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by rbranson 15y ago
I like how the article basically says the Prius does very well because it's so conspicuous. Sounds about right.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Before I learned a Lisp, I agreed with that statement. Now, I think nothing could be further from the truth.
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by rbranson 15y ago
They shot videos of all of the talks. They took their sweet time getting them up last year though.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Rhino is really slow when compared to V8, like Ruby slow.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Rich Hickey really nailed the definitions of "complex" and "easy" and "simple" so well in his Strange Loop talk this year. Too bad there's only notes available right now: http://blog.markwshead.com/1069/simple-made-easy-rich-hickey...
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by rbranson 15y ago
People only like JavaScript because they know it. Yes, it's more productive than Java because it's (barely) functional, but I personally believe the renewed love for JavaScript is mostly Stockholm Syndrome.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Cool, but I'm not sure I get the point. This post just seems like a way to attract attention to Interstate without giving anything back to the reader.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Fucking disk I/O. Get some SSDs.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Ron Paul approves this message.
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by rbranson 15y ago
I'm amazed that there are so many PHP "PaaS" vendors out there. Isn't one of the major factors in PHP's adoption and continued popularity is it's ubiquitous deployability on a lightweight, shared-hosting LAMP stack?
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by rbranson 15y ago
That's just, like, your opinion, man.
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by rbranson 15y ago
I don't think so, just from quickly glancing at the source. The Ruby GC (at least in MRI) doesn't deal well with even moderately sized heaps (>500MB), so I imagine they are fairly dependent on the OS disk cache for keeping things in mem
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by rbranson 15y ago
sigh I wish I could get excited about MRI releases. It's one of the most disappointing parts of using Ruby for my daily grind. The sluggish pace of innovation is sometimes demoralizing. Until 1.9.2, released a year after 1.9.1, and 4 year
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MonoTable: Zero-admin, No SPOF, scalable NoSQL data-store in Ruby(monotable.org)
27 points by rbranson 15y ago|15 comments
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California governor signs tax deal with Amazon(reuters.com)
1 points by rbranson 15y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 15y ago
Switching to V8 seems like a red herring. Sounds like the current issues are with the architecture, not with the interpreter performance.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Wait, so MongoDB's MapReduce is so slow that they wrote their own MR framework in Python that pipes the data across the network and back?
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by rbranson 15y ago
Caching is probably one of those things that if you have to be told to do it, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
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by rbranson 15y ago
"Cache everything you can" This is terrible advice. Telling developers to cache everything is like walking into a rehab clinic with Lindsay Lohan's purse. Cache what you can measure as having a performance problem, which can't be optimized
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by rbranson 15y ago
Suffers the same problem: long on words, very short on evidence. It's theology.
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by rbranson 15y ago
dangoor is absolutely right. Microsoft probably put us behind 5-6 real years of progress on the web.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Ultimately, it's all about the odds. That's what HA, replication, and DR are all about. It's so statistically unlikely for certain things to happen, they just fall out of the realm of reason. Most operations folk I've talked to don't even c
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by rbranson 15y ago
The parent post referred to using Redis as a multi-purpose store. If there is a bunch of other non-queue data in Redis and the setup is only expecting it to use 1GB or so, there's likely not a giant amount of room for queue entries left. W
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by rbranson 15y ago
Perhaps because they write the laws?
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by rbranson 15y ago
What happens when the queues back up and Redis runs out of RAM?
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by rbranson 15y ago
We had this clown come in once all sweaty wearing a suit with no socks, and he tried to pitch us on some idea which involved building a Windows client application and distributing it using the "AOL CD distribution model." He also went to a
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by rbranson 15y ago
Yeah, I actually think you've got a better shot at specializing in interesting work as a consultant. As a staff developer, even if you work on interesting things most of the time, you can still get stuck with bottom-of-the-barrel shit like
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by rbranson 15y ago
This happens everywhere where clowns have the money, unfortunately.
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by rbranson 15y ago
Money should be talked about in the first 30 minutes of discussion about any client project. Rates, budgets, ability of client to pay, etc.
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by rbranson 15y ago
... which corresponds with the state of almost every IDE on OS X.

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