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by cemerick 9y ago
The logo's an image; messing with it exceeded the threshold of work I wanted to put into it. :-) I'm actually not sure how the logo could be made yellow and black without distracting from the signature stark yellow/black diag
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Show HN: Ancap News, a Chrome/FF extension to bring out HN's true colors(github.com)
16 points by cemerick 9y ago|31 comments
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by cemerick 9y ago
Got fooled by the free-view-from-twitter-referrer dark pattern. Try https://t.co/xcHffVTtw8
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Fire Travis Kalanick(ftalphaville.ft.com)
20 points by cemerick 9y ago|3 comments
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Argo from Cloudflare – featuring Smart Routing and Tiered Cache(blog.cloudflare.com)
62 points by cemerick 9y ago|25 comments
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by cemerick 9y ago
Heroku has supported websockets through its routing infrastructure for ages, along with things like SNI (which has been mentioned elsewhere here as things people wish were available in GCP). Not a ding on GCP necessarily, just notable how f
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by cemerick 9y ago
To paraphrase what you're getting at with the ~slippery slope argument: """ 'Free speech' means absolutely nothing can be off limits, ever, because in some theoretical future timeline, that means we won't
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by cemerick 9y ago
"We'll see how it goes" and "it can't be worse than what we have now" are my basic postures to this kind of critique. It's very, very clear that Twitter (for example) is hardly an exemplar. If you are conc
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by cemerick 9y ago
I see "GNU/Mastodon" fly by most days. It's always a joke, tho I don't know that the authors mean it to be one. Yes, quitter.no seems to be a pleasant GNU Social spot. (Most) others AFAICT, absolutely not. Yes, of c
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by cemerick 9y ago
Portable identities as a feature is definitely being worked on, but IIRC it will only help in the "I need to move from one instance to another" case. I don't have a project issue number handy, but it's there. Multiple id
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by cemerick 9y ago
The whole premise of federation is that you're not limited to talking with those on your home instance. What about Mastodon will yield more insular experiences than Twitter? As it is, the fact that I can see and interact with people on
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by cemerick 9y ago
OK, I'll bite. IMO, GNU Social / the broader "fediverse" is mostly uninteresting to me as a user, for a bunch of reasons: * The user experience simply is more pleasant (a tight tweetdeck-esque UI vs. GNU Social's Tw
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by cemerick 10y ago
This only talks about a particular write amplification issue. A far better message IMO is just a few clicks upthread: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/579795DF.10502%40comma... Provides a link to the rationale pos
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Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation(plum-umd.github.io)
27 points by cemerick 11y ago|5 comments
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by cemerick 12y ago
"Only" two others, AFAIK, Jfli and FOIL: http://jfli.sourceforge.net/ http://foil.sourceforge.net/ Both were (are? I can imagine people are still using them, Jfli in particular) interop libraries,
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Dandelion: A Compiler and Runtime for Heterogeneous Systems(research.microsoft.com)
1 points by cemerick 12y ago|0 comments
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by cemerick 12y ago
The 'Qu' almost-ligature is great. But wow, is font licensing screwed up...."contact us" for > 10K views per month!
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by cemerick 12y ago
Which garbage collectors are you talking about, exactly? I presume you have particular Common Lisp implementations in mind, given your second comment. As the author discusses, there are more lisps than Common Lisp, and certainly more variet
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by cemerick 12y ago
A lot of different distributed storage and computation architectures are special cases of CRDTs, just with different sets of commutative operations and/or convergent types of state. (One of the aspects of CRDTs that I most appreciate,
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by cemerick 12y ago
The point of the piece, in large part, was to emphasize that we're all network programmers . If you're whacking away with APIs and couldn't care less about the broader system its topology, please stay away from me. ;-) APIs
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by cemerick 12y ago
The cite I'm missing at the moment is a multi-year study that catalogued all known operational transforms over text (there were many more than I imagined prior), along with proofs showing that certain combinations of concurrent operati
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by cemerick 12y ago
Hi, author here. APIs already necessitate the use of "standard sets of data models", except such "standardization" takes place over and over for each provider of a particular type of service. Further, APIs themselves hav
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by cemerick 12y ago
Hi, author here. :-) Thank you for the fun anecdote and kind words. Hopefully we can collectively get better at addressing these problems.
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by cemerick 12y ago
Dammit, thank you. I've even read that exact message before. :-/ Post updated!
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by cemerick 12y ago
(Author here.) As a start, hopefully removing the blinders that makes statements like "many API users are not knowledgeable to the intricacies of network programming" oh so true. That that statement can be made without popular inc
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by cemerick 12y ago
Hi, author here. REST has its set of semantics, but (a) I don't think they're particularly useful for building computational services with, and (b) it's for all practical purposes predicated on HTTP, which carries a lot of ba
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by cemerick 12y ago
Hi, author here. (Somewhat standardized) interfaces are _fine_. My contention is that you can have an interface shared by disparate actors without the problematical bits of "APIs" (both in spirit and in their particular current be
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by cemerick 12y ago
Hi, author here. I'm not sure you read the whole piece. :-) (Modern) APIs are a very limited mechanism of state transfer that happens to be paired with often side-effecting operations. Thus, a "synchronization" (I don't
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Edelweiss: Automatic Storage Reclamation for Distributed Programming [pdf](db.cs.berkeley.edu)
2 points by cemerick 13y ago|0 comments
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by cemerick 13y ago
There were a couple of mentions of Nightcode in the 'other' field, more than votes for environments I did include in the main listing. I'll do my best to remember to add it next year and drop those that fared poorly this tim

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