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by dajonker 7y ago
Jony Ive's new "independent" firm has one big primary client: Apple.
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by dajonker 7y ago
Yes, the data model is probably the most important aspect of your application, it defines the relations and constraints. With a good data model, you don't need to write a lot of code to deal with it. Having lots of code that deals with
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by dajonker 7y ago
I disagree with that, if you describe it as stated in the article: "Overall, good engineers are so much more effective not because they produce a lot more code, but because the decisions they make save you from work you did not know co
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by dajonker 7y ago
This is beautiful, I feel like I should memorize the entire thing.
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by dajonker 7y ago
Yes, this is terribly annoying, often there is a minimum length but no mention of maximum length. I see this on many, many websites...
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by dajonker 7y ago
Imagine libc to be broken up into a library per function and apt or dnf (yum) to install them all separately.
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by dajonker 7y ago
You are right, accidents happen to anyone. I cannot really be prepared for Cloudflare to go down though. What are my alternatives? Turn it off and route traffic to our servers directly? The DNS propagation takes longer than it just took for
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by dajonker 7y ago
"Cloudflare is observing network performance issues." not just performance issues, our entire website is unavailable because of it. edit: availability has been alternating between available and unavailable
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by dajonker 7y ago
I have mixed feelings about adding type annotations to an existing project. IDEs become easier to use, you can avoid certain bugs, refactoring becomes a bit less error-prone. But this comes at a cost: you need a very high type coverage, whi
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by dajonker 7y ago
And the reply from the author of Redis: http://antirez.com/news/101
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by dajonker 7y ago
I always find it shocking to hear that so many people think crowdfunded projects have no risk, that it's somehow similar to ordering stuff from Amazon. Especially when people invest more money than they are actually willing to lose. Wh
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by dajonker 7y ago
Totally agree, although sometimes I feel like I might as well work remote when people sitting next to me start talking to me on Slack. Yes, I'm wearing noise-cancelling headphones most of the time, but that's because we have a ver
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by dajonker 7y ago
Because Javascript is the only thing that runs on the client side.
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by dajonker 7y ago
TLDR; you are supposed to get rid of all weeds in your garden first, then this little robot will take care of all new weeds growing out of the ground. It's supposed to be pretty much maintenance free and runs on only sunlight.
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by dajonker 7y ago
You basically just described any sufficiently large organization. Complaining is not helping anyone in these situations, the only thing you can do to change things is to go ahead and try to change things. Reporting things up the chain hardl
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by dajonker 8y ago
The article does not address any of the technical complexities of microservices. If you use microservices you are developing a distributed computing system with a lot of technical challenges: additional network delay for each rpc, error pro
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by dajonker 8y ago
If you use is only to run 4 different queries on NYC taxi data, they are about similar: https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html Otherwise it's really difficult to compare without knowing how much data you have, how
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by dajonker 8y ago
That depends on how many columns your pivot table uses. Less columns = less data = lower price. If the implementation is smart enough it could use BigQuery partitions for further cost savings.
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by dajonker 8y ago
I'm not necessarily scared of SPAs (I actually work with React myself), but I do believe them to be overkill in lots of cases. One nice thing about them is you can enforce a hard boundary between frontend and backend. Although with som
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by dajonker 8y ago
The CMU Database Group and Andy Pavlo are great. They have some great courses on their YouTube channel [1], anything you might ever want to know about databases. Such as their series on hardware accelerated databases [2] (Kinetica, MapD, SQ
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by dajonker 8y ago
About 15 years ago I had a motherboard with several "bulged" capacitors. I think at that time I wanted to upgrade anyway and just bought something new, but I read lots of people had similar issues around that time. Rumor was that
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by dajonker 8y ago
Even if everyone in a company wanted to switch to a different language, they would not be able to just switch overnight. There could be millions of lines of code running their business already, and rewriting all of that in another language
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by dajonker 8y ago
It is not, you can check the post for the full context.
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Ocean Cleanup System 001 Learnings – Root Causes Summarized(theoceancleanup.com)
3 points by dajonker 8y ago|0 comments
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by dajonker 8y ago
I used to have microsoft@<isp> as an email address, and would occasionally get complaints about blue screens or other Windows related issues. People did not know how email worked in that time.
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by dajonker 8y ago
That's politics for you. Only address the issues that are favorable for you, ignore the rest.
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by dajonker 8y ago
That is a completely bonkers story, would make a great movie or series.
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by dajonker 8y ago
What is the last version you tested that with? I had that issue months ago but it was also fixed months ago for me.
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by dajonker 8y ago
Refreshing to hear a point of view where it makes sense to have large functions to guarantee sequence and avoid reusing functions. For some time I thought it was _always_ good practice to split functions up into smaller functions where reas
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by dajonker 8y ago
Maybe the title of the article is bit unlucky, if it was named "how I made my library faster and more compatible", would that change your opinion? And yes, it's only a 252 ms improvement, but that's a whopping 44% time s

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