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by ericb 7y ago
My company forked an Apache 2 licensed abandoned project, the BrowserMob proxy, a utility to watch, test, and manipulate web application network traffic often used alongside Selenium. We put it under our name as we plan on expanding it. ht
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by ericb 7y ago
Even worse, abbreviations are terrible as there is one way to write a word correctly, and lots of ways to abbreviate it, so now you have to keep track of that too. Was it inc? incl? incld? includ? in? incldd? Now you have to break flow to g
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by ericb 7y ago
This one is genuinely awful. It makes me take style guides less seriously on the whole.
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by ericb 7y ago
Please do! Also I'd like to know the state of DOM access availability in each.
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by ericb 7y ago
I have my doubts. From my experience, JRuby is generally slower. Source: used it in production at a billion dollar company, benchmarked it personally on individual items, contacted core devs when it was slower for advice.
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by ericb 7y ago
What about if you're not in the EU?
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by ericb 7y ago
Source: https://www.asa.org/about-us/ "...By proactively reaching out to borrowers at risk of delinquency and default, ASA helped to avert more than $120 million of loan defaults before the program was eliminated
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by ericb 7y ago
> It's ridiculous to suggest that an app that sends reminders of court dates will make an impact on any of these problems. I listened to a podcast with the founder. She was impressive. In terms of the impact of reminders, you'd
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by ericb 7y ago
The middlebrow dismissal strikes again! Why is it so hard to imagine something displacing SQL? A simpler, more predictable syntax seems perfectly plausible--it could ship alongside SQL. Do we have StockHolm Syndrome? The negativity is surpr
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by ericb 7y ago
That seems like a legal can of worms and a half to open up.
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by ericb 7y ago
> do any HN readers invest heavily in actively-managed mutual funds or hedge funds where you aren't personally involved? I believe 401k's commonly limit themselves to a group of funds and there is sometimes no "index"
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by ericb 7y ago
Even speaking as a fan, this is an excellent summary.
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by ericb 7y ago
> Bitcoin cost of 51 percent attack is ~400k for 1 hour. ETH is 90k for 1 hour. Seems not wildly different to me and nearly the same order of magnitude, and you are also admitting that 51% is a concern for Bitcoin, so it sounds like we&#
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by ericb 7y ago
> POS is not decentralized huh? > Sharding has a unstoppable risk of a 51% attack. So does bitcoin?
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by ericb 8y ago
> sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for perjured testimony Craig Wright submitted a document with a fake timestamp to the court, then had to withdraw it. https://twitter.com/PeterMcCormack/status/111902704880520
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by ericb 8y ago
> The ethical thing is to halt the husbandry of farmed animals and let the bees die out naturally What is it that makes the "natural order of things" better? Aside from our fantasies about not being animals, aren't human
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by ericb 8y ago
Interesting comment history made up 95% of Tesla fud and an admission you are short Tesla. Could you find elsewhere to post propaganda for your short position?
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by ericb 8y ago
According to wikipedia, the final version of Angular 2 was released on September 14, 2016. It required a complete rewrite and was not backward compatible with Angular 1. The current release of Angular seems to be version 7.
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by ericb 8y ago
> complaints about the language haven’t been a problem for years. If we're being fair, what you say is true only if you are starting a greenfield project.
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by ericb 8y ago
I think many of us have realized that the SPA, which introduces an entire second application into your stack, isn't that cost effective. I'm more interested in turbolinks and if absolutely necessary, maybe something like http:&#x
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by ericb 8y ago
I ran my own benchmark to decide between the two things a while ago, so I don't have a source in the sense of a published benchmark. YMMV https://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine
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by ericb 8y ago
Vue? Yarn? Angular 2?
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by ericb 8y ago
> What makes it order of magnitudes more performant than Ruby Source for the "orders of magnitude" anywhere in the last year or so? Ruby with EventMachine outperformed Node significantly when I tested websocket chat servers.
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by ericb 8y ago
I'm de-Embering here and going to pure Rails. I'm gonna party like it's 2009!
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by ericb 8y ago
What does this enterprise slur even mean ? Is it like saying a band sold out when they had a hit record? Do we only use undiscovered indie frameworks now?
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by ericb 8y ago
Why miss it, come on back, the water's still warm and the dev is still as fast as ever in Rails. Honestly, the JS stacks all seem vastly more annoying on so many levels. It seems like the JS ecosystem changes so fast because it knows
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by ericb 8y ago
Neat! Link to the one you bought? Are you happy with it?
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by ericb 8y ago
> crude implements like Dremel tools Woa, woa, woa! You're hurting your credibility with this one!
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by ericb 8y ago
I suppose if you reason from some other criteria than avoiding downtime and data loss , a different conclusion was possible at the time. To each their own.
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by ericb 8y ago
> It's always been feature-weak compared to PostgresQL For many years MySQL had a much clearer multi-master replication story than PostgresQL. For most use cases, other features are secondary to replication.

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