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by elvinyung 10y ago
If you've read the Steve Jobs biography (or biopic), you might recall Guy Kawasaki's accidentally-prescient spoof Apple press release[1] from 1994 about a (at the time) hypothetical Apple-NeXT acquisition. Choice quote: > As
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by elvinyung 10y ago
As someone from Waterloo, I just feel a bit insulted :P In terms kind of analogous to the Bay Area, Toronto is like SF, and Kitchener-Waterloo is like Palo Alto. Hamilton feels more like parts of the East Bay.
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by elvinyung 10y ago
>Hamilton, Canada What the fuck ?
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by elvinyung 10y ago
> if you want graph data then there are NodeJS I think you meant Neo4j.
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by elvinyung 10y ago
I believe this is what you're looking for: https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Oh, huh. Interesting. In the first season of Silicon Valley, there's a part where (spoilers) a main character gets "unassigned" from a Google parody, and it's mentioned that it's inspired by some Japanese management
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by elvinyung 10y ago
I'm not sure that this experiment is meaningful. The point of a preload-fork process model à la Unicorn is that the `fork` syscall gives you copy-on-write[1] shared memory between the parent and the child, so you save a bunch of time b
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Thanks! Standardizing on MySQL because of internal expertise is definitely a great reason.
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Please forgive me, but I don't understand your hostility. I understand that there are perfectly legitimate reasons for using a database as a queue. If you frequently need to look at and rearrange your jobs while they're in flight,
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by elvinyung 10y ago
I think "niche business" would convey the same meaning as "nice business" here :P At least I'm interpreting "nice business" as in "oh, it's just a nice business, not anything life-changing"
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Oh wow, some interesting stuff in here. Looks like they use MySQL as a queue for scheduling the ORC Peons? Would have loved to hear more about why they did that.
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Typo in the page: should be @gitlab, not @gitlib.
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by elvinyung 10y ago
A really cool paper to read is The Design of POSTGRES [1] by Stonebraker et al. It's dated by its mentions of things like POSTQUEL, but it's still really interesting to read about the early design of seminal features like the ex
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by elvinyung 10y ago
I'm sorry -- it was not intended to be condescending. I really haven't heard much about Node.js for some time, and it's actually really hard to figure that out.
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Serious question: Is Node.js still a popular choice for developing webapps? I thought that has stopped being true for a while now.
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Sure, but I wouldn't exactly call them mature yet. I think MySQL is still much easier to trust than RocksDB. (I don't actually know much about RocksDB, but I remember that LevelDB had a bunch of data corruption issues. Hopefully
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Hey! I really enjoyed the talk you gave at Square :p I agree that we can't build on the same base forever, but I also think it's really hard to get companies to trust completely unproven solutions -- ground-up rearchitectures li
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Haha. Yeah, I've read this paper. My argument was mostly based on the actual technical differences, so I didn't really count DBaaS as a separate category. At the very least, I don't think I know enough about how DBaaSes work
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Within the spectrum of so-called "NewSQL" databases, there are basically two kinds: * ones built on top of a mature relational database (e.g. Vitess, CitusDB) * ones built on top of some custom or unproven KV store (e.g. TiDB, Coc
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Nice. I worked on something like this at an internship. I wrote a Unicorn-like preload-fork multiprocess server in Ruby (for other reasons). I realized that the workload (which involved a large amount of long-lived static data on the heap)
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by elvinyung 10y ago
Somewhat tangential, but I'm kind of sad that not much more was done with pg_paxos[1]. Group Replication[2] just made it into MySQL 5.7.17 and is GA; it uses a variant of Paxos to commit transactions. Even though most people will proba
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by elvinyung 11y ago
Does this remind anyone else of Order 66?
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by elvinyung 11y ago
Look at the first comment!
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by elvinyung 11y ago
Is it literally impossible for a Canadian without a bachelor's degree to work at or start a company in the US?
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Net Cafe: Web StartUps, Featuring Sergey Brin (2000)(archive.org)
2 points by elvinyung 11y ago|0 comments
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The Breakout List, Q2 2015(breakoutlist.com)
1 points by elvinyung 11y ago|0 comments
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by elvinyung 11y ago
Isn't this mostly basically how Meteor works?
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Max Levchin’s Affirm Raises $275M to Make Loans(recode.net)
71 points by elvinyung 11y ago|38 comments