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by andrewvc 13y ago
Opsworks is nice, and it's a good packaged solution. A large number of smaller apps would benefit from a switch. It's also more fairly priced. That being said, opsworks is still based on chef, which is still cumbersome. For most p
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Changing the language isn't a big deal. You can always go SOA. In fact, even if you stick with the same language and are doing a rewrite, SOA is probably the right answer. If the original system is THAT bad, the language isn't the
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Hah, fair point. I never really noticed people wearing em till a few years ago.
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Dude https://images.encyclopediadramatica.es/thumb/1/1e/Fedora.jp... Fedoras haven't been trendy among anyone but neckbeards for the last 3 years. Wearing a fedora identifies you as being essentially soc
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by andrewvc 13y ago
I agree that it has the feel of paternalism, but I think there's another way to look at it.I think, that all things considered, obamacare makes society as a whole a better place. Paternalism and consumer protections are two sides of th
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by andrewvc 13y ago
As a fan of both databases, I just have to say, you don't always need all the constraints. Also, at the very least, graphite should have been able to enforce them at the app level in addition to at the DB level.
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Well, plenty of money has gone into the JVM fast to start. Sure, it's fast to run once warm, making it great for servers, but verifying bytecode and running it is still slow. I've seen benchmarks showing that compiling JS is faste
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Reflection in Java is in fact slow. The difference is that in ruby that stuff is pervasive, in Java you rarely use reflection.
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Postgres CAN do exactly this, in fact, this is the sort of thing it excels at, the transactions in postgres can do this, and so much more. I think what you're talking about is appending with a single statement, which Postgres can also
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Keeping Elasticsearch in Sync(found.no)
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Well, there's always something more important to talk about. I think that raising awareness of forgeries in the media is worthwhile.
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by andrewvc 13y ago
As much as I agree with the individual points in this article, the idea that this is a conspiracy is somewhat overblown. The fact is that violence on the scale of the Holocaust is scarily common throughout human history. The thing that is m
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Some might be interested in https://github.com/andrewvc/wikiparse , code I wrote to dump wikipedia into elasticsearch. Here's a chapter in my book on searching it: http://exploringelasticsearch.com&#x2F
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by andrewvc 13y ago
All true stuff. I'd like to add though, time based expiry is in many ways the best option if you can get away with it. If you can say "this can be 5 minutes out of date" at a product level, a lot of cache complexity simply ev
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Love fish, been using it for a couple years now, haven't looked back!
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Well, I agree that it's somewhat less useful. There is an upside though, as shipping things has an environmental impact and people probably shouldn't be wasting a box + shipping on a missing cover for a food processor.
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Well written post. Even as a detractor of mongo I'll agree that it works for your use case. But the key is "Our app allows for unlimited user defined forms and fields, some of which may hold grids". That really isn't a v
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by andrewvc 13y ago
I think you're pretending that removing the ceremony of the Future isn't a significant difference. Your point is correct, but you're missing the forrest for the trees
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by andrewvc 13y ago
In this analogy, however, the government is saying "we know one of your deposit boxes is owned by John Doe, we'll look at em all, figure out which one is John's, and retrieve his stuff".
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by andrewvc 13y ago
What, I thought you had to pay? Yup, it says you have to pay
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by andrewvc 13y ago
It'd useful for overlaying things on maps, or tagged things in photos etc. For designers it's not very useful of course.
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by andrewvc 13y ago
This is a nice step, but not good enough for practical use. Put the text half on the black lamp, half off, and you get 1/2 invisible text. While interesting, it's not reliably accurate enough to use in any sort of automated fashio
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by andrewvc 13y ago
I agree! I like the idea of BDD. I disagree with the rspec book in degree, it goes overboard, too many tests for not enough return.
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by andrewvc 13y ago
No, but I should write one. Broadly speaking, I think test coverage in the real world, as practiced by effective programmers, is variable . One must use judgement to decide the appropriate level of test coverage. There are so many factors
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by andrewvc 13y ago
I've been working in Rails since 1.2, and the vast majority of developers I've met have been of the opinion that cucumber sucks. There's a really vocal minority on the internet though, so you'd get the impression that
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by andrewvc 13y ago
That actually isn't the case, you can delete data in datomic. http://docs.datomic.com/excision.html
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by andrewvc 13y ago
I mean, I get the idea behind these platforms without building your own platform services. However, if you actually plan on growing as a company it would seem to me these services have very specific walls in terms of functionality. I'v
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by andrewvc 13y ago
100% in favor of guaranteed minimum income. I think its doable. All the research seems to say that people make poor decisions when in dire straits. It seems like a great optimization.
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Yes, but neither language is nearly as dynamic as ruby. That's where the costs come in. Method calls in ruby are comparatively glacial in speed.
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by andrewvc 13y ago
Agrred. I want to add that this is why systems engineering is its own thing. Application developers seldom understand what's going on at the copying bytes around/syscall level.

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