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by fooyc 10y ago
When the ecosystem is synchronous like the Rust ecosystem, you are basically going to rewrite everything. All your network code, all your client libraries. Async code can not use synchronous code because this would block it, and prevent it
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by fooyc 10y ago
Seriously, with async you can just trash all your code because it will block your async event loop. So you have to rewrite every single library and network client in asynchronous mode.
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by fooyc 10y ago
Asynchronous programming is hard, even when hidden behind abstractions like futures or promises. It was cool and trendy when libevent and Nodejs came out, but now we should all have the experience and knowledge that tell us to stop doing as
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Swift CSP (Coroutines, Channels, Select) for MacOS and Linux(github.com)
1 points by fooyc 10y ago|0 comments
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by fooyc 10y ago
Anything that's good at handling a lot of I/O or a lot of concurrent processes tends to become CPU bound as more load is given to it. It's not only about raw computational speed. Being good at concurrency means that you can h
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Baidu Tera – An Internet-Scale Database(github.com)
6 points by fooyc 10y ago|1 comments
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by fooyc 10y ago
And the password is the hash of the master password, which gives the evil all other passwords.
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by fooyc 10y ago
You are assuming that the site is not evil.
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by fooyc 10y ago
Why not contributing these improvements to non instead ? Why is the JavaScript community continuously creating new tools instead of contributing to existing ones ?
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by fooyc 10y ago
People always forget that there is a world between the "cloud" and leasing collocation space where you manage your own servers and routers. Renting dedicated servers is what everyone did before AWS, and it's still the most af
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by fooyc 10y ago
HATEOS is one of the steps too far that contributed in making REST suck more for everyone. People following this also tend to follow it like a dogme, and find that their APIs are slow, too meta/abstract, and hard to consume.
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New Evidence Could Overthrow the Standard View of Quantum Mechanics(wired.com)
3 points by fooyc 10y ago|1 comments
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Domino's: Pizza and Payments(ifc0nfig.com)
10 points by fooyc 11y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Mention Pulse (mention.com)
1 points by fooyc 11y ago|0 comments
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by fooyc 11y ago
Care to explain?
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by fooyc 11y ago
They are a subsidiary company of Online.net, itself a subsidiary of Iliad/Free, one of the leading ISPs in France. I have over 50 servers at Online since more than a year now, and they have been pretty much flawless. Support is good an
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C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers(blog.scaleway.com)
448 points by fooyc 11y ago|224 comments
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by fooyc 11y ago
Do they really have a specific rule for American citizens ?
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Busting some CQRS myths(lostechies.com)
2 points by fooyc 11y ago|0 comments
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by fooyc 11y ago
Reminds me of this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/in/set-7... This is an attempt at encoding images in a tweet, by using Unicode.
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by fooyc 11y ago
The title is confusing: even if it helps your messages to be delivered properly, it's not a mean to prove that you are not a spammer.
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by fooyc 11y ago
Note that the go exemple about returning a pointer to a stack variable is actually valid in Go: variables that escape their scope are allocated on the heap.
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New York Stock Exchange Launches Bitcoin Price Index(coindesk.com)
9 points by fooyc 11y ago|0 comments
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by fooyc 11y ago
If they don't control the Twitter clients, they can't avoid the clients from using multiple platforms (e.g. Facebook, app.net, the newer platform). Then clients can switch away users from Twitter seamlessly. This is pretty clear f
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Amazon planning to reboot 10% of EC2 instances(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by fooyc 12y ago|0 comments
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by fooyc 12y ago
You need CyberBunker if you need your host to protect you. If you have 20 servers in 20 different providers, who don't know who they are hosting, you don't need this.
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by fooyc 12y ago
Renting a dedicated server doesn't involve any of this. There are dedicated server providers in every part of the world, including MPAA-proof countries.
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by fooyc 12y ago
Nothing prevents you from using bare dedicated servers for your usual traffic, and VMs for anything else.
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by fooyc 12y ago
" This saved costs, guaranteed better uptime, and made the site more portable and thus harder to take down " Probably not true for " This saved costs ". From what i've seen, virtual machines usually cost more than t
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by fooyc 12y ago
This looks like a collection of startups whose web site is vulnerable to click jacking [1]: they all allow to be embedded in an iframe. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking

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