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by evdev 8y ago
Does anyone have thoughts on why Postgres shouldn't provide: - Automatic sharding of tables per-"shard key". - Automatic sharding of those keyed shards by the range of some primary index. Doesn't this get you 90%+ of the
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by evdev 9y ago
This is correct. The ActiveX is very, very real.
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by evdev 9y ago
The whole area is heavily, heavily reactionary and slow moving. They're on embedded XP because that's the closest they can get given the software platforms they're dependent on. You're right that locked down embedded ind
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by evdev 9y ago
This, from a former coworker, might give you a good sense of the state of things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPWKJR6IVfA
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by evdev 9y ago
Agree that this is a more interesting comparison than AMQP.
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by evdev 9y ago
From my perspective, problems with facebook: 1) Anti-privacy, megalomaniacal nature of network. 2) Social cost of having removed the normal ways we moderate each other's behavior. E.g. when someone is a narcissistic bore, you talk to t
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by evdev 9y ago
When I first saw this, the concept of "rejected energy" from the pink boxes seemed to need some explanation. From the outside view, nothing is "wasted"--there's just the cost and benefit. You compare alternate sourc
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by evdev 9y ago
FYI I found this a great article otherwise.
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by evdev 9y ago
Summarize.
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by evdev 9y ago
What I've found matters in this area is the mismatch in locality between elements in read batches and elements in write batches. It'd be nice if the emerging DBs that deal with these issues put at least a gloss on the information
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by evdev 9y ago
There's a weird, undefined use of "nihilism" threaded through this piece.
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by evdev 9y ago
I laughed out loud at that paragraph. To be clear: obviously the assertion itself might be true but is very possible to deny. To make matters worse, the support for the idea is basically that services that charge the end user nothing ha
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by evdev 9y ago
The point isn't to learn it as if it's something you'll have to recreate--it's to understand that "advanced" language features are built on top of the "fundamental" structural model and are not magic.
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by evdev 9y ago
Yes, I think it's very reasonable to use a scripted dynamically typed language to learn control flow to start with. We tend to forget that the basics of loops and mutation are a hurdle for many people.
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by evdev 9y ago
I think there's a tension between two imperatives in teaching new programmers: 1) Learning must be applied learning. Give people problems to solve and they will come to you for data structures and algorithms, O notation, etc. If they d
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by evdev 9y ago
match { case v: java.util.Date => } This still works without case class extractors and is useful. That's what I mean by matching and binding. Extracting/destructuring in the match statement can sometimes be more trouble than
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by evdev 9y ago
IMO the hierarchy of need for this goes: 1 - case classes / value classes / data classes, whatever you want to call them. 2 - match-and-bind syntax ... 11? - fancy pattern matching This maybe says more about how much I pay attenti
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by evdev 9y ago
Does anyone know of analogous work re: the size/# of IO buffers? It seems like a similar problem.
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by evdev 9y ago
It was a track runner with three parallel tracks, "bombs" and "coins" approached you, making sounds either in front of you, to your left and right. Your job was to avoid bombs and get coins. Pretty simple "action&qu
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by evdev 9y ago
In my college software engineering course we built a game for the blind. It had full 3D graphics. I always felt a pang of guilt that we were walking away from the project when the class was over, since some of the kids did like it.
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by evdev 9y ago
Just a note to people who are encountering this for the first time: adopting SBT, deciding it was a mistake, and going back to Maven is also a common narrative. "Build/Package/Release logic is complicated, and deserves sophis
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by evdev 10y ago
As a Scala guy on a Scala team, I'd think this would be most immediately useful on smaller fill-the-gaps sub-projects where we have to integrate with native code.