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by coleifer 8y ago
Almost everyone I know who is successfully clean and happy in 12-step had long ago exhausted all the options: doctor, priest/preacher, psychologist, moving to a new town, "going to the gym", etc. Nobody would ever (myself inc
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by coleifer 8y ago
I think about that often-quoted statistic about Vietnam veterans, most of whom used heroin while deployed, yet only about 5% came back and were full-on junkies. Stuff like 12-step is for that 5%...the folks who have already been to the doct
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by coleifer 8y ago
Excuse the ignorance, but how does one use it? What would be some applications for this?
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by coleifer 8y ago
I use luajit in a few places in my own stack (Redis, Kyoto Tycoon) and appreciate how magically fast it is. I have no idea how to approach a post like this. SSA, FOLD, it's all Greek to me. I feel pretty satisfied swapping an n^2 loop
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by coleifer 8y ago
OpenResty looks pretty cool. Have any patterns emerged for building large-ish apps on it?
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by coleifer 8y ago
I'm reading the hero with one thousand faces right now. Absolutely enchanting.
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by coleifer 8y ago
Precious!
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by coleifer 8y ago
How can you tell when someone is an atheist? > me as an atheist Oh wait...they'll tell you.
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by coleifer 8y ago
My own sense is that without a relationship with God, I'm going to miss the mark with my family.
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by coleifer 8y ago
Perhaps we're both right, in a way?
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by coleifer 8y ago
If you're going to stick by your company, why are you interviewing? PS, good luck staying clean. Hit me up if you want to talk, I've been through similar stuff.
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by coleifer 8y ago
You're projecting! The author did not strike me as being incredulous. I think your own comment, your reading of the article, and your insistence (nobody is arguing with you) that you love your work -- this is the phenomenon being exami
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by coleifer 8y ago
I think some people are confusing the point. It's not about whether or not you enjoy your work. It's about the glamorization of working more than others. I think a critical mass of people have bought into the belief that overwork
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by coleifer 8y ago
Perhaps some people are content with their role. I know many engineers, who, by virtue of being productive, got themselves promoted into managing roles where they hardly ever write code. Perhaps this system works because it allows "cli
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by coleifer 8y ago
Running (expensive) SQL on dynamodb tables.
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by coleifer 8y ago
Depends on what you want to do. Php and MySQL, available on any shared hosting provider, can take you far. In 2008 I wrote an online food-delivery platform that served a busy college town. Plain old php and MySQL. It's still running to
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by coleifer 8y ago
I put together a list of my own, including screenshots with a small code snippet. Might be helpful as this list does include some that are not listed on programmingfonts.org: http://charlesleifer.com/blog/monospace-font
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by coleifer 8y ago
I'm not sure but would something like docker swarm qualify?
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by coleifer 8y ago
Yes. I'm also curious about what kind of tradeoffs I would be making by choosing arangodb over postgres, etc. For example, with Postgres you have acid but not much in the way of horizontal scale-out. With Redis you have speed (single t
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by coleifer 8y ago
This isn't about prescribing pain meds to those who need them (post op, broken leg, etc). It is about a company making fraudulent claims about the addictiveness of the drugs.
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by coleifer 8y ago
Somewhat unrelated but I've written a restful search server that's powered by Sqlite's full-text search. Extremely lightweight python (flask) app. Nice for blogs or small projects, if I say so myself! https://githu
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by coleifer 8y ago
Looks nice, but I am uneasy putting this kind of information into an opaque platform. Google, Salesforce, a self-hosted wiki...not going anywhere plus options to export and move. If it were a desktop app with a local sqlite DB then, yes, de
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by coleifer 8y ago
The purpose of the benchmark was to see the relative performance of the two databases.
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Kyoto Tycoon in 2019(charlesleifer.com)
111 points by coleifer 8y ago|36 comments
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by coleifer 8y ago
I had a similar thing happen. The CTO of a company was using a library I wrote, and he ran into things he wanted to change. When I disagreed, I was accused of sabotaging my own library, by refusing to fix it's obviously broken aspects.
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by coleifer 8y ago
> You drink too much for a reason I don't think that's right. More than anywhere else, it seems like on HN there's an idea of the infallibility of human rationality. Would anyone in their right mind a) shoot dirty dope fil
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by coleifer 8y ago
> I find the program a bit cultish I have shared in meetings that I sometimes think AA/NA is a cult. Everyone understood. And over time I've come to see the importance of the word "Anonymous", which is found in the na
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by coleifer 8y ago
My own sense is that the religions of the world are mostly in agreement about the following things: * renunciation of self * acceptance of the world / reality, including suffering * love of mankind * love of the gift of life Religion a
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by coleifer 8y ago
Badger is an lsm-tree storage engine which makes some unusual tradeoffs. Good background info here: https://blog.dgraph.io/post/badger/
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by coleifer 8y ago
> I saw and know that men could be beautiful and happy, without losing the capacity to live upon the earth. This struck me as the revelation that changed the protagonist's perspective. And Dostoyevsky presents this using the irratio

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