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1. 31.▲
   by bballer 8y ago

   Nah, even sex toys are constantly improving and being made more "efficient".
2. 32.▲
   by bballer 8y ago

   For drinks that get free refills the initial sale means more than the refills. It literally cost 1c to provide the drink and you sold it for $3.00 (that's the 300% margin). Who cares if you spend another 1c to provide a free refill if
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   by bballer 8y ago

   This so much. You talk with product managers etc about a new feature that could revolutionize a certain portion of your product so you start hacking away to get an alpha. The alpha is shown to some of the sales people and higher ups who sta
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   by bballer 8y ago

   I wont fully elaborate on what a job is but I'll give you a couple examples: Updating anywhere from 500-5M items over APIs that are rate limited. Dumping datasets that have to be normalized and massaged into files/ and dropped off
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   by bballer 8y ago

   Sorry but Jenkins doesn't achieve anything related to my question.
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   by bballer 8y ago

   Thanks for your comment! Don't have enough time to fully respond to it right now but will get back to you in the morning.
7. 37.▲
   by bballer 8y ago

   Yeah we are already using SQS for a similar system that's currently in production. We don't need a forever queue as part of the goal is to keep the queue as empty as possible at all times. What is really important is making sure t
8. 38.▲
   by bballer 8y ago

   For workers we run only Java and run everything on AWS. We have an existing production system that uses a combination of SQS, DynamoDB, and Postgres, and EC2s to achieve something very similar to this. Just want to check all the boxes befor
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   by bballer 8y ago

   Yeah lambda functions won't suffice for the kind of jobs we run. Plus we are a full java shop and the don't want to pay for the cold start times on lambda for the jobs that do end up only taking < 1 minutes. Thanks for your tho
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    by bballer 8y ago

    Thanks for your insight. This is currently close to what we have in production for one of our systems and we are building a brand new system that shares a lot of the same requirements, just fishing to make sure we aren't missing anythi
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    by bballer 8y ago

    We run all Java so that is a no go and at the scale I'm talking about don't think I would trust those solutions. Thanks for the input though!
12. 42.▲
    Ask HN: How would you queue and process 10K+ long running jobs

    14 points by bballer 8y ago|28 comments
13. 43.▲
    by bballer 8y ago

    So users who only run Linux will get the shaft.
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    by bballer 8y ago

    I was a freelancer doing contract work for various companies (while also running a few side projects) and a guy I did work for recommended me. Guy who I was recommended to messaged me on LinkedIn and we arranged a lunch meeting to get to kn
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    by bballer 8y ago

    Experiencing the same thing on Firefox 60 running on XUbuntu
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    by bballer 9y ago

    My personal preference is to always use snake case, and not just for JSON but for all javascript variables, while keeping all functions names as camel case. Since javascript doesn't have type safety I find that it makes it super easy w
17. 47.▲
    Ask HN: What tech stack would you choose for a serious, long-term business app

    44 points by bballer 9y ago|76 comments
18. 48.▲
    by bballer 9y ago

    I think this is absolutely true for user to user social interaction websites, less true for B2B applications. In the last 2 years at my company we took an old early 2000s looking application that our customers used and completely redesigned
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    by bballer 9y ago

    So you're saying you don't like Reddit for being Reddit... because the whole trends towards the lowest common denominator seems to be all Reddit is now-a-days.
20. 50.▲
    by bballer 9y ago

    I'll hop on this train. 7 happy years for me!
21. 51.▲
    by bballer 9y ago

    Meaning no Chrome, no AMP based emails? Sounds good to me!
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    by bballer 9y ago

    Yeah I live in a pretty big city and I live in a part of the town that is sandwiched between two very wealthy areas so it can make for very good thrift store shopping. It is still a very hit or miss thing though. Sometimes you find tons of
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    by bballer 9y ago

    Yeah it is lucky. I have a odd body type, I'm 6'3" but only weight 170 pounds, so I really wear a XL-Tall but a lot of the XL clothing works pretty well. It's also a hit or miss every time I go in. Sometimes I will find
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    by bballer 9y ago

    With the exception of shoes and jackets I buy all my clothes at Goodwill. It's awesome! Every couple of months I spend around $20 dollars and I always have nice new tee shirts, button ups, pants etc. You wont believe how many nice clot
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    by bballer 9y ago

    You know you can generate a API test token and use one of test card numbers for all your testing purposes. There is a toggle in your main dashboard which will let you switch between sandbox/test mode and production for viewing charges
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    by bballer 9y ago

    Are you sure you want to exist?
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    by bballer 9y ago

    Potentially when your inexperienced in the problem domain, or you're building brand new large and complex systems and you haven't yet broken it into smaller subsystems/tasks that can be tackled one at a time.
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    by bballer 9y ago

    This guy has his locked in the kitchen http://huckcdn.lwlies.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1...
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    by bballer 9y ago

    Heres my script https://github.com/jbhamilton/Soundcloud-Downloader
30. 60.▲
    by bballer 9y ago

    Where did the initial seeding of all the lyrics & bands come from? Also, are most of the new lyrics contributed by users and if so how do you handle authenticating that the lyrics provided are accurate?