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by cachemoney 15y ago
Who writes these titles?
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by cachemoney 15y ago
An alternative is an option type. In scala, you have the abstract type Option[T], which has implementations Some[T](value: T) and None[T]. Alternately, you have Either[A, B], with implementations Left[A](value: A), and Right[B](value: B).
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by cachemoney 15y ago
> That said, how can that old game be more fun that TF2? EMP Grenades.
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by cachemoney 15y ago
Actors had a memory leak when a lot of the formative Twitter Scala stuff happened. This lead to more usage of java concurrency primitives, which snowballed within the culture. There's some people at Twitter who truly love and grok Scala an
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by cachemoney 15y ago
"It's as expressive as Ruby, but runs much faster and is easier to refactor."
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by cachemoney 15y ago
This whole thing is a bit disingenuous, because the type signature argued over is an alternate signature which no one uses, because it provides custom concatenation of Traversables. All of the provided collections have reasonable implement
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by cachemoney 15y ago
I spent about a year as a maintainer of FlockDB, Twitter's social graph store. If you don't know, it's basically a sharded MySQL setup. One of the key pain points was optimizing the row lock over the follower count. Whenever a Charlie Sh
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by cachemoney 15y ago
Many internal tools use it.
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by cachemoney 15y ago
The economy could certainly find use for them, but perhaps not at a price above minimum wage.
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by cachemoney 15y ago
Indeed. I have over a hundred repos, and I'm useless ;)
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by cachemoney 15y ago
People are afraid of planes because if the power goes out, you die. On the ground, if the power goes out on your driverless car, you cruise to a stop.
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by cachemoney 15y ago
You can't run a Solr server because (1) present limits are 300MB RAM hard, and (2) disk is transient. There's a solr addon though.
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by cachemoney 15y ago
It drives pageviews?
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by cachemoney 15y ago
If two people independently invent something at about the same time, does that mean it's obvious to someone skilled in the art? In those scenarios, I'd like to see both patents thrown out.
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by cachemoney 15y ago
Also, I don't know if I really want to hear about Enya from Bakersfield any more. Please do something about ad fatigue and/or inventory.
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by cachemoney 15y ago
Ironically, the guys who maintain rubygems also wrote http://rubyhitsquad.com/ , in which they vocally slam another mainstream Ruby project.
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by cachemoney 15y ago
Quit trolling, that's a technicality.
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by cachemoney 15y ago
Somehow, the comment threads get flooded instead.
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by cachemoney 15y ago
This advice is potentially terrible for many/most people. > Skip college, you can always go back. It's much harder to get into and succeed in college later in life. You'll also be a bad fit for the college social scene, which is where
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by cachemoney 15y ago
Why be jealous? He has no traction. Copy it and do it slightly better.
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by cachemoney 16y ago
Too bad it doesn't work.
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by cachemoney 16y ago
You can log to mongodb capped collections. You get a semi-structured ring buffer with fast writes. I'm not a huge mongo fanboi, but this is one situation I've seen it excel in.
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by cachemoney 16y ago
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony 5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. 6. the incongruity of this. Seems fine to me.
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by cachemoney 16y ago
Love the irony: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2303854
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by cachemoney 16y ago
Can't be a religion without a good ol'fashioned resurrection.
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by cachemoney 16y ago
This idea is going into OS X Lion as "Versions" http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/
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Twitter: The Great Migration, the Winter of 2011(engineering.twitter.com)
3 points by cachemoney 16y ago|0 comments
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by cachemoney 16y ago
I run a database cluster with dozens of nodes on EC2. Small entries, lots of small IOPS. From http://orion.heroku.com/past/2009/7/29/io_performance_on_ebs... , "On a good day, an EBS can give you 7,000 seeks per second and on a not so goo
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by cachemoney 16y ago
EBS-RAID0 is much faster for reads than local. Local is faster for writes.
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by cachemoney 16y ago
Just because you put the word "Hacking" in the title, doesn't mean there's actual hacking involved. Flagged.

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