by Arcsech 10y ago
Not every API needs to hit a database for every call. This is especially true for Elixir/Phoenix because if you don't need your data to be persistent over a server failure, you can just store it in an OTP process/ETS table a
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by Arcsech 10y ago
To add to this: CentOS/RHEL: Aimed at enterprise use, so it's often slow to get package updates (but quick to get security updates), but is very very stable.
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by Arcsech 10y ago
Let's do some simple estimation! I haven't really looked at their spreadsheet, so this is just guesswork. The product is fairly simple technologically yes, but the value is provided by making it easy to use so the customer saves
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by Arcsech 10y ago
I just got a spinner over a purple background until I disabled uBlock on Firefox. Not a great first impression. Anyway, this looks like a concierge-type service - you install the app and use it as a single point of contact chat interface f
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by Arcsech 10y ago
Agreed - A demo page would be best, but take a look at pinboard.in/tour/ for how Pinboard does it. You definitely need something along these lines.
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by Arcsech 10y ago
It doesn't matter if it's "fair" - I don't want Chromification to become the new IE-ification. Vendor lock-in is always bad.
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by Arcsech 10y ago
Yeah - and there's a bunch of great podcasts that I can't really see switching to their own apps exclusively (all of Radiotopia, of which my favorites are 99% Invisible and Criminal, for example, and many independent podcasters),
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by Arcsech 10y ago
Interesting - I hadn't seen libpnet before. I was recently working on an experiemental project doing deep packet inspection in Rust using libpcap, which doesn't have very mature Rust bindings yet - the basics work, but it's
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by Arcsech 10y ago
Same - I might use a static site generator, but my wife wanted a blog with an in-browser editor, and since it's very easy to host multiple Ghost blogs on a single server with some nginx configuration, I decided to just go with that for
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by Arcsech 10y ago
@Pinboard on Twitter, not his personal account.
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by Arcsech 10y ago
Yes, I was saying that making ISPs look bad, under those circumstances, doesn't seem evil. I can see how what I wrote could be misinterpreted though.
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by Arcsech 10y ago
Why is it evil? And if the ISP is throttling Netflix, it doesn't "look slower than it is", it just accurately reports the throttled speed. I mean sure, it's definitely to make ISPs look bad... if they're throttling
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by Arcsech 10y ago
> Better databases have row level locking which allows many users to update the same table at the same time. Nitpick: Databases that make different tradeoffs have row level locking. SQlite is very good, for the niche that it's in, w
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by Arcsech 10y ago
I've never received $10k in a lump sum, much less $100k. I think the largest lump sum I've ever gotten from any source is around $5k, which was a relocation thing for my current job.
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by Arcsech 11y ago
Okay, but from my perspective as a consumer, I can buy a dumb programmable thermostat that will almost certainly keep working for 20 years for $25. If you, as a company, want to convince me it's worth 10x that for a thermostat I can a
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by Arcsech 11y ago
Adding sodium citrate to a cheese sauce is the best way I've found of making it less fussy. It's literally like pixie dust - you sprinkle some into some water, melt some cheese in the water, and bam: smooth, creamy cheese sauce
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by Arcsech 11y ago
For what it's worth, the issues in question were: 1) When they turned off my service a month after I moved into my new place, because they had somehow gotten the "moving from" and the "moving to" addresses backwards
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by Arcsech 11y ago
I don't know, Amazon is historically pretty good at being the screwer, rather than the screwee. I'd honestly love to see Comcast try to fuck with Amazon, and then the frantic backpedaling as Bezos throws a thousand lawyers at them
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by Arcsech 11y ago
If I could deal with Amazon customer service instead of Comcast, I definitely would. If I had any sane option other than Comcast for internet service (i.e. not satellite), I would jump ship in a heartbeat, even if it meant paying twice as
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by Arcsech 11y ago
Typo: "printing the first hundread to the screen" Anyway, looks interesting. I'll be keeping an eye on it, even if the whole visual part turns out to be a steaming pile, the text-based language looks quite promising.
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by Arcsech 11y ago
Yes please! <my HN username> at gmail, please.
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by Arcsech 11y ago
Make sure you're looking at Linux or Windows VMs for both, Azure's ~3-4Gb RAM Linux VMs run $70-$90/mo, whereas their Windows (the default on the pricing page) are $115-$135/mo. All of Azure's VM offerings also inc
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by Arcsech 11y ago
The aforementioned GNU Guix and the similar Nix project are exactly that: Cross-platform (mostly, at least Nix requires a unixy layer on Windows) language-independent package managers. One could argue that they aren't "successful&
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by Arcsech 11y ago
It's on GitHub[0], looks like Bootstrap with a material design addon. [0] https://github.com/NOtherDev/whatwebcando
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by Arcsech 11y ago
Just to be clear: the drug in question (Modafinil) is not an amphetamine, and has very different effects than amphetamines even though they are used for the same reasons (enhancing focus when tired).
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by Arcsech 11y ago
> We see many copies of Firefox infested with rogue add-ons the user didn't ask for or isn't even aware of. Like Pocket or Hello?
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by Arcsech 11y ago
I'm mostly only experienced with F#, but it has a few features that OCaml doesn't (type providers, units of measure, computation expressions) and is missing a few that OCaml has (functors). F# has a bit of a cleaner syntax in som
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by Arcsech 11y ago
Even if any given developer doesn't use it as a primary development language, then as something they need a little bit of to do something in a browser, so I'd bet most programmers have at least seen it. And even if you've ne
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by Arcsech 11y ago
Except that C isn't really the truth - Assembly is the truth. You can easily write code that is a huge abstraction from what the CPU is actually doing - for example, writing `float y = 1.5 * x` on a processor without a hardware FPU wi
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by Arcsech 11y ago
Regardless of whether or not background checks are effective, if you don't require them you are increasing your chances of being sued when (not if) something bad happens. At the very least, speak to an experienced lawyer about it.

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