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by arete 15y ago
Does anyone know of a good alternative to ab or httperf for load testing high-performance HTTP servers? With httperf I can't see to coax more than ~25,000 requests/sec out of my framework built on Jetty, but ab can easily do > 45,000 re
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by arete 15y ago
The majority of real hackers here on HN have almost certainly contributed to an open source project and many have released their own work as open source. The startup ecosystem exists, in large part, because a huge number of hackers created
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by arete 15y ago
You're probably thinking of stud ( https://github.com/bumptech/stud ). Haven't tried it but looks great on paper! I currently run FreeBSD clusters with pf and varnish for load balancing, so relayd is my choice for SSL.
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by arete 15y ago
I'm guessing you are referring this: "2. Don't ever use scala.collection.mutable. Replacing a scala.collection.mutable.HashMap with a java.util.HashMap in a wrapper produced an order-of-magnitude performance benefit for one of these loops.
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by arete 15y ago
Well said! I've found Scala to be a fabulous language for writing > 90% of my app(s). The overhead of Scala's built-in collections, for loops, property accessors/mutators, closures, etc is simply unimportant outside of critical hotspots
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by arete 15y ago
As far as income goes, yeah, and you should be able to easily save up enough to start your own company with a much higher chance of a worthwhile payout. Plus some of the Wall St. players have very interesting problems to solve, much more so
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by arete 15y ago
I really disliked Scala at first as well. It is a very complex language, partly due to the fancy type system, implicits, and syntactic sugar. Still, after a year of writing Scala code I've really come to like it. The complexity certainly
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by arete 15y ago
Intel's published reliability data shows a ~0.4% annual failure rate of the X-25M: http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/storage/Intel/320/reliab... They claim greater reliability for the new 320 series which is based on the same controller
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by arete 16y ago
Cool! I recently moved from SF to Tokyo and so have a vested interest in this, but I wish more startups went after the Japanese market at an earlier stage. Based on the popularity of twitter and sheer number of iPhones I see on a daily basi
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by arete 16y ago
Domain privacy is free (for individuals) at gandi, but the details vary per domain: for .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .name, tv, and .cc they'll hide your physical location but not name. For some of the country TLDs they'll hide your name
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by arete 16y ago
I wrote a couple of test android apps in scala and was very pleased with the results. Scala is a huge improvement on java but gives you nearly the same execution speed which is particularly important on devices with limited CPU and RAM. The
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by arete 16y ago
I used mercurial for a couple of years before switching to git - mostly I didn't like git's complexity or ease of shooting yourself in the foot. I'd suspect these startups have a similar line of reasoning. The mercurial CLI is well thought
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by arete 16y ago
AnandTech and other sites have mentioned that newer drives (Sandforce in particular) do background garbage collection which eliminates some of the need for TRIM - but does require idle time. I'd say go for the SSD. I just upgraded to a 240G
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by arete 16y ago
Yeah there are a bunch of different ways to start Clojure with a REPL and/or swank server running. Maven, Leiningen, and cake are all build tools that also do dependency management - great when you're working on a complex project but have s
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by arete 16y ago
Posting here is a great start, what's your email address? Several companies that I know well are complaining about their inability to find good Rails developers here in SF. A good company will value passion and the ability to learn over X y
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by arete 16y ago
Recently I started working on a new project using Tapestry 5.1 in GlassFish 3. That particular combination requires replacing GF's StAX lib with a different implementation that Tapestry depends on. Then there's the usual issue of reconcilin
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by arete 16y ago
I can't speak for PHP but if you follow the usual Rails conventions for db structure, URL layouts, etc then it takes significantly less time to build (and maintain) a Rails site vs Java EE. Simply collecting all of your Java libraries, fram
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by arete 16y ago
Thanks for posting this! Do you have any details on how well InfiniteGraph handles very large graphs? I've been looking (casually) at Neo4j but it appears to have a hard limit of 4 billion objects.
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by arete 16y ago
Lisp-style languages give you homoiconicity and macros which allow you to build complex abstractions. For example you can write (with-resource x (do....)) where with-resource handles resource allocation and cleanup. That particular example
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by arete 16y ago
I usually buy the RapidSSL cert from NameCheap, $10.95/y or less for longer periods. It's single root (unchained) and signed by a very well supported CA cert. The only downside is no subjAltName (which lets you do both www.foo.com and foo.c
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by arete 16y ago
Actually the latest mobile i5 and i7 are both Arrandale variants and support the AES New Instructions: Core i5 2.53GHz: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43544 Core i7 2.66GHz: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43560 I think the o
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Twtfiltr - the twit filter(twtfiltr.com)
3 points by arete 17y ago|0 comments
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by arete 17y ago
How about checksums to detect corruption on those fragile spinning disks you're picking up and carrying around the room? Or quick and efficient snapshots, scheduled frequently? This is seriously disappointing, if not surprising.
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by arete 17y ago
Indeed! Never exercise options without a full understanding of preferred vs common stock, and what sort of preferences the founders and investors have. Naive founders may end up signing deals with ridiculous liquidation terms. Also beware o
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by arete 17y ago
Oooh awesome! I'll be there, thanks for the reminder!
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by arete 17y ago
http://wiki.github.com/jwiegley/ledger
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Erlang at Work - Hunting Bugs(erlangatwork.com)
3 points by arete 18y ago|0 comments
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Erlang at Work - Erlang Gateway Scalability(erlangatwork.com)
5 points by arete 18y ago|0 comments
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Erlang at Work - Using Erlang to write IM network gateways, part 2(erlangatwork.com)
4 points by arete 18y ago|0 comments
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by arete 18y ago
Is an open source plugin for a specific jabber server (OpenFire) suitable for use as a gateway that works with any jabber server? I wouldn't think so. Plus the OpenFire plugin is a hodgepodge of 3rd party libraries in various states of negl

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