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by moe 12y ago
Obligatory CGP Gray (15 min video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
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by moe 12y ago
machines have been replacing humans since the industrial revolution, but humans have just taken a position higher up the chain The question is what happens when we approach the end of that chain.
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by moe 12y ago
Sounds like a win for everyone? Those who always want the latest and greatest can see easier when their kernel gets "too old". And the rest of us who run behind the curve benefits from the increased test coverage.
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by moe 12y ago
Ever since then, it's been under active development What have been some significant changes to JS since it was thrown together by Netscape? It seems to be largely the same trainwreck today that it was 15 years ago.
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by moe 12y ago
and parking a van outside every home in America Have you really still not realized that this is exactly what is happening? How many more Snowden's do you need?
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by moe 12y ago
If you hold that something like 9/11 should be prevented, and that (actual) WMD programs should be stalled Except nothing like 9/11 was ever prevented by broad data collection. And: There is no "terrorist threat" to be
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by moe 12y ago
I'm not building a message queue That may be the kernel of the problem here; you built a subset of a message queue without realising it. RabbitMQ has a websocket plugin[1]. Just make your javascript connect directly to a RabbitMQ clu
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by moe 12y ago
Feedback? How about just not making wild claims about byzantine fantasy designs that you never tested under any kind of load. There has been a lot of research in messaging architectures, some of the best message brokers are free. As it happ
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by moe 12y ago
but has this design been implemented to effectively handle something close to a million users Obviously not. Some of his numbers are off by an order of magnitude. E.g. he claims "10 million messages/sec" for a single redis
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by moe 12y ago
We will probably have to wait 30 years to really know. FWIW, lots of hardware from ~30 years ago still works. I have a 27 year old Amiga500 that still boots fine (many of the floppy disks have become unreadable, though). You can buy fully w
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by moe 12y ago
Is anyone running JRuby in production for anything? Every time I tried it out so far it turned out slower than MRI for me. Perhaps I was always hitting on pathological cases, though (tight data processing loops).
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by moe 12y ago
Games are not normally network bound either. Your typical FPS shooter, RTS game or MMORPG uses bandwidth in the kbit/s range per player.
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by moe 12y ago
You seem to be confusing client and server. When people say I/O-bound or CPU-bound they usually refer to servers. And most clients aren't network-bound either. They are server-bound (i.e. they spend more time waiting for the serve
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by moe 12y ago
No they don't. Network-bound apps are rare, unless your app is e.g. file transfer or media streaming. The overwhelming majority of apps is disk I/O bound.
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by moe 12y ago
Indeed! Thanks for confirming :)
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by moe 12y ago
I can not believe someone went out of their way to put a spoken "Can not be hushed" response into those things. Just what you need in a panic situation with a fire in your house; your smoke alarm playing the smart-ass, at 85 decib
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by moe 12y ago
Are you John Nagle, or was that a quote?
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by moe 12y ago
Those "objective comparisons" then probably compared the rendering engines or some other micro benchmarks. My main problem was the GUI, not the rendering (though the latter probably played its part in slowing the GUI down). Openin
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by moe 12y ago
I left Firefox because it was measurably slower than Chrome at the time (and not by a small margin) and because crashes/hangs would usually take the whole Browser down.
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by moe 12y ago
What are the webdesigners at Bloomberg smoking? This sticky scroll nonsense works for landing pages, not for articles that people are supposed to read .
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by moe 12y ago
Is there a reason why the InfluxDB backed graphs, in edit mode, don't allow to conveniently select series with dropdown menu's like it does for Graphite backed ones? That's the one thing holding me back from giving Grafana a
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by moe 12y ago
Any program that wants to use its crypto trick needs to somehow place a decryption key in a computer’s CPU __when the application is installed__. Huh? Do CPUs come with persistent storage now?
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by moe 12y ago
Isn't this more like "Lego" for hardware? In MacPaint I can paint anything. In your toolbox I can only assemble something with the parts that you give me. The MacPaint analogy would hold water if you'd let me draw any
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by moe 12y ago
Yes, it's pretty annoying that the language detection can't be overridden. About half of the repos that I'm dealing with are mis-detected (usually as CSS or HTML due to included documentation).
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by moe 12y ago
We may be talking about different things but why would you need to close an fd "externally" when (at least for pipes and sockets) there is someone on the other side who can just close it regularly?
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by moe 12y ago
I agree. And actually in my book revoke() is also unnecessary, for the same reason. Why not simply close the fd and let the regular transport error handling (retry/backoff) do its job? If you find yourself needing any more ceremony tha
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by moe 12y ago
Insane? But Merkel says they are recovering well! Oh and for under 25yr olds the rate is... 50%. [1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5908da36-db09-11e3-8273-00144feabd...
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by moe 12y ago
but if you are to believe Frau Merkel ... [Spain and Portugal] are recovering well Spain has an unemployment rate[1] of 24%. Is it optimism or cynicism to call that "recovering well"? [1] http://countryeconomy.com&#x2
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by moe 12y ago
But having a daemon that relays your messages I agree, and I'm not opposed to the idea of a daemon. DBus just seems to be (from my perception) rather poorly designed on every level. And the more pervasive it becomes the more of its b
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by moe 12y ago
Redis can actually be very useful on a single server, too, as a fast, robust, convenient, potentially shared datastore. Performance is usually a secondary concern in these use-cases.

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