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by pselbert 6y ago
What you're proposing requires him to sell his time instead of his work (which was already a portion of his time). It is impossible to scale that type of consulting work to multiple clients because you'll always be limited by your
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by pselbert 6y ago
Possibly a bit of a stretch, but to my mind more business for Ericsson means more guaranteed support for Erlang. That's something to celebrate about in my book.
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by pselbert 6y ago
No matter whose billboards they are, I would rather not have any. They are a blight on our environment—drive on 294 around Chicago if you don’t believe me. I love DDG and am a long time user. I’d just prefer that nobody had billboards.
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by pselbert 6y ago
Indeed. It was from their parent company. I’m a fan of their scotch, so it’s a little bitter sweet.
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by pselbert 6y ago
There is a service ran by ICANN called the “trademark clearlinghouse”. It is a subscription service that trademark owners, e.g. Netflix, can use to be notified of any domain that is registered and may infringe on their trademark. It even al
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by pselbert 6y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. We're trying to prepare for an alternate name and all of the changes that entails and hoping that a domain change is sufficient.
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Ask HN: Domain name takedown order, what do I do?
3 points by pselbert 6y ago|2 comments
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Nintendo Confirms Some 160k Accounts Might've Been Hacked(wired.com)
2 points by pselbert 6y ago|0 comments
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by pselbert 6y ago
Anything from Oxide’s On the Metal podcast, especially the first five episodes. https://oxide.computer/podcast/
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by pselbert 6y ago
Searching for things related to Phoenix is a constant problem. Even Phoenix Elixir will sometimes give you results for random bars in Arizona.
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by pselbert 7y ago
During the coding exercise portion of an interview I let them choose any language they like. The exercise is exceptionally simple and doesn't push the boundaries of their language knowledge at all. If somebody can't do the exercis
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How do we go palm oil free?(bbc.com)
3 points by pselbert 7y ago|0 comments
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by pselbert 7y ago
I use it professionally about 90% of the time, and for my own projects almost 100% of the time now. I’ve been in the community for about 6 years and still absolutely love it.
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by pselbert 7y ago
This is my primary issue with just about every sizable library in the JS ecosystem. All I need to do is concatenate some files and convert ES6 and now I have 700+ packages in my node_modules folder. I wish core JS had more functionality bui
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by pselbert 7y ago
There has been some progress on that front. For index size there is a new rebuild command in PG12 which works concurrently. There is also pluggable storage now, which enables much more efficient row deletion. I can’t find a link to the new
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by pselbert 7y ago
Sure, you can glue things together with lua. Here is a script that handles descheduling from a sorted set: https://github.com/sorentwo/kiq/blob/master/priv/scripts/des... That definitely does t
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by pselbert 7y ago
> What exactly is fragile about this approach? We've supported scheduled tasks in TaskTiger ( https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger ) via Redis's sorted sets and haven't had any issues. Using sorted sets
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by pselbert 7y ago
No, unfortunately not. It does use jsonb for job arguments to make interop easy. That’s entirely on the enqueuing side though and not processing.
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by pselbert 7y ago
I don’t think it is much of a problem until you are pushing 2-3k jobs a second. Only the message saturation is a bottleneck anyhow, everything else I mentioned is handled by how a library is architected.
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by pselbert 7y ago
It seems like PG has been pigeonholed as only suitable for “small-medium” size queues, but without numbers to define what “small-medium” means. A few million jobs an hour is entirely reasonable for PG based on anectdata (and I’ve load teste
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by pselbert 7y ago
Postgres PubSub is great for triggering job dispatch, but it isn’t good enough on its own. There are a few caveats that make polling an additional requirement: 1. Message compaction — notifications are deduplicated, so if two jobs are inser
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by pselbert 7y ago
Redis is brilliant for simple job queues but it doesn’t have the structures for more advanced features. Things like scheduled jobs can be done through sorted sets and persistent jobs are possible by shifting jobs into backup queues, but it
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The Truth About Hiring(devonestes.com)
2 points by pselbert 7y ago|1 comments
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by pselbert 7y ago
Learning ffmpeg can be daunting but it is a highly useful tool to know. The option intricacies and peculiarities make it extremely hard to “master” though. It requires so much experimentation and experience (trial and error) that achieving
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Oban Recipes Part 3: Reliable Scheduling(sorentwo.com)
1 points by pselbert 7y ago|0 comments
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by pselbert 7y ago
This is one of the many things I learned from the destroyallsoftware screencasts [0] so many years ago. Before that I used vim in a gui (MacVim). Along with moving to tmux this completely changed how I work. [0]: https://www.dest
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Passive Voice(writingcenter.unc.edu)
2 points by pselbert 7y ago|0 comments
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Oban Recipes Part 1: Unique Jobs
1 points by pselbert 7y ago|0 comments
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by pselbert 7y ago
They were a life saver when I was going to school for furniture. We would order everything from them. Screws, bits, inserts, random bits of metal. Later I discovered that they provide CAD drawings for everything they carry. That was immen
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by pselbert 7y ago
They have a major release every year or so, the last one was June of last year. They will release features in point releases though, for example Counters was released in 21.1 and Persistent Term was released with 21.2.

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