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Ask HN: Open source solution to receive Git push and manage deploys?
1 points by joshma 11y ago|0 comments
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by joshma 11y ago
We care about reducing memory usage because it gives us greater flexibility in our infrastructure. We're offering this to hundreds of scientists a day - not huge numbers in the grand scheme of things, but usage is bursty and by paying
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by joshma 11y ago
Haha, Vineet appreciates the compliment, I think... I mentioned it in a comment below, but our constraints are a bit different once you start supporting multiple genomes - we could've been clearer about that in the post for sure.
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by joshma 11y ago
Yep, GPUs were the first thing we looked at. :) (And to be fair, our current approach is pretty close to a brute-force search!) The main reasons we decided against a GPU-based approach were cost and scalability: - We support a dozen+ refere
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by joshma 12y ago
Could you elaborate on why there'd be a smaller number of dead tuples? Are you just taking into account the autovacuuming that can take place as you continue through the iterations?
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by joshma 12y ago
You can also get a nice tabular view for the domain you're on by going to "Resources" from dev tools and navigating to the "Cookies" subsection.
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Honest Abe's Buried Secrets(blog.benchling.com)
1 points by joshma 12y ago|0 comments
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by joshma 12y ago
Is there any way to use the tooling independently of web starter kit? Wasn't able to find a link on the site, are they just warnings you see once you start developing? Can the tooling account for JS changes and navigation between pages
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by joshma 12y ago
Any thoughts/justifications for pricing? The only thing holding us back is that Slack costs 4x as much ($8 instead of $2). While this isn't a big spend at the end of the day, we're sort of anchored at $2. There's nothing
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by joshma 12y ago
Have you looked at JSX[1] yet? Because I feel it was invented exactly to address your tl;dr - you're writing something that is very close to HTML inside your Javascript, so it definitely seems easier than writing JS snippets in XML. Al
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by joshma 12y ago
From what I see, it was an investigation into gender-based discrimination/harassment claims, and the result of the investigation was that, well, no evidence of gender-based discrimination was found. Does that not provide very useful in
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by joshma 13y ago
In my opinion it's focusing on the wrong part. Between the two trends (IE11 growing or IE10 vs IE9) the former is more likely to continue and the latter is likely to end as more machines reach end of life.
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by joshma 13y ago
Pretty misleading title, since IE10 isn't the latest version. IE11 is the latest and went from 11.51% to 12.80% (big jump compared to Chrome, 16.28% to 16.84%). Interesting (and slightly sad) that Firefox isn't gaining - in light
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Google joins the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health(googleresearch.blogspot.ca)
3 points by joshma 13y ago|0 comments
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by joshma 13y ago
We've had good success with the "queued rendering with interrupts" strategy as well. The 5.9s to 960ms drop is _slightly_ misleading, since a lot of the rendering has yet to be done, but as long as one remembers they're
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by joshma 13y ago
Secondary to intent, but still pretty valuable, is interest. With Twitter, interest is VERY clear. If you want to target web developers, or fashion lovers, or car enthusiasts, you just have to look at who they follow to figure it out.
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by joshma 13y ago
I don't understand this feeling of self-entitlement - who are we to judge whether or not an API has been offered "in a reasonable manner?" I'm guessing it's very resource-consuming to collect, process, and maintain
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by joshma 14y ago
This is not demonstrably false, as the Quora post you linked to is 3 almost 2 years old. (For comparison, the latest answer is right around when G+ launched.) The large majority of the population doesn't even know what RSS is, let alone use
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Square Arrives in Canada(squareup.com)
101 points by joshma 14y ago|85 comments
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by joshma 14y ago
How can you attempt to summarize a review as "not very favorable" when you haven't been "convinced" to read the rest of it? At least read the closing paragraph if you're not going to bother spending more time: "If you're ok being an early a
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The Great Dropbox Space Race(dropbox.com)
99 points by joshma 14y ago|100 comments
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Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web(businessweek.com)
90 points by joshma 14y ago|62 comments
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by joshma 14y ago
It might not end up being "equivalent" to Dropbox, but that would still compete with Dropbox in terms of backing up and syncing files.
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by joshma 14y ago
Well the press release says right there: "Many of the launch titles will take advantage of popular Steamworks features, such as easy installation, automatic updating, and the ability to save your work to your personal Steam Cloud space so
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by joshma 14y ago
Sounds like you guys are competing with filepicker.io[1] What kinds of features differentiate your service? //Edit to somewhat address the downvotes: Sorry if this sounded brusque, I'm genuinely interested in what these sorts of services ta
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by joshma 14y ago
Did I read this right? Did Steam just announce that it was becoming a cross-platform application store? Easy installing / automatic updating sounds nice, given my past experience with Steam games, while a personal Steam cloud sounds very mu
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by joshma 14y ago
Can you explain what it means to "check the data"? The point here is that, for the last year, Twitter has NOT been generating sequential IDs. Just look at the source code[1]. They save a few low bits for the worker ID, data center, and work
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by joshma 14y ago
Nice, didn't notice that! (For those interested, it's actually documented here: https://developers.filepicker.io/docs/web/#fpurl-contents ) A 501 sounds like the closest error code, and I'd say having both asynchronous and synchronous mode
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by joshma 14y ago
I'd also point out that URLs aren't exactly pointers as they don't (all) support writes in addition to reads. It'd be interesting to see a webservice support locking, reading, and writing from URLs as pointers.
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by joshma 14y ago
It's not exactly the same, though. If you're late 5 minutes by your watch you're on time naturally, without any action. If you're "overloaded" on your servers, you at least have to consciously decrease the extra load or risk having real con

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