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by spotman 10y ago
Congrats to the team. I <3 Launchkit, and use a couple of its features. Seriously bummed that this sounds like the end, however I imagine your amazing skills will be used to enhance the google play store, which is great for you guys. An
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These are good. Some more: - along with multi use, use pipelined calls when you don't need a transaction but are going to need more than one reply rapidly. This can increase performance literally 10-100x if you need it and your not us
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by spotman 10y ago
Why everyone 'seems' to 'love' it the same reason functional programming and postgres are darling technologies here on HN. It's more culture than anything else. People have been testing code for years and years, an
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by spotman 10y ago
A friend still uses my original iPhone, with edge. He got it off me for cheap back in the day when I upgraded,but now he keeps it going as a fashion statement. Amazing that it still works !
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by spotman 10y ago
You will need to break out your sales skills and tap the network you just mentioned. On paper, having built stuff for YC startups sounds like you are plugged into an amazing network. So it is a balance of being direct "hey we are taki
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by spotman 10y ago
Yea sure some people in the sea of 500 will be doing elegant clean things, working in the core part of the business ( usually at or near the cash register program ) but if you have reason to have 500 developers you don't simply get the
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by spotman 10y ago
Not really, YouTube runs on MySQL. Pretty sure it's still the largest video site in the world.
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by spotman 10y ago
Sure, but the show must go on.
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by spotman 10y ago
Your absolutely correct that it is not risk free, however, if you do not use foreign keys (which no huge scale mysql install like schemaless does) and you know what your doing (read: calculating the expected load, adding throttles and sanit
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by spotman 10y ago
Try enforcing this on teams that use ORMs like hibernate with 500 developers. Super, duper, common issue, you will find this at every large shop at some point in its life time, usually around the time of hiring people and expanding extremel
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by spotman 10y ago
> I have to very seriously disagree here, ORMs In spirit I agree with you, its the engineer's fault for not reading the documentation of their ORM or equivalent. But in these big ships with hundreds of programmers, leaving transacti
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by spotman 10y ago
Like uber pool, vs uber normal vs uber premium. Just have to get rid of the pesky drivers.
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by spotman 10y ago
Cool idea! Random Feedback: - Made it through the survey, was expecting to create a password before you asked for money, so upon closing this window, I just realized that I am not sure if I have an account. On a hunch I re-entered my emai
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by spotman 10y ago
Would that lead you to write an article that said 'goodbye android forever' and tell people to avoid it because you prefer iOS? That's the kind of 'taking sides' I was intending to articulate.
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by spotman 10y ago
Well said. I feel the same way about this as I do platforms. There is amazing projects on every platform. There is horrendous projects on every platform. Taking sides just a narrows your point of view and lessens the amount you can learn.
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by spotman 10y ago
The difference between a consultant with lots of real world experience and not. Yes there is slippage, but you learn to plan for it. In the past week I had an employee have a baby and an employee have a parent pass away and another one hav
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by spotman 10y ago
Maybe an unpopular opinion here, but I agree with the article overall. My view is less that programming is going away, and more that all jobs are. Not immediately or anything, but I don't think we are going to magically produce progra
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by spotman 10y ago
Have a ton more experience with aws, but one large project has moved to GCE recently and everyone involved is beyond pleased. The tooling and features are almost on par, and the ux is just better. Things like more powerful configuration of
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Show HN: Device agnostic fitness tracking with friends
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Would have liked to see some real cost analysis, other than it should save you money, because that is only true if scale is small to medium. That's the thing, I guess the demographic that lambada is going for it will save money, but al
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by spotman 10y ago
You are approaching it too much like a programmer in my humble opinion. Yes there is rules and guidelines, but before you can follow them you need a style , a feel , a culture . You should get ( pay ) a graphic designer friend to come up wi
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by spotman 10y ago
Depends how hard you try, but don't let reading stop you! My greatest mentor was mostly blind. He could see the terminal but would need to be about 2-4 inches away and would be energetically moving his head as he read the contents of t
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by spotman 10y ago
Maybe they should consider different marketing semantics than "autopilot". I guess "partial driving assistant" doesn't sound as good, but might be a better term.
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by spotman 10y ago
Good idea; bad execution. It's an expensive to question to answer whether they are worth a second shot at this point. My money is on no, the brand is tarnished, but some day the idea seems like it will resurface, and when it does whoev
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by spotman 10y ago
Redmine and gitlab are usually where I reach when jira makes me sad. Redmine has more elaborate workflow possibilities, but gitlab is more light and simple. I actually use all 3 every day depending on what project I am working in.
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Tldr, we were worried about running out of disk space, and setting up distributed logging is hard. So we decided to shoe horn our JavaScript app into lambada and justified it because some thought was put into how much effort it would be to
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In the car business though, it's a pre-requisite to paying the bills, and a positive step along a complicated path to getting them paid.
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This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing. It could be because I have not looked hard enough but this type of knowledge is not easily findable all in one place. Great job at striking a good balance between opinion and best practice, I already
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by spotman 10y ago
I don't think the parent comment is talking about the UX really. But on the topic of UX and what are or are not losing, I will say that the UX of slack is not so good when it eats 2gb of memory all day and beachballs a modern day iMac
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by spotman 10y ago
This is a tough one. It's easy to be the expert and point out what will not work. The crux of it is as he states the false advertising, and how many people will see this and start to use it without knowing what they are doing. Howeve

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