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by nevi-me 9y ago
In the end it doesn't really matter. I feel the article is an educational one, but as it's the chance for us to take our sides of the fence in praising and criticising, we'll still do it anyway. I wouldn't be surprised i
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by nevi-me 9y ago
Interesting article, and I look forward to the other 2 parts. This was well-researched and balanced. MongoDB feels like a different product to what it was when the hype was high. The company, leadership and engineering quality certainly ha
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by nevi-me 9y ago
If the author states that there are already a number of Hello World examples, why not spend a bit more time and create something else that's still simple enough? As a self-taught programmer, one of the difficulties I found (before SO)
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by nevi-me 9y ago
Mango seems interesting, thanks for that. I got thrown into a tight spot at work, where I'm building a lease calculator for the accountants, I need to build the whole thing as a self-contained application, due on Monday. Long story is
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by nevi-me 9y ago
Some industries flat-out give you issues with moving SA data out, and others have players that are very risk-averse and aren't moving to the cloud. My day-job is as a consultant in the financial sector. It's been always burdensome
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by nevi-me 9y ago
Given the context of what caused those power issues: - lack of maintenance (not non-existence of maintenance) for almost 2 decades - the electrification of more homes without bringing on additional capacity - poor/subpar management of
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by nevi-me 9y ago
The whole reason why I VPN into a box is that it has a static and publicly accessible IP address. Interesting that all the other alternatives proposed basically do the same thing. Point to an URL you control, and proxy traffic to where you
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by nevi-me 9y ago
If you don't have a static IP that's internet-accessible, and that which you can arbitrarily point your domain to, how would you go about doing this? Some, if not most, services won't allow you to redirect cold to an IP addre
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I've got mixed feelings about api.ai, I haven't tried others like wit.ai because more hype was around api.ai. Firstly, their libraries feel incomplete. 2 months ago I tried their nodejs one, and after some frustration, I ended up
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Or just letting IBM Watson learn COBOL so we can continue figuring out how to prevent the Node event loop from drying up.
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by nevi-me 10y ago
This is interesting. I think 2020 is an achievable number. I'm an accountant by profession, and since I program; I got thrown into a project at work where we had to reverse-engineer COBOL code to figure out what the banking system was
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Make advertising more accessible/cheaper. I have a Facebook page where I can spend ZAR210 a day and get value. Twitter costs way more for less perceived value. Opening up advertising to more small projects like ours brings in more reve
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Thanks, you made the point better than I could have. I'll validly get some flack for starting out by linking my comment to POTUS, which is good as it teaches me to reason much better with sensitive topics where there's often no ob
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I never said he was singled out, or by race/ethnicity/color even. Whether this relates to Trump: As others have pointed out, yes this has been happening before Trump, I'm not alluding to Trump being the sole cause. The point
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I'll presume you to either also be South African or at least following politics here. Yes, Zuma wasn't in power, but this was around campaigning time leading up to 2009. The violence wasn't pervasive around most of the countr
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by nevi-me 10y ago
This is what happens when you have a populist president, people start disregarding the law and listen to the President even if he/she is wrong. Imagine this happening at the time when companies are starting to accept that you can'
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Very interesting read! I like that GOOG is pushing gRPC more on their own services. I've been a gRPC user since Sep/Oct last year, and it's made developing for Android, Node.js, JVM, Python more pleasant from a networking per
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I'm writing the parts of turf that I use in Kotlin for the JVM. Still early work, but I try put in 30 minutes if my tired hours into the project, before I sleep. I'll hopefully have something decent soon enough to make more progre
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Hey Nick ;-)
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by nevi-me 10y ago
This is an interesting challenge, I'm building something similar for public transport, and the latency in updates tends to make things bad. On browsers I'm using turf.js to calculate movements and then animate them. I calculate wh
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Or Tile38 https://github.com/tidwall/tile38 , I want to try it out, it looks awesome
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Interesting read! I have a service that was in SAS, and we've been translating it to run in Spark, but one of the killer issues that we identified was latency, without understanding what held up the computation, the would be increasing
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Very good read! I was also puzzled at why diplomats who have little travel issues were first to get the passports. I live in South Africa, and with the ruling party and president seeing their eyes on potentially making the former AU chair o
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by nevi-me 10y ago
That's what I wondered too. Anecdotally, our company recently replaced Aventail with F5. Prior to that, I had never heard of them (not that it adds any value). I hope we're patched up.
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I used to use Cloud Manager until they started charging a fee of I think $99 per server per month. I pay $150 for my hardware per month, so I stopped using their backup and monitoring tools. Other than the cost, I recommend it for people wh
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I'll comment without knowledge about the D-Link issue that you mention. I would imagine that if someone were to sue MongoDB Inc. today about the issue in the article, their first defence would be clear documentation that explained&#x2F
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I first started using Mongo in 2013/4, when I deployed my app, first thing I did was to change the default port and add authentication, as the manual recommended. I'm an accountant who's a hobbyist developer. I knew very litt
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I used to have a simplistic religious belief and a "worldly" one, but over time they have converged into one thing. My understanding is that everything in the known universe is subject to time and light. Light is subject to time.
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I understand the rationale (if any), but the irritating part is when one sits down and tries to get stuff done. The mere fact that there are a lot of ways of doing something, with one tool having many variants, i
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I tried Yarn a few months ago, wasted half an hour because of some silly issues, though I think there was a problem with NPM on that day. I threw it away after that. At least Java has Kotlin, it's made Java pleasant for me again. I get

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