extra_rice

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by extra_rice 9mo ago
For some time, I used org-mode for almost all type of note taking. I love the structure being functional without HTML rendering. However, it's pretty much locked to emacs and so the portability is very poor. I need most of my notes to
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Ask HN: How do I efficiently track record count for big (distributed) DBs?
1 points by extra_rice 4y ago|0 comments
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by extra_rice 6y ago
A lot of words that we use are arbitrary anyway. I respect people's preferences for their style of communication, but let's stop pretending that things like blacklist and whitelist are difficult to understand.
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by extra_rice 6y ago
> 2. Linux servers are targeted and breached. Linux desktop share is too small to be worth it (yet). Why aren't we replacing them with something better then? Why are most servers still running GNU/Linux?
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by extra_rice 6y ago
DP as a paradigm is very interesting. From a high level view, one can appreciate the essential concepts that make it work, with things like memoization, optimal substructure, etc. It's also interesting how it relates to shortest paths
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by extra_rice 6y ago
I wonder which takes more time, take home tests or LeetCode grind...
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by extra_rice 6y ago
I’m not really arguing which one is easier to run, maintain, or anything; I was just making a point about abstractions and system modularisation. Hypothetically, I should be able to take a well-designed monolith and “deconstruct” it into a
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by extra_rice 6y ago
> Anyone that isn't able to write modular code using the language features is going to write network spaghetti code, with the added benefit to debug network packets and connection issues on top of everything else. This is the most i
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by extra_rice 6y ago
I currently work on a project that has struggled to make actual sense for a few years now. Sure I like getting paid, but there's a growing void in my soul.
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by extra_rice 7y ago
Thanks. Were you trying to link a specific video? Your link just points to the entire playlist.
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by extra_rice 7y ago
I actually have this bookmarked somewhere but forgot about it. Thanks!
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Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning caching strategies?
18 points by extra_rice 7y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: Where else can I buy O’Reilly eBooks online?
2 points by extra_rice 7y ago|1 comments
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by extra_rice 7y ago
I can't consider myself to be an emacs superuser but I've built muscle memory around its key bindings so on JetBrains IDEs, I use my custom emacs based key maps. I used to be an Eclipse user many years ago, but when IntelliJ commu
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by extra_rice 7y ago
When people say writing tests first slows you down, they are usually only looking at the upfront costs. They do not factor in the costs of maintenance, and having to fix and/or extend a previously written code. Send my best regards to
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by extra_rice 7y ago
Are SWEs at Google expected to firefight especially outside of normal work hours? This is one thing I imagine SREs are expected to be doing that regular SWEs aren't. I think this is also why they require strong development background f
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by extra_rice 7y ago
You can easily serialise a well fleshed out (i.e. non-anemic) object. Does the view layer in this particular example need to know the encapsulated business rule? In my experience, not usually. Otherwise, there's most likely a problem w
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by extra_rice 7y ago
> I just want to underline that a good engineer should not blindly trust anything, even if it seems to be written by a well received author. Doesn't this also apply to the opinions of your friend who works at a FAANG? How do you jud
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by extra_rice 7y ago
I don't understand how anemic domain models are irrelevant now especially in a time where a lot of software practitioners seem to observe domain driven design. In the age of microservices, it is very important to determine clear contex
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by extra_rice 7y ago
Not sure what exactly you meant with this. Are you suggesting that we migrate over to Postgres, or that we can somehow use the Postgres operator with MongoDB? I'm honestly open to switching databases, but I don't think management
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by extra_rice 7y ago
Yeah, sounds like operators really are a perfect fit for this use case. For your e2e, I imagine you use the operators to spin up new database instances for every run? I really like the idea of being able to do that, which is something I ima
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by extra_rice 7y ago
> unless you use a host only PV and if you do that you are likely limiting you db instamce to a specific node which can have scaling and/or HA impacts This is exactly what we do, and we're having trouble because of it and not o
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by extra_rice 7y ago
Yeah, this is one of the things we are considering at the moment. However, if I understand correctly, for MongoDB specifically, you need to be using their enterprise offering to be able to utilize their operator.
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by extra_rice 7y ago
For the specific incident I mentioned in the original post, I didn't quite get the exact details of the problem, but I think the gist of it was that our MongoDB deployment was using too much memory for its cache. We're running it
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Ask HN: Do you run databases on Kubernetes?
6 points by extra_rice 7y ago|10 comments
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by extra_rice 7y ago
> It actually doesn't matter because you can always rewrite a working product. False. Sure, technically , this is true, but in practice there are lots of variables at play here. Who is going to pay for the rewrite? Is the company p
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by extra_rice 7y ago
Just as bad as the people who obsess over "beautiful code" and whatnot are the people who straight out reject the idea, then label those who observe them the "enemy" of this industry. I think the key here really is mindf
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by extra_rice 8y ago
Sorry, I didn't know how to make the question a bit clearer. Basically, it's: how do you ensure that queries on very large, highly dynamic datasets return in acceptable amount of time (especially if clients call/poll it at re
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Ask HN: What are some of the most utilised patterns for querying large datasets?
7 points by extra_rice 8y ago|4 comments