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by hbrundage 7y ago
Oh of course, and to be quite honest, I really hope you folks can succeed in your mission. But, I still found that at least locally (in southern Ontario), the unit costs of importing from California still make sense compared to growing loca
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by hbrundage 7y ago
I did! Transportation only accounted for 22% of the cost of a head of lettuce in my local Walmart, which wasn't really enough margin to justify the cost of the artifical lighting necessary to grow in Canada (even in dense southeastern
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by hbrundage 7y ago
I spent a bunch of time modelling out the unit economics for autonomous greenhouses and struggled to find any combination of technologies that could even come close to competing with the current costs of field agriculture, including labor.
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Rails Is Not Omakase, It Is a Fish Market(gadget.dev)
8 points by hbrundage 7y ago|0 comments
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by hbrundage 8y ago
What % kind of hit do you think you take? I think live streaming the development process might be a really cool way to build a community around a developer-focused tool I might build. Imagine if DHH had streamed the process of creating Rail
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by hbrundage 8y ago
Why not? I bet all of the people reading this wrote programs at 5 months into their careers that did something useful, most probably earlier than that! I imagine that most of us readers now have more than 5 months experience under our belts
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by hbrundage 8y ago
Does extstore also use the same slab allocator that memcached does in memory? Cause if so I feel that disk usage might actually be worse than imagined due to the slab packing problems. I think the design decision to keep everything in memca
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by hbrundage 8y ago
> 1) No, land is not expensive. In agricultural areas, land is quite cheap. Organizing shelves of crops vertically solves for a problem that isn't actually a problem. Land is cheap but we're running out of it in a lot of places
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Your Mind on Pugs – A story about depression(youtube.com)
1 points by hbrundage 9y ago|0 comments
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Polaris: Shopify's Open Source UI kit of React Components(github.com)
2 points by hbrundage 9y ago|0 comments
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by hbrundage 10y ago
> then you will have to do these optimizations yourself For the optimizations you listed they actually all still apply with a custom theme. The author doesn't have to do anything. Shopify caches all generated HTML, serves all assets
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by hbrundage 10y ago
This is largely incorrect. All the front end customizations that this article describes are possible with Shopify because you have complete control over the HTML, JS, and CSS that the platform spits out. While true that you can't &quot
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by hbrundage 10y ago
Don't let me barge in and tell you how to do your job or anything, but for a piece of a system designed and marketed as the bottom, super stable piece of the stack, shipping out a brand new technology not yet in trunk seems kind of dan
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by hbrundage 10y ago
I don't quite get why SQLite is the right primitive to compose a large scale database system out of... If the design goal is write throughput, SQLite can be beat really easily by the client/server systems since each SQLite instanc
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Draw a Circle Around It(harry.me)
1 points by hbrundage 11y ago|0 comments
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by hbrundage 12y ago
I couldn't find any information on persistence and crash recovery for this thing... is it able to beat Volt because it doesn't write to disk?
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by hbrundage 12y ago
Has anyone explored the potential for these hints to be a front-end to Cython, or provide optimizations in CPython/PyPy? Static typing has big perf benefits too right, is that included in the eventual goals?
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Neat Algorithms: Paxos(harry.me)
331 points by hbrundage 12y ago|38 comments
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Neat Algorithms: Paxos(harry.me)
5 points by hbrundage 12y ago|0 comments
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by hbrundage 12y ago
This demonstrates the outrageous entitlement of tech workers these days. It's absurd that the way you treat people who offer you opportunity and employment is by mocking them and embarrassing them! At best, you can be flattered and fin
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On Software Development Metrics(harry.me)
2 points by hbrundage 12y ago|0 comments
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by hbrundage 14y ago
Mr Leavitt is the coolest.
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by hbrundage 14y ago
Indeed: it will never be 100%, so perhaps a very, very long TTL on the keys would be wise. We do end up flushing the cache incrementally if we ever ship a bug by accident or notice there is more in the cached blob than we want which I think
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by hbrundage 14y ago
Core dev on IdentityCache here. Excellent point, and truth be told we hadn't considered setting an explicit expiry to let those unavoidable problems fix themselves. We do have a finite amount of space in memcached so the LRU there accomplis
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by hbrundage 14y ago
Original author here: I backed the book and have been eagerly following along. Really cool stuff.
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Hook: oh-my-zsh style community plugins and management for the fish shell(github.com)
2 points by hbrundage 14y ago|1 comments
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by hbrundage 15y ago
Can you expand on this? To me it seems like Meteor accomplishes the same thing as Blossom, on the web platform at least, except that it does HTML /templating instead of rendering to a canvas. I bet it would be hard to reconcile the two diff
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by hbrundage 15y ago
Congrats to the Meteor team: it looks amazing. Questions: - What's browser support like? - Do you do synchronous AJAX to return results synchronously for DB operations on the client? It looked like newly created records' IDs were returned a
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by hbrundage 15y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that for web applications client side applications are the way to go and spend all day every day working on one which we are as you said going to throw on a CDN. I argue however that the experience of sending down the
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by hbrundage 15y ago
Let's say I don't want to ship out my whole application package until a user has logged in, so I go to implement a static HTML login page and signup page. Uh oh, I have no template engine! Well just use ERB with Sinatra you say. Fine, cool,

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