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by trimbo 14y ago
Except they didn't choose mysql -- they chose Percona . Bonus of going with Percona is that in the process you get a fantastic company to back you up.
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by trimbo 14y ago
For the vast majority of sites that ever hit the web, yeah, it will probably be fine. So go ahead and have fun learning node and do it however, you can always fix it later if the site gets overloaded. At some volume though, you want to do
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by trimbo 14y ago
Came here to say this. While microbenchmarks are fun for all, in the real world you would have a completely different reason for choosing node.js that has nothing to do with this kind of performance. So just use the best tool for what i
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by trimbo 14y ago
Cool, thanks. I wanted to give them a shout-out but haven't followed the business enough lately to know what they use.
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by trimbo 14y ago
Hi, ex-visual effects guy here. You didn't really convince me that these are "myths", and get a few things wrong in the process. I'll hit on a few highlights. "Ray Tracing, which has major issues with memory and cache" Memory is impossibl
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by trimbo 15y ago
Yes, I use it all the time. I believe it's QT app, which might help explain the robust UI.
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by trimbo 15y ago
> There are two versions of the game running on the same back-end, one for the Java-based Android games and one for the C-based iOS games. Someone alert the media that Android's NDK has been available for around 3 years now and allows y
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by trimbo 15y ago
I have one and prefer the size. The screen is unbelievably beautiful, and I love watching Netflix on it while at the gym. The _only_ size related gripe I have is when I am using it one handed and need to reach the upper left corner with my
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by trimbo 15y ago
> You could re-implement erlang in C++, but then you'd end up with erlang again. Why not just use erlang in the first place? Because rewriting or shimming the 10MM lines of code in the libraries one depends on outweighs this one particu
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by trimbo 15y ago
What you've just laid out is what I guess people call a "straw man". No one is arguing assembler over C here, just like no one is arguing the virtues of vacuum tubes over the transistor. I'll say it again: the benefits of the concurrency m
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by trimbo 15y ago
That's what I've done on maybe my last 5 projects. In C++, Java and Python. Not sure why this is so tough for people to understand. You usually don't need a whole new language to use a paradigm.
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by trimbo 15y ago
> also see the comment on Google Guava, that tells a lot What comment on Guava? I just googled "guava sucks" and came up with nothing. IMO, Guava is absolutely _fantastic_, and they're improving it all the time. If people are thinking
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by trimbo 15y ago
> Also, $15 is very steep. My counterpoint to this... Don't start off engaging in the race towards all apps' pricing going to zero. Because it will. Someone is going to clone your app and make it a $1, or free. There's more than enoug
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by trimbo 15y ago
> isn't that where the schema belongs? [In the application] Well, unless you have, you know, multiple applications accessing said data. Then it's kind of important to keep it in sync, which is why RDBMS exist and operate the way they d
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by trimbo 15y ago
I just asked them twice on their chat to describe their infrastructure and they won't do it, at least yet. I realize this is in beta, and it's early, but am I the only one who would not trust my data to a service where I can't get at least
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by trimbo 15y ago
Importantly, you will need to recompile with /LARGEADDRESSAWARE.
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by trimbo 15y ago
What's "a ton"?
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by trimbo 15y ago
Or C, C++, Java, Python or Ruby. Every language has solutions for non-blocking I/O, even the boring ones.
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by trimbo 15y ago
> Id fell apart when it couldn't come up with something better than the Doom franchise. Except for, you know... Quake. On your other point. The difference between Zynga and EA is that Zynga's games have a huge turnover rate and a very
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by trimbo 15y ago
> So, for "general purpose apps", whatever that is, Android 2.2 (which was launched 2 years ago) is great. 2 years is ages in computer land and this is a huge issue Brand new Windows apps work on Windows XP and are written to APIs that
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by trimbo 15y ago
Use it on the CLR then. http://www.scala-lang.org/node/10299
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by trimbo 15y ago
Sweet! I'll give it a try.
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by trimbo 15y ago
Hm, I feel like I've tried this and couldn't get the behaviors I wanted. How does this accomplish e.g. overloading control-C to copy across the system? You wouldn't want to map command to control, since you still want control-C to be cont
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by trimbo 15y ago
For me, the biggest problem with OS X is the command key / meta key situation. I have an impossible time going between Linux, Windows and Mac because of this. Any hacks people know of for this?
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by trimbo 15y ago
Geller's source seems like some kind of Windows Phone astroturfer: "The source went on to say, “Take on Windows Phone and negotiate with Microsoft. You need BBM on Windows Phone" Wut? Windows phone is a non starter that Microsoft needed
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by trimbo 15y ago
Someone needs to spell out the difference between "tests" vs. "test ing ", might as well be me. Tests are something you, a developer, or a test engineer writes. Really important. Test ing is something that the dev, a test engineer, or
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by trimbo 15y ago
Article is from 2010.
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by trimbo 15y ago
In that way, I think of the iPad a lot like I think of game consoles. They're not self-hosting (or whatever you want to call it), and they're not designed to be anytime soon. They're designed to be a software/content distribution channel
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by trimbo 15y ago
Yes, but my point was from the date they announced to the date they did it, the stock had run up enough to counter that.
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by trimbo 15y ago
And the value of Fidelity's Apple stock would go down by $2.6 billion. That's not what happened with Microsoft did a one-time dividend of $30bn. On July 19th, 2004, their stock price was 27.94. They announced it on July 20, 2004. The s

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