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by metabrew 15y ago
Wait, what? Is he saying symlinks are bad? I like symlinks.
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by metabrew 15y ago
..and if you've used slony in anger, you know using slony isn't really an option.
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by metabrew 15y ago
Nothing to do.
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by metabrew 15y ago
No pagination (yet, i hope), means i can't browse more than one page of links for any tag, which is rather useless for now. I want to try the stacks feature. I'm not sure if I care about it or not, but until i can browse all my old links, I
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by metabrew 15y ago
I'm going to the Realtime Club dinner in London this month, where Simon Peyton Jones is talking about (the lack of good) IT teaching in schools. When I was in school (in the UK) we were taught BASIC programming on BBC Micros, and I spent my
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by metabrew 15y ago
this is great, I hope mainline riak gets support like this soon, for backends that support.
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by metabrew 15y ago
I'd love to use riak for all the reasons mentioned in this article, and more. The single missing 'feature' (design decision) that I can't live without, is that you can't efficiently do range queries/order-by on the key in riak today. Hopefu
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by metabrew 15y ago
In VC parlance, someone else launching doing the same thing "validates the space".
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by metabrew 15y ago
The interesting thing here is that the single mod/creator of that subreddit can kill it off, despite there being many thousands of users subscribed and using it daily. Seems like you should be able to give subreddits (or similar constructs
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by metabrew 15y ago
The nice thing about memcached is it's _reliably_ fast. I wonder how amazon's version compares. Looking forward to the inevitable blog posts that graph response time of elasticache over the course of a day. Seems like a good service to offe
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by metabrew 15y ago
i'm doing something like this at https://irccloud.com/
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by metabrew 15y ago
It's not about ISPs fiddling with HTTP, it's about using existing reverse proxies / load balancers, such as nginx, haproxy, perlbal, pound, etc. None of them work in HTTP mode with the spec currently in the wild. If you use a non-layer7 bal
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by metabrew 15y ago
The version of websockets currently in the wild (-76) doesn't play well with proxies at all. The handshake requires sending 8 bytes of body data, without a suitable content-length header. Without the content-length header, http proxies won'
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by metabrew 15y ago
Is there a good 'diff', detailing what's changed between revisions? I need to read up on the latest version - anyone know if it avoids breaking http, and will work with proxies out of the box? (ie no essential body data without a content-le
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by metabrew 15y ago
Just imagine having to write perl in the first place ;P
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by metabrew 15y ago
This is pretty neat, and different from many other "simple" KV stores, because it arranges things in key-order on disk, and permits forward/reverse iteration over keys. (ie, range queries are cheap) edit: it's actually full log-structured m
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by metabrew 15y ago
take a look at the logos on the link for this very submission, that's kinda the point.
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by metabrew 15y ago
Nowadays you add things like this as a dep to rebar.conf (the most popular build system): {deps, [ {epgsql, "0.2", {git, "https://github.com/Eonblast/Emysql.git", "master"}} ]}. It seems unlikely that the Erlang standard library (O
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by metabrew 15y ago
Sounds like the only winners in this fight are the lawyers.
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by metabrew 16y ago
Don't know if it's legal or not, but would be fascinating if he snagged an audio recording of the entire process next time.
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by metabrew 16y ago
It's not deceptive if you have a preemptively multitasking runtime that you trust (like the Erlang VM); it's a much more natural way of writing code. Single-threaded, event-driven callback spaghetti makes code harder to read, and inherently
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by metabrew 16y ago
I'm running unity since yesterday - feels like they compromised massively on the full desktop experience for the sake of compatibility with touch-based and netbook devices. I'll give it a week or so though; no-one likes change, and it's imp
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by metabrew 16y ago
Not necessarily, with the amount of money the labels would want as a bribe^W"non recoupable advance" to sign the contract in the first place, after months of negotiating and nitpicking.
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Erlang releases + upgrades using rebar(metabrew.com)
4 points by metabrew 16y ago|0 comments
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by metabrew 16y ago
I stand corrected!
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by metabrew 16y ago
Heh, won't quite work since you used ~s for atoms, and also, mine is better because it's more flexible if you want to change the format of an opinion for a specific score range ;P
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by metabrew 16y ago
I'd be happy if they based the docs on erldocs.com - having a decent, live search is crucial.
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by metabrew 16y ago
-module(opine). -export([opine/0]). opine() -> io:format(gen_opine(random:uniform())). gen_opine(R) when R > 0.2 -> "I love the new website.~n"; gen_opine(_) -> "I hate the new website.~
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by metabrew 16y ago
Last.fm do something similar: subscribers get a special cookie which jumps the queue on the http load balancer (perlbal). Thing is, if there are queues at the load balancer, something already went wrong.. so it only really benefits subscrib
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by metabrew 16y ago
Not having to configure & admin a VPS is one of the reasons to use irccloud. That, and the fact we are building a really slick web interface you can access from multiple machines easily. You'd be paying for an integrated server/bounce

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