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by baudehlo 14y ago
> As an async environment it doesn't offer anything either new or too compelling That isn't strictly true. If you focus on the traditional scripting languages as your competition: Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl: Then you start to realise that
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by baudehlo 14y ago
Umm, hardware knows NOTHING about threads. Threads give you a very fake view of the hardware. Everything about threads is an emulation over the hardware layer, hence why they have a large memory overhead.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
We know the java libraries are there for lots of things, but Node is all about async and handling thousands of connections. It does this by forcing the entire ecosystem to be async too (including things like database drivers). By using a Ja
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by baudehlo 14y ago
If this were even a tiny bit of an issue then way more spam would hit people's inboxes. Rejecting explicitly is the right thing to do. It's not always possible, but it's definitely preferred. Source: I wrote some of the original SpamAssassi
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by baudehlo 14y ago
Note that Haraka does MUCH more than this simple library. It has a full outbound queue built into it which will send to appropriate MX records for outbound. It has many plugins for processing inbound mail. And yes it is fast - faster than e
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by baudehlo 14y ago
Hubdoc is hiring in Toronto, ON. We are looking for a great Javascript developer, with good front end experience, will train in Node.js. We are pre-launch, and looking for a top guy to join the team at the ground floor. The team consists of
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by baudehlo 15y ago
Yes that's what we ended up doing with Kapow. Just felt... dirty :)
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by baudehlo 15y ago
At the low end of the scale I agree. But once you start scaling it's very difficult to run more than around 40 concurrent sessions with a browser-based scraper. With a pure Nodejs scraper we can run over 1000 parallel sessions per CPU.
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by baudehlo 15y ago
You just described Kapow. Or Selenium if you want a cheaper alternative.
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by baudehlo 15y ago
"curl" can scrape sites like that. Just watch the Chrome "Network" window and see what requests get made. Then use that. Scraping doesn't need a browser.
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by baudehlo 15y ago
Partly the advantage is that you have CSS selectors to examine your document (I don't know if Ruby/Mechanize does that - I'm just saying what is good about node+jquery), and you have a language that all web developers know about. So it's ab
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by baudehlo 15y ago
Sure, it can work great if your needs are simple. But if you're posting data to forms which you need from a database, and you don't know what you might need from the DB until runtime, it can get a bit more complex. Also worth noting that js
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by baudehlo 15y ago
Phantomjs has a lot larger overhead (it runs a full browser). Plus it doesn't give you access to the full Node.js ecosystem (e.g. access to databases, etc). You can use Node's Phantomjs driver, but it spawns a child process to do the work,
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Craigslist deploys Node.js based SMTP server(baudehlo.wordpress.com)
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by baudehlo 15y ago
Or Fastly.
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by baudehlo 15y ago
> flock() is not trivial to do in a portable way Perl, Python and Ruby manage it. > For a unix-only flock(), check out the fs-ext addon Which I wrote. > Of course we'll be "dealing with Node.js security bugs for a VERY long time
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by baudehlo 15y ago
The point is that people (core developers) are suggesting it is finished. Follow them on twitter, and subscribe to the mailing list and you'll see.
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by baudehlo 15y ago
> You can open a file with O_EXCL if you pass in the open flags as a number. (You can find them on require("constants"), and they need to be binary-OR'ed together.) This isn't documented. It should be. It should probably also be exposed
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by baudehlo 15y ago
Downvotes, really? I don't hate on Node - I develop a very popular open source server in it. But it has some fundamental weaknesses in terms of how finished it is, and most of the core developers don't think those missing things need adding
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by baudehlo 15y ago
> Honest question: have you actually tried working with modules and dependencies in Node? It's better now, but it's still not pleasant and often installing a module starts with debugging. Yes. And you're right, but then it's not often t
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by baudehlo 15y ago
Unfortunately the core is missing some significant features, whereas modules work pretty well already (though I can see room for doing pre-compiled binary modules like "PPM" does for Perl on Windows).
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by baudehlo 15y ago
I don't think you'll find that reddit actually spins up extra instances though. They simply run 240 instances (right now). So it still seems like an odd choice, given they could probably reduce that to about 50 instances of dedicated hostin
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by baudehlo 15y ago
There's probably more overhead in the request via HTTP than there is via IMAP, to be honest. I can't see any reason to make this switch other than being able to support port 80.
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by baudehlo 15y ago
One nice thing about talking to GMail is you can use OAuth (via IMAP, XOAUTH login), so that you never have to see the end user's password.
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by baudehlo 15y ago
Yes, you OAuth and then you can use IMAP with XOAUTH login.
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by baudehlo 15y ago
And even compiled add-ons use the thread pool to be async.
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by baudehlo 15y ago
In 2001 I gave a talk (I believe at OSCon, to a packed audience) titled "Why SOAP Sucks". I started with a print-out of all the specs required to implement SOAP fully (there were lots of incomplete implementations around at the time, but ba
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by baudehlo 15y ago
It might be, actually, since dir is a command built into cmd.exe on Windows, not a separate .exe that gets run. It may be smarter to use "ls" from cygwin for the test.
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by baudehlo 15y ago
Spam filtering is already 99.x% effective. So you're basically increasing the cost for everyone in order to gain one extra SpamAssassin rule? There are plenty of reasons why "Payment" anti-spam methods have been soundly debunked over the ye
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by baudehlo 15y ago
Email is a postcard, not a securely sealed envelope. If you want it to be securely sealed use PGP, then the archiving doesn't matter.

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