shusson

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   by shusson 9y ago

   thanks, that's good to know.
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   by shusson 9y ago

   If the author is going to use GCP why not use their `container engine` [1]? [1] https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/
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   by shusson 9y ago

   I wonder how this compares to CockroachDB
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   by shusson 9y ago

   The work started 12 years ago when there were probably no `NewSQL` [1] solutions out there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSQL
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   by shusson 9y ago

   yeah I was surprised by this as well when I first started using AWS and GCP
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   by shusson 9y ago

   > I couldn't imagine migrating to a new cloud provider now ugh vendor lock-in is the worst :)
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   by shusson 9y ago

   Just to clarify, the $300 is linked to your personal account and once it expires it's gone forever (at least for now).
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   by shusson 9y ago

   now provides the hosting abstraction [1], sounds like internally they choose whichever one is cheapest. [1] https://zeit.co/now#features
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   by shusson 9y ago

   it's an old one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12890498
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    by shusson 9y ago

    > The article implies that Google can somehow force adblocker users to either pay per pageview or turn off their adblockers, which is awful if true, though I'm not clear how it's supposed to work. And that's when you downl
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    by shusson 9y ago

    I started using pass last week after a post on HN, loving it so far.
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    by shusson 9y ago

    I wonder if there are benefits of non instructional self talk. e.g talking to yourself in the car about nothing in particular.
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    by shusson 9y ago

    Hmm you should probably stop talking to yourself...
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    by shusson 9y ago

    A whiteboard and a cell phone works, but I think the whole process could work better.
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    by shusson 9y ago

    Have you looked at any other competing products?
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    by shusson 9y ago

    I think that's a bit of an unfair comparison, Jamboard looks like a collaboration tool, essentially a whiteboard with some added features. It's not a drawing tool for producing pretty diagrams.
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    by shusson 9y ago

    The trial only lasted for 1 week each way and contained a sample of 20. I wouldn't be making any strong conclusions based on this.
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    by shusson 9y ago

    pretty much replaces http://phantomjs.org/
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    by shusson 9y ago

    I stopped reading at that point as well.
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    by shusson 9y ago

    What about telephone wire tapping? e.g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...
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    by shusson 9y ago

    thanks, TIL. That Mozilla blog is misleading.
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    by shusson 9y ago

    > a lot of people want to "compile JS down to wasm" to make it faster. That's bullshit, because your language does not have static types to begin with, so you lose the JIT and gain nothing in exchange, which means you&#x27
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    by shusson 9y ago

    Interesting, I would describe it as an SQL client with an easy interface to load column based files. It's built on top of SQLite, which gives an indication of the kind of performance one can expect.
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    by shusson 9y ago

    TIL: HTTPS encrypts the URL.
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    by shusson 9y ago

    The biggest benefit in my experience is reuse with separate applications.
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    by shusson 9y ago

    I wish the author discussed microservices in the context of domains and models. If you model your application and find a distinct isolated domains, then consider creating separate services for them.
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    by shusson 9y ago

    > So you take code you don't understand and don't want to understand, and you use it to power someone else's business? Doesn't sound safe or professional to me That attitude sounds crippling to being productive. At so
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    by shusson 9y ago

    > It's very portable it scales well and it is fast How about some numbers to back you up? I think the authors main gripe with MongoDB was the lack of ACID transactions
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    by shusson 9y ago

    > If that ice sheet were to disintegrate, it could raise the level of the sea by more than 160 feet I was wondering how they got 160ft, it looks like it's from this paper http://www.the-cryosphere.net/7/375&#x2F
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    by shusson 9y ago

    > Average speeds have more than doubled since 2013, according to Akamai, but other countries are connecting their populations faster, meaning Australia’s lag with the rest of the world has grown. The article is very light on numbers. It