felixgallo

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by felixgallo 13y ago
wish these guys all the success in the world, but this is radically cheaper, high quality, and works great from personal first hand experience: http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...
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by felixgallo 13y ago
This boggles the mind. Zk was so unreliable they threw out its fundamental guarantees and went to flat files mediated by a proxy daemon which talked to zk? What?
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by felixgallo 13y ago
Unix is extremely well-designed for use by people. Unix people.
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by felixgallo 13y ago
In erlang it's not idiomatic to do it super often, but when a bug does pop up in production, as they tend to do with every known program, it's pretty sweet to be able to look at it and fix it without dropping state or connections.
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by felixgallo 13y ago
this is the sort of weird, directionless FUD which makes me ever more concerned about systemd.
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by felixgallo 13y ago
QUIC is a great idea in general, but in my personal opinion, it has a lot of weird Google-specific, application- and HTTP-level hacks hanging off of it -- e.g. 'orbit' server state in Snap Start -- and a singular focus on web serv
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by felixgallo 13y ago
Great comment. The thing that strikes me as the very weirdest about all of this is that many of the systemd proponents seem to be incredibly animated and aggressive about systemd, but most of their arguments are either non-technical or comp
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by felixgallo 13y ago
time to find another distro.
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by felixgallo 13y ago
if you own a smartphone, tablet, set top box, recent tv, smart watch, recent car, NAS drive, desktop, or laptop, you own a physical server.
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by felixgallo 13y ago
I did a mini-startup of this type (crowdsourced gamification of p90x-style workouts, delivered via ipad) and presented it to Beachbody. They had no idea what to do with it, and in hindsight that makes sense; their business model is to sell
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by felixgallo 13y ago
there's a large body of postgresql-specific knowledge. Don't be that guy.
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by felixgallo 13y ago
he forgot to trap exit.
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by felixgallo 13y ago
The purpose of an IPO is to raise money for the company. In order to do this, they say "our stock is worth price X" and issue it out. The people who get to fill orders at price X are overwhelmingly, by volume, the bankers who are
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by felixgallo 13y ago
for anyone thinking this is good -- this means twitter mispriced and basically handed a free billion dollars to the underwriters and their associates, friends and family.
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by felixgallo 13y ago
Thanks for the response. It'd be great if the wiki were fleshed out with an overview of how that works and for the other questions to be addressed as well, for those of us examining it from other backgrounds.
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by felixgallo 13y ago
I've read the architecture doc ( http://zerovm.org/wiki/Architecture ) and I loved it. But, when you say tantalizing things like 'erlang-on-c', you raise the question: what does the clustering control plan
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by felixgallo 13y ago
clearly we need a stdaffirmation.
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by felixgallo 13y ago
it will apparently ship with erlang or be erlang-capable, so it's entirely possible that you could put the high performance cowboy web framework on the device.
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by felixgallo 13y ago
Every time I resolve never to read HN again, something like this happens. Damn you. Excellent post.
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by felixgallo 14y ago
after a great deal of effort, I have enhanced this and ported it to a popular platform called 'unix'. The source code follows: watch redis-cli info