lotyrin

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by lotyrin 11y ago
Trees and hashes both scale to any size, it's about their performance based on how you access and modify them that matters. Some collections of my files are accessed entirely hierarchically, others are not, I don't think I should
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by lotyrin 11y ago
In case you hadn't considered the alternative position, I get nervous deciding where something should "Really" be when that's based on a number of things, e.g. there's a multitude of hierarchies I could pick when or
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by lotyrin 11y ago
I don't know, name systems seem to quickly betray their origin in little sentences of specificity in the languages used at the time, before they became systematized according to common western practice (if that even happened, depending
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by lotyrin 11y ago
No, my point was that lawyers are not products unless you mix in human trafficking. What do you think the split between service and product is?
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Not really. Maybe if they rented transferable licenses.
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by lotyrin 11y ago
"Bash would be terrible because using it would cause a fire" Yes, arguments have a burden to make sense, and provide evidence...
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by lotyrin 11y ago
There's two ways this argument goes awry: "IRC is fine, you just have to be smart enough" and "Only ever use IRC for the things it does well", I thought we were on the other branch there for a bit. I had specificall
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by lotyrin 11y ago
> Professional Engineer Yeah, here's where you fucked up reading my post. > anyone in any kind of role (senior to junior, technical to non-technical) I'm talking about Joe Frontend, Billy Design Intern, Gary Office Assistant
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by lotyrin 11y ago
It's easier to host (at least on the scale that most teams would, few nodes, few tens of users, no need for services -- basically `apt-get install ircd-of-choice`) than to use, but I disagree that it's easy to use. I can tell anyo
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Then I guess most of the developers I've worked with should brush up their sandwich-making skills and quit their jobs.
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by lotyrin 11y ago
> equate "unemployment" with "doing nothing in your life." These can be seen as synonymous for certain definitions of "unemployed". You are not "employed", unused, not applying yourself to anything
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by lotyrin 11y ago
The distinction being made is the pedophiles which do not seek out those materials or participate at all in their distribution, not committing crimes.
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Agreed, it's not the end of the world. The biggest headache I get from CGI-style app runtimes is that most do not allow me to open and use a database transaction across multiple requests. They tend to be designed around the assumption
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by lotyrin 11y ago
If you want to use the sun, you'd farm outdoors traditionally. You're right at the core of it, that's why most farming still happens outside. Building a specialized building is a compromise putting you into an uneconomical po
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by lotyrin 11y ago
The distinction isn't as big as proponents like to make it seem. FastCGI still acts like CGI, the app has to boot itself up every page -- just not the process handling the request (the interpreter, etc.) Thus opcode caches to be able t
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by lotyrin 11y ago
CGI. Any language can do it. Language runtimes that have long startup times or don't cache the output of any of their compilation steps are less suited though. A binary or script gets called with environment variables providing info ab
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Scalable but slow. CGI model of execution and everything being synchronous throws away too much effort that could have been shared between requests or spread across CPU cores. Best case scenario, you have to tie your app in knots and come u
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Answer: you can't. Something like MOSIX (os-level ability to ship processes, their IO, etc. across the network), being less indirect, should theoretically outperform this sort of thing, but people don't even deploy those very ofte
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Yes. Many app servers do this. (Not being super familiar with the Ruby ecosystem, I am not sure specifically which ones.)
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by lotyrin 11y ago
You google for them, then you rephrase to be concise to what you wanted, and in doing so help commit them to memory, and commit them into a publicly visible resource -- where somebody else might find them by googling. It's not REALLY u
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Agreed, but I think stack-exchange style communities are better at this than a project's issue queue or a support channel. There's also nothing preventing common support issues getting turned into documentation improvements, creat
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by lotyrin 11y ago
I'm not advocating for anything other than community ownership of projects, only a few formalities. Thinking that everything has to be absolute anarchy in order to be "free" (even that open source's goal has to be to max
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Yeah. Open source seldom realizes it needs the same infrastructure as a commercial product: separate project management issue queue and support issue queue. What are we doing next, what version did we fix Y in, what VCS branch are we workin
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by lotyrin 11y ago
When cloud == SaaS, sometimes. When cloud == IaaS, nope. But that doesn't stop the misconception.
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Yep, somehow cloud customers have decided that by being in the cloud everything is redundant and durable and has several other magical properties. At one of my positions we had stupidly put too many eggs in the basket of a single physical m
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Last I was aware, there was no evidence that this investment provided any return. Not that it matters because that still wouldn't justify a huge investment by the public into a private entity without any ownership stake. If the idea wa
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by lotyrin 11y ago
I have all of the knowhow to be able to set up an irc client in screen or set up a bouncer, to use something like irccloud, to get xdcc working, etc. etc., to work around all of the usability problems of IRC, having done all these in the pa
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Their set top boxes were crashing because they couldn't handle an error code properly, any other position is untenable. These same set top boxes should have also crashed in the case that a connection timed out or the service was tempor
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Yep. Still waiting for the missing chunk of IRC:???::SMTP:IMAP.
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by lotyrin 11y ago
Find me this customer cohort that gives even a moment's hesitation about whether they're at a naked domain or not.

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