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by beefsack 10y ago
> A basic stack these days node.js+mongo, go+*sql can easily handle more than 100k users... That is making some very large assumptions about application workload. For an application which is purely a CRUD interface to a database, yes.
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by beefsack 10y ago
Taking a completely blasé approach to efficiency is potentially as dangerous as becoming hyper-focused on it. Not all businesses become roaring successes, and those who achieve moderate success often don't get the resources to fix deep
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by beefsack 10y ago
For me, a very interesting option at the moment is Sony's official AOSP builds for a number of Xperia devices[1]. You're able to build an image yourself from their source if you'd like slightly more comfort, and can run it wi
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by beefsack 10y ago
> Even if all browsers banded together and refused, all that would mean is that premium content would not be available in browsers, and that would lead to a significant devaluation of the web in favor of proprietary apps Not everyone see
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by beefsack 10y ago
Like all things superficial, the more time you spend looking at something, the more the visual appeal (or lack thereof) normalises to average. I think one tangibly good thing about Go though is how readable it is and how easy it is to grok,
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by beefsack 10y ago
Continuing the trend of Facebook creating competing tools more often than persisting with and improving existing ones, which I feel dilutes effort and has fragmented a number of ecosystems. We've got a couple of Facebook fans at work,
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by beefsack 10y ago
It's an interesting experiment, not some sort of production recommendation.
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by beefsack 10y ago
I just hope that whatever replaces *NIX is still free software. Your computer OS is the last thing that should be controlled by corporate gatekeepers.
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by beefsack 10y ago
There is an official (albeit experimental) NaCl implementation for Go which would probably have both been simpler and stronger to use: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/nacl
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by beefsack 10y ago
There is a significant amount of countries with similarly or better ranked passports: https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
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by beefsack 10y ago
The cities you mention all all what you'd call top-tier cities in Asia, all with significant municipal planning and zoning. I'm talking in particular about cities which have little-to-no planning (look at 1-10m population non-capi
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by beefsack 10y ago
I'd suggest living in southeast / east Asia for a while if you think anarchical development is a good idea. It all falls apart when you need to build, maintain and provide basic services (electricity, water, sewage.) You've
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by beefsack 10y ago
I used Haskell for a significant portion of my CS education, it's possible you aren't far from the mark.
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by beefsack 10y ago
For a lot of people it might be installed already as part of their distro or Gnome software metapackages, it'll appear in your menus as "Disk Usage Analyzer."
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by beefsack 10y ago
An article about US AI research or supercomputers wouldn't be labelled an "arms race."
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by beefsack 10y ago
For anyone else who was confused who Snap are, they do Snapchat (it wasn't immediately obvious to me.)
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by beefsack 10y ago
We use gitlab.com for code reviews and CI, and we basically lost a day of integration productivity because of it. Yes, our process is too tightly tied to a single service, but it happens because we don't have the resources to self-host
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by beefsack 10y ago
It's important to distinguish speaking officially on behalf of a corporate entity, as opposed to speaking individually or on behalf of a group of people. I don't think there's any problem with a corporate entity having an of
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by beefsack 10y ago
Calling S3 "FTP" is a bit misleading, I would have just called it "File Storage" and explained it along the lines of FTP instead.
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by beefsack 10y ago
I wonder how much of the internet userbase, like myself, just close a site the moment a pop-up appears which takes me away from what I want to be doing. Has anyone here done any AB testing on it and have some numbers?
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by beefsack 10y ago
I feel this conversation will be slightly different in 2018. The Rust team set their goals and vision for 2017[1][2] and the theme of the year is largely "ease of use." I'll quote some of the proposed vision statement here:
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by beefsack 10y ago
Those of us outside the US would still see some usages; "encyclopædea" in particular isn't uncommon.
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by beefsack 10y ago
Apple's vendor lock-in strategy geared towards developers appear to really be bearing fruit at the moment. They've shifted most of their hardware lineup towards consumers and is the weakest it's been for developers in a long
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by beefsack 10y ago
An iPad is an expensive solution if they've already got a PC, and Linux is a great free way to resurrect computers that the commercial operating systems have left behind.
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by beefsack 10y ago
Is there a legitimate reason a _text editor_ developer should be allowed to make their software call home? I've only seen Electron-based editors doing metrics, perhaps web developers are less offended by the idea thanks to pervasive us
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by beefsack 10y ago
The post was quite interesting, but I find image macros and GIFs really distracting in technical writings.
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by beefsack 10y ago
You're being just as short-sighted as the blog author, do you know the reasoning why it was removed in the first place? It's fairly obvious the second part of the paragraph is a workaround, not a fully fledged solution.
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by beefsack 10y ago
It's easy to see this is but one side to the story from the level of emotion in the blog post. Does anyone have more information regarding the decision itself? The post also misses the second half of the paragraph, which suggests a me
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by beefsack 10y ago
Countries with stronger consumer protection laws should have much less of an issue with warranties. My father dropped his Nexus 5 about 11 months after he bought it and Google provided a replacement really promptly.
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It's only "open" in that they detail the spec they've come up with. Email has been so useful and resilient only because it's an open standard which is broadly agreed on and adopted. Once the big players start addin

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