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by shadowmint 8y ago
I feel like this sort of organic growth (for typescript) is a very healthy sign for a project. ES6 (or whatever we’re supposed to refer to it as now) is good enough for many things, but when you see it used heavily with, for example, propty
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by shadowmint 8y ago
I don't think many people are seriously suggesting RedisLabs don't have the right to pursue a valid business model to secure the future of themselves and redis in general; I mean, look at elastic search, that's exactly what t
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by shadowmint 8y ago
tisk tisk, so many downvotes and knee jerk reactions, but this is pragmatically correct. GPL is unpopular, and if you want people to use your software, it is the wrong license to choose. Should it be? Perhaps not. ...but I don't th
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by shadowmint 8y ago
I think the problem is more complex than you're bothering to give it credit. For example, food stamps may go to a family , where they are dealt with responsibly, in a way that money, which is very easy to grab and walk out to buy ciga
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by shadowmint 8y ago
I think I’m more offended Russ said he was looking at cargo as ‘best of breed’ for inspiration.. but ended up ignoring it entirely to do his own thing. Just suck it up. You went off and did your own thing, and ignored everybody else, sticki
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by shadowmint 8y ago
> EU fines represent about 3% of EU revenue wow. Really? You make that sounds like its insignificant, but it really isn't. Fines that go in to the 'consolidated budget' for a country or region doesn't seem right; it&#
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by shadowmint 8y ago
Yes, but we're all basically familiar with elliptic geometry, and as a result it's not terribly interesting or surprising. Hyperbolic geometry, on the other hand, is alien to most people, (especially fractal like the projections i
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by shadowmint 8y ago
Obviously ML can add a lot of value here, but its questionable to me if its trivial to build such a model with available data, keep said model up to date, or train variations on it easily, cheaply and quickly enough to A/B test the res
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by shadowmint 8y ago
This is true of many ‘non euclidean renderers’ but in this case it is actually using a hyperbolic plane as the playing field. Higher dimensionality is largely irrelevant to whether the geometry is euclidean or not.
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by shadowmint 8y ago
People want it... Yes, but do gitlab users want it? I’m not arguing theres a place for a web ide... sure. That’s a thing. ...but as part of gitlab? really? ...and lets be explicit here; part of gitlab instead of a stand alone product? W
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by shadowmint 8y ago
Says who? This kind of ‘user centric’ justification is rubbish and we all know it. What this is, pure and simpe, is ‘throw it at a wall and see what sticks’. Maybe people will like it and they’ll run with it, or maybe people will hate it an
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by shadowmint 8y ago
That’s a strange thing to say given what you’ve made is significantly more full featured than necessary for that use case.
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by shadowmint 8y ago
This is quite a fair comment, but I can’t tell if you’re agreeing, disagreeing or just making an unrelated point. The point I was making is: this article isn’t practically useful, its just ‘how it would be nice if things were’ not ‘how to g
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by shadowmint 8y ago
This is really great advice, thank you. I think it really crystalized the issues I had reading the article; you can do (or try to do...) all the ‘right things’ and still have a terrible result. If it was easy to get right, things would be g
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by shadowmint 8y ago
There are literally hundreds of methods and tools; it doesn’t matter which one(s) you pick. I’m quite serious. The thing you need to realize is that you’ll get it wrong, no matter the tool... until you invest time in reviewing past estimate
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by shadowmint 8y ago
What are you talking about? Microsoft has to suck it up when they screw up like everyone else. ...they’ve just got a teack record of screwing it up (and screwing peopke over) which is longer and messier thansome other people. Google would g
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by shadowmint 8y ago
This is correct. ...it is also why php is not really any significantly better choice than any other framework/language combination. The benefits of ‘plain php’ (simplicity) disappear quite quickly when you’re doing anything non trivial
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by shadowmint 8y ago
You’re arguing around the point here. Almost all reasearch domains live on a log curve; a little bit gets you a lot to start with, but eventually you exhaust the easy solutions and a lot of work gets you very little improvement. You’re argu
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by shadowmint 8y ago
How can this be an issue if their base software is open source? Just recompile it with the numbers upped, surely?
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by shadowmint 8y ago
python is slow and single threaded, which is a tangible problem for an ETL, and airflow specifically. ...airflow is good enough for other reasons, but that doesn’t mean ‘not python’ gets off the wish list.
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by shadowmint 8y ago
Basically software for batch processing a tonne of data. eg. importing a SAP feed into a database, or loading a bunch of csv files, or like processing a bunch of images... ...anything where you have to convert data from some source through
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by shadowmint 8y ago
...but why? Just use airflow. Things I want in an ETL: [x] works at scale. [x] simple to use. [x] not written in python (eg. in go or rust) [x] easy to scale (eg. in docker) [ ] this.
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by shadowmint 8y ago
This is very very long to explain a very simple pair of ideas: 1) You should be able to declare scoped blocks that mandate execution of all tasks started in that block ends when the scope ends. 2) This is fundamentally superior to all other
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by shadowmint 9y ago
This seems like a lovely sentiment... however... If you release games on a platform, or targeting a hardware spec which has a player base with is too small (like say, VR), and don't make enough money in your 'big bang' releas
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by shadowmint 9y ago
So what now? An appeal of the appeal? This is the legal drama that never stops giving...
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by shadowmint 9y ago
nope. ...but once again I recommend anyone who reads this post go browse wikipedia’s design patterns section. Its pretty neat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_pattern
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by shadowmint 9y ago
> I felt it was a modern followup to the classic Design Patterns... If you’re going to recommend a book, then why not just recommend Design Patterns? That’s actually a good book; and, if you read it, you will extract exactly zero value f
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by shadowmint 9y ago
I’ve commented at length about this book before; really, just don’t bother. It’s not very good at patterns, not comprehensive, not clear on how to use them for games or why you might want to use them at all. Google search “design pattern bo
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by shadowmint 9y ago
He's right (in some ways). I know it's written in an irritating style, but I feel like this kind of scaled application deployment strategy is basically the future, and you'd be very very naive to dismiss it as just some marke
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by shadowmint 9y ago
/shrug I'm not telling you what to do or that what you're saying is wrong; I'm just telling you you're being rude by doing what you're doing in the way you're doing it . If you don't care, that'

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