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by nevi-me 8y ago
I've incurred $30 since the switch for my website. At about $10 a day, I'd have to pay at least $100 a month (after their $200) discount. By contrast, I pay $170 for my server. I looked at available options, and have been hesitant
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by nevi-me 8y ago
Someone pointed out that the 2 generals problem wasn't stated correctly on the post, the Wikipedia article invalidates my thinking entirely [0]. So, I agree re. strong consistency; as the problem was about that, and not eventual consis
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by nevi-me 8y ago
I had a similar comment re. eventual consistency; and I think this is a case of eventual consistency. I think it doesn't work because the problem becomes "when to retreat". It actually introduces a third state (attack; retrea
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by nevi-me 8y ago
Then the network isn't lossy, but it's droppy. If all messages are dropped, one of the conditions of the theorem are invalidated; then it becomes a different problem.
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by nevi-me 8y ago
Given the Two Generals problem, I wanted to frame "eventual consistency" as the below, (but it doesn't work): Alice sends a message saying "Attack on XX:XX on the nth day", and sends that message each day, with nth
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by nevi-me 8y ago
Interesting that you talk about Java Spring, because I was partly lambasted for not using a Java framework. I thought Spring is good. What's wrong with it?
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by nevi-me 8y ago
The middleway is not the problem. As you mention about the strawmannery; the problem is that often the "tried and tested" people are resistant to trying something else. On the other extreme, the "React, SPA, SSR" people
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by nevi-me 8y ago
I'm about to head home for the day. We were just discussing this a few hours ago. We're dealing with an interesting case where being the "shiny things that solve problems I don't want to deal with" person, we are
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by nevi-me 8y ago
Dremio quickly becomes useless with MongoDB given that for a while it's not been possible to join data from two MongoDB collections by their object IDs. Last time I checked, Dremio mangled the id into some string that can't even b
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by nevi-me 8y ago
This has been a great and informative write-up. I learnt of Arrow when Wes and Hadley announced Feather. I think Arrow was still 0.4.0 At the end of 2016, we had a project at work where we were trying to migrate a credit modeling architectu
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by nevi-me 8y ago
I think proactivity and a knowing a good platform to ask questions in, helps. For some of us, the difficulty is often whether to ask on StackOverflow or to open a bug on Github. An overflow of Github issues can lead to some issues going unn
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by nevi-me 8y ago
Thanks! Someone suggested I also create the same with Go, I'm going to give it a bash in the coming days.
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by nevi-me 8y ago
It was less about JSON, but more about reducing the number of libraries that I had to learn in one go. The benefit of using protobufs/gRPC was that I already had a host of microservices that I could choose to interact with. I'll n
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by nevi-me 8y ago
My Go is very basic, but I can follow up with a Go impl and compare it with Rust. The code shouldn't take an experienced Go programmer more than an hour, as it's mainly mapping gRPC calls to Redis calls.
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by nevi-me 8y ago
Do you have a brief example, or is it the normal "I am a str".to_string()? I still have a long way to go with learning how Rust works. I've heard about zero-copy in C and C++, but don't have an idea of how it's impl
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by nevi-me 8y ago
From looking at the traces, the performance difference between the two is minimal (on a per op basis). This mainly because both the Java and Rust services don't do much beyond interfacing with Redis/Tile38. The impressive and impo
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by nevi-me 8y ago
I don't know about at the infrastructure level, but seems possible to use false name and email on git. I mention infrastructure because I presume that commits should be reviewed, and that it shouldn't be possible to update softwar
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by nevi-me 8y ago
A few people asked me about my experiences with Rust after I mentioned seeing significant performance improvements. I wrote a blog post about it and open sourced both the Java and Rust code.
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Rust is Not so Hairy(nevi.me)
126 points by nevi-me 8y ago|35 comments
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by nevi-me 8y ago
Flutter is good, I echo the author's sentiments. I wrote a Flutter app for Android in a very short period, relative to my Android Java attempt. The use of widgets saves a lot of time, leaving one to focus on connecting everything toget
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Rust is Not so Hairy(nevi.me)
7 points by nevi-me 8y ago|0 comments
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by nevi-me 8y ago
Many things are worth investing in, if you justify it. The case between Rust and Go is an interesting one, as many of us have observed that the two languages seem to get paired together (for people wanting to learn). I wanted to start learn
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by nevi-me 8y ago
It might not qualify as "really hard thing involving heavy concurrency and lots of state", but I'm nearly done writing a service that interacts with http://tile38.com . I initially wrote it in Kotlin, and 2 weeks a
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by nevi-me 8y ago
Satya Nadela's done differently to his predecessors, maybe this will go well. I understand the concern of a few companies dominating everything that we use, but time will tell.
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by nevi-me 8y ago
That reminds me of MongoDB's infamous issues that remained open for years. They became the subject of many blog posts and discussions. I still remember SERVER-1243 so well because of how much I saw it. They eventually fixed/closed
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by nevi-me 8y ago
I like the direction that Flutter has taken, cross-platform without the baggage of being a web platform. If you know JS and Java, Dart is very easy to learn. About a few hours' worth of tinkering and you'll be good. I had an Andro
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by nevi-me 8y ago
The author makes an important point about having a list of languages to choose from. We are working on a JVM-based project at work. We chose to use Kotlin because the initial team was intermediate programmers who didn't have that much
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by nevi-me 8y ago
Thanks, the Ghost service was down. The blog's back up. Regarding the RAM, I'll see how far I get with moving some services to Rust in the coming months, and what benefit I derive in the long run.
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by nevi-me 8y ago
It is, I didn't see that it's down. Just finished writing my last exam, so I'll have time to get it back up and running
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by nevi-me 8y ago
It's largely geospatial tools, which urschrei commented on above. Others are abstract, for example I use https://ignite.apache.org (I know I could use Redis), and that's one of the things tying me into the JVM. I use A

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