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by nirvdrum 10y ago
This was with the Gmail front-end. It's entirely possible there was just something messed up with my account. I haven't come across too many others that have had similar issues, but most people I know have much smaller accounts. T
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by nirvdrum 10y ago
It's been a few years since I've actively used it. If they added the feature, fantastic. I recall looking for an email containing "dog" and search for "dogs" and couldn't get a match. It's unlikely I&
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by nirvdrum 10y ago
I find myself in a minority on this one, but a big part of why I switched to FastMail is Gmail's search was always slow and typically insufficient for me. E.g., Gmail didn't (doesn't?) do stemming, meaning I needed to memoriz
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by nirvdrum 10y ago
It's been a long time since I gave up on FreeBSD on the desktop, but I think back in 2000 I had some bad problems with whatever SoundBlaster card I had (some Audigy thing) and ATi acceleration just wasn't going to happen. But othe
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by nirvdrum 10y ago
I'm not sure you're going to find one unifying answer, so I'll just contribute my own experience. - FreeBSD lost the desktop battle to Linux. All joking aside about Linux on the desktop, if you want a *nix environment (and no
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by nirvdrum 10y ago
400 KB is a very aggressive target. I don't think anything in SubstrateVM would absolutely prohibit that, but currently our images are larger. Some of this is just simply a design trade-off. E.g., in JRuby+Truffle, we've implement
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by nirvdrum 10y ago
The tricky part with performance is it's often contextual. I didn't mention it, but I did verify the results by modifying redis-rb to remove the layers of blocks as well. Of course, it could have been something else, like how a pa
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by nirvdrum 10y ago
In this case we first moved to JRuby (after verifying a similar performance profile to MRI) and once on JRuby we used jedis [1]. I simplified the tale a bit -- apologies if I got your hopes up on MRI. [1] -- https://github.com&#x
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by nirvdrum 10y ago
How granular are your measurements? I'm certainly not calling your experience into question. But I wanted to relay a cautionary tale of my own. On one project my team was convinced that Redis was our bottleneck. Profiling was showing t
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by nirvdrum 10y ago
FYI, when you're on a GitHub page you can press the 'y' key to have the URL changed to one that includes a particular blob reference. It helps prevent bit rot. Curently, your linked line doesn't point to the `ctpop` intr
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
Well, this is what I was referring to with the HA features of vSphere. It works basically like a compute level RAID. The VMs were stored on a SAN and vSphere monitored each of the compute blades. If one went down, the VMs were seamlessly mi
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
For my last start-up, I moved off EC2 to a dedicated vSphere cluster with a hosted provider. vSphere has an API, so adapting existing provisioning & deployment code was quite straightforward (I used the fog gem in Ruby). I basically tre
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
Your point is well-taken. Broken deploys are just the extreme case. You'd run into the same problem if two devs on the team just happened to install libraries at different times. One would get it, one would not. And you don't get
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
I've had deploys break because gems were removed from RubyGems.org. Using CI as a gate isn't sufficient because a gem can be removed in the window between a completed CI run and the deploy. Making it harder, generally if you have
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FreeNAS 9.10-RELEASE now available(forums.freenas.org)
2 points by nirvdrum 11y ago|0 comments
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Flip-Flops – the 1-in-10M operator(chrisseaton.com)
2 points by nirvdrum 11y ago|0 comments
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
I don't know much about the development of the project, simply that it exists and is usable. I'd file an issue with the project and see what comes of it.
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
You can use the maven polyglot plugin [1] to write your POM in something other than XML. It's fairly new, but it's there. We use it in JRuby to write our POMs in Ruby. As an example of a loop: https://github.com/jr
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
Maybe I'm just using git wrong, but it seems to highly encourage spinning off little repos for each project you might have so I have a ton of repos. E.g., each of my old school projects is its own repo. My usage would put me past their
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
To be fair, everyone had to stop calling it "iPhone OS" when Apple rebranded it as "iOS."
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Chris Seaton on Massively Improving Ruby Performance with JRuby+Truffle(thepracticaldev.com)
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
Thanks for the link. I hadn't seen that page before, nor the proper noun "Apache Public Licenses." I guess we both learned something :-)
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
Is the Apache Public License different from the Apache License? I can't find any reference of the former and I've always seen the latter shortened to ASL or ASLv2. Apologies if this comes across as a passive aggressive correction
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
Agreed. It just seems far more pronounced in the Ruby ecosystem. My experience with Python and Java is that both communities are okay with maintaining multiple versions of a library. And when you commit to that, you adopt practices like sep
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
Glad it was helpful. I do need to start blogging more. 2016!
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
Hi there - no problem. Feel free to ask any question you'd like. You're not going to hurt our feelings and we'd rather clarify any confusion than let it linger and manifest into some weird FUD. On that note, we're quite
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
One of our stated goals is to run code is to run code without modification, including extensions. We have no intention of creating a third ecosystem. However, with Truffle's polyglot interface, someone certainly could write a JRuby+Tru
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
Unfortunately, our startup time is actually a bit worse than JRuby's. We end up having to essentially bootstrap two different runtimes, since JRuby+Truffle makes use of functionality from the main JRuby runtime. It's a known probl
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
The Truffle backend in JRuby+Truffle uses a different class hierarchy that makes supporting the Java extension API tricky. It's certainly doable and we haven't ruled it out, but the API parts of JRuby really need to be ironed out
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by nirvdrum 11y ago
Correct. We do not currently support RubyGems. It's something we're working towards, but it's a fairly complex project and not having OpenSSL support currently limits the ability to install gems quite a bit. However, we do sh

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