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by spotman 10y ago
You say: > By making services depend on each other through a protocol like REST (or Thrift, gRPC or whatever), you can then replace that module by another one that respects the same interface... and you can reimplement it in whatever tec
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by spotman 10y ago
Oh microservices. Here we go again. Yes, it's easy to get burned. Yes, it's often the absolute wrong tool for the job as a young startup. Further, its all too easy to just light cash on fire once you get some real serious traff
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by spotman 10y ago
I would take a modern QT app over an electron app based purely on memory usage alone. It is no comparison from the potpourri of apps I have tried using both technologies. Yes QT is more work. But it's kind of like the old adage, you ge
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by spotman 10y ago
A distributed database. Same category of probably not a great idea to use and claim is better than what's out there ( it won't be ) but boy howdy will it teach you about distributed systems and pitfalls that will absolutely help y
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by spotman 10y ago
Completely agree. I prefer to run at night, because running before work means I have some kind of timeline that has to occasionally be accounted for, like another thread running. So after work is done, I love going on some kind of cardio a
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by spotman 10y ago
> Today, the only option for ensuring an XHR request is made when the user re-visits a page via the back button is to (1) add an unload handler then (2) use cache busting. I'm sure there is exceptions, but in general, the last thing
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by spotman 10y ago
On their site they do say however: "And we care a lot about your data. CouchDB has a fault-tolerant storage engine that puts the safety of your data first." So, yeah, I think even if eventually consistent, and not immediately cons
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by spotman 10y ago
With all the kerfuffle, I would not have imagined it would be so easy to replace. So, after poking around, it looks like pageflow is the actual creators of this stuff, and scrollytelling, has built a business around supporting it and hostin
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by spotman 10y ago
Google does this too. There is exceptions but they are rare.
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by spotman 10y ago
A/B testing and measuring specific goals. If the goal is to frustrate people less measure how much time they spend on things. If the goal is revenue measure if the ux change converts better or worse, etc. But it is hard to get people
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by spotman 10y ago
West LA has a great bike trail system and you never need to go out of a 1-3 mile radius for anything. Venice, Santa Monica, culver city, Mar vista etc
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by spotman 10y ago
Chalk it up to just a normal lesson you learn in life, be very grateful you have a way to make money. Meanwhile plan your escape to your next job more thoughtfully, and make sure that when you leave with the latest gig you feel they would s
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by spotman 10y ago
Overall this reads like a nice coming of age story under extraordinary circumstances. Much more positive than negative here, but it sounds like the author sees more negative than positive. A key takeaway is stress, stress management, growi
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by spotman 10y ago
Was in an extremely similar situation a few years ago and I kept asking the same question but continuing to burn myself out while I considered what to do. Finally I just snapped and was unable to work or really communicate with anyone. I st
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by spotman 10y ago
All kinds of reasons. A few quick examples: - say one of the slaves actually has some monitoring system break and now runs out of disk space, and stops the ability to write locally, so the lag will go up and/or health check will see i
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by spotman 10y ago
This is a good thought exercise, but kind of comes across like a random equation looking for an explanation rather than interesting observation in search of an explanation. I can't imagine the person driving doesn't spend as much
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by spotman 10y ago
Your correct, but this is combatted in practice through UX usually. Doing work in the background, doing retry w/ decay, bubbling up things that didn't go well to the user at the right time, etc. For a client to just spam 300 req
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by spotman 10y ago
There is a few things possible here. You can do global load balancing which will serve a DNS entry for a hostname based on business rules. Those business rules can contain things like geo targeting, and/or they can also contain healt
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by spotman 10y ago
Your analogy might be fair, but to continue it all the way, it would be like them turning off ability for others to upload pewdiepie videos so that they have the resources to give him his own you tube branded channel. Which we know, hasn&#x
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by spotman 10y ago
How much did you pay for the game?
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by spotman 10y ago
Cool. I definitely want to try one. Especially if the eye annoyance is less.
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by spotman 10y ago
Best of luck to George. Have always been a fan of his work. Favorite line from article: "Ultimately, Hotz says, the comma.ai philosophy is simple – tell people exactly what they’re doing, but remain confident in the startup’s ability
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by spotman 10y ago
Former oculus owner here. I wear eye glasses and it's just a giant hassle. Ended up giving it to a friend. The times that I got it up and running and having fun could be counted on one hand. Most of the use I got out of it was intro
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by spotman 10y ago
Just because you may not always use the database with the BEGIN/COMMIT semantics, that absolutely does not mean that "MVCC has almost no bearing on what they are doing". MVCC and how it has been implemented in the two storage
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by spotman 10y ago
So if nom takes off would you see 'download a nom dataset by clicking here' or would it be 'use this hostname to sync the nom to your own computer' Or would it be a dsn sort of and you just instantiate a client and your
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by spotman 10y ago
After more reading it kind of sounds likes better couch db? And cool if so, but the CSV analogy is really confusing. When I think of CSV I think of a ghetto data exchange format that I can send or receive to a less technical person. As I u
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by spotman 10y ago
Yea and then a paragraph about git under it, made me double take to think maybe they meant CVS, but then realized they really did mean CSV. If this is supposed to replace CSV cool, but there is a lot of ways to cross that bridge. Curious ho
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by spotman 10y ago
Yea would be amazing to see an innodb backend for PG! ( I'll let myself out ;)
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by spotman 10y ago
This might be better titled as a random list of tools that you may know about or be curious about. Sure there is some overlap with the already loosely defined 'devops' but this doesn't really make any headway on defining it.
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by spotman 10y ago
Wow quite intriguing and exciting that swift 4 may have a rust inspired memory model! Can definitely see the use case for swift expand a bit with this in its wings.

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