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by nrser 11y ago
yeah, my read was that he didn't totally get the context of the package dist / CDN suggestion immediately. i think the github peeps probably understood that they were using this approach because the developer workflow was simple a
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by nrser 11y ago
don't race to the bottom as a foreign firm against locals in China. you won't win. they will go much lower and harder and longer than you will. they will turn the heat off in the -12C winter and have people coding in their parkas
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by nrser 11y ago
yeah the numbers are likely fudged, but it's baffling how someone can write up that much about Alibaba group with seemingly no understanding of how the platforms work... Alibaba is like Amazon for China in scale and dominance , not
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by nrser 11y ago
yeah, i know, i live in a big city. but i'm talking to some people that came from rural areas... no one's even heard of this stuff. that in no way means it doesn't happen - China's a really big place - but it certainly d
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by nrser 11y ago
i've lived in China for a few years, and no one's ever seemed to care much about the one child policy. i just asked some people, and they said it depends on where you grew up, but that it hasn't ever really been a big deal fo
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by nrser 11y ago
it would be nice if the site or github repo had some information about how it actually works
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by nrser 11y ago
yeah... the synchronization for these services should be zero-knowledge. though maybe not the best idea, my vault should remain secure even if available publicly, right? sync is a must have feature for many, myself included.
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by nrser 11y ago
serious: which states are police states? did you / do you live in one? i live in China and i do not miss the cops in the US.
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by nrser 11y ago
the best part of security is that fat meaty area in the middle of the venn for people that don't understand it and don't understand that they don't.
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by nrser 11y ago
there's a dude there asking how to pick an email address. i'm pretty sure it's serious. < http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/38ba26/professiona...
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by nrser 11y ago
my perspective from some friends that bought a Japanese software startup and moved over there to help run it a few years ago: promotion is based on age and length of employment. employment is essentially for life. you can't really be f
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by nrser 11y ago
bundler is great. i really wish it worked for most major languages. switching between projects in different languages with different packaging systems is a bunch of weight i don't want to have to carry around or time i don't want
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by nrser 12y ago
it can make it much easier to do on-demand migrations: in massive online apps, a large percentage of data is essentially 'dead' - it's unlikely anyone will ever access it again. and massive online apps (call it 'web-scal
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by nrser 12y ago
yup. once upon a time we had a MySQL db on commodity hardware doing around 6K QPS with over 100M rows in the biggest table. you can't do much to it without taking it offline, and even then you have no idea if/when the migration wi
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Have the link to recent “how a computer works” deck?
1 points by nrser 12y ago|1 comments
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by nrser 12y ago
i only half read the article but i'm still gonna call color
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by nrser 12y ago
the funny part is: the people i know that used the service (who were far down towards 'non' on the technical spectrum) complained regularly about it's terrible design, stability and security, and were under the impression it
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by nrser 12y ago
i think that's what's special about graffiti. it has a heart of damage, of destruction; of disrespect. it has undeniable artistic elements to it, but it remains very difficult for people, even those in the 'quite accepting ou
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by nrser 13y ago
can anyone provide insight into the business reasoning behind this? i really can't conceive of why you would want to supersede a user's exact, known language with a guess. sites are pretty difficult to use when you can't read
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by nrser 13y ago
having some of the largest rights-holders in the world identify your organization's destruction as a significant revenue opportunity puts you in a rather haphazard spot. if you don't have a war chest, you're not going to have
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by nrser 13y ago
my understanding is that they were in the right place at the right time to capture the tip from feature to smart phones in a country with an unusable SMS system and an unbelievable virtual goods market. source: friends were in social /
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by nrser 13y ago
i think tencent did the investment, the point of which is likely "none of them".
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by nrser 13y ago
start-ups are supposed to pivot like shit. gorillas are supposed to keep the lights on forever. i know it's not that simple. at least start-ups have a reasonable option of open sourcing failed products. i don't know how often that
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by nrser 13y ago
i think you're out of memories brah: Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 21757952) (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /var/www/techblog/wp-content/plugins/disqus-comment-system/lib/api&#x2
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by nrser 13y ago
i would love to. i came from linux to OSX. and for exactly those reasons i can't leave: - Photoshop (nope, Gimp won't do, sorry) - Word (nope, OpenOffice etc. won't do... had it fuck up the section headings on a legal doc
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by nrser 13y ago
i would go with Zynga. i was employee 7, lived many scumbagggeries during my tenure and am aware of many more after my departure. not much to add to what you'll find online, excpet that it might not have been the right thing or the rig
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by nrser 13y ago
any comment on the process (or lack there of)?
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by nrser 13y ago
no, he's actually extending credit - 'fronting' the product. he would loan someone an amount worth $300 in small end-user sales, for which the person would owe him $100 that they could pay back after selling it. freemium woul
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by nrser 13y ago
how big is your data set? i remember MySQL degrading when the tables got too big, i think around 100M rows or so. the data set probably didn't fit in memory either. i don't know how much of a difference it makes, but we were also
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by nrser 13y ago
like i said, i've heard good things. what kind of QPS have you guys seen a box go up to? anywhere near the 'tens to hundreds of thousands' that [bhauer]( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bhauer ) threw out

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