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by latch 8y ago
It's the synergy between the language, the runtime and the standard library to deliver the actor model. Elixir "threads" are called "processes". It's a bit confusing at first, but there's a good reason for
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by latch 8y ago
-4 is the lower limit that a comment can be downvoted to, so the fact that they're all the same isn't particularly telling.
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by latch 8y ago
> They don't believe other governments actually don't have influence over the judiciary This doesn't strike me as a reasonable generalization. It implies too much stupidity. I think Mr Putin and Mr Xi are well educated and
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by latch 8y ago
Maybe you'll consider this pedantic, or maybe even wrong, but I think you meant to say "asynchronous" as opposed to "indirectly". I think anyone googling to learn more will get better results.
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by latch 8y ago
AWS has gotten much better and closed the gap some. But, your average system will probably see a 4x difference (2x price and 2x performance). There was a very long period of time where SSDs were commonly available from everyone but cloud ve
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by latch 8y ago
I think over-provisioning is way more common and sane approach that can address the bulk of spikes versus auto-scaling. Especially if you have these big known events (new years day, black friday, ...) where you can over-provision (or contro
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by latch 8y ago
> How is this different from an app dying because of an unhandled exception in Java or Python? It isn't different, which is my point: Supervisors don't magically make running apps with year-long uptime "easy". You&#x2
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by latch 8y ago
More generally: A process (P) fails. Its supervisor (S1) restarts it. If (P) fails 3 times in 5 seconds (configurable,but no backoffs) then (S1) will fail. S1's parent supervisor (S2) will now restart S1, which will restart (P) which m
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by latch 8y ago
I'm a full time elixir dev (and fanboy) but don't agree with your second point. The only thing "easy" about erlang supervisors is having short-lived DB network hiccup cascade up your supervisor tree and shutting down you
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by latch 8y ago
I started using Go in 2008, but I get your point. Still, I think my and my parent's point is that: it would have been better if they'd just said nothing.
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by latch 8y ago
I don't usually bite for these "X uses Y, so Y must be good", but I didn't know about Fortnite and MongoDB. A quick google suggest they've had downtime due to issues with Mongo and have had problems scaling it thoug
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by latch 8y ago
I wrote a blog post about the error handling. Someone put it on /r/golang (note the subreddit name). There were 22 comments, and the one from the Go developer was (and I quote): "Tempted to stop reading after the first word
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by latch 8y ago
Maybe it's because I don't understand how deposit insurance works. Maybe it's because I live in a country where there are relatively few banks. But is this insurance actually meaningful? For example, if RBC "failed"
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by latch 8y ago
Conflating them would have been "I lived in Hong Kong thus have an informed opinion about China." I gave a link with specific examples of _experts_ saying China has rule of law but with limitations and asking someone with expertis
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by latch 8y ago
It's concerning. People have strong opinions (bordering on it being a "fact") about places they've never been to (or near). They might have never even left their country. It isn't something they've studied, it
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by latch 8y ago
> China does not have the rule of law A quick look at Wiki suggest that there's at least some aspects of rule of law in China (1) - although with some defects. I don't have the background to compare these defects with those of
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by latch 8y ago
I didn't make an analogy. And, I was replying to the fact that my parent said they would lie about it. It's one thing to have been wrong (even carelessly) about 10nm (more than once). It's another to say that a company offi
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by latch 8y ago
You think it's obvious that Intel would commit securities fraud?
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by latch 8y ago
I'd be surprised if AWS/Google/Azure accounted for more than low digit % of all "hosting". Last hard numbers I saw, Amazon was the single largest by # of servers, but OVH wasn't too far behind. There's th
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by latch 8y ago
The article says bankruptcies have "increased steadily" since 2014. It does mention China, and the trade war, but I think when they say "falling commodity prices" they are referring to a longer/broader issue. But it
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by latch 8y ago
Most hosting companies do. Cloud hosting (a small subset, as far as I know), generally don't. If you believe the sales pitch is to help you know that 2 ECU will be twice as fast as 1 ECU (without having to worry about, does this chip h
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by latch 8y ago
From experience. Not to beat a dead horse in this thread, but logging is still the simplest example to grasp. Good logging takes 0 extra time over bad logging, the only difference is talent. But you'll see this across the board. People
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by latch 8y ago
I would expect most to be disappointing too, and it's a good idea to avoid those. Proper logging doesn't take more time, it just takes more discipline / giving a damn. People and companies that say: we don't have t
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by latch 8y ago
I've been thinking about low-friction options for getting a sense of the engineering quality. I don't think I'm alone in thinking that technical debt and bad software development practices are a top concern. Being quite senio
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by latch 8y ago
There's no single solution and there will always be a reason not to do something.
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by latch 8y ago
> Because people take pause I generally agree, especially if the bar is "taking pause", but playing the devil's advocate, is this _really_ true. They pay lip service to it. They weigh the politics of it. But I feel that be
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by latch 8y ago
Did you read the article? The company that charged that absurd price acquired the patent, they had nothing to do with developing it.
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by latch 8y ago
Japan and South Korea tap water is safe...and I think it's commonly consumed in Japan. Koreans approach it like Singaporeans..some do, some boil.
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by latch 8y ago
I lived in Singapore for a couple years and I can say that, at least as an expat, you hardly feel restrictions. Of the Singaporeans I know, locals from young to old, they all love it. Like all countries, it has its issues, but consider: - F
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by latch 8y ago
Thanks. This is really helpful. I tried to think of some specific example. I think most of what I'd generally come up with is tied to the available datastructures. We recently tested some code to essentially do a group-by in code, with

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