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by andrewvc 14y ago
What? In java there are multiple GCs available: ConcMarkSwep, G1GC, ParallelGC, and I believe a couple more. All you have to do is set the right CLI flag. From the concurrent mark and sweep docs: "The concurrent mark sweep collector, also k
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by andrewvc 14y ago
I write both rails and clojure. There's no good clojure web framework for the fat stuff rails is good at, and it doesn't have the same level of plugin maturity, not by a long shot. That's years away. Clojure's good as an API server for a RI
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Both valid points. It's sad that someone like Bassons is at a disadvantage. You're right doping doesn't level the playing field. However, for better or worse it's part of the playing field. Of course, nothing about pro sports is ever fair.
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Raganwald, I normally like what you write, but bringing up Lance is nonsensical. Everyone knows that cycling's been big on doping for years . It can hardly even be called cheating, it's tacitly acknowledged that everyone's on drugs. It's b
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Most real world problems exist on gradients. Reddit errs on the side of free speech. That's a tough place to be, everything exists on a continuum and being the person to draw stark lines is hard. I think people are being a bit rough on the
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Async M:N, what Node.js users should know(coderwall.com)
1 points by andrewvc 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 14y ago
In a hits based industry the 'average' isn't very interesting. What's the variance across those top 1000 channels? I'm really curious to see some more data here, I have a feeling that the disparity is severe.
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by andrewvc 14y ago
My main problem is the color temperature of the light. It should shift from blue to orange as you make it dimmer. Reading with a blue cast light late at night, with the lights turned down sucks. One of my main use cases is reading a book b
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by andrewvc 14y ago
My issue is definitely not familiarity. I've written more async code in more languages than most (node, java, ruby, clojure). My main takeaway is, unless I absolutely have to use async code I won't. It's almost never cleaner than queuing
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by andrewvc 14y ago
My point exactly. Both of those languages are synchronous by default, async is an option. JS is async only pretty much* * while there are blocking calls in node, they are by far the exception. It is not multi-paradigm like Java
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by andrewvc 14y ago
The fact is, it's 2012. We all appreciate V8 making the web fast. It's stuff like this, however, that makes me question the sanity of those still promoting node.js The fact of the matter is that JS is bad at all the things a programming l
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by andrewvc 14y ago
This is someone's (very arbitrary) opinion in a grid. I hope you don't actually interview people. Figuring out someone's skill level is a soft science; it takes months after a hire to really know where someone is. Some people I know are gre
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Lambda the Ultimate discussion here: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4507
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Evaluating the Design of the R Language(cs.purdue.edu)
3 points by andrewvc 14y ago|1 comments
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Why Modern Binaries Are So Much Larger(reddit.com)
3 points by andrewvc 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 14y ago
I'm a pretty big detractor of mongo, but I don't agree with this post. One of mongo's main design decisions is to defer writes, making this sort of thing possible. I think it's a crappy tradeoff but it is one of the things that makes mongod
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Talent takes many forms. For web 2.0 companies engineering matters, but hustle product vision and teamwork come together in a unique way. Talent is not measured on a single axis. Most startup engineers couldn't build design and build someth
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by andrewvc 14y ago
That was a pretty big accusation to throw around, that red is just lost data. It was more likely resque or perhaps even your own fault. As far as perf goes, redis queuing is just a linked list. It is ridiculously fast, I would really like t
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by andrewvc 14y ago
This is a classic problem among engineers. The notion of bloat and cruft that goes unsubstantiated, and is really code for 'new and shiny'. Older software projects offer more features, but that doesn't mean they're materially slower or wors
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by andrewvc 14y ago
A couple years ago Evan Phoenix (of rubinius) and I collaborated (by which I mean he wrote the grammar and I did almost nothing) on a REAL RFC compliant email address validator using a PEG for parsing: https://github.com/larb/email_addre
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by andrewvc 14y ago
My #1 abuse is xargs -n1. A lot of people like writing bash for loops, I will try and avoid that as much as possible, xargs -n1 is the bash equivalent of a call to 'map' in a functional language. For instance, let's say you want to create t
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by andrewvc 14y ago
That it's a widely read book is not controversial, but Atlas Shrugged is generally considered to be a very polarizing book, even by its proponents. It tends to bring out extreme opinions when discussed. It's not surprising given that Ayn
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by andrewvc 14y ago
A stack trace is a stack trace in any language. It's the app developer's responsibility to provide a useful error messages after catching an exception. This is CS 101, GiGo
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Surprisingly most software devs I've met understand arrays and hashes, but few know what a linked list is. I think this is an artifact on many of them using high level languages where linked lists are rarely used. That's no excuse though
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by andrewvc 14y ago
For christ's sake. I've met far too many people with Uni degrees who don't know what a B-Tree is, or even what a linked list is (truly scary).
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Notes on building a performant load tester pt. 1(blog.andrewvc.com)
1 points by andrewvc 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Great question. Maybe, maybe not. As I said, it just depends. Every test answers its own question. Here's the thing about orders, they're like a sliding scale of similarity between source and generated text. Whether that scale is worth togg
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Well, because there's no one right way to test is why. Strictly repeating logs doesn't tell you what happens when your access patterns change. Markov chains give you an idea of how your site acts under variations on your current traffic.
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Using Markov chains for HTTP benchmarking(blog.andrewvc.com)
55 points by andrewvc 14y ago|4 comments
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Agreed. I've heard 'use dropbox' so many times here, and it's still shitty. However, for the specific case of misrendered HTML skitch is def the best option, even if your software supports attachments. So few clicks, totally worth it.

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