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by barumi 6y ago
> It works well, and the pricing is very appealing. But it's not even remotely in the same league as AWS/GC/Azure. IMHO Hetzner is far above AWS/GC/Azure in price and simplicity. The only drawback I see in Hetzne
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by barumi 6y ago
> If I buy sawdust from someone and they send me sawdust The validity of your point depends on whether you can demonstrate that people do pay spotify to listen to silence.
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MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on (2012)(cirw.in)
1 points by barumi 6y ago|0 comments
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by barumi 6y ago
Is it really necessary to go that deep in order to be effective? I mean, some stacks consist of scripts running on interpreters in a VM somewhere.
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by barumi 6y ago
> No it doesn’t, it’s still surprising to see a CPU instruction added specifically to cater for such a high level language like JS. It surprises you personally, but if you think about it it's easy to understand that widespread inter
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by barumi 6y ago
> I'm not joking, but the real problem here is all the hot steaming dogshite that they choose to load, not really the number of requests, IMO. Neither making requests not transferring data around are CPU-bound activities. > Many
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by barumi 6y ago
FTA: > Which is odd, because you don't expect to see JavaScript so close to the bare metal. This seems to ignore all the work done on server-side javascript with projects such as node.js and deno, as well as the fact that cloud serv
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by barumi 6y ago
No, they really don't. You don't see companies giving away their products under a permissive license to, afterwards, stating that we should not pay attention to the license because they now want a chunk of our paycheck. That would
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by barumi 6y ago
> The overwhelming majority of C extensions release the Python GIL during calls to them. In that corner case you still have slow Python glue code calling fast C++ code. It makes no sense to claim that Python is performant based on the id
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by barumi 6y ago
> JS/CSS/HTML5 are not, Just for the sake of argument, I should point out that the bulk of the work done by JS/CSS/HTML involve primitive operations over a tree data structure. Conceptually, this paves the way to oppo
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by barumi 6y ago
> How is this different (apart from extremity) from adding hardware support for AES? For starters, is any part of javascript CPU-bound?
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by barumi 6y ago
> I've encountered news sites that do over 15,000 requests I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but in the event you were being serious I should point out that the performance impact of doing a lot of requests is not due
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by barumi 6y ago
> you can malloc() to get a memory range, or mmap() to get a disk-backed memory range with kernel-managed paging, and then you can do whatever you want with it. No need for that, as C++ provides placement new(). https://en.cpp
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by barumi 6y ago
> but a lot of primitive stuff in languages like python is also just C calls and may be optimised to the point of being faster That assertion makes zero sense if we take into account that parallelization is one of the most basic performa
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by barumi 6y ago
> Consider horrors such as this. In the following statement what are foo and bar? I don't understand your point. What's exactly the problem of knowing what are foo and bar? Even if you struggle with C++, any half decent IDE all
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by barumi 6y ago
> Is there some sort of standard / commonly accepted way to manage packages for c++? As others have pointed out, CMake is the de facto standard in C++. However, a combination of CMake with Conan seems to take care of most of anyone&
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by barumi 6y ago
It seems to me that it's not a breach of morality, ethics, or even goodwill. It is a FLOSS project being used in compliance with the author's will.
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by barumi 6y ago
Didn't Flask started as a bad sarcastic joke gaining momentum and taking up a life of its own?
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by barumi 6y ago
> But there does seem to be a difference between say using FLOSS project X as a dependency in my app vs AWS tweaking it, introducing it as a direct competitor to X, and leveraging their huge marketshare to sell it. Is there really a diff
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by barumi 6y ago
> So clearly Amazon has no moral scruples about doing what they did Dude, they picked a software project that was released to the world under a license that explicitly allows anyone and everyone to use it as they see fit, and they procee
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by barumi 6y ago
> As per my tweet, it's not about the letter of the licensing, it's about the spirit. I don't understand. Wasn't the project released under a license that explicitly grants anyone the right to freely use it as they se
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by barumi 6y ago
If developers expected to get compensated for the work they explicitly and voluntarily released for anyone and everyone in the world for absolutely free, wouldn't they have released it under different terms? I mean, it sounds awfully
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by barumi 6y ago
> Amazon stealing OSS products and repackaging them (...) Since when does providing managed services started to pass off as "stealing"? Am I stealing FLOSS projects as well if I install them on a production environment? It make
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by barumi 6y ago
> It depends on what you're looking for. Security, for starters. There is no way around this. > It's similar to other third-party component libraries out there. There are open source and closed source ones. You're tryin
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by barumi 6y ago
That's a collosal red flag.
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by barumi 6y ago
Is there any usecase that justifies a jq-style tool for HTML? There are plenty of usecases involving getting a specific element from the DOM, but I see no case involving extracting and transforming subtrees.
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by barumi 6y ago
I would add that up to March we still had public officials repeating China's claims that covid19 was not easily transmissible.
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by barumi 6y ago
> Classic fund manager who can't make returns in a new market regime and decides to cope by complaining on CNBC I'm disappointed that the top comment at HN regarding such an interesting topic is nothing more than an ad hominem
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by barumi 6y ago
I don't understand why the "machine learning" marketing label is relevant in this discussion. Plain old classification problems are very common in data analysis, and so is parameter identification. It could be argued that the
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Qt Support for State Charts(doc.qt.io)
67 points by barumi 6y ago|14 comments

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