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by porker 3y ago
I'm curious, what kind of problem needs 5 billion rows every 3 minutes to replace the previous 5 billion rows? By "micro batch" I understand batch processing of some kind?
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by porker 3y ago
> No more SASS/LESS, and (hopefully) soon no more PostCSS hopefully! I keep running my CSS through SASS just so I can use single line comments. If they'd add those to CSS natively... Can't wait to drop PostCSS as I've
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by porker 3y ago
I think it would be a better choice to default to showing the current stable release's docs rather than the dev branch? That way users who download it see the docs they expect, and those who build from the dev branch or download previe
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by porker 3y ago
It's really good. Using the Symfony Console component you get sane argument and option parsing and validation (optional/required, single or array values), output styling, interactive inputs, tables etc. If you're wanting to b
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by porker 3y ago
> Rebuild of ms office for the web: owning users given gsuite was seriously taking over office use And Google let them win by coasting on GSuite. I use it for my business, my partner uses Office 365 for hers. In 2023 Office 365 is by far
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by porker 3y ago
If low power WiFi could be used instead of Zigbee and have the same battery life or better, that would make building home monitoring and automation devices easier.
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by porker 3y ago
> Of course, at that time, there was no Ubuntu teaching everyone to sudo all the time Maybe that's why I am used to logging in as root rather than a user. I started in 1999 and have been surprised how few users now do
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by porker 3y ago
> There is so much less drama in the communities I'd hate to see the other communities then! I think of PHP communities as full of drama, whether that's fads and dogmatism (which usually changes every 3-5 years) or people lacki
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by porker 3y ago
> silent truncation when inserting is still the default behavior, I think Hasn't been the default since MySQL 5.6. MySQL 5.7 was released in 2015 and some distros may have altered the defaults, but I doubt it.
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by porker 4y ago
Better than Fastly?
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by porker 4y ago
Seconded!
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by porker 4y ago
While it moves it from a single script to needing a composer.json and vendor directory, I find the Process component [1] has removed the footguns I used to encounter. 1. https://symfony.com/doc/current/components&#
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by porker 4y ago
> Look up Lotus Improv and Javelin and Quantrix for examples of spreadsheets done right. I looked them up but Google wasn't forthcoming about what made them be "done right". Can you explain what they brought?
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by porker 4y ago
I don't know much about the situation in Europe, but in the UK once you move beyond the international cloud players most of our hosting is now owned by big conglomerates. The smaller companies have been bought up by iONOS, team.blue, H
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by porker 4y ago
TIL PTSD from using AWS is real.
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by porker 4y ago
Thanks for the reminder. Manticoresearch is an alternative I haven't tried yet. I tried the hip alternatives (Melisearch, Typesense) in autumn 2022 and both were severely lacking for CRM workloads compared with ES.
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by porker 4y ago
> This is the Java library that ES is based on. Based on, but Elasticsearch is not just a server wrapped around the library. Features ES has are not in Lucene, otherwise anyone could release a competitor by wrapping the library. > It
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by porker 4y ago
> - Text search is a library function What text search will provide me with the same features as Elasticsearch? Index time analysis, stemming, synonyms; search time expansions, prefix matching, filtering and (as a separate feature) type
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by porker 4y ago
Does anyone know of a similar intro course for Clickhouse?
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by porker 4y ago
PHP 8 hasn't fixed function autoloading, and Composer still has hacks like you can specify function containing files it will always load.
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by porker 4y ago
Tweet on the impact of this on the Elixir project: https://mobile.twitter.com/josevalim/status/1635767176769462...
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by porker 4y ago
> If we agree that declarative rendering has its upsides, then it is ridiculous to keep moaning that the complexity is "nuts" and that everyone's just insane for no reason. React is what a declarative model looks like. Are
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by porker 4y ago
Oh I loved using those! Thanks for bringing back memories, I will have to see if I still have a backup of that website.
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by porker 4y ago
> If you were a well-funded tech company looking for design help from say 2014-2020, Ueno was probably on your shortlist What was it about Ueno's work that made it so good? I've admired it from the first time I saw Halli &
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by porker 4y ago
The problem I've had with Postman is the sharing between team members. Everyone needs to add new requests, edit (locally) but sometimes sav the edits back to the collection. Someone has to modify the auth script and have it update for
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KalDB, a cloud-native search engine for log management and analytics from Slack(github.com)
2 points by porker 4y ago|0 comments
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by porker 4y ago
As a counterpoint I'm working on an ex-PHP4 codebase, that's been "developed" (in the loosest possible meaning) by assorted people over 15 years. It's full of security vulnerabilities and the worst code I've se
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by porker 4y ago
> What I know is that those first few years of my career in office In that particular office. Ive had spells of time like that. Mine were at universities working together in labs. Ive worked software jobs in companies and startups wher
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by porker 4y ago
There's two issues with spray foam insulation: First the off-gassing. It emits a lot of harmful compounds as it cures and I understand the emissions to go on for a long time. So if you mind about air quality it wouldn't be my choi
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by porker 4y ago
> there was a recent HN thread about Google's rsync-with-fastcdc tool Was this the tool & thread you mean? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34303497 ?

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