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asien
8y ago
Tried Fauna once with their « Cloud » versions. I was absolutely shocked by the poor performance of the service. In my case I prototype some simple CRUD queries with NodeJS ,within the same datacenter region. Insert took well over a second
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I wish this would be done at some point. So Java could be popular again somehow... Problem is Java is open source , and companies like Google , Amazon , Redhat have their own JVM implementations... So it’s not so much an issue. In fact it’s
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8y ago
Strongly Agree with Andy in that interview. In U.S , one way or another everything is running in the cloud. For Europe ? It’s more complicated , most large businesses still have their own datacenters or run using dedicated machine with Euro
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The performance gain are so small , its not worth this setup overhead . The average user won’t see the difference. Hence , the simplicity of’this module . Just do it in JS , chrome as 70% market share why would you ever bother ? V8 has rece
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Strongly disagree with the arguments made in this paper. In my opinion this post is fundamentally biased due to the author professional situation. From what I understand she currently works « remotely » meaning she doesn’t spend 2H commutin
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8y ago
Very excited for this. We have yet to find a funding model where products don’t turn to shit after the companies that raised hundreds of millions of dollars don’t meet their promises made to VC. MongoDB is a great example of a company shoot
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asien
8y ago
Fascinating how « Good » apps turn to utter shit when they are touch by VC money. Slack really follows the same pattern as everything that exist in the valley : - Create simple software that people love to use - Raise hundred of millions -
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The documentation clearly mention those features aren’t supported as of now. The Firebase team is aware of that need but it’s very hard to deliver such features at scale. Firebase is used everywhere these days , so a single change in the pl
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This is really optimized for Mobile. Tried on my 25inch screen , I thought the call to action was broken it just that the slider was already open it seems like. Love the idea and the concept, a bit more detail in UI would be nice. Just havi
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8y ago
The author of this post is doing a huge disservice to the almost 600 tech experts listed. She is clearly suggesting that we should invite these experts not because they are experts but because they are women. How acceptable is that ? Hence
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asien
8y ago
The more WASM projects are being released , the more I’m telling myself that WASM has nothing to offers to regular JavaScript developers. Solutions like this have already existed and still exist today. ASP.NET Webforms was basically the sam
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8y ago
Honestly the person who wrote this post is absolutely out of touch with reality. FOSS , except for a few technology, will never be sustainable . Why ? - Because entreprises prefer to pay Billions to proprietary products and have someone tha
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8y ago
And getting some GitHub stars.
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In September and January of last year Unity raised a considerable amount of cash [0]. It seems like VCs want their growth number up and Unity has a very clear plan to run their engine in the cloud to create artificial growth by being the so
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Looking at the source code it’s done with Preact and the css seems to be written by hand. I was a server side centric dev for a long period before being able to design decent apps. Here are my tips: - Spend as much time as possible on Photo
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8y ago
> rather than trying to improve the system to prevent, or lower the probability of the doomsday scenario in the first place I’m not sure Sillicon Valley billionaire can do much too save the earth from collapsing. It’s not about rich chan
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8y ago
Can you give an example of that ? Generally « Lambda » refers to AWS Lambda , I’ve rarely seen it used another way. Others FaaS on the market have their own name ( Azure Functions , GCloud Functions ...) According to this article Lambda is
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8y ago
> golang is extremely popular in China I'm from Europe , the only feedback I have about Chinese Software Engineers is Java. My Feedback is based on GitHub Chinese's popular repositories , those repos are almost always written i
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> Please post some citations to back up your performance claims. According to TechEmpower benchmark[0],Node.js-MySQL is two time faster than express-mysql. Others benchmarks of TechEmpower tend to point exactly the same result in terms o
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Koa is appreciated to it's true value by the community. Express was the most popular at the start and after StrongLoop got acquired by IBM it made sense for everyone that express was the foundation of Node.JS. It's sad knowing how
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> google analytics is not the same as analyzing server logs This is what most people don’t get with ga. Google Analytics does the heavy lift by removing incoherent , corrupted or malicious data insertion. Let’s say I use Puppeteer i can
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Will never signup to this thing. No clear plan how to monetize project , ask 100% of github accounts permission ? Sounds like a terrible idea of something that could later be sold to companies selling advertising.
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>Like a lot of you I have mostly worked in back-end or systems software. My CSS/UI/UX skills are very minimal. I never came up with a special talent for UI/UX. I remember I had a friend who was web developer he was insanel
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Lambda have a maximum running time of 15min. Even if you have « Cold Start » it won’t more than a minute for Chrome to be up and running. Meaning you’ll get at least 10 to 14 minutes of Headless testing. As for recommandations on how to do
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Google is spending so much money on Flutter , it’s insulting. Honestly, the entire industry is shifting towards JavaScript/Typescript and the only language that they could think of for Flutter is Dart ? This is even more Hypocrite know
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Absolutely not surprise. Unicorns like Udacity have extremely high valuation but are barely making any money. Most of their spendings goes into Marketing and not actual R&D for education.
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This is interesting . It’s coherent with their recent investments in Electron. Hence the need for MS to support PWA with excellent feature parity with chrome.
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I had to read the title multiples times to truly believe what I was reading. « Microsoft is Acquiring Spectrum through GitHub ». Regardless of what the title says this is what my brain keeps reading. At first it seems like a nonsense, but a
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I tried Go a while ago. I was hooked by the performance , the community around it and vendors support ( AWS , Heroku , GCloud etc...) but I got quickly fed up by the awkward package management system, the weird syntax and the horrible idea
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>If an item is modified outside of a transaction while the transaction is in progress, the transaction is canceled and an exception is thrown You are still responsible to implements a Queue or a Lock on the Items you want to mutate. That
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