mantrax5

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by mantrax5 12y ago
Hello, Peter. Incidentally I was just watching one of your presentations on YouTube to understand the reasons behind React's design choices. The thing I still can't understand is why we need to model the UI around emulation of imm
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Just the slides aren't enough to sell me here, I'm sure the missing video to go with this fills in the holes. Buuut. "Problem - UI is complex - because DOM not Reactive - what if it was reactive - random code sample", is
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Same reason people buy lottery tickets. Big winners motivate people to replicate their efforts cargo-cult style. Remember the thousands of "pixel ad" sites following the Million Dollar Homepage? Remember the thousands of Flappy Bi
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Nothing against John McAfee, I have no idea what happened in Belize, and he can probably have a wonderful career as a reality TV star or a similar effort. But I wouldn't touch a security product he offers with a 20 foot pole. Literally
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by mantrax5 12y ago
If you warm it a little bit I think the problem becomes your skew becomes lost in the noise of the other people accessing. It's tempting to think that other people accessing is "perfectly uniform noise" but that's not th
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Well Siri isn't female (and "Siri" as a name isn't a girl or boy name per se), its voice gender varies depending on the country. Apple uses the highest quality voice they have as the default. If you ask Siri what's
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by mantrax5 12y ago
- Most services are IO bound, not CPU bound, so pegging the CPU to max might prove a non-trivial task. - Well designed services don't overload until they're maxing out on either CPU or any other resources, they just serve up to so
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by mantrax5 12y ago
So then a SHARE button in the browser exposing the URL would accomplish all the goals you listed.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
No, long parallel requests are great to do concurrently on a single thread. A thread is a computation primitive, you spin off a thread when you want to compute many things at once, not just wait for many things at once . If you would spi
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Linear projections don't work. This is why by linear projection we should have 20GHz 128 core CPUs but things have progressed differently in history. Capacity will grow until it hits one of two types of limits: physics or the market. I
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Technology has already destroyed capitalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading
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by mantrax5 12y ago
"Multi-threaded: Whenever possible, Twitter API requests are made in parallel, resulting in faster performance for bulk operations." That's not what threads are about.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
You see, turns out the design choices for which PHP is the wrong tool start to very seriously overlap the design choices that are best for most projects written in PHP these days. But you can only know this if you are even aware of these de
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I didn't call Java crap. I edited the post to make this more clear.
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The reasons I can list are thousands. But to understand them it's really a matter of mindset. I can talk about long-running processes, threads, weak references, actor systems and so on, but most PHP developers would just phase out comp
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From the article: "In fact, for many modern PHP applications the notion of the LAMP stack seems limiting. Fortunately, PHP developers on Heroku can fearlessly take advantage of just about any technology they can imagine." I'd