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by dvirsky 12y ago
Yeah, my setup as a developer is a laptop with quad Core i7 CPU, 32G of RAM, 250G SSD and 1TB HDD, plus two 24" monitors. That is a piece of professional equipment for a developer, and it cost about 4 times what a decent general purpos
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by dvirsky 12y ago
> "Professional equipment [...] sturdier, more solid, more rewarding of dedicated training, more difficult to obtain, than equipment intended for amateurs" That is how I see Linux/Unix, and its tools - vim/emacs, the
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by dvirsky 12y ago
Oh man, that just made me realize my 9 year old dog doesn't have a lot of time left probably. It's weird, she doesn't seem to behave any differently than say 4-5 years ago, and still has lots of energy and zero health issues.
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by dvirsky 12y ago
Took me a few seconds to realize what's so captivating about this for geeks.
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by dvirsky 12y ago
He comes across as a great guy, that made something great - so it seems that he deserves this, so why be bitter about it? Sure, I envy his success and would like to make something great that will leave its mark on the world, too. I haven&#x
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by dvirsky 12y ago
It's a nice approach, I've implemented it in Golang a while back. It's really fast, but the cost in memory is huge, especially if you store bigrams and not just single words. But it's really elegant in its simplicity. B
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by dvirsky 12y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not the author of the post, just linked to it.
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by dvirsky 12y ago
Rendering icons as SVGs is pretty horrible in terms of performance on mobile devices.
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by dvirsky 12y ago
Read the doc - the suggested x5 improvement is compared to PNG, which is the only other way to currently solve the problem of an icon with transparent edges (let's leave GIF aside), not compared to JPEG. The gain compared to JPEG was a
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by dvirsky 12y ago
Until JPEG supports transparency, it leaves a vast hole where a good lossy alpha enabled format is needed - namely icons. With the high resolution of mobile devices, using PNG for this use case is a huge waste. Regardless of the quality dif
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by dvirsky 12y ago
I bet it's an effect rather than a cause. We had some server incident recently that started with a huge write spike on some machines. Turned out it was the nginx error log and the problem itself was something else.
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by dvirsky 12y ago
Thanks, I've now read it. Very nice. I guess having your architecture out in the open is liberating in that sense. So now two specific questions: 1. So why did you have a big read spike? And 2. are you going to share the TODOs as well?
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by dvirsky 12y ago
I haven't read it but I like the idea in general. One question: aren't you concerned about accidentally exposing security critical info over the doc?
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by dvirsky 12y ago
Thanks, this fixes some of the problems, but I'm still seeing some weird unicode square shapes (that appear when I'm not running in watch as well)
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by dvirsky 12y ago
If you want this to remain on some side terminal and update constantly, you can of course run "watch worldcup today". And I like that the command actually makes sense :) On a side note, in Gnome terminal, the formatting characters
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Show HN: Rainbow – Easy and powerful CloudFormation management(github.com)
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by dvirsky 12y ago
until you run "git help pull" and go WHAAA?
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by dvirsky 12y ago
I hope I won't get downvoted for this - but it looks like Git is going the C++ way - tons of very intricate details and features very few people use, that make the learning curve ever steeper. Now, most people work with, what, 20% of g
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by dvirsky 12y ago
Interesting. There is a similar project for Go with an alternative compiler and implementation: https://github.com/samuel/go-thrift Last I checked, the state of the default thrift Go bindings was very lacking, so I&#x2
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Thrift does have an accelerated binary protocol for Python, written in C and wrapped as a python module.
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Even simpler - Https://
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by dvirsky 12y ago
We switched some of our services from Python to Go and are very happy. To be more precise - we chose Go over Python for new projects that would have been developed in Python a year ago; we didn't rewrite anything from scratch in Go - t
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by dvirsky 12y ago
> I can only imagine this change was the result of a dozen round table discussions and half a year of a/b testing I really hope not...
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by dvirsky 12y ago
On down side though, time is one thing, what you make of it is another. It's hard to make an instant switch from thinking about that annoying bug or tough to crack algorithm, to playing with a toddler. I often find myself staring into
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by dvirsky 12y ago
I've worked in two early stage start-ups since I became a dad a few years ago, as employee 1 and 2. I do a few things to help me stay involved as a father: 1. Unless there's a real emergency, which is rare, I leave the office arou
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by dvirsky 12y ago
You mean long term impact right? Because if not you're either very sensitive to coffee or not inhaling or something :)
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by dvirsky 12y ago
If you're not trolling - you do know that most people don't smoke as an escape from their lives, but for whole other reasons, right? Personally I don't like it in recent years, but I used to years ago, and it was certainly no
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by dvirsky 12y ago
not with absolute certainty, but, a. a boy who's at 95 percentile height probably won't be short, and b. he has my genes and I'm pretty tall, and so are males on his mother's side.
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by dvirsky 12y ago
There is a natural tendency (or lack of it) towards being a social person. I have two kids, a boy and a girl (6.5 and 2.5). They are both smart for their age and very verbal, and of course raised in the same home, and share most of their g
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by dvirsky 12y ago
Awesome! That theme looks like a huge step forward. Overall KDE still feels a bit cluttered to me, but at least that clutter won't be so ugly anymore soon!

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