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by STRML 9y ago
Yes, this was an incredible development, and lead to hilarious projects like ToroDB (MongoDB API on top of Postgres), which ended up being faster and safer, with relations when you need them. JSON columns can be incredibly useful and easy t
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by STRML 9y ago
> I think document stores are a great thing; the only problem is that MongoDB isn't a good document store. To add to that - you know when you need one. If you don't know you need a document store, you don't need it. When y
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by STRML 9y ago
The hype is the real issue. Even today, the CTO appears to claim that 90% of apps aren't relational enough to need Mongo. I did a startup in 2011/2012 where we bought into the hype and used MongoDB & Node + Mongoose. It was ho
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by STRML 9y ago
This is hilarious! We ran across @kornelski yesterday asking about some old babel code (1.) and were wondering what the angle is. Kornel's an accomplished coder: he did pngquant and imageoptim. The author himself calls it the "stu
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by STRML 9y ago
That does seem like a nice stack. Do you have an idea of the actual pricing past 10 nodes? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
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by STRML 9y ago
This is very important, because it removes some of the most prevalent criticisms about Freenet. If you don't agree with some content (re: legality or any reason you wish), don't access it/share it. Freenet doesn't give y
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by STRML 9y ago
That's a great graphic! I see a few more from around 2003 on http://chip-architect.com/ , do you know of anyone who's doing modern chips (x86 or ARM) this way?
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by STRML 9y ago
I agree that the IE decision was practically braindead and killed the utility of DNT. Because of it, we have no idea if the user actually specifically wants DNT (and this may degrade the user experience, so it should be opt-in), or their br
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by STRML 9y ago
Well, the optimizing pipeline has completely changed in V8 5.8 (if you use `--turbo --ignition`) and in 5.9+. It's been simplified and most importantly, does not deoptimize on quite so many common features (such as try/catch). Mor
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by STRML 9y ago
This is a big release. Async/await in stable core is something I've been (literally) waiting 6 years for. Many people have criticized Node's cooperative multithreading model, with both good and uninformed reasons. Yet, it is
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by STRML 9y ago
This was tried many years ago. At that time, Promises/A+ was not finalized, and the community could not agree on which Promise specification was best, or even if one was needed at all. Callbacks are lightest-weight re: CPU & memory
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by STRML 9y ago
It does - and has for a long time: https://nodejs.org/api/debugger.html
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by STRML 9y ago
Shrinkwrap did not use hashes and did not guarantee deterministic installs. Subdependencies could still end up as different versions. Even the shrinkwrap file itself contained a lot of trash and generated massive diff noise. I had a file
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by STRML 9y ago
If this test was correct, this smells like a class-action. Enterprise users (and home users, for that matter), have a right to control egress.
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by STRML 9y ago
Watching the newly-released HD version helps quite a bit with that perception of age.
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by STRML 9y ago
"God forbid, SQLite"? It's honestly a great product and a wonderful stepping-stone. I wish more new projects used it rather than half-measures like Mongo.
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by STRML 9y ago
It's large, of course. But you have a full VM and a bunch of unminified javascript dependencies sitting in there. V8 isn't known for being small, either. Compared to a proper systems language it's always going to look ridicul
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by STRML 9y ago
Anecdotally, I built a small project (lambda fn) with just a single dependency (`request`) - the mac/alpine node6 build was 37MB.
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by STRML 9y ago
It will also allow returning raw strings (TextNodes), which will allow for some very light i18n libraries.
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by STRML 9y ago
I like the idea, but this is very confusing to end-consumers: - Is this just a messaging app? A payments app? A web browser? - It's all of those things, except not a web browser, it's an "app browser" (why not app store,
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Multi-Stage Docker Builds for Lighter Containers(blog.frankgrecojr.com)
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by STRML 9y ago
They're different. Flow is not a "superset" of JS in that it introduces new features, it only introduces new types of annotations. Remove all the annotations (literally delete them), and you have valid ES6. Typescript has its
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by STRML 9y ago
Yes - and no. Flow can express some really complex types that were previously only possible in much more esoteric (or modern) languages. Types as many people know them from Java, C#, etc., are more mature (aka fewer bugs), but far less po
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by STRML 9y ago
I have been a fan of Gun's and the HackingDistributed blog for a long time. It's one of the few sites I regularly read on my RSS feed, and he's one of the few people who really seems to "get" Bitcoin and on-chain sc
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by STRML 9y ago
And on many cloud systems, especially those with network disks like EBS, compression gives you some serious avg throughput wins.
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by STRML 9y ago
Yeah, I'm actually completely wrong. My apologies to the Buble team. For whatever reason, I thought I saw an announcement of Buble essentially saying it was an opinionated feature-freeze of Babel with most of the configuration stripped
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by STRML 9y ago
Come on. Buble is Babel, just with a few presets hardcoded. Yeah, it's better usability, until you need to run a production application.
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by STRML 9y ago
I agree that this is the future. But that will mean telling everyone that they should now run their node_modules through Babel - no inconsequential feat, given the size of the code that must now be transpiled.
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by STRML 9y ago
We use Flow everywhere now and love it. It's not perfect by any means but it's a lot easier to use than Java's static typing and a lot more expressive to boot. I can't overstate how great it is to be able to strongly typ
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by STRML 9y ago
I was in awe the entire time Lin was speaking. Not a single "um" or other verbal tic; she's an incredible speaker and was admirably lucid throughout that entire talk. That's so difficult to do. And style aside, she made

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