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by tlack 14y ago
With MySQL (and Oracle before that) it was common to simply move different parts of the database data files to different disks. I don't use Mongo so I can't speak to that, but the concept works pretty much universally. See here for more inf
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by tlack 14y ago
(This question is a bit difficult for me to phrase, so pardon me if this sentence is awkward) Can you give me an example of how this plugin architecture saved you from an awkward happenstance? For instance, what did this level of abstractio
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by tlack 14y ago
Architect is an interesting concept. I had thought about doing something similar using EventEmitter as a kind of "plugin bus" between different parts of the app. Has anyone who has used something like this for complex sites comment on imple
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by tlack 14y ago
Ah AOLserver and ArsDigita, the heartbreaking technology tale of the early web. Such great ideas ruined by branding. What ever became of all those people and what are they working on now?
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by tlack 14y ago
Pretty surprising! This industry (which is seemingly either creating tab apps or Twitter workflow tools) has been battered by the drop off in Facebook custom tab interaction since the switch to Timeline[1]. Very curious what the price was..
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by tlack 14y ago
If you run your own stack, you get lower prices and more flexibility. On the flip side, if you don't know how to administer MySQL, you'll have some learning to do. Dedicated server pricing is 1/2 or less of what Amazon offers you, and you g
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by tlack 14y ago
I wish articles like these wouldn't use these cartoonish "70s sci fi" illustrations. It makes it seem like the real science is too abstract or shaky to demonstrate. I really think that people likely to read Space Industry News could swallow
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by tlack 14y ago
(1,eval)('2*2') evaluates in the global context, so it may be slower I would think. Here's a really long and insanely detailed post about this odd feature: http://perfectionkills.com/global-eval-what-are-the-options/
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by tlack 14y ago
I wrote up a little explanation of how it works here https://gist.github.com/3039247
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by tlack 14y ago
Does anyone have any information about their database and the rest of the software that runs the site? Caching methods, if any? 4chan's stats vs their hardware and cost structure is mind blowing to me.
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by tlack 14y ago
This was submitted an hour or two ago by someone else but quickly deleted for whatever reason. Very interesting demo that relies on browser quirks to decompress its code from PNG data. I did a basic exploration of how it works here: https:
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Matraka - Impressive/weird 1005 byte Javascript demo(p01.org)
3 points by tlack 14y ago|1 comments
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by tlack 14y ago
Smarty is the default choice, but of course you can simply require("tmpl/$LANG/index.php") - PHP's short tags like <?=$name;?> are almost as simple as Handlebar's.
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by tlack 14y ago
I think the problem is that the virtual hosting model doesn't work well for platforms where every site is a running app instance. Who starts the processes? How do you restart them when the code changes (some platforms don't do this)? Who as
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by tlack 14y ago
Late response, apologies.. Node is still young, and for its primary use case (multiuser/messaging-oriented apps) it seems like the actual LoC stays pretty low. However, here are some things I've picked up in my studies that seemed to make s
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by tlack 14y ago
Looks really interesting and like pfraze I think it's important that we rethink the way we build our sites and applications; focus on composing applications out of reusable tiny JS components (widgets) will make them more robust and easier
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by tlack 14y ago
I agree that some elements of the story don't make sense. How many DHS/Immigration employees even know what a cryptographic algorithm is? Did the guy just happen to be sitting around when this guy attempted to cross the border? If the US wa
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by tlack 14y ago
I agree with your sentiment in general but I think this is a case where Javascript's control is justified. What if you had a game in which ctrl-click moved a group of units?
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by tlack 14y ago
why does this require its own application to launch it? wouldnt it be fairly easy to make this connect/express middleware?
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by tlack 14y ago
It's useful if you have data that is easy to cache (i.e., rebuilt every 6 hours) but very commonly accessed. Because the lookups are so quick (two seeks) it's almost raw disk speed. But yeah, rebuilding the files is an offline process (buil
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by tlack 14y ago
I'd love to know more about the command and control servers. If any of them involve paid hosting that might help to out the guilty party.
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by tlack 14y ago
Great site! Can you tell us about the technology you use to run it, such as db, npm modules, server configs, etc? Sometimes I wish sites had something like a colophon that described how the site was made.
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by tlack 14y ago
Actually, lightening and darkening are built-in functions in Stylus: http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/docs/bifs.html Stylus is amazing
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by tlack 14y ago
They mention using SASS, Express, Step for async coordination, underscore.js, and some others. http://engineering.linkedin.com/nodejs/blazing-fast-nodejs-1... They also have a Github fork of the excellent Dust template engine, so I presum
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by tlack 14y ago
Even when Googlebot becomes Chrome, I don't know how it will make sense of the Ajax content fragments and component-based UIs. I think in the short term most people are simply going to build their sites twice: once as a JS-heavy interactive
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by tlack 14y ago
I've been doing this on high traffic PHP sites for years. It makes mytop very informative and easy to understand, and I even occasionally use them for cheapo memcache caching instructions (built into db layer) when it's not worth precaching
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by tlack 14y ago
Interesting code. Have you thought about automatically creating the models by using SHOW TABLES + DESCRIBE? Might save you some time.
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by tlack 15y ago
It tells me I need to update to Flash Player 11, but the Adobe site tells me I'm using Chrome and that will keep Flash updated on its own. Frustrating! I'm using Chrome 14.0.835.186 on Windows 7.
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by tlack 15y ago
Brilliant! Wish list: file transfer.
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by tlack 15y ago
Anyone out there done a deep dive into this one? What's the catch?

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