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by jitl 2y ago
All platforms; we already cache and serve locally using SQLite (see https://www.notion.com/blog/how-we-sped-up-notion-in-the-bro... ) but the cache is built as an optimization -- loads look like `isFastDevice ? (await l
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Tool author here - happy to answer any questions.
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How we evolve our code: Notion's "ratcheting" system using custom ESLint rules(notion.com)
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I work at Notion. It’s stock RDS on EBS, which as you say is super slow compared to Genuine Local Storage. Any large scan or large result set query that doesn’t fall into the Postgres cache or the underlying EBS cache is frustratingly slow.
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Some people like nice things
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I enjoyed
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They’re really out here trying to play Command and Conquer irl
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This isn't true when it comes to CLI tools, where fixed costs and warm-up time can easily dominate over algorithmic complexity, especially comparing a scripting language to an ahead-of-time language. Without careful construction, a too
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Gordon’s actions in HL1 is why there’s even a resistance, I think Gordon’s legendary status isn't from Gman propaganda but more from the resistance itself needing/wanting an icon/martyr/founder. It’s an interesting contr
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The worst thing about macOS is the kernel, with its buggy Unix system calls (google macOS fsync), relatively slow filesystems, and general lack of features around namespacing and containerization. I would give a lot for fast native overlayf
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The issue with ltree is that it requires fanout on write when moving a node. The downside is you need to update every recursive descendant of the moved node to rewrite their ancestor path for the new location in the tree, so a move is O(sub
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Claim the math is very basic is reminding me of the different conclusions people have drawn from this image: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#/media/Fil...
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Apple & Android took the smartphone from something that belonged in a businessman’s belt holster to something that lives in the pocket of every person on the planet who can afford it, from niche to ubiquity. For sure they did not invent
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Meh? I think there’s a good amount of 2021 unicorns with poor fundamentals raising on hype and froth over growth numbers but burning cash, but there’s also plenty of 2021 unicorns with good business fundamentals with very long runways. I do
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by jitl 2y ago
Even with a zillion Jira clones, Jira is doing quite well and growing. Maybe one day some OpenJira clone thing will be dominant but it could be 10-20 years, which is about how long it took Postgres to rise to relevance alongside Oracle
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In v8 environments like browser or node, source maps work, so if you inject console.trace you can get printf debugging w/ legible stack traces on each log line, at least that’s my experience with c code compiled with Emscripten. Accord
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ESBuild is a bundler. The subtitle on the website is literally “An extremely fast bundler for the web”. To bundle, pass —-bundle flag. https://esbuild.github.io/
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Much of the standard library in v8 is written in Torque, a custom language. https://v8.dev/docs/torque Example file for array.find(…): https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/5fe0aa3bc79c0a9d3ad546
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by jitl 2y ago
In my line of work (writing JavaScript that will run on Android devices) there is no such thing as fast enough. If you’re not going as fast as possible the experience is bad. After all this is a platform where getting data from the local d
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Top thing I want to know about a parser/parser generator library, is will it go fast? After a poor experience with Chevrotain startup performance I’m more open to parser-generators than parsers, I’m very happy to pay for a build step i
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Plural table names are silly, I will die on this hill.
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We do what you advise against at Notion and it seems to work great for our org of ~100s of developers (although a smaller fraction need to edit terraform regularly). We use a CLI command `notion aws-sso-login` that logs us into our main use
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The terraform documentation explicitly advises you NOT to do this ( https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/workspaces#whe... ) > In particular, organizations commonly want to create a strong separation bet
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This is exciting - move embedded iframe to lightbox for “full screen” and back - drag and drop of elements without resetting their state - I’m very curious if it works with contenteditable and/or input method editors. The specifics her
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This person is also the author of CodeMirror and ProseMirror, the best choices in my opinion for plain text editing and rich text editing respectively for the web platform
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Like many of the new onerous regulations, it puts a moat around those with substantial resources - a company with a legal team is probably okay and can handle risk and overhead here, but sole proprietorship is under a lot of duress to provi
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by jitl 2y ago
Your link takes me to a github org, is there a specific repo where the project itself lives?
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That’s cool to hear! Sounds like it will need a weekend project some time
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Often hard to use your own stuff with fiber systems. I get AT&T fiber which is pretty good service but no way to use your own “modem” (optical network terminal). I think their gateway suffers from some kind of buffer issue which affects
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I find Xcode completion and especially doc lookup pretty good. It’s not as good as being able to jump straight into framework source code like with Android Studio but better than pretty much anything in VS Code in any language. That is, as

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