keypusher

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by keypusher 7y ago
It is unfortunate that many smart people go through their life without being truly challenged to work hard and develop these skills. It is often too easy for us (excuse my pride) to coast by on our ability to grasp material quickly and int
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by keypusher 7y ago
The most valuable thing I learned at university was how to tackle difficult problems. Taking advanced math and science courses where I had to really study, and still struggled, and having to write essays so frequently that I could no longer
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by keypusher 7y ago
Not sure what kind of applications you work on, but most web apps are IO bound (waiting on network calls).
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by keypusher 7y ago
Not all operations are CPU bound. For anything that is IO bound, such as reading a file, db access, network calls, etc, CPython threads work just fine.
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by keypusher 7y ago
Not sure, but I recently came across a book called Blue Tide: The Search for Soma by Mike Jay that you might find interesting if you want to learn more about the subject. Its on my list but I havent got to it yet.
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by keypusher 7y ago
I think everything you mention here is actually related to the JVM and not Java specifically, and while I agree the work is impressive, it’s also true that languages such as Kotlin and Scala benefit from that work while also offering some v
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by keypusher 7y ago
Caving is a great adventure, there are unique challenges from many disciplines including bouldering, fixed rope ascending/descending, logistics, navigation, cartography, first aid/rescue, communication, psychology, leadership, etc
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by keypusher 7y ago
Purism makes very nice Linux laptops with Intel graphics chips.
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by keypusher 8y ago
I would argue it's more dangerous to pretend they are so different. It leads many prescription users to believe what they are taking is a safe and harmless concentration aid, while the media paints meth users as monsters under the spe
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by keypusher 8y ago
There's plenty of good reasons to bash Microsoft, but 'lack of backwards compatibility' just isn't one of them. If anything, I think their obsession with backwards compatibility drove a lot of compromised design decisi
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by keypusher 8y ago
How do you sync the passwords between devices (including mobile & non-linux) and keep them backed up?
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by keypusher 8y ago
> "The actual concern I have is that the JavaScript package manager and language commons are in the hands of a VC-funded company I'm not primarily a JS developer, but I guess I just assumed NPM was run by a non-profit foundatio
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by keypusher 8y ago
You might be interested in the work of Erik Verlinde and so called "emergent gravity". While there are still significant problems that the theory needs to explain, it is certainly an interesting perspective to consider. https:&#
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by keypusher 8y ago
Please stop using HN to spam your own site.
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by keypusher 8y ago
Airbnb, Kickstarter, Twitch, GoodReads, Bloomberg, there is quite a list of companies who still run a significant amount of their site through Rails. Over time I imagine that particular bottlenecks and performance critical pieces have been
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by keypusher 8y ago
That's a problematic title, considering this Gutenberg bible is neither the oldest nor the most expensive book on the planet. The Mormon Church spent $35 million on a printer's manuscript of The Book Of Mormon in 2017. [1] Bill Ga
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by keypusher 8y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842037
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by keypusher 8y ago
Put a load balancer between your reverse proxy and your backends. Problem solved.
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by keypusher 8y ago
Majority of Americans have less than $1000 in savings, I don't think "paying for the entire house in cash" is what's going to disrupt the housing market.
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> some researchers have suggested that excessive deforestation in the Maya lowlands, which was once home to some 10-15 million people I just can't quite get over this stat they dropped in here. 15 million people in ~250 AD puts it
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by keypusher 8y ago
I am fascinated by all the 3-legged furniture in the painting. The design guarantees stability due to all legs being on the same plane, solving the wobbling/instability problem so common in 4-legged tables and chairs. However, quadri
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Intelligence as an Emergent Behavior (1998)(longnow.org)
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by keypusher 8y ago
NPEs literally The Billion Dollar Mistake, and you don't think they are a big deal? https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...
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by keypusher 8y ago
Was the full thread archived anywhere?
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by keypusher 8y ago
Chlorine reacts with pretty much any organic compound (hair, sweat, skin, urine) to produce chloramine. And yes, while this is the thing that irritates your eyes, it's not to say that chlorine is harmless either. There is evidence fo
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by keypusher 8y ago
No, the tragedy is that you didn't watch the video, because the author isn't complaining or insisting that it's awful. Instead, he (a well-known FreeBSD developer) goes through the history of init systems and offers some jus
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by keypusher 8y ago
Is this not a solved problem? You have the load balancer stop sending new connections to the host. You send sigterm to the process. You wait until timeout, then you sigkill the process. This is how it's done in Kubernetes, ECS, and
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by keypusher 8y ago
How is the WAL stored? If there is a problem with the storage, networking, or DC, you will not be able to get the WAL in order to bring up the DB in a new region. Also, the process of replaying WAL since last backup can take a very long t
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by keypusher 8y ago
At startups and even medium sized tech companies, these decisions are often driven by engineering/ops teams and not by executives. I was on a team trying to decide between staying with AWS and moving to GCP about a year ago, at a comp
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by keypusher 8y ago
Oracle is not even in contention. Not only do they lack the expertise, they have a terrible reputation and offer nothing unique. Alibaba is a different story. China is a huge market that western companies typically stuggle in, and many o

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