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by randito 6y ago
If you're interested in Erlang/Elixir, you might want to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE (GOTO 2019 • The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Saša Jurić) It shows off the power of the BEAM V
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by randito 6y ago
Don't forget Factorio -- aka if Software Development were a computer game with tech debt, copy/paste and literal bugs.
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by randito 6y ago
If you want to find more about the MoO and MoM development, I would talk with Ken Burd. He was a large part of that development and design effort and a great guy to boot. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-burd-626ab4
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by randito 7y ago
Good news. A civilization ending asteroid is going to miss us! https://www.space.com/asteroid-1998-or2-earth-flyby-april-20...
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by randito 7y ago
> the GOP argument is: when government does things badly, they can go VERY VERY badly. Sounds conveniently like Regulatory capture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture .
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by randito 8y ago
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture for a discussion of this topic.
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by randito 15y ago
I like the idea of doing authentication and OpenId in a traditional web stack, while doing the "app" portion in a javascript backbonejs stack. That lets you use existing libraries (Devise, etc.) for the authentication and once that's out of
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by randito 15y ago
What it's like to own an Apple product: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple
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by randito 15y ago
Yes, cobralibre is correct. I live in Austin and even with a regularly-scheduled pest treatment, we are still getting lots of bugs in the house. It's really hot out there and it's driving the bugs indoors.
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by randito 15y ago
In your first example, you use redis to cache the id's of the latests comments, with a fallback to SQL in order to populate the list. However, you still need to call the DB to load the comments. I don't see the gain here. Yes, you've rep
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by randito 15y ago
One of the niceties of CoffeeScript generated code is that it's totally readable and idiomatic Javascript with a dose of JSLint on top. To misquote the "Pragmatic Programmer" book... don't use wizard code you don't understand. The opposit
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by randito 16y ago
Some quick shoot-from-the-hip suggestions: 1. After you pick a candidate, show the stats for that candidate. Wins / losses / score / % thumbs ups 2. Left and right arrow keyboard shortcuts are nice feature. It lets you go through the pi
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by randito 16y ago
Better yet, configure a small portion of the memristors as IMP CPU compute clusters to handle the work needed to adapt it.
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by randito 17y ago
If you've got an itch, scratch it. If you're thinking about it, and you keep thinking about it, and it won't let you go, then do it.
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by randito 17y ago
Cool! Thanks for the info. It's nice reading about people's efforts to scale mid-to-large sites. All the press is on how the "giants" (Twitter, Facebook, etc) do it.