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by fat0wl 13y ago
Thanks but I've seen a lot of similar comparisons and they seem to focus on trivial things :/ For example the portion about "Asynchronicity" is a brief paraphrase like "Play is good in Rails its awful or doesn'
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Hear hear. When I read about JVM performance issues I usually immediately think "team of 20+ complacent corporate devs who don't care if this succeeds or not because they can get a new job insanely easily at a moment's notice
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by fat0wl 13y ago
How is the performance relative to Heroku though? I have a lot of terrible, inexplicable problems with Heroku (random huge amounts of request queue-ing even at times when our site is below normal load). I think these are all "noisy nei
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I feel you..... I was more wondering if there was some better compromise point between pre-allocated / dynamic but as you say, there are tradeoffs. You're right, there must be a lot more low-hanging fruit out there. Something inte
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Ah, this is cool. I really hope something like this grows/stabilizes and becomes the de-facto for web. I think it takes 2 things... 1. Simple deploy of languages/services. 2. Scalability solutions (processing power / RAM &#x2
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Ah the 5x multiplier i understand... But as far as AWS micro is concerned, it was an example for starter size. These are easily scalable I believe either through Elastic Beanstalk tools or manually. On RDS for example (which I am more famil
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Has anyone used Elastic Beanstalk? It seems like that is always missing from these conversations. Maybe it has a bad price point or something? I'm going to look into it soon... Seems to me that standard EB + RDS + ElastiCache would mak
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I mean I understand the logic of optimizing for cases when you are going to be less than the lower-bound of data you can throw to the heap as you explain. I guess my question (I am honestly asking this one) is why not use the struct char ar
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yeahhhhhhhh... first thing i thought when i saw this: "this is dark"
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by fat0wl 13y ago
seriously... this? #define RSTRING_EMBED_LEN_MAX ((int)((sizeof(VALUE)*3)/sizeof(char)-1)) explain "3" in terms of your comp sci 101 divine computer law... Ok I get itttt "len/ptr/capa/shared". I&#x27
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by fat0wl 13y ago
lol yes....... how reasonable. ahah when i saw the title of the article all i could think was "click comments to tune in for the most amusing flamewar this week" but so many of these comments are like "so... its 23 characters
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yeh it was rough at the time but looking back, if i'd known lisp at all beforehand it wouldnt have been so bad. it was directly listed by many as a turn-off though and is a big part of why a lot of people from my dep't just audite
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by fat0wl 13y ago
i had the good fortune of just auditing ;) i was there for music DSP, not CS
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Oh man that guy was my machine learning professor at NYU :) Sparked my interested in Lisp, but now I seem to recall that he wrote all the problem examples in his own language.... Lush. Even so, all my knowledge of Lisp syntax and neural net
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by fat0wl 13y ago
well it's somewhat ideological, no? or do they allow Bitcoin payments for in-app purchases if you go through them? My feeling has been that the major companies don't want to acknowledge Bitcoin yet and are waiting a bit to see how
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by fat0wl 13y ago
but why would demand remain constant? In Bitcoin, a buyer & seller are needed in order to exchange. The idea of demand remaining constant only really holds true in a scenario where Bitcoin is the 1 world currency, and even then there ar
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by fat0wl 13y ago
this is true but if you don't take the grades to heart it doesn't really matter I guess except that it swings the overall figure. Improvements can be made though for sure. It could be a personalized machine learning algorithm but
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yeah i mean theres a bit of a learning curve in terms of how the menus are arranged but its manageable. All the same basic elements are there (control panel, my computer, etc). I think Mac has changed some of these internal menu/organi
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by fat0wl 13y ago
how the f is it reasonable to assume that it will preserve purchasing power, based on the assumption that it will be stable? I can set up a chain of assumptions about the dollar based on actual historical precedence & Bitcoiners will
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by fat0wl 13y ago
hah yeah this is what i was thinking about too. if you follow deflationary logic through to the end it makes you think of a Mad Max kinda world. But they expect it to stabilize when it hits the cap, no? I don't know.... experiments tha
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by fat0wl 13y ago
actually that may be a good use case for it! it's real seamless and nice just ends up being expensive after a while if you are trying to do enterprise stuff & their add-on services aren't particularly cheap. The customizabilit
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea i hear ya... i've always been wondering what fraction of current market volatility is due to speculation & how much is just the flaw of the deflationary nature exposing itself too soon
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Ahhhh whew. I thought this was gonna be an article about people switching back to Heroku & my blood was gonna get all angried up. On the other hand, people wanting to set up their own server clusters... VMs... Linux container stuff... t
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I've wonder about #2 though. We see the downsides of saving in an inflationary system, but a finite currency system... do we really expect that to be stable for 50 years, and if so, based on what precedent? I was surprised to see BOA l
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by fat0wl 13y ago
because of all of Bitcoin's black market/early-adopter emotional baggage (the BOA report addresses this as Seigniorage). I'm not saying Litecoin is any better but my best guess is that eventually a solution will emerge with a
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yeah thats why this stuff is all questionable... supposed good intentions. there was a good article recently that addresses this a bit better https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6833267 after a bit of reading about the top
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by fat0wl 13y ago
The microsoft thing is a little ethically strange but yeah i feel you on this.... if these try-hards wanna do your work for you just to get a "+10" may as well give them the privilege of "building their digital resume" w
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by fat0wl 13y ago
dead on with the cost of wasted time through gamification. And many questions on SO can be answered with ~10 mins of extra thought. It's a good reference though, as someone mentioned. Makes a manual searchable, basically, with a bit
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by fat0wl 13y ago
this is what i don't get though... why a few hundred why $450? Why not just a stipend? $100, maybe 200. Basically just to be polite, not because they actually owe you anything. Companies simply shouldn't have to pay per cand
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by fat0wl 13y ago
lol yeah this is what gets me too. I'd be pretty damn surprised if a company i was applying to (so they will be conceivably paying my bills for a long time...) would give me $450 to sit next to one of their programmers and slow him dow

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