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Cloud Cost Calculator(scalyr.com)
75 points by snewman 13y ago|38 comments
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by snewman 13y ago
Yes, we'd like to release it someday, but it won't be any time soon unfortunately. There are a lot of dependencies on other parts of our codebase, e.g. for configuration and monitoring, which would need to be cleaned up. We will p
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by snewman 13y ago
Very nice work, and the wiki is also quite nice -- I wish more projects had a page like https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/Rocksdb-Architectur... . It's really nice to see a clear, terse summary of
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True Server Cost Comparison(blog.scalyr.com)
1 points by snewman 13y ago|0 comments
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by snewman 13y ago
Taking a short break every 20~30 minutes is a good idea for other reasons, too. It gives you a chance to get up and walk around for a minute, which gets your blood moving and counteracts some of the ill effects of sitting in a chair all day
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by snewman 13y ago
As sprizzle says, F1 and Dremel are not competitors; Dremel is a read-only system supporting large analysis queries, while F1 is a read-write system designed for large numbers of smaller queries. Last year Google published a paper on PowerD
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by snewman 13y ago
It does require a near vacuum. At high speed, the tiny amount of air in the tube gets compressed to the point where it plays a significant role in the dynamics of the train's motion. So, both are true.
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by snewman 13y ago
Yup, the level of interest is becoming clear. :) We'll work on getting this published in some form. Keep an eye on our blog, or e-mail us at contact@scalyr.com and ask to be notified when the code is available.
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by snewman 13y ago
I suspect this would be very difficult to implement robustly. There are just too many ways to hide something: color it white, overlay another element on top, use a weird font that causes it to look like something else, ...
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by snewman 13y ago
Well, it depends on what you're using it for. In many cases, the issues we wrestled with are fairly minor. It's only when you have a very large number of data nodes that you run into trouble.
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by snewman 13y ago
We'd have to do a little cleanup work to be able to publish these, but we'll definitely do it if there's enough interest. Feel free to follow up with us at contact@scalyr.com.
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by snewman 13y ago
Interesting way of looking at things, but the math is WAY off -- you've confused "passengers per flight" with "passengers per year".
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Optimizing AngularJS(blog.scalyr.com)
90 points by snewman 13y ago|41 comments
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by snewman 13y ago
I wish this sort of thing were more common. For debugging purposes if nothing else, it's helpful to support custom metadata everywhere in an API -- every data type, every logged operation.
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Exploring the Github Firehose(blog.scalyr.com)
1 points by snewman 13y ago|0 comments
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by snewman 13y ago
Yes they were, and yes it was cool. Seems to be down now though -- part of the rather sudden Cue-shaped hole in the Internet.
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Ask HN: serious engineering discussion of Hyperloop
3 points by snewman 13y ago|0 comments
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by snewman 13y ago
I keep hearing great things about DigitalOcean, but the critical price parameter for me is flash storage, and they don't seem to be beating AWS here. The larger DigitalOcean plans are $1 / GB / month for flash. An EC2 hi1.4xl
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by snewman 13y ago
No, the seller is retaining responsibility for the pension. Imagine that the Globe was worth $X including pension obligations. Then the Globe unencumbered by pension obligations should be worth $X+110M. The sale price implies $X+110M = 70M,
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by snewman 13y ago
Interesting that the reviews for this book were so much better than The Casual Vacancy. I wonder whether it is in fact better written, or simply that The Casual Vacancy suffered for having J. K. Rowling's name attached to it. (Expectat
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by snewman 13y ago
Thanks -- I'll check it out.
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by snewman 13y ago
That's a possibility, but can you use it to build programs that can be posted on a web page? I really wish there was something that felt like writing C# in Visual Studio Express, but produced JavaScript apps. (He has a Mac, so we'd more lik
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Ask HN: programming environment for a student who has outgrown toy environment?
6 points by snewman 13y ago|5 comments
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by snewman 14y ago
This is very likely derived from Google Docs, not Wave. The spreadsheet app has been based on this approach (immediate synchronization via operation transforms) since way back, and the document and presentation apps were rewritten to the sa
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by snewman 14y ago
Heartily agreed. I am extremely disappointed with Musk over this incident -- and now with the NYT as well, for failing to stand their (valid) ground and failing to call out Musk's blatant lies and manipulations. As the dust settles, it appe
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by snewman 14y ago
No, they haven't broken the CAP theorem. If the network were to partition badly enough, Spanner would lose its quorum and would become unavailable, at least for guaranteed-consistent operations. In practice, a network partition bad enough t
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by snewman 14y ago
They handle uncertainty by delaying the transaction commit. Suppose you commit a transaction and at that moment, the error bar for time (on the server that handles your transaction) is 4 ms. The server will wait 4 ms to tell you the transac
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by snewman 14y ago
Good question (and thanks for the fluentd pointer). The answer boils down to: 1. We want to provide a number of functions (e.g. tailing logs, gathering system metrics, reading from application-specific monitoring interfaces). There are pack
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Ask HN: language recommendations for a compact, portable daemon?
1 points by snewman 14y ago|3 comments
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by snewman 14y ago
Confirmed: all EBS volumes were 100GB.

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