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by ericflo 16y ago
Riak Search is a great example of the result of getting the fundamentals right up-front, proving and improving them in a concrete product (Riak), and then extracting the best bits into a reusable library (Riak Core). The way they've done th
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by ericflo 16y ago
He makes a good point, although I'm not necessarily sure I agree that it's a bad idea on the whole. My takeaway from this is that choosing the proper interface before freezing the API is absolutely essential, because changing it later is h
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Why Extending Through Subclassing (a framework’s classes) is a Bad Idea(be.groovie.org)
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by ericflo 16y ago
Android is "good enough" now for lots of people, which shows in its sales. That Android owners can point at future products and get excited for upcoming features is just icing on the cake.
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by ericflo 16y ago
I'm curious, is there a backstory on how you came to own ww.com?
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by ericflo 16y ago
I liked this submission simply because it demonstrates the ridiculousness of such claims.
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by ericflo 16y ago
What actually surprises me about this is just how much faster V8 was (and really, still is) compared to all of the others. It also looks like they're starting to hit a point of diminishing returns. Here's hoping they're not!
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by ericflo 16y ago
Yeah, I think top engineers have realized that even if they don't succeed as a business, companies like Facebook will often buy them for their talent with more upside than they would have gotten being hired through the normal means. But at
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by ericflo 16y ago
A very interesting development from the guys at Basho, who've been on a tear recently. It looks to target the crowd who would have gone with MogileFS or something like it.
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by ericflo 16y ago
I certainly hope so. Great product idea, well executed.
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by ericflo 16y ago
This looks really nice! I always struggle with my client-side js becoming a tangled DOM mess, and this looks like it could push me towards a much saner path.
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by ericflo 16y ago
Screencasts are such a time-intensive thing to record, especially high-quality ones like these seem to be. Great to see these being made, though, because for a lot of people visual learning is irreplaceable.
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by ericflo 16y ago
Is this article serious, or is it a parody? (Honest question)
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by ericflo 16y ago
An update: Eric Brewer, who originally posited the CAP theorem, endorses this article: http://twitter.com/eric_brewer/status/26819094612
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by ericflo 16y ago
http://octobot.taco.cat/
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by ericflo 16y ago
Yea, but that doesn't look like what they're describing here. They seem to be describing having the entire dataset in memory.
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by ericflo 16y ago
This is the most clear and well-written summary that I've seen of the tradeoffs presented by the CAP theorem. Hopefully it clears up a lot of the confusion out there. I think this is the tweet that prompted the post: http://twitter.com/Ja
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by ericflo 16y ago
It's a joy to read just about anything that Mark Pilgrim writes.
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by ericflo 16y ago
"First, scaling horizontally has little to do with the database engine itself - creating a transparent, consistent hash function is the easiest part." That is just so incorrect that it's hard to take the rest of the post seriously. What hap
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by ericflo 16y ago
This is so, so correct. I've been doing Facebook stuff for a few years now, and this rant is just the tip of the iceberg. Other favorites: * They accidentally flipped the switch to a new authentication mechanism overnight to a beta with no
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by ericflo 16y ago
I have to admit that if I were re-writing my blog post today, I'd add the "cultishness" to the list of reasons why Node disappoints me. It's really too bad, too, since at its core it's genuinely good technology!
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by ericflo 16y ago
Performance is not the same thing as scalability. A hello world app with a 10 second pause is scalable, but replace that pause with a logging statement and you've just traded scalability for performance.
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by ericflo 16y ago
You may have an argument here, but your ad-hominem attack made me tune out pretty much immediately.
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by ericflo 16y ago
IMHO it's Flask.
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by ericflo 16y ago
Close. It was "Why I Hate Django" by Cal Henderson in 2008. He is way funnier than I am: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk
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by ericflo 16y ago
Busted :) I read the first few paragraphs and made up my mind about the article.
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by ericflo 16y ago
This article doesn't seem to match up with reality. There are so many companies out there looking for talented developers, it's staggering.
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by ericflo 16y ago
I thought this was a fantastic article. Not too often do you see such a candid account of a failed acquisition.
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by ericflo 16y ago
Congratulations, you've just re-invented Eventlet.
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by ericflo 16y ago
How about a corollary: why should your neighbor's torrents slow down just because you are making a bunch of phone calls? (And remember, people are using torrents for legitimate purposes, like how Blizzard uses it to distribute purchased co

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