ixmatus

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by ixmatus 12y ago
That sounds like a feature not a product.
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by ixmatus 12y ago
An Architecture, to me, is an established and idiomatic process of applying solutions to produce a novel output. In the case of a computer program the "architecture" should be extremely well-thought out, idiomatic, and using estab
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Not quite, I would call that "solution".
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Not sure if "Architecture" is the right word here. More like, "How I built a Real World Haskell Application". When I read about how to "architect" something I'm think about how to structure my Cabal file (
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by ixmatus 12y ago
It's about accountability. There are two types of it: a leader either recognizes and understands the gain to be had from using something like Haskell and has the resources to hire someone really good at it (who is therefore accountable
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Not quite black-hat; I consider tiered link building to be more blackhat. Scraping the search results was about getting data on where items were positioned in the index, not pumping spam into the search results. Although to be clear, I did
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Meh. I didn't have any qualms with that, per-se. As others have pointed out I think there are ethical concerns with what Google is doing itself. Also it's indicative of something if people are building businesses to scrape somethi
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Right, but distributed systems are solved problem at this point, anonymity is much harder, and GNUnet's primary model is distributed / mesh darknets as a foundation for some of their anonymity features.
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Read the docs? Their API is C based so it's not necessarily as easy as a Node.js or Ruby programmer might be used to. They do have a P2P chat program built on-top of it so you can use that as an example and I think someone did their th
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by ixmatus 12y ago
I think you could, check out GNUnet, seriously. Those guys have been laboring away for a long time to produce a platform for anonymous and encrypted communication. GNUnet can be used to build a darknet of any sort: P2P chat, a social netw
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Writing distributed and highly-concurrent software in Erlang to scrape Google's search results, with localization, tens of millions of times per-day. I don't work on that stuff anymore, but it definitely challenged my problem solv
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by ixmatus 12y ago
Never seize but that's not the true problem, is it? Anonymity is the actual problem. Why aren't there any of these guys trying to build this sort of thing on-top of https://gnunet.org/ ?
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by ixmatus 12y ago
That's what I meant by "background backup slave". The slave can handle point-in-time backups which is better than doing dumps or hot backups on the primary DB server. Good point re: multiple providers.
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by ixmatus 12y ago
While this comment isn't particularly constructive to the discussion (nor is the one I'm writing right now), I did have a laugh :)
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by ixmatus 12y ago
This is the reason for idempotent server configuration via Ansible, Chef, Salt, Puppet, or even better NixOS. Backing up a deployed application is kind of silly when the tagged releases should be sitting in your source control and that the
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by ixmatus 13y ago
I'm moving over to BtSync ASAP; I really wish there was a Tarsnap like service but synced my data across multiple devices :( I can only really use it for backups...
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by ixmatus 13y ago
If that's your reason for trusting an implementation in Go over C++ then I would say they should level up and use Haskell. Or even better, Agda. There's also ATS but I think the community around Haskell and Agda is more populous.
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The Noble Geek(parnell.io)
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by ixmatus 13y ago
It's pretty easy to understand and it's not a slippery slope; what is slippery is bringing in tools and libraries that have nothing to do with Javascript. Also, this whole argument has gone on far more than I intended - simply p
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by ixmatus 13y ago
A point worth considering, the spirit of what I said though should be considered - not specifically the details. The spirit being, that someone WILL fill this gap in the market. Someone. I would rather it be Tarsnap and Colin; though.
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by ixmatus 13y ago
To provide some scale reference: my previous company an SEO metrics company had customers paying $1,500.00 per month or more just to know where their customer's URL's were in Google search results . If there are people willing
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by ixmatus 13y ago
I would love to but I'm building a different company focused on helping people optimize their home energy - I plan to do it (get rich) on that one. You also mis-characterized what I said. Completely. But whatever, pretty typical Hacker
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Or increase your salary and use the surplus to donate. But really most of that profit should probably be directed to improving the business, or R&D that goes back into the business (which can be opensource!).
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Yes, seriously. So by your logic we should be listing the browsers, the operating systems, the compilers, the linkers. No. The title is misleading, I clicked on it expecting a good breakdown of the current can't-do-without javascript l
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by ixmatus 13y ago
No. You cannot. Do I donate money to certain projects of mine? Sure. When did I donate the most money? When I billed a private equity firm $300.00 per hour for development work and had a surplus of $15,000.00 dollars. I gave quite a bit to
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by ixmatus 13y ago
I am not happy with it at all. You know what he could do with the millions Tarsnap could make him? DONATE IT TO FREEBSD. How about that being Geek2Geek? How much more better off would the world be if Colin donated $500,000.00 of his surplus
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by ixmatus 13y ago
It is very possible and I'm remarkably tempted to do it myself in my free-time. I also believe that was the intent of Patrick posting this publicly - to stimulate Colin into realizing what people really fucking want and that someo
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Title is a bit misleading, this is a list of development tools and libraries with a focus on Javascript . There are quite a few non-js tools in there.
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by ixmatus 13y ago
I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding from people that do not know how to program "in the large". Real programming is actually heavily reliant on human creativity and synthesis. Just like good visual design. Programm
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Haskell is definitely not as "easy" as Python but I actually think it's more straight forward than Python is. There's more cognitive work up-front but the pay off is very big in terms of stability, maintainability, etc

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