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by rbranson 16y ago
Most people don't operate in a 100% ACID environment. However, This has a pretty low impact on web applications, so many of us can breathe easy. PostgreSQL's default isolation level is READ COMMITTED and InnoDB's default isolation level is
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by rbranson 16y ago
Not to mention his reverse engineering of the animal style In-N-Out burger. The Burger Lab has changed my entire perspective on the perfect burger. http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/07/the-burger-lab-h...
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by rbranson 16y ago
Except that Foxconn is a manufacturing company that builds to spec. HTC designs the hardware and does white labeling. That is a VERY important distinction.
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by rbranson 16y ago
This is exactly the pattern used by Rails apps with database migrations and Capistrano deployment.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Honestly I think Microsoft's extreme desire to maintain backwards compatibility has hurt developers in the long run. That's an awful lot of legacy to carry around and they haven't been proficient at phasing products and platforms out when
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by rbranson 16y ago
... and it shows. Facebook's API and platform are terrible.
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by rbranson 16y ago
This is a very important update. Everyone running 0.2+ should update immediately. When previous versions of node.js ran out of file descriptors, it holds them open and hangs, effectively killing it's ability receive any more connections unt
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by rbranson 16y ago
to compare, Reddit has like, 5. Digg is overfunded.
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by rbranson 16y ago
What's the point of this post? What did anyone learn from this? This is a pointless rant that belongs on someone's Facebook wall, not on a blog with thousands of readers.
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by rbranson 16y ago
I read this as "MacBook Air ships without Flash [Memory]" as if someone got a MacBook Air without an SSD inside.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Obviously we should always look at large companies with skepticism, but Google is clearly building a long-term brand and trying to generate goodwill by investing in massive R&D efforts. This is rare among large companies. Most seem focu
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by rbranson 16y ago
How is the pricing difference for a dedicated server and EC2 5 times? Maybe if you only look at the physical hardware cost, but often that is the smaller component. You are comparing a capital asset with both fixed and variable cost compone
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by rbranson 16y ago
Again, I agree with you on all points. I can't count on my hands the number of languages I've tried out and written a decent bit of code in, learning things along the way. However, that doesn't translate into "I should use this platform for
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by rbranson 16y ago
Perhaps not a bottleneck, but for very high network throughput systems, offloading the TCP checksumming can make more CPU available for other tasks. Often the offload engines built into network cards are either slow or have very poorly writ
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by rbranson 16y ago
It looks like the zealots got to you. I agree partially with what you're saying. Node.js is still a somewhat immature platform, but people are generally building small, single-purpose servers with it, not replacing their entire infrastructu
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Ask HN: Anyone using Node.js in production?
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by rbranson 16y ago
Translation: per-client, it uses very little resources, and V8 garbage collection is a good fit for the type of services Node.js targets. It's mostly about memory. ... and yes, as others have pointed out, Node.js supports process forking, w
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by rbranson 16y ago
Without getting into a huge my language vs your language debate: I agree that this isn't the RIGHT attitude, but it's not about me learning Lua per say, it's a reality of writing code in the real world for real projects.
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SSE4.2 and the new CRC32 instruction(byteworm.com)
48 points by rbranson 16y ago|18 comments
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by rbranson 16y ago
Let's remember that Node.js is more about predictability, scalability, and (most of all) simplicity of development, than performance. Lua(JIT) is indeed impressive, but having to learn another programming language is a huge downside.
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by rbranson 16y ago
I think he's specifically speaking about VCs and assumes you have some kind of smaller investment and/or people working on equity.
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by rbranson 16y ago
The ease of pairing JRuby with custom Scala/Java and the vast array of Java libraries is amazing. While in the past polyglot either involved SOA or complex integration using C-based glue code and lots of wrappers, this stuff just snaps toge
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Scala now ahead of Java 6 -server in Language Shootout(shootout.alioth.debian.org)
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by rbranson 16y ago
I agree with you, the greatest part about Java and it's ecosystem is that it somewhat minimizes the impact terrible developers can have. That's why it's such a superstar in the corporate world where you rarely get to pick and choose.
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by rbranson 16y ago
I agree with the article, but I'm also starting to not see why Oracle even cares about Java anymore. There are enough fantastic free / open source products available that if you told an investor you were starting a company to build J2EE inf
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by rbranson 16y ago
Small correction: Google didn't "map all the world's roads using cameras and a mechanical turk, destroying billions in market cap for map data providers." That is more than a stretch. They mapped SOME of the roads in the US, augmenting exis
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by rbranson 16y ago
Here in Memphis, where we recently received a $90 million grant from the Gates Foundation, it would be nice JUST to graduate kids who could read on a middle school reading level. Forget sending them to college or trying to create some kind
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by rbranson 16y ago
Bummer. It's really amazing how 1 seemingly simple (but quite important and engagement driving) feature like instant gratification badges can drive your architecture decisions and keep you guys up at night.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Have you thought about how much extra overhead there is in storing the checkins using MongoDB's BSON structures? Considering how often you do this, you might consider packing a specialized version of a user's history (at least for this purp
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by rbranson 16y ago
Anything that is both latency sensitive (web apps are) and requires high throughput is going to be RAM-centric. Even services operating at much smaller scales with "old school" single DB boxes need to keep the vast majority of active data i

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