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by brandur 9y ago
Sure, AirBnB certainly isn't the only cause of rising rents in Berlin. The city's become an incredibly attractive place to be over the last decade, and that's almost certainly the foremost reason for rent increases. But AirBn
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by brandur 9y ago
> That, presumably, is one reason supply is restricted ("fixed") (I'm the grandparent.) Yes, this. I'm all for new construction to improve supply and a streamlined bureaucratic process so that it can happen more qui
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by brandur 9y ago
I think it's stated quite clearly in the article, but although professional landlords might be fine for AirBnB tenants (and obviously good for the landlords themselves), they're bad for cities and their residents: > Berlin, li
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by brandur 9y ago
I've seen two large usages of DynamoDB at two different companies, and for what it's worth, in both cases we've had similar trouble as the author. In one case we ended up ripping it out and moving to a sharded Postgres scheme
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by brandur 9y ago
Here's a very simple example that I'd consider the holy grail. Say I want run `ls -lh` on a directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 brandur staff 6.5K Mar 25 15:37 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 brandur staff 63B Jul 10 2016 Procfile
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by brandur 9y ago
Amazing work! Between this, Alacritty [1], and coreutils [2], we're getting pretty close to a plausible all-Rust CLI stack. While Cicada is pretty clearly modeled on the "old" generation of shells (sh, Bash, Zsh, etc.), one h
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by brandur 9y ago
> And many of us aren't working with relational data. I think this is probably where the disconnect is. If your data has relations to other data, which is the vast majority of things that you're going to be building in the re
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by brandur 9y ago
> I wouldn't post this in the future. It's irrelevant. > This is pre-Wiredtiger which means it is a completely different database. That's not true. Mongo switched out their backend and fixed a few heinous bugs and d
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by brandur 9y ago
> The solution to the "Airbnb problem" of rising home costs is less regulation, not more. Regulation around short term rentals and regulation around construction and zoning are two very different things. I agree that every ci
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by brandur 9y ago
This is a pretty impressive set of new features and fixes (i.e. things that worked in Postgres, but not with CitusDB). In particular, the added ability to run `CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY` [1] for distributed tables is an important addition.
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by brandur 9y ago
That's largely accurate, but the core point that I try to convey is that Mongo's key sales pitch is that you get sharding and scalability, but at the cost of features like ACID transactions, foreign keys, consistency checks, etc.
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by brandur 9y ago
Sorry, there are many cool databases out there but I trimmed the list to the ones that I know a little about, and find most pragmatic/interesting. I'll willfully admit that the selection methodology is imperfect and somewhat skewe
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by brandur 9y ago
The nice thing about Rclone is that it already supports Google Cloud Drive (and a host of other providers) so the technology isn't the problem. I'm lamenting Amazon Cloud Drive in particular because it was the best deal. $60 a yea
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by brandur 9y ago
Yeah, this is a hard one. There are users on /r/DataHoarder/ that claim to have uploaded literally 100s of (encrypted) TBs to Cloud Drive, which is plainly unsustainable and abusive. On the other hand, they've also kille
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Building robustly with ACID databases, or why Postgres is often the right choice(brandur.org)
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by brandur 9y ago
I don't think there's any question at this point that Spanner is really cool. The vast majority of cloud databases out there (even brand-new ones like Azure's Cosmos) are still implicitly trying to convince you that not havin
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by brandur 9y ago
Oh totally agreed that C++'s compilation times are (quite infamously) a mess. I think that my parent was asserting that Rust's compile times are "usually ... far worse" (the "it" in the quote above is a referen
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by brandur 9y ago
> I don't understand how (1) isn't a positive in your eyes. I like testing as much as the next person and consider it very important, but your tests should be testing business logic rather than whether your syntax is correct.
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by brandur 9y ago
Yes, I can't prove it. There's no quantitative way of doing so. I've worked with very big duck typed codebases for quite a few years now (and largely statically typed in C# before that) and the above is my opinion. Duck typin
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by brandur 9y ago
+1. Also, Go's goroutines and channels.
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by brandur 9y ago
I was partly relying on the context offered by the article and my parent comment to imply that sure, Rust's compiler isn't the fastest in class, but the team has identified speed as a major outstanding problem and is working very
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by brandur 9y ago
> It's beginning to get tiresome to continually hear the Rust community go on and on about how amazing Rust is and say, with a straight face, that eventually there will be no reason to write anything in not-Rust. Are you serious? T
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by brandur 9y ago
> In your opinion what are some of the things wrong with Rust? Genuinely curious as someone who operates at the higher level of the stack (web development) but is interested in learning something lower: C++, Rust, etc. I think the most
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by brandur 9y ago
> Not being hindered by the compiler telling you what you can and can't do; freeing yourself from the write-compile-debug cycle, reducing it to repl-done; etc. Yeah, I certainly understand various language trade-offs, but in my ex
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by brandur 9y ago
I'm consistently blown away by just how good the project management for this language is. It's not just the forward progress that the language is making (which is considerable), but also just how well they package the information
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by brandur 9y ago
> This is part of a worrying new trend. Increasingly you can't buy software anymore, only rent. More or less agreed, but you'd probably have to concede that the existence of papers like this one and some of Google's othe
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by brandur 9y ago
It's too bad the _Sea Shadow_ is gone, but I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to go and see the _HMB-1_. It's docked at Bay and Ship right next to the ferry terminal on Alameda. Here's a picture I took of it [1]. I
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by brandur 9y ago
To be fair, it doesn't look like this was entirely fiction. Here's what Wiki has to say on the subject [1]: > Interest in the potential exploitation of polymetallic nodules generated a great deal of activity among prospective m
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by brandur 9y ago
I've read it. I liked the premise for The House of Leaves and really _wanted_ to like the book, but to be honest, the whole experience felt a little gimmicky to me. I got to parts that were obnoxiously annoying to read (e.g. the shrink
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by brandur 9y ago
Hah, thanks for being gentle on my Dynamo versus DynamoDB faux pas — that is some seriously confusing naming. Very interesting though. Thanks.

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