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by _xnmw 5y ago
Between shenanigans like this and Spectre/Meltdown mitigations giving me a ~20% performance hit [1], I avoid Intel like the plague if I have the choice. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.08703.pdf
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Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (2012)(gist.github.com)
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Magically roll back the clock 20 years along with the rent prices, and I suspect a lot of the people that became homeless in the past 20 years would've never become homeless in the first place.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Actually, a lot of people do. Ever heard of Laravel, Django or Ruby or Rails? Outside of the React/JS world, a lot of developers are happy solving real business problems instead of working with hacks that were built on top of browser D
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Even if I knew I needed an API and multiple clients with 100% certainty (and most products don't), I would still prefer to build my browser client deeply integrated without separating the backend logic. The benefits of having at least
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by _xnmw 5y ago
CORS is just one more problem from the class of performance problems that only SPAs have. Seems very relevant to me.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Wow, the fact that you compare Reddit to HN, and you consider the Reddit SPA to be "better" means you have a fundamentally different notion of better. For me, Old Reddit and Hacker News load fast, feel snappy and native, and work
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Interestingly, Google Maps doesn't suffer as much from the issues with Google Search. Maybe because it has those community-driven curation features that PG is talking about? Google Maps is fantastic at finding places to go to (and gett
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Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of income (2018)(zillow.com)
161 points by _xnmw 5y ago|232 comments
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by _xnmw 5y ago
KISS. Keep the HTML minimal and the full page reload is often just as fast as an AJAX call. For the parts that need to be realtime/interactive I use Livewire. Livewire is annoying to work with sometimes, and the author got carried away
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Laravel. I have no particular love for PHP, but Laravel just "gets it right" and understands the needs of a web developer. After years of working with Python/NodeJS (Flask/Express), Laravel was like a key that fit a lock
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by _xnmw 5y ago
You don't even need an SPA. Having the backend + frontend share the same state makes development so much faster and easier it's shockingly refreshing. When building a SaaS project last year I decided to just ditch React/Angul
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by _xnmw 5y ago
VC money can be incredibly damaging to a startup because it increases your options. In finance, optionality is good, in entrepreneurship it is a distraction. To achieve focus and speed, you want fewer options, not more. Even simply parking
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by _xnmw 5y ago
New York is an exception though. It's a place for world's super-rich and the immigrants that keep it running. Austin, Texas is way more livable for the middle class.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
AWS is complexity-as-a-service which abstracts away so much that you pay a HUGE price when it's time to scale -- and it's a confusing matrix of tradeoffs. I find it easier to login to a server, "sudo apt-get install" and
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by _xnmw 5y ago
This is super useful, thanks for posting. I hate AWS complexity-as-a-service, just give me a damn baremetal machine and let me run and tune my own services. I love having full visibility into raw disk/cpu performance and even benching
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Holy s*t this is amazing! A set of web-scraper automations!
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by _xnmw 5y ago
In other words, it is like every other factory in India. Why should anyone expect anything different?
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Yes, the Pro plan allows 50k rows per Airtable base. Arbitrary JSON can't be imported easily though, you'll have to convert it to CSV or use the API to dump data.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
The BBC article provides more context: apparently children were playing an activity where they were doing physical challenges. > She said: "We were doing some physical challenges, like laying down and rolling over holding a shoe on
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Postgres? Seriously, for one-off playing around? Just use Airtable and you can do all the filtering and nesting you want. Plus then you can share it with us and we can collaboratively contribute.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
I appreciate the scale of the problem, but that is Plaids entire business. Bank integration is literally their product, and so if they don’t fix bank integration problems then why does Plaid exist? I wanted to know how the bank integration
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by _xnmw 5y ago
YaCy is too slow for mainstream use. I believe the indices still need to be centralized, only index-building and crawling can be distributed.
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by _xnmw 5y ago
There would have to be some aspect of centralized moderation, I suppose. This is beyond my knowledge: Is there a way to accept output only from signed binaries, so that we assume if X cycles of work were performed by a signed binary, then i
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by _xnmw 5y ago
This is a business model I've been thinking about: what if users earned credits for running a crawler on their machine? In other words, as much as I hate crypto scams, a "tokenized" search engine where the "mining"
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by _xnmw 5y ago
> I've got to say that the bank integrations were _amazing_ to work on. The tooling was incredible and it was super easy to work with. If there was a problem with "a bank", you could spin up the entire bank integration sta
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by _xnmw 5y ago
And how many more engineers were needed just to manage that monstrosity? It's a virtuous loop: more money justified to pay engineers, to build more overly complex and inefficient systems that need even more engineers to maintain. The m
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by _xnmw 5y ago
You're not the only one who found it insane. Check the HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21782196
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by _xnmw 5y ago
There is a big difference between developers who know their hardware stack, and those who don't. Performance efficiency is often an order of magnitude out of whack for companies that prefer a horizontal-first scaling approach (i.e. lot
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Ask HN: Any bootstrappers hosting their own server from home?
3 points by _xnmw 5y ago|2 comments

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