briandilley

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   by briandilley 6y ago

   I created this library in 2013 to solve a very specific problem. Since then it has been refined many times over and made more feature complete. It has been used in some fairly high profile projects with impressive amounts of traffic and pro
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   Show HN: Joraph – a Java/Kotlin library for assembling complex object graphs(github.com)

   3 points by briandilley 6y ago|1 comments
3. 33.▲
   by briandilley 6y ago

   What a great BF4 map.
4. 34.▲
   by briandilley 6y ago

   Wow, I never knew that.
5. 35.▲
   by briandilley 6y ago

   Here's a link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT4Ig2uqjTc Thanks, i'll check it out.
6. 36.▲
   by briandilley 6y ago

   I like this version of the same question - it's like a mini commitment.
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   Should I ask my customers if they would use a feature before building it?

   8 points by briandilley 6y ago|14 comments
8. 38.▲
   by briandilley 6y ago

   > Like Pinot, Elasticsearch is a JVM-based database, and as such, does not support joins and its query execution runs at a higher memory cost. What does the JVM have to do with joins?
9. 39.▲
   by briandilley 6y ago

   woah, I haven't seen slashdot in a minute.
10. 40.▲
    by briandilley 6y ago

    painful
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    by briandilley 6y ago

    I don't even need to read the article to know that a more accurate title would be: 'Undress or fail: Instagrams user patterns strong-arms users into showing skin' or the classic 'Sex Sells'
12. 42.▲
    by briandilley 6y ago

    I wonder how Linus feels about tabs vs. spaces (I didn't read the entire post, so maybe he addressed it?)
13. 43.▲
    by briandilley 6y ago

    with food and water, how else?
14. 44.▲
    by briandilley 6y ago

    I want a voice controlled bidet. Can it clean _more_ than your asshole though? IE: 'Alexa, stimul... wash my beaver.'
15. 45.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    why?
16. 46.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    Angular
17. 47.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    ... but why?
18. 48.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    I can't tell if this is a good thing, or a bad thing.
19. 49.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    that guy was the most annoying interview i have seen in a while.
20. 50.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    What about WindowMaker?
21. 51.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    does the name... BUG you? It's a nod at resiliency, clever IMO.
22. 52.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    > I find it difficult to setup PostgreSQL without having a single point of failure and introducing downtime for things such as upgrades. Amazon does this with RDS, and so can you. This really isn't very tough to achieve with replica
23. 53.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    - hire into your weaknesses - hire people smarter than you
24. 54.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    What about team based offices? Where a team of ~4 or ~5 people share an office?
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    by briandilley 7y ago

    Apparently search isn't an exact science yet ;)
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    by briandilley 7y ago

    I thought it was common knowledge that the ancestry part of the 23andMe "project" was croud sourced and not an exact science? The "you are related to XYZ person in our database" stuff was 100% accurate, as that is coded
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    by briandilley 7y ago

    Biome. We no longer say ecosystem, we say "Biome".
28. 58.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    unfortunately - this is probably correct. don't fall victim to the sunk cost fallacy, as this is the most expensive way (time) to do so.
29. 59.▲
    by briandilley 7y ago

    I do.
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    by briandilley 7y ago

    > As the project matures, GUI code and back end code diverges. This. This is why ASP.NET, ServerFaces, JSP+Taglibs, etc. became a nightmare.