RyanZAG

88 ms·

781.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
You're getting a bit bogged down in details, I meant it more as a general case. There are numerous cases where it is simply more efficient to be operating directly on data - the most used example I can think of are fragment and vertex
782.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
> I think in reality the appeal of FP is that the people who use it are generally more experienced programmers who tend not to make too much mess in non-FP languages anyway. The benefits are more the peer group than anything else. Care
783.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
I think a lot of people gloss over a bit too quickly on the actual implications at a hardware level on what it means to have immutable state. If you have 10mb of numbers that you need to add 1 to, immutable state means you now have 20mb of
784.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
The way people talk about it is hopefully ruined for some - if this makes a couple people stop to think that their reasons for championing a language are flawed then this is one awesome post. (yes, I know you're being sarcastic) Howeve
785.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
> Learn technologies that are specifically different from those that you already know. Careful with this point. A lot of people take this to heart a bit too much and dip their toes into 10+ different languages with only a couple weeks
786.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Only briefly - it looks pretty straight forward. Could you explain what's wrong with it? Also they pushed a number of features that were going to land in Java 7 back to Java 8 because there wasn't enough time to finish them. So th
787.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Java is very heavily set on backwards compatibility - no new feature is allowed to affect existing code and any new features must fit into the existing features. This is different to Python for example where they had backwards incompatible
788.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Fake it till you make it is why you'd use a quick and dirty mongodb with json dumped straight from your clients, though. Maybe we have different ideas on the speed of development on mysql vs mongodb though.
789.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Maybe all those easy to answer questions are made in the same way as this one?
790.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
There's a lot of people who think that Microsoft isn't really astroturfing. Hopefully this will be a bit of proof to show just how Microsoft's marketing department works. EDIT: In case you're wondering, this was meant to
791.
@Xbox asks for support on fixing an Xbox(i.imgur.com)
3 points by RyanZAG 13y ago|3 comments
792.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Depends what your startup is doing. If you are only using your database to store some basic transactions, then a relational database is a very good fit. This is really the case for most startups tackling common problems. However, if your st
793.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Index would become bigger than ram. Removing old data would be more difficult. They likely only use todays data. This is probably a trading data system of some kind.
794.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
I don't really understand - if use of the technique (and similar) is why the Stasi is as maligned as it is, then surely using the technique does put you on par? What would it take to put you on par then? Nationality? A mustache?
795.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Got to admit, SF looks a whole lot better now than it did then. There's a reason rent is high now and low then: SF is now an incredible place that everyone wants to be. Back then, clearly not so much. Looks like that convention center
796.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Hilarious. The reason for bitcoin is lack of regulation. You know that right? You're using bitcoins and not dollars because it's not regulated and subject to the same oversights and related fees. So basically you want the governme
797.
Zimperium Raises $8M For Mobile Security That Turns The Tables On Attackers(techcrunch.com)
1 points by RyanZAG 13y ago|0 comments
798.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Recursive CTEs are not what one would traditionally call 'relational' and many relational databases certainly don't have them. Some distributed graph databases do store ids and not addresses - there is no actual requirement t
799.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
It's faster, but it's not remarkably faster, no. The main place it becomes faster is deep joins - if you want the friend of the friend of the friend. If using joins that looks like LEFT OUTER JOIN bla a1 LEFT OUTER JOIN bla a2 LEF
800.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
1) No. It stores the id/address of the 'row' you are linking too, so there is no performance impact on insert/update/etc. 2) Yes, very much so. EDIT: For a bit more clarity on how/why you'd use it. Graph D
801.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
The next message in the thread is interesting too: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg03555.h... A request to replace him with Bruce Schneier.
802.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
I'm going to save these HN comments for 5 years time when the hype on functional programming has died down a bit. Will be very humorous to read this again then.
803.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Dildos are not created in a vacuum and has a large industry surrounding it - and a lot of the practices involved in that are troublesome too. Sweatshops? I'm sure there is pornography created by people who want to make it. I'm les
804.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
I initially assumed your comment was a joke of some kind - but I think you might actually be serious? Could you explain how it's reasonable?
805.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Opting out of a porn filter would probably see you added to some sex offender list within a few years. This is probably a better option if you're stuck on some ISP for some reason.
806.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
OrientDB has issues with documentation and tooling. Generally the drivers for each language are difficult to use and confusing. There is very little in the way of high performance ORMs which is the main reason you'd want to use somethi
807.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
> by thinking how we can make the power computing technologies give us available to everyone. the rest will follow automatically. But that's exactly what we are doing. What do you think iPhones and iPads are? Those startups that
808.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
What is Log4J doing there? It's an incredibly complex framework for doing something incredibly simple - logging. It's the exact opposite of a minimalist framework.
809.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
It's not actually the fastest. Check out the tabs at the top of the benchmark. You are only looking at basic JSON serialization on an i7. A more realistic benchmark is the 'fortune cookie' benchmarks which actually hit a data
810.
by RyanZAG 13y ago
If you have 8 cores, you'll get 8 threads and all your requests will be nicely distributed across the cores. This is why Go is up near the top for the i7 benchmarks. On the EC2 ones, there are far fewer cores, so the overhead of distri

More ›