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by mpd 8y ago
Just past experience. In the end, the low data retention time was the real reason Kinesis didn't fit our needs, but the difference in write performance between the two was pretty stark. Read performance was fine for what we needed.
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by mpd 8y ago
With so much overlap in the functionality and use cases of Kafka and Kinesis, it's not clear why they increase their surface area by using both. Is Kinesis' write latency better than it was? IIRC it wrote to 3 data centers synchro
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by mpd 8y ago
You can even use the under-the-radar PyCall gem[1] if you find you need a little peanut butter for your chocolate. I discovered it recently, and it has been great to be able to use various Python NLP libraries without having to learn a new
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by mpd 8y ago
Martin Shkreli
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by mpd 8y ago
https://outline.com/eug5BB for anyone hitting the paywall
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by mpd 8y ago
They answer this themselves - https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/202853769-Ho...
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by mpd 9y ago
This comes off as very dismissive of startups. Do you honestly believe they are all 5 person companies doing frivolous things?
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by mpd 9y ago
> When games are canceled hundreds of people have wasted thousands of hours on: games, ai, art (raster + vector). I don't think this is any different than the risk of working for a startup. I've worked for a number of companies
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by mpd 9y ago
Yeah, there's no way that what they're doing is worth 2% here.
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by mpd 9y ago
But you're also not able to just jump to the other place if it suddenly gets busier and more profitable.
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by mpd 9y ago
My home laptop is from a Kudu Pro from System76, while my work laptop is a Dell Precision 5520, with Ubuntu installed. My current Kudu is a replacement for another Kudu that died after a number of years. For my particular case, the Dell has
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by mpd 9y ago
I use Ubuntu daily, so I ended up stepping onto this land mine. Overall, I don't think Gnome is completely unusable, but some little things made me jump back to Unity (which can be chosen when logging in).
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by mpd 9y ago
I'm not sure why you brought chocolate and caramel into the picture, but I'm going to stick with my opinion that peanuts are not candy. I think you're attempting to redefine a word to fit your narrative, and I'm not havi
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by mpd 9y ago
Even peanuts become candy under your definition.
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by mpd 9y ago
> “People don’t care about optimizing the code anymore” Rest assured that some still care.
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by mpd 9y ago
Kafka needs additional infrastructure (ZK cluster) if you're going to handle it yourselves. Kinesis wins that category, but it has atrocious write performance compared to Kafka, and limited data retention time, if that's important
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by mpd 9y ago
At least with IRC I could connect to another server.
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by mpd 9y ago
I sit down with them and have them write code. I give them a problem, a test suite, and an editor of their choice. Their challenge is to get as many tests as possible to pass. It's not really intended to get all of them - they branch i
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by mpd 9y ago
And maybe importantly, you can use a personal license at work, on paid projects, etc. I've never been particularly bullish on Atom or Electron, but I think Jetbrains is going to be eating their lunch for awhile at least.
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by mpd 9y ago
As others have said, the scenario you describe wouldn't prevent data races at all. Under the channels model, you wouldn't want more than one goroutine to be accessing the shared structure. One routine would hold the reference to t
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by mpd 9y ago
Frankly, I think the Linux kernel is too important to even consider subjecting itself to the Github T&C, community guidelines, etc.
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by mpd 9y ago
Same. I live with insomnia, and naps are more myth than reality for me. I do find myself taking what I call 'zen moments' throughout the day. They aren't ever intentional, but it feels so good when one comes on. And it helps.
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by mpd 9y ago
I assume the name came from the select syscall, maybe unconsciously in your case :) Hopefully something comes along to fill this gap officially. Channels are my favorite concurrency primitive by a huge margin. The more languages that suppor
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by mpd 9y ago
Is there a select() analogue? Maybe under another name?
85.
by mpd 9y ago
This sounds like a WIP implementation of channels[1]. Am I wrong? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_(programming)
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by mpd 9y ago
I cringed so hard when I read that line in the article. This is a "Cat's in the Cradle" situation in the making.
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by mpd 9y ago
I used pgcli for awhile, but really missed being able to set \x auto. I do like the tab completion quite a bit.
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by mpd 9y ago
The deep discount on the Echo actually convinced me to research smart speakers, and then buy a Google Home instead. Chromecast integration was the clincher for me.
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by mpd 9y ago
Until you're unlucky enough to have to deal with video.
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by mpd 9y ago
I don't believe there's anything that would prevent that in Ruby, though I'm sure the Forth way would be more elegant.

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