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by campers 11y ago
Sync I/O API's are still an issue, the main one being JDBC. The approach with Quasar is to have a dedicate thread pool for the JDBC calls, which in that case isn't necessarily too bad as you don't want to overload your d
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by campers 11y ago
Recently I've been doing a bit of research on what tech stack to choose for my next project. I'm a long time Java dev and been doing JS/TypeScript dev the last year. I'd been deciding with a newer Java/JVM stack or
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by campers 11y ago
There some benchmarks at http://www.pythian.com/blog/benchmarking-google-cloud-sql-in... but only comparing the different instance sizes, and to the first generation, which is much slower. It's good there's f
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by campers 11y ago
I wonder how much you could cash out a month without really affecting the price. With that amount you could cash out half a million dollars a month for a very long time, assuming the exchange rate doesn't change much, and live like a k
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by campers 11y ago
They can often be the ones who love their craft, enjoying evaluating new approaches, spend their own time coding and learning the latest frameworks, and can be the best coders on the team, able to tackle the more difficult problems with the
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by campers 11y ago
Its a form of Tonic Immobility, or animal hypnosis https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_immobility There's even an entry on Trout tickling on the page. What quite impressive is putting bigger sharks into the t
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by campers 11y ago
I hadn't heard of this one before, always interested in fusion news. 3 others I know about are http://www.generalfusion.com/ http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/ (Focus fusion) http://www
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by campers 11y ago
That was the one thing that stood out for me too
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by campers 11y ago
Good to hear, a managed PostgreSQL service is the one big thing missing on GCE for me.
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by campers 11y ago
Yeah their SSD pricing example seemed to blow AWS away http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/understan...
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by campers 11y ago
There's a couple of posts on the GCP blog where they compare equivalent as possible setups, comes out a bit cheaper than AWS. http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/understan... http://
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by campers 11y ago
Agree. Also the return on the options should also be compared to a risk-free/conservative rate from the additional savings from the higher salary. In somewhere with a high cost of living like SV increases in pay can significantly incre
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by campers 11y ago
The SDK's were slow to update, the Java App Engine doesn't support Java 8 yet the Python and/or PHP version are behind a bit I think. There's a bunch of bugs which haven't been resolved after a long time. The insta
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by campers 11y ago
GCP has a push-to-deploy https://cloud.google.com/tools/repo/push-to-deploy That along with the cloud debugging from their git repo are some nice to haves.
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by campers 11y ago
Perception is reality. It sounded like the OP wants to more effectively deliver what he has to say. I notice sometimes when I closely listen to people like he's talking about they just having a way of speaking that makes them seem mor
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by campers 11y ago
Reminds me of this article :) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2750652/Former-Googl...
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by campers 11y ago
F1 is their other database which powers AdWords http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41344.html
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by campers 11y ago
I just noticed recently that TortoiseHG lets you do that in the GUI. Definitely is a nice feature. I only just started using Git and did like the ability to cherry pick from a file, but happy to know I can still do that with hg.
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by campers 12y ago
Good points, the discomfort as the article put it is a better way to describe it than inferior. Also true that not everyone feels comfortable in the elevated position of being able to afford to hire other people to do what they might consid
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by campers 12y ago
The most 'jarring' part in the article was "But when the Homejoy app maid shows up at her apartment, she feels uncomfortable. The class implications of someone cleaning her toilet are jarring." Income inequality will alw
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by campers 12y ago
I think a better idea would be to accept there is no particular purpose, more about doing something random, that perhaps you think you'll feel better for after, and seeing what happens. Embrace the chaos!
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by campers 12y ago
In Australia its common to have a surchage when paying by credit card.
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by campers 12y ago
Not necessarily (getting addicted that is), or even likely http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-... Some interesting studies in that article. Environment and personality has a dominant role. Rats
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by campers 12y ago
He needs to add a repo for his Hour of Code effort! ( http://www.wired.com/2014/12/obama-becomes-first-president-w... )
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by campers 12y ago
These guys look to be doing some nice work integrating Cassandra and Spark http://blog.tuplejump.com/ They've piggybacked on the Cassandra clustering using a java agent to run the Spark masters. Doesn't seem to b