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by astigsen 12y ago
Alexander from Realm here. I agree that deployments are not the only (or even nessesarily most interesting) metric of usage. But it is a good example of how remarkable mobile growth is. At this point there are just crazily many more mobile
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Realm (YC S11) Announces $20M Series B, 100M Devices After 9 Months(realm.io)
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Realm (YC S11) Is Hiring iOS, Android Engineers Who Want to Delight Their Peers(realm.io)
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Realm (YC S11) is hiring an Android Developer
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A Peripatetic School for the 21st Century(sudval.org)
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by astigsen 12y ago
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/84/
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by astigsen 12y ago
Sortition[0] (selection of decision makers by lottery to get a group that is representative the population as whole) seems to me to be a much more interesting model. That was how the original Athenian democracy worked, and there has been se
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2nd health care worker tests positive for Ebola at Dallas hospital(cnn.com)
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by astigsen 12y ago
When the earthquake hit California there was also people reporting seeing a blue light. Some examples here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/northern-california-struck-60-magni...
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The automobile – most environmental wasteful design ever?(quora.com)
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Realm is hiring Designers and Mobile Developers(realm.io)
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by astigsen 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback, benchmarks are notoriously difficult to get accurate (and fair), which is exactly why we published the benchmark code. We will incorporate your feedback to improve them.
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by astigsen 12y ago
Yes, on mobile sync really only make sense if also works when the device has spotty or no connectivity, so that naturally entails eventual consistency in some form. We are not ready to into details about how our sync solution will work yet,
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by astigsen 12y ago
Realm does not have a concept of faulting like Core Data does. In Core Data every object is essentially a copy of a representation in the underlying data store (usually sqlite), so instantiating the object is quite expensive as all the prop
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by astigsen 12y ago
Realm is not an ORM, but rather an integral part of your language. One key difference is that it does not have to copy all values in the objects back and fourth as you read them and save them, as most ORM's does. So that gives a huge p
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by astigsen 12y ago
The database is stored in a single file that is easily backed up. It does not have any explicit integration with iCloud, but you can easily use it to back up a copy of the db, or you can stream the copy back home yourself via ftp or http.
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by astigsen 12y ago
Alexander from Realm here, all interactions with the database is through full ACID transactions, but it is a bit untraditional in that the interaction model is build specifically to mobile apps. The transactions interact with the runloop, s
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by astigsen 12y ago
Data syncing is an obvious need and Realm has actually been designed for that from day one. The entire underlying core is build to seamlessly record changes and coordinate them with a backend. It is not part of the initial launch as we want
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by astigsen 12y ago
Leveldb is an awesome key-value store, but it is not really a database. So if you need anything like relationships, queries, transactions, secondary indexed or any of the other features that defines a database, you are pretty much left out
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Introducing Realm – a mobile-first database(realm.io)
45 points by astigsen 12y ago|7 comments
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Want to Know What Marc Andreessen’s Magic on Twitter is?(bothsidesofthetable.com)
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Someone Just Bought $19M in Silk Road Bitcoins From the Feds(wired.com)
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by astigsen 12y ago
It would be far more interesting to have a camera equipped drone like the this [0] connected directly to the Oculus Rift. Especially if you could outfit it with two cameras instead of one, for stereo vision. Since the camera moves independ
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by astigsen 12y ago
The classics for learning about network programming is the TCP/IP Illustrated series by W. Richard Stevens: TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols http://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Volume-Addison-Wesley-..
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by astigsen 12y ago
This would be awesome if mounted with a double camera and using Oculus Rift for the display. Probably the closest you could get to being able to fly :-)
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Review of GPS assisted quadcopter drone, with crash(arstechnica.com)
2 points by astigsen 12y ago|1 comments
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Court Allowed NSA To Spy On All But 4 Countries(techcrunch.com)
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Active malware uncovered that can sabotage the US energy industry(arstechnica.com)
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by astigsen 12y ago
Eric Meijer - Unifying Documents: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=79586 Alan Kay - Worlds: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011001_final_worlds.pdf
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Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger (2009)(xent.com)
73 points by astigsen 12y ago|36 comments

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