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by pcx 9y ago
We have found PhantomJS to be very buggy and hard to debug. We generate millions of PDFs a month. Whenever we upgrade PhantomJS, something breaks with no way to debug easily. We end up reverting to the older version. After trying 3 times, w
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by pcx 9y ago
We were using Xvfb with PhantomJS. Moving to a headless browser gave us the advantage of making sure everything is rendering just as we see in the GUI mode of that browser. This had a lot to do with moving away from PhantomJS. But it also r
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by pcx 9y ago
We are facing a similar situation in my company. Our current stack (just React) is not able to handle the complexity of the project, and refactoring existing features or building new ones has been a pain. We are slowly but gradually moving
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by pcx 9y ago
I wish Asana had better support for Sprint cycles. Otherwise, I just love using it. The only task management tool I've actually ever liked. I've tried several popular ones - primarily Trello, JIRA, Basecamp & GitHub Issues. Ku
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by pcx 9y ago
In my personal experience Asana is still the snappiest. I've tried Trello, Basecamp and daily use the monstrosity called JIRA. Asana initial load takes a little while, but it hasn't created any problems for me. I always have Asana
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by pcx 10y ago
JSON for configuration is a cute idea that doesn't scale at all. I've personally experienced this in a project at my job. Once the config gets substantially large, it becomes a headache. The real pain is when a sysadmin without an
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by pcx 10y ago
We've been using Postman https://www.getpostman.com/ , and it's been working great for our team. The sync and export features are killer. But I like the dark theme and the vertical split in Insomnia, will give it a
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by pcx 10y ago
Hi Andrew, This sounds interesting. Can you please provide your contact details, or drop me an email at hi[at]pcx[dot]io. You can find my posting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659747 Thanks /pcx
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by pcx 10y ago
Hi, I am software dev with strong experience in full stack web dev and devops. I have a broad set of skills as a tech guy with experience in multiple prog languages. I have mostly done web development(backend and frontend) and devops in 4.5
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by pcx 10y ago
Google's innovation is what they are doing with Kubernetes. Amazon's ECS is meh when you compare it to Kubernetes. I don't think Azure has done anything yet in this area.
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by pcx 11y ago
Learning Scala is such a pain. Either you follow a large book completely and master it across several months/years or go through overly complicated online guides and get discouraged. I understand it's a large, advanced language, b
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by pcx 11y ago
It is possible to provide exactly-once guarantee. Trident does this over Storm. http://storm.apache.org/documentation/Trident-tutorial.html
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by pcx 11y ago
I love Spark, it has great documentations and Scala! But how is Storm dead?! The documentation is not good enough yet, but there is a strong userbase and it is being actively used in a lot of companies.
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by pcx 11y ago
I don't think it's going to be easy to move from Storm to Flink. They are very different systems underneath. Any substantially complex application is going to end up having compatibility problems. My bets are on Apache Beam (Googl
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by pcx 11y ago
This is awesome, congrats to the Flink team! For our current project we evaluated Spark and Storm, and have gone the Storm way. Personally I spent a little time on Flink, but could not convince the management for more serious consideration.
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by pcx 11y ago
I think this will be a great option for existing SQL Server users wanting to move to Linux. Looks like MSFT is slowly giving up on Windows Server to some extent. They might be seeing more money in the Cloud business compared to the Server O
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by pcx 11y ago
May be adding support using an extension/addon would work.
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by pcx 11y ago
Cool, thanks for sharing! I'll still prefer waiting for a Homebrew update, too addicted to the comfort of package managers :).
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by pcx 11y ago
> You should try looking at the code before declaring that. Attempting to write a web framework in C is great! Even though you end up building the high-level programming constructs, C web dev is still just too hard compared to other alte
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by pcx 11y ago
C is a terrible language to write a web framework in. The kind of high-level constructs modern programming languages provide are just not possible in C. It is also very easy to write buggy code and is too low level for the use case.
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by pcx 11y ago
Didn't know that! Thanks for sharing. I hope the fork will be deprecated now for the official one. There's already a related issue on the repo.
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by pcx 11y ago
Nope, I am talking about Homebrew, it provides the best way to install htop on OSX.
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by pcx 11y ago
Awesome! Installing htop is the first thing I do on my *nix systems. The update is still not up on Homebrew, shouldn't take long though.
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by pcx 11y ago
For Daft Punk buffs like me, this is gold. Awesome stuff, kudos!
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by pcx 11y ago
> 2. JNI debug is a bit of pain probably. But Java/Groovy/etc much easier to debug, compared to, say, Python Woah! How is Java/Groovy/etc easier to debug than Python?? In Python you just add the following line wherev
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by pcx 11y ago
For me (5) is the major reason. Web development with Rails/Django is so much easier and smooth compared to that of any Java/JVM based frameworks, it doesn't make sense to use the Java/JVM ones. Even a Ruby/Python no
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by pcx 11y ago
This looks pretty cool, know of any production-grade software using it? I remember reading about something like this being used for Docker Compose, can't recollect what exactly that was.
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by pcx 11y ago
LF is corporate entity, but I always liked and supported it. I think I will drop my support for them if this is what it seems like it is. I want to wait till I hear LF's response to these claims.
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by pcx 11y ago
This is great news! Especially the part where Web Extensions are going work in Chrome without any changes!
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