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by mrkurt 6y ago
GPL variants are more defensible but make open-source-as-a-marketing-tool way less effective. Developers know they can't use GPL software for work, and OSS companies need them to use tooling at work so they become leads.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Rebuilding and then moving it in place sounds pretty nice to me.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Oh, we're reading the sqlite files directly. rqlite is really just a mechanism for us to propagate read only data to a bunch of clients. We need that sqlite file to never go away. Even a few seconds is bad. And since our replicas are s
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Ah, ok that's some nuance I didn't know about! We're storing a few GB of data in the sqlite DB. Rebuilding those when rqlite restarts is slow and intensive process compared to just using the file on disk over again. Our parti
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I've been following this, and am anxious for the direct-to-sqlite replication. One of rqlite's big limitations is that it resyncs the entire DB at startup time. Being able to start with a "snapshot" and then incrementall
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It doesn't work that way. rqlite is effectively a leader/follower model that uses raft for leader consensus. Writes can only happen online, and only to the leader.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It makes _total_ sense to migrate to AWS's Elasticsearch product. This is, I think, the problem with incredibly powerful companies. Acting rationally as consumers makes them more powerful. I mean, I still buy stuff from Amazon, use Gma
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by mrkurt 6y ago
"Bad for their business model" because Amazon has tremendous power. It wasn't just a series of bad choices by the startups that got them here, it was concentration of an emerging market over 10-15 years. Amazon dominates conv
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I think we're all better off if small and midsized OSS companies thrive. Amazon is not inventing and open sourcing DBs. For the last 15 years, we've relied on independent companies to advance the state of the art for _all of us_.
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It's still 100x easier to setup a relocated MongoDB cluster with auto failover than it is with Postgres or MySQL. It's an underrated power.
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Rephrased: Amazon played hardball with open source Elasticsearch, limiting elastic's ability to make money and forcing a license change. Now you should use Amazon's fork instead! This is not a good outcome for people who want an i
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Userspace Networking Stack and WireGuard and Go(lists.zx2c4.com)
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It depends _entirely_ on the contract terms and reason for termination / suspension. On month to month services, 30 days is normal for almost any reason. But abuse and related ToS violations don't ever get 30 days.
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Suspended: https://twitter.com/blm
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It's worth stripping DRM off your Kindle books if you have a large library. Pretty easy too!
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The system is intentionally complex and high friction, like most social programs in the US. We spend a lot of time trying to make sure people who "don't deserve" help can't get it. It's a political win for both part
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I got a kick out of this comment since nginx is just an event loop in a separate process. It's a totally legitimate answer, though, it just made me smile.
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This is from a super technical founder, so we're lucky! The process isn't much of a process. Extracting this type of content from other technical folks is a nut we haven't cracked yet. The workflow is literally: tptacek write
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by mrkurt 6y ago
This sounds quite a bit more complicated than what we're doing, so the answer is "we angrily avoid complexity". FOne interesting problem we have is that apps span regions, so the less information we have to propagate when VMs
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Since these are all internal and 1 to 1 with VMs, we don't really have to worry about it.
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We have a blog post about that! https://fly.io/blog/we-cut-bandwidth-prices-go-nuts/ The tldr: we don't have heavy usage in India. When we do, it'll be about half that price.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Does mythic quest get a lot better after episode 1? We watched it right after Ted Lasso and it was so ... mean. It _seems_ like something I should like, though.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I think they did innovate, just not in ways that we-who-post-on Hacker News benefit from. 1. Shared channels are amazing 2. The "Enterprise Grid" was the first viable enterprise chat product. Slack made chat ubiquitous at places l
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by mrkurt 6y ago
The purpose of antitrust laws is to limit how much damage powerful companies can do. So yes, if we had functional antitrust laws in the US, Microsoft may not be allowed to do certain things. Like bundle a Slack competitor with an existing p
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by mrkurt 6y ago
You're comparing a protocol to a set of automation tools. It may or may not be an upgrade. If you want something to handle builds, SSL, routing rules, etc ... then yes.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Rust and Deno qualify as a "single executable" for what I need, but you're basically correct. It's not quite as dependency free as a Go binary.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Seems like it's big, our Go CLI clocks in about 30MB on Linux. Deno with hello world is like 32MB. But I honestly don't mind up until about 100MB.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
This is such a good feature. Go has been great for shipping single purpose binaries (like the CLI for https://fly.io ), but I really enjoy writing TypeScript more than Go.
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That's only a technicality in internet discussions. Actual antitrust law in the US does not have a binary definition of "monopoly" that lets large companies off the hook.
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It's not any different than splitting a company up into parts. Historically, that hasn't disrupted the markets as much as it's made sharedholders more money ... because the multiple, smaller entities are more valuable than th

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