nawgszy

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by nawgszy 6y ago
> >If it's already running in production you have to hope you don't accidentally corrupt production data Or you write use a read replica to transform your data into a non-live DB and validate it before you put it into produc
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Well, this was maybe a bit entry level description. Q: "databases are often the worst-performing part of the tech stack" - compared to what? nginx throughput? I find this to be a bit of a strange view, surely business logic is alw
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Could you say more about some of these times? I'm curious what it means in more concrete terms. I only say this because I am a UI engineer who has been in some scrappy situations, so obviously I don't get to change the data model.
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Just what we all want on our production hosts.
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by nawgszy 6y ago
>What's the matter with publishing to PyPI This is a succinct guide to publishing a PIP package: https://medium.com/@joel.barmettler/how-to-upload-your-pytho... An npm publish requires you to run `npm publish`,
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by nawgszy 6y ago
A very agreeable comment. I think your edit surmises it pretty well actually. Take care!
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by nawgszy 6y ago
That's exactly the distinction I was making. Do you call Ericsson a tech company? I certainly never hear them in that bundle. Again, "tech" != "technology" in this domain in my view. It's the double-great-gp or
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by nawgszy 6y ago
What kind of companies do you call "tech" companies then? I can't really understand the objection I'm facing, when people tell you their stock portfolio is heavy in tech do you really think companies other than the one I
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by nawgszy 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is intentionally obtuse, but yes "tech" as a slang term doesn't mean "technology", it describes a type of company largely known for the prowess and scale of their user-facing software. This
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by nawgszy 6y ago
I guess this might not strictly belong to "the package ecosystem", but I strongly disagree that you can compare the npm packaging story to the pip packaging story. Publishing to npm, hosting your own npm instance, configuring npm
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Fair enough, that's a good counterpoint, and I do agree seeing all the data from the source without our limited bucketing would be very interesting.
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by nawgszy 6y ago
I agreed with you at first, but I recall the Bay Area having one of the earliest shutdowns in the US, and that started March 17. While some companies were definitely sounding the WFH alarm about a week prior to that, I think the March ->
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by nawgszy 6y ago
This article feels a bit "no shit", but there are a few interesting numbers in the table there. * August 2019, 16.1million monthly users, 1.2billion revenue * March 2020, 39.5million monthly users, 4billion revenue * June 2020, 45
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Well, then you can just work out a deal to not monetize it. Your objection is of course valid - extra workload on top of a normal job probably has its limits. But the fact one is willing to pay those who are willing to be paid for such an i
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Sure, but that's being positioned as a "huge advantage" vs. JavaScript, which I hope I do not need to explain to you the irony of
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by nawgszy 6y ago
>the lack of a standard library in Node.js is one of it's biggest pitfalls >npm / yarn ecosystem sucks compared to what you get with Python and PyPi So you claim Python has a better standard library AND a better package ecos
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Drug sensitivity is always such a strange thing to me. It strikes me as having characteristics of qualia - to you, going cold turkey on caffeine was apparently monstrous, but I've had the exact opposite experiences. I drink a lot of co
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by nawgszy 6y ago
So in this case, the enemy of my enemy is or is not my friend?
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Ok, I see. I did some reading and it looks like this to me: * the DB is supported by a backing file * this backing file supports multiple read threads simultaneously but writes are locked via filesystem locks * write performance with multip
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by nawgszy 6y ago
This seems like a pretty disingenuous representation of the progress made under the pressure to use inclusive language. When I was young, it was really popular to refer to things via homosexual slurs to show how cool you were. Can you imagi
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by nawgszy 6y ago
That seems dangerous? How can it be so? Surely multiple instances of SQLite shouldn't read the same backing file..
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Why is this targeting full stack developers? Seems like a quite simple CSS framework. To be honest, it's also really quite simple. I don't have much feedback - it's basic and it works to that level - except for that "max
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by nawgszy 6y ago
I would say that you're also completely ignoring the benefits of typing. It's fair to say JS's lack of typing is a deep flaw, and so tools like TypeScript and GraphQL (which pair magically by the way; free type generation!) a
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Makes sense that they'd use relative to / urls, no? Otherwise how could you handle youtu.be versus youtube.com versus...
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by nawgszy 6y ago
>Upgrading between node releases has been painful to me This is surprising to me. What kind of deps do you have that are changing? From my view starting around Node 4, only Buffer really went thru big API refactors, and otherwise going L
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by nawgszy 6y ago
This is surely a satirical comment?
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by nawgszy 6y ago
I think there's a couple repos that provide exactly that - a webpackOverrides.js file or something similar. I also think that next.js might have some of what the gp is interested in
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Can you unpack tuples in Python? In JS for example you could write const [result, errmsg] = do_stuff(); And I guess you would be fine to omit the errmsg, even though I admit the resulting [result] syntax would be dissatisfying
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by nawgszy 6y ago
Airplanes are notoriously slow. I would expect turnaround on a new airframe to be over a decade, and on a new design at least 5 years. That said, I don't think a "new design" ontop of the 737 airframe exists. The whole point
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by nawgszy 6y ago
It's a bit funny to see capitalist corporations making obscene amounts of money violating laws and ethics and trickling a bit of that ill-gained wealth down to software engineers, who then turn around and say everyone should have wealt

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