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by Nican 4y ago
I just have an old Dell computer [1]. They are pretty small, quiet, has an SSD, and I do not need to fiddle in having everything compiled for Arm. I would also put your app behind CloudFlare. Also- if you are able to afford an intel NUC ($2
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by Nican 4y ago
I was going to answer that the answer is column families [1], but I just realized that is a CockroachDB-specific feature. [1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/column-families.ht...
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by Nican 4y ago
Price decreases as time passes? It is called an Dutch auction. [1] The most famous example I can think of is the flower auction/Amsterdam clock.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction [2] https:/
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by Nican 4y ago
Cheap DNS registration, and being able to keep it at the same price. What I am wondering right now is if there is any regulation about buying a domain, building a popular product on top of it, and then having your registrar keep increasing
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by Nican 4y ago
For those who do not remember, Google did an auction for .dev domains when it was first released in 2019. I think it was something like that every week the price was halved until it reached the $12/year. I bought a .dev domain from Goo
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by Nican 4y ago
That is the thing that made me realize that this is not an official GitHub product.
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by Nican 4y ago
Wow! I really like this project. I have been loving actor systems, and your project brings a lot of interesting concepts together. I do not have much of anything to say, but I did come up with an idea. One thing that Fuchsia (operating syst
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by Nican 4y ago
I know nothing about ClickHouse, but how many cores are being used for these queries? And what is the core processing frequency? I would think ClickHouse is tuned for analytics workloads, so it will throw plenty of cores at the problem, and
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by Nican 4y ago
This is actually what the Azure Portal does [1] for embedding 3rd party applications. They even developed a custom HTML language to describe how to layout applications to give a consistent look. The downside was the portal started to become
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by Nican 4y ago
This is only a personal project. I am building a Twitter graph tool. It created a 2d graph of all of your followers (Up to 20,000 followers), and calculates proximity based on shared followership. [1] https://twitter.com/Nic
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by Nican 4y ago
Awesome! I have seen PlanetScale hype up this release for weeks, and glad to finally be reading about it. My initial thoughts after reading the blog post, just to poke holes in their new product: 1. Costs. This can save time on read, but it
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by Nican 4y ago
As with any of the other solutions proposed, it would take a huge organization level shift for everyone to standardize under one RPC standard (including monitoring). It is not for the lack of solutions in hindsight, just the constant featur
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by Nican 4y ago
I had my own hell with Microservices during my last big-corp job. Having to deal with API migrations was a nightmare, because other teams never wanted to spend the time to switch to the newer versions, and it was hard to even figure out whe
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by Nican 4y ago
Huh- Running Postgres at home, while running the web server on Digital Ocean. I would think that since running several round trips to the database for every web request, it would make more sense to run the entire web server at home?
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by Nican 4y ago
That caught me off-guard as well. I only ever written one thing in Haxe, but the experienced was mixed. It worked, but it also kind of painful to work with. For context: Haxe is a programming language with the main purpose to have several c
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by Nican 4y ago
Mastodon may not have the better interface, or the better community, or it may not yet be the most intuitive to use. But I want to invest my time to help Mastodon reach the critical mass it needs. I would love to have a social network not c
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by Nican 4y ago
I used Dart for a project some 8 years ago. There used to be an easy to use Dart Editor that I used and one day it just stopped working, and stopped getting updates. Google did not provide any good alternatives, and I just gave up on the la
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by Nican 4y ago
Jeff Atwood 5 years ago: "the Qualcomm hardware people told Google internally they were 5 years behind Apple on hardware. This was about 1.5 years ago, but I believe that's about right." ( https://twitter.com/
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by Nican 4y ago
I have not used moment.js or other date libraries in a long while. But how does this compare to Luxon? ( https://moment.github.io/luxon/#/why )
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by Nican 4y ago
I had quite some pleasure working with the Source Engine gameplay code. (Some 10 years ago now) https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013 It is not that the quality of the code is high, but just that it is well
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by Nican 4y ago
Probably trying to get rid of people using their service like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ufa4v4/google_...
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by Nican 4y ago
Planet Money did a podcast on the subject: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis... There is a fixed rate between postal offices to ship overseas, and it may make the shi
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by Nican 5y ago
I am having quite a good time with CockroachDB. It has been mostly set-and-forget, and it auto-balances, and does rolling upgrades pretty smoothly.
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by Nican 5y ago
Also worth looking at KQL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/q...
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by Nican 5y ago
I am a vivid Telegram user, and it is my primary method of communication with friends. The Telegram communities are so large, that you are going to find all kind of people there. (They have claimed to have 500+ million users) I am in over 1
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by Nican 5y ago
Just being "Postgres" is not simple. Both Spanner+CRDB provides some custom domain specific language that helps the data distribute itself around the cluster (or the world). Or for example, change the primary key of a table, so th
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by Nican 5y ago
There are two ways I see databases doing paxos. The basic way, like some databases like Percona, basically is a single raft across the whole database. It can help with high availability, but the database scale is still kind of constrained
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by Nican 5y ago
I work at at a large corporation, and that is one balance that I am also constantly fighting and never seem to get it right. Having to provide a "Business justification"/OKRs for every technical feature has been soul draining
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by Nican 5y ago
My knowledge about kernels is very limited, but is this not the whole principle behind Google's Fuchsia?
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by Nican 6y ago
I think the appeal is with Jupyter [1] notebooks. Python is not about performance. Usually numpy (or other libraries) that does the heavy lifting on another language anyway. But having the Jupyter notebooks allows for intractability with th

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