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by BackBlast 3y ago
Except that you've just split your available cache region between multiple processes. This can actually decrease performance, I remember cache thrashing back in the P4 days that could cause an application like MS Word to take minutes
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by BackBlast 3y ago
Not sure what ads have to do with my response. I don't monetize with ads. A lot of software does, and it can misalign incentives. The user becomes the product instead of the customer.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
> Anything Apple can do to discourage web apps and force more development of native apps I'm grateful for. As a vendor, I would love nothing more than to never have to deal with the app store again to reach iOS users with first clas
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by BackBlast 3y ago
Yes, it does.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
My take away is that this list is very unreliable.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
I appreciate the thoughtful reply. Every time I see this list trotted out I can't get past the obvious red flag. Nice to have some more background on it.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
> The list places JavaScript at a score of 4.45 and TypeScript worse at 21.5. For reference, C, the most energy efficient it 1.0 The point is that TypeScript is JavaScript with typing syntax added on top. There is a transpile step into
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by BackBlast 3y ago
How can you trust a list that places JavaScript an order of magnitude lower than TypeScript? Seems fundamentally broken.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
The measurement size is just marketing at this point. The actual transistors are much larger.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
> childish and unethical These are not attributes you want in a CEO. They prevent the building of trust with both employees and users. Both of which you should seek when building a site like Reddit. The seeds of his character were reve
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by BackBlast 3y ago
Want to know the heart of a man? Give him power.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
That rule set is pretty harsh. Can I recommend: news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: black) news.ycombinator.com##td:style(color: #fafafa !important) news.ycombinator.com##table:style(background-color: #120F0D) news.ycomb
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by BackBlast 3y ago
He has to flush the existing subscriptions no matter what. It's done. He has said he can afford it. He could fire up a new system with appropriate pricing as soon as he can manage. All customers, if they want to come back, are then
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by BackBlast 3y ago
This one isn't particularly abused. It's already available in Chrome and the number of sites that leverage it at all is vanishingly small. No real abuse from it - so far at least. It does offer a much better user experience than
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by BackBlast 3y ago
It's not that hard. You only need a few rules to make it work. * Manage your own VPN and don't depend on the vendor's solution. * Only use base level services that are available on every cloud you want to leverage. Which pr
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by BackBlast 3y ago
When your account changes from the time based free tier to the only forever free tier they often shut things down. Even if you're careful not to use the time based free tier stuff, which I was, it went pop anyway. If you're below
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by BackBlast 3y ago
> And apparently a javascript framework is currently beating all of those languages in the composite score on techempower, though that seems a bit weird to me: Just-js was essentially built to run the techempower benchmark. It's no
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by BackBlast 3y ago
Really depends on the use case. When you don't need the extra features of the AWS load balancer+API gateway over, say, a relatively straight forward nginx/caddy installation. The time to learn the AWS equivalents over off the sh
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by BackBlast 3y ago
Ubuntu server itself is pretty arm friendly. But there's a LOT of software that doesn't come with the distro's packaging that one might want to run in the cloud. Docker images and vendor hosted package repos. Everyone does
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by BackBlast 3y ago
To the downvoter... I strive for simple infrastructure. ARM doesn't support the x86 docker eco system. That's a significant strike but not totally unworkable for me. My primary database isn't prepackaged with the ARM package
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by BackBlast 3y ago
4k block size, it's IOPS limited. No surprise there.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
Introducing new distros to solve the problem is moving in the wrong direction. It's so much easier to deal with one distro in the cloud. Just more reasons not to go multi uArch.
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by BackBlast 3y ago
I've benchmarked ARM systems vs other processors. On my workload, using Intel as a baseline. AMD under performs relative to standard benchmarks. ARM over performs relative to standard benchmarks. I have seen good performance from Am
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Online deployments are discussed with some frequency. Tooling is talked about. Always as a "cluster". Why do we need clusters anymore? Scaling containers, scaling functions, scaling, scaling, cluster, cluster. We suffer so mu
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by BackBlast 4y ago
The API calls shouldn't be stored in the browser. That would just be a mess. A refresh should predictably fetch fresh data, because that matches user intent. There are also times I want to turn caching off. The understanding of wha
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Last time I used GraphQL seriously, caching was suppose to work. I never really saw it work well . Not like you can predictably cache REST.
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by BackBlast 4y ago
I do. It helps with latency when someone hits the "back" button and your queries are page/view based. Instead of seeing the delay of the query, it's instant. Because, well, it probably should be. Cache times are usual
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Complexity of the backend is much higher with GraphQL. Caching is much more difficult (not impossible) compared to REST. The client query system is bigger and more complex. So... Complexity generally is higher with GraphQL. Some data fl
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Sounds like toxic workplace problems to me. Those are very not fun.
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by BackBlast 4y ago
So what? You got preached to. "Bullied" seems to strong. Now it's time to shout your displeasure to the world of it's unfairness? Every round of tech hype sounds about the same. Object Oriented programming. The netw

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