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by benhoyt 4y ago
Yeah, that would certainly have slowed me down too if I'd experienced that. I haven't had any of these issues. Fingers crossed! And hopefully they're working on stability.
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by benhoyt 4y ago
They don't really need to add anything, because you can just use a GitHub Action that run "flyctl deploy". Here is Fly.io's guide to the 15 lines of YAML you can use to do that: https://fly.io/docs/a
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by benhoyt 4y ago
Only 1 out of 4 URLs in the test was static. The others are rendered HTML templates (using Go's html/template -- I'll update the article to make that clearer), and one page does two SQL queries. Note that my load test wasn&#x
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by benhoyt 4y ago
They're not really type annotations (because Forth is still basically untyped), but stack effect annotations. They're just a comment in parentheses that tells human readers of the code how many items are consumed/produced and
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by benhoyt 4y ago
That's true, but previously the PaaSs I've looked at didn't seem to have the same concept of persistent volumes, or maybe they were costly, I forget. In any case, I tried on Heroku before, and one other provider, and they did
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by benhoyt 4y ago
That's what I do now. But there's a bunch more setup: - Install and configure Caddy to terminate the SSL. Caddy is great, but still stuff to think about and 20 lines of config to figure out. - Configure systemd to run Caddy and my
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by benhoyt 4y ago
Just this morning I was wondering about where to host the next iteration of my side project (GiftyWeddings.com). It currently uses Go + SQLite, and I deploy it to a small $9/month instance on AWS, but the setup involves a bunch more An
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by benhoyt 4y ago
A missing robots.txt has always meant "allow all", so it would be really weird for this to be the cause. Robots.txt is primarily for dis allowing (or really, discouraging) crawlers from crawling certain paths.
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by benhoyt 4y ago
Yeah, my comment there more or less sums up the thought I've put in so far. AWK doesn't really have nested data structures, but a lot of JSON / JSON lines is fairly flat, so it may work. It shouldn't be too hard ... thou
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by benhoyt 4y ago
Hehe, thanks. Yeah, I was on the fence about posting it the last time, thinking "Hmmm, am I promoting my own project too much?" But I've tried to only do it in very relevant contexts or when people ask and it would solve that
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by benhoyt 4y ago
The frawk implementation (not quite POSIX, but extremely fast) and my GoAWK implementation both have an "-i csv" option that puts it in "input mode CSV". More here: https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk
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by benhoyt 4y ago
Yeah, they're both languages which are quite unlike C in operation, but both (by design) use C-like syntax to be more familiar to existing developers. I think AWK has survived incredibly well for a language that's 46 years old.
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by benhoyt 4y ago
I don't know of a "libawk" C library, but my GoAWK interpreter can also be used as a library (Go) library. See reference docs: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/benhoyt/goawk/interp A project that&
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by benhoyt 4y ago
It has very detailed benchmarks (the "Benchmarks" link in the README): https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk/blob/master/info/performan...
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of AWK(stephenramsay.net)
31 points by benhoyt 4y ago|6 comments
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by benhoyt 4y ago
Thanks for the plug (I'm the author of GoAWK). Yeah, I'm hoping the CSV feature will really be useful for data science and the like. There are so many CSVs pushed around these days. See more here: https://benhoyt.com&#x
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by benhoyt 4y ago
Brian Kernighan recently told me that "Al and Peter and I" (that is, A, W, and K) are working on a second edition of the book "The AWK Programming Language". The first edition is excellent (it inspired me to write an AWK
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Advice for Less Experienced Software Engineers in the Current Tech Market(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
11 points by benhoyt 4y ago|3 comments
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Code Coverage for GoAWK(maximullaris.com)
3 points by benhoyt 4y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 4y ago
I don't know of a stand-alone one. Gawk has the "--lint" option, which is documented to "Warn about constructs that are dubious or nonportable to other awk implementations ... Some warnings are issued when gawk first rea
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Code coverage for your AWK programs(benhoyt.com)
46 points by benhoyt 4y ago|3 comments
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by benhoyt 4y ago
Canonical | Python Software Engineer | Remote (Asia-Pacific, ±4h from NZ time) | Full-time Canonical is known for producing Ubuntu, but we have a lot of other roles. This one is for a Python dev with an eye for detail, helping develop the P
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by benhoyt 4y ago
I'm happy to be a "normal IT person". :-) If you look further at the count-words article you linked, I do have profiling graphs and bottleneck analysis. Note that the interview questions I ask are open-ended, not trying to tr
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by benhoyt 4y ago
Fair call about "Dell XPS 13". I've now clarified in the article (it's a recent 2022 Dell XPS 13 Plus). Regarding OS caching: I'm trying to avoid this by clearing caches with the "sysctl vm.drop_caches=3"
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by benhoyt 4y ago
Not sure why you'd be annoyed? What I'm trying to gauge in my interviews is their real-world experience (not their academic CS knowledge). That's part of the reason I find my line of questioning helpful: I don't penalize
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by benhoyt 4y ago
It's because that first invocation of sort is sorting the entire input (413MB), not just the unique words (less than a MB). The sort is probably O(NlogN), but that's a big N. Counting by inserting into a hash table is much faster,
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I/O is no longer the bottleneck(benhoyt.com)
377 points by benhoyt 4y ago|326 comments
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by benhoyt 4y ago
I think this is a very interesting and clear manifesto, and almost certainly the right thing for Amazon at the right time (and presumably was part of what led to AWS). However, at one of the previous companies I worked at we got an ex-Amazo
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Our microPledge crowdfunding startup: why it failed and what we learned(benhoyt.com)
2 points by benhoyt 4y ago|0 comments
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microPledge: Our startup that (we wish) competed with Kickstarter(benhoyt.com)
2 points by benhoyt 4y ago|0 comments

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