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by nevi-me 8y ago
Hi urschrei, I naively tried to port turf to Rust, but from my past experience [0] and flaky time commitment in the past; I thought it'd be too much to do alone. I've seen georust, and it's on my backlog. There's a few f
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by nevi-me 8y ago
To supplement the other sibling question that I answered: It's a learning experience. Right now, I can't port everything to Rust, because each platform has its advantages. Rust is still missing a lot of libs that exist in NPM and
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by nevi-me 8y ago
I run a public transport website that includes a few mobile apps. I've broken it down into quite a few microservices, but the bulk of it runs on Node and JVM. I have a 64GB RAM, 12 core server, and the JVM services take up about 25% of
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by nevi-me 8y ago
I've had relatively good success moving some microservices from Kotlin to Rust (mainly saving about 90% resident memory util). I picked up Actix recently, and so far I'm enjoying using it. If Rust library support for geospatial to
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by nevi-me 8y ago
I'm an accountant but work consulting as a data/software "engineer" (or in those roles). For a while I got excited by all the "data science" books, until I admitted to myself 2 years ago that without the Math &
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by nevi-me 8y ago
I have a Twitter account that retweets a specific # from followers (who submit crowdsourced train updates). Would these count as 1 subscription, or how does the subscription counting work? On the same account, I have some very basic chatbot
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by nevi-me 9y ago
It's a lesson for us to learn when building services that people create accounts on. There's another one, https://twitter.com/@home . It redirects back to Twitter's home page. I discovered this while looking f
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My Impressions from Building a Flutter App(nevi.me)
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by nevi-me 9y ago
I think there's no incentive to do that. - "I deleted my account 3 months ago, so how come my records still exist on your servers"? - If a class-action or some other litigation takes place, proof that n+1 people's into w
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by nevi-me 9y ago
I wouldn't know where/how to start with benchmarking nghttpx, nginx and Caddy; but it would be great to see performance benchmarks of the 3 in relation to h2/gRPC. I wouldn't mind switching back to nginx as its config wa
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by nevi-me 9y ago
Does the open source NGINX distro support gRPC out of the box, or with plugins? I stopped using NGINX in favour of nghttpx (and Caddy for http1.x) when I started using gRPC. I think before gRPC became popular, the story from NGINX was that
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by nevi-me 9y ago
That's how it was meant to be implemented, you trigger the request in response to user action. The direct and immediate one is laziness, and I wonder what the success rate of that is.
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by nevi-me 9y ago
For me, it's potentially very bad. Though I personally have an unmetered 100Mbps connection, my target market(s) for what I develop, are people who are very data sensitive. A 7MB Hello World file might mean that my app with the world,
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by nevi-me 9y ago
Flutter seems attractive, but the large build sizes are a showstopper for me sadly. I hope they're able to improve this in future.
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by nevi-me 9y ago
Using its geofencing, which is awesome! Not ready for prod yet, and I'll open-source the code; I started building a generic geofence gRPC framework on top of tile38. You get a gRPC service that abstracts away the Redis API from you, an
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by nevi-me 9y ago
I'm a self-taught, have a single dedicated server, I have a single-instance Kafka running on top of ZK. Yes, I lose the benefits of replication, failover, etc. I don't need that though. The whole installation took me half an hour,
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by nevi-me 9y ago
I'm one of those people who come in and comment about MongoDB, positively. My first "stack" was LAMP, in 2012 when I learnt how to use it, it was: - a JSON store that works well with NodeJS - a geospatial database (yea, it ha
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by nevi-me 9y ago
For me in South Africa: - Waze is a bit more dynamic/aggressive in finding me alternatives when traffic patterns can change due to accidents - "speed trap reported ahead" - the "turn left" direction is better timed
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by nevi-me 9y ago
I think the point being made is that a once-off amount for the hardware might be way less than what they get to make over those 2 years that you use the device (at least in aggregate as not everyone will buy a Pixel)
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by nevi-me 9y ago
Which is sad, and shows the reality of climate change. In Joburg we've had a few "100 year" floods in a year, so much water pouring down that we're forgetting that we had a drought last year.
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by nevi-me 9y ago
Yes, this was mentioned today in the news on one of the radio stations. It went like "the poorer communities that rely on communal taps, will not have their water cut, because they already collect water at those taps". This is sad
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by nevi-me 9y ago
The mayor has avoided answering that question on some radio shows. There's the cost of such meters, and the conspiracies that some of the water usage offenders are wealthy people who might be supporting the ruling party in the city or
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Ask HN: Bus or train commuter counting
1 points by nevi-me 9y ago|0 comments
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by nevi-me 9y ago
The 10 games that are published as part of the paper are at the bottom of the page. It's like watching an alien playing chess, it seems so ... foreign. I've only gone through a few of the games, but on the 3rd one I was wondering
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by nevi-me 9y ago
"0 training", isn't that incorrect? The article doesn't mention that. Playing against oneself is still training.
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by nevi-me 9y ago
As a former employee at an audit firm related to Naspers, I sat on the sidelines when the share hit R1'000, we watched it break the other 1Ks with my former colleague, until the recent R4k. Its growth just in the past 3 years have been
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by nevi-me 9y ago
Bitcoin might soon be valued at more than the entire world GDP. It's so weird, I presume that other than people moving funds around illicitly, people using BTC for utility right now might be low. Soon we'll mostly realise that bet
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by nevi-me 9y ago
The list wasn't 50, my mistake. It's a few hundreds. I saw mute.life, thanks for that. Yes, don't want to use the API. We can set up a small script as part of our workflow, that updates the latest blocklist, and then people c
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by nevi-me 9y ago
To your first question: The list in question, has 50 items actually. [1] To second one: we're avoiding having to get authorisation from users to read/write from their accounts. Twitter also won't hesitate to revoke our API a
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Ask HN: Any Twitter engs in the house? We need help fighting bots in ZA
8 points by nevi-me 9y ago|5 comments

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