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by brandur 10y ago
I switched to Rclone recently for personal backups and it's unbelievable how slick, stable, and well-behaved this program is. As far as I can tell though, it does not expose an API beyond its command line interface though.
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I've taken a very similar path recently myself and started looking into Rust. > 2. Proper error handling. I love error checking Hugely agree here. I can get behind Go's overall mentality of returning errors instead of throwing
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You will probably need to acknowledge their existence, but the good news is they're quite a bit easier to use than C and there are far fewer foot guns (i.e. no pointer arithmetic or any such thing). They also deference automatically so
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by brandur 10y ago
Although (in typical San Francisco fashion) this implementation seems likely to be expensive and only moderately successful in the long run, is anyone else cautiously optimistic in the direction that many large cities are heading with respe
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by brandur 10y ago
The article's inclusion of this quote from Tim Cook comes pretty close to summing up the whole situation: “I think if you’re looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No really, why would you buy one?” – Tim Cook, talking about
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Making Terminal Applications in Rust with Termion(ticki.github.io)
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I've been using Mutt with Gmail for years to great effect, and would very much recommend the set up. The one caveat that I should point out (because it's not mentioned in the article) is that you will probably never be fully rid o
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Making Up Ground (The gold rush era ships under San Francisco)(99percentinvisible.org)
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> It is very important that people shed this idea that only SQL databases can have strong consistency, that's for sure. Why? In practice, people are going to be building things using the same common paths: Postgres, Mongo, MySQL, Re
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The Pleasures of Drowning (on Brazilian jiu-jitsu and self-deception) (2012)(samharris.org)
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I just wanted to add that the Postgres documentation [1] and Wikipedia [2] are both really well written when it comes to explaining each isolation level and the guarantees that it provides. Well worth the reading time. [1] https:/&#x2
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by brandur 10y ago
Amen. Whether or not the article's example is a good one, in a world without consistency you need to worry about state between _any_ two database operations in the system, so there's nearly unlimited opportunity for this class of
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by brandur 10y ago
Interesting article, but it's really talking about ATM networks rather than the broader "banks". A bank's core systems could still hugely benefit from having an ACID compliant database even if any individual ATM node cou
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by brandur 10y ago
I think they could iterate on this to a place where projects are repository-specific, but still useful for high-level organization and planning. For example, if they allowed repo projects to reference issues in other repos, that would you g
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by brandur 10y ago
The README of the gem that the article recommends ("sysrandom") provides a good explanation [1]. And here is the contentious Ruby issue wherein the Ruby core developers insist on cargo culting according to an outdated man page des
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by brandur 10y ago
This one's on the longer side, but it's worth the read. It starts out as an article about a high-class dining experience, but ends with a twist.
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The Most Exclusive Restaurant in America(newyorker.com)
1 points by brandur 10y ago|1 comments
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by brandur 10y ago
Completely agree. I personally have no problem using commercial software, but my password manager is one place where I suspect that I should be moving to open source in case I don't want to renew my license over some future pricing dis
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The meaning of trust in the age of Airbnb(timharford.com)
1 points by brandur 10y ago|0 comments
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New Stripe docs: redesigned layout and richer code snippets(stripe.com)
5 points by brandur 10y ago|0 comments
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by brandur 10y ago
> Now that these issues are gone, by having reasonable default settings for write concern and journaling, how well does MongoDB do in the benchmarks today? Reports differ by benchmark, but the answer can be summarized as "not well&q
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by brandur 10y ago
The new $16 price point was news to me. I'd seen the $0.008 from Amazon's blog post, but never broke out the calculator. Especially given that unlike the ELB you can get support for multiple apps on one, it's great to see som
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by brandur 10y ago
100% agree, especially when there's a reasonable chance that the ALB itself is based on Nginx or some other technologies that has no problem with more complex routing rules or hundreds of virtual hosts. The good news is that it does se
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by brandur 10y ago
I'm talking about "durability" here in the context of the "D" in "ACID". Previously, Mongo had very serious problems in that are because its client would assume that any message sent to the outgoing socket
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by brandur 10y ago
To be fair, I think your comment shows why this sort of post _can_ still be useful. You're very unlikely to lose data on a modern Mongo system using default configuration (their troubles with durability have largely been solved), but t
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by brandur 10y ago
> First, I don't like it. Most of the time, it is awkward stuff, and horribly boring, exercising just to exercise. This may or may not be useful for you, but one thing I've had very good luck with is a stationary bike (at the g
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by brandur 10y ago
Right, Berlin is the capital of Germany, but the reason I brought it up as a counterexample for New York is that the Cold War and aftermath left it economically depressed for decades. Until quite recently, rents there were very cheap (on al
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by brandur 10y ago
It's a fair point that the only way for these artists to have become successful in a significant way at the time was to move to a town like New York that can supply the necessary patronage, but I'm not sure that I'd character
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I really enjoyed this article. I think that if there's one thing that's going to gut the creativity and character of our cities it's going to be hugely increasing rents and housing prices that we're seeing in almost all
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by brandur 10y ago
> Many New York artists talk about NYC as if it was cheap but it is simply not true. Can you clarify your position? My reading is that the article was making the point that rent is significantly more expensive in NY today than it was in

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