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by hackcrafter 10y ago
On a side note, I'm glad to see Joel has re-themed his blog posts but kept them hosted at the same URLs. Many of these posts seem timeless and often very prescient. In fact, at the bottom of this one, he points out the strategic dead-e
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
> Unmodified C, C++, Go, and Node.js programs run as processes on Web Workers Surly they don't mean _unmodified_ binaries do they? My guess is that programs must be compiled down to asm.js or WebAssembly, but they provide the compil
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All animals can jump to the same height (almost)(bio.miami.edu)
1 points by hackcrafter 10y ago|0 comments
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
The new LRU algorithm (which he calls Last Frequently Used) is in this release. I really enjoyed the blog post on it when it was developed [0]. Very cool to see a real-word pragmatic solutions to this common/hard problem developed in t
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Yes, no Hadoop. Quite a lot of life science work is stand-alone programs that are domain-specific and read and write flat-files.
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
This looks like it is Mobile Analytics 2.0[0]: > All the functionality that was previously part Amazon Mobile Analytics is now included in our Amazon Pinpoint service. I'm not quite sure if it is mostly server-side goodness and stil
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
I think there is a useful distinction and place for this. Lambda is for shared-compute. You don't need a dedicated server to run a "function" that takes < 60 seconds and can be called in a stateless manner as an API endpoi
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
> Because your JavaScript code will be part of the request/response path, it must be lean, mean, and self-contained. It cannot make calls to other web services and it cannot access other AWS resources. It must run within 128 MB of m
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Since this is just rumor, we probably don't know what the actual deal amount would have been after said and done, but probably more than they are getting with Fitbit. I tell you, I feel for their CEO Eric Migicovsky. SV lore is stro
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Agreed! But for the love of LEGO, after all that effort to make great custom scenes, they could have used a better camera! Those photos look like they were taken with a poorly focusing cheap smartphone.
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Cool, thanks! There is some case study at the bottom of the Lex[0] page that had a disconnected "Polly" thing that I didn't' quite get, but that makes sense. And it looks like Lex takes voice as input, although I don&#x2
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
This is neat but I've been on the lookout for a service that takes speech and responds with speech that you can use in a domain-specific app. Basically, Alexa as a service? Is there something out there that does this? For certain t
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
What I was hoping for was a bare-metal (not-run through VMs) container runtime like Joyent Triton[0] but with more pay-for-what-you-use pricing. Unlike VMs, which statically allocate mem whether you use it or not, containers have the chance
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
I'm worried about Docker living up to its valuation, and I haven't seen the business model that will meet the expectation of their valuation long-term yet. They have built a great open source product, but now that there has been a
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Can anyone enumerate the differences between this and the public Docker Engine? Does it just have a different release process/QA process to allow for more stable use in deploy environments bundled with a support contract?
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
> You begin to develop heuristics for evaluating dependencies rather than pulling them in blindly. Exactly! For better or worse, this is the baseline attitude needed.
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Ha! Yes, my shorted argument of "optimizing for laziness" doesn't sit right, but the core of it how much your choices matter in what you are _not_ building. - Cloud-based apps used to mean managing VMs, keeping kernels up to
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
> Nobody is ever going to know everything there is to know about modern web architecture I think this is the root of the sentiment that is expressed as "JS fatigue" and bullet train rides etc. I'm torn though. On one hand,
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Looks like a hosted equivalent of GeckoBoard[0], which I have used successfully for uptime and key metric boards that are displayed in common room dedicated TV screens etc. One key is getting decent render performance on low-spec hardware (
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Learn C the Hard Way was Zed Shaw's aspiration of a K&R Replacement[1]. If you like it, great, if you don't, you have company[2] [0] https://learncodethehardway.org/c/ [1] https://web.archive.o
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Nice, I'm going to jump strait into this then. Thanks! I did find the You Don't Know JS[0] book series extreamly helpful as a C++/Python coder who has only done enough JS to get by. But that is the extent of my prep for learn
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
That's really neat, is there any documentation/use-case examples for this outside the source code?
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Here here! I run into this often, it is amazing the speedup MKL provides for linear algebra heavy scientific computations and it is under this weirdly commercial, but permissively redistrubutable framework which means a lot of folks are usi
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Man, when I see this stuff I sure hope there is maturation of auto-vectorization at the compiler level in clang etc. Even more useful would be compiler-level feedback of how to stay within the constraints needed to auto-vectorize your C&#x2
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
Q: Should one get familiar/experienced with React[0][1] first before jumping into React Native dev? Or is this tutorial sufficiently stand-alone without React (web) experience? [0] http://survivejs.com/react/introd
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
How would you compare Realm vs Couchbase Mobile in terms of a syncing mobile store? Maybe a more fair comparison is to IBM's CloudantSync[0] which is the managed service version of Couchbase compliant Cloudant. [0] https://d
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
I don't think that's an adequate response. I vote with a mail in ballot. My signature is checked by a human being (I know as a family member was audited when their signature differed from historical). Couldn't web-based repla
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The One Cent Blog: Static Web Content on the Cheap(hugotunius.se)
3 points by hackcrafter 10y ago|0 comments
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by hackcrafter 10y ago
I can confirm. In my work deploying desktop software to institutions, often academic and medical, I had to disable client-side certs to allow for connections to be made. Apparently, even though it should be technically more secure, client-s

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