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by vosper 5y ago
This is the place I work at. The data model was designed with a narrow focus. When that turned out to not be viable, the company moved into an adjacent and much larger market. But the names never changed, and the subtle differences between
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by vosper 5y ago
> Do any other entrenched software projects come to mind? Elasticsearch is underrated here, IMO. Yes, there are alternatives for simple fulltext search. But there’s a lot more it can do (adhoc aggregations incorporating complex fulltex
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by vosper 5y ago
> It's insane how many companies hire and build teams around visions their teams don't understand well at all Conversely, it’s also insane how many companies hire and build teans around visions the teams know won’t work. The kn
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by vosper 5y ago
> And the U.S. couldn't close its land borders even if it wanted to Maybe not perfectly, but surely the vast majority of traffic across land borders is at managed border crossings. The US could shut those down, put the army on any u
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by vosper 5y ago
Are either of those things social networks? (I don't know what it's like to be a Ferrari owner or a Centurion. I assume that status / privilege is a big part of it, but not necessarily in the form of rank in a network).
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by vosper 5y ago
Is it a given that because the software is open-source, the decision-making will be, too? Almost seems there should be a separate set of claims for what the decision-making process will be (like how there are various software licenses).
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by vosper 5y ago
The company I work for has migrated hundreds of heavily-utilised Elasticsearch and Storm nodes to Graviton. No performance issues, pure cost saving. We’re working on the rest of our systems now. We’re going to save hundreds of thousands of
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by vosper 6y ago
It’s not just waste barrels. The same sort of thing happens with oil tankers when the front falls off https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
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by vosper 6y ago
As Matt Levine pointed out today, the JP Morgan money is a loan with a 2-3% interest rate. They worded it in a really weird way, presumably for PR reasons, but it was just a loan
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by vosper 6y ago
I wonder if even that might be too much motion for under a desk. Plus, it looks like it's designed to be stood on, so I wonder how it would work when you're sitting and not directly over it, and don't have all your weight on
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by vosper 6y ago
I think cycling is the wrong motion for an under-desk exercise machine. I think it should be a very short vertical motion, just feet moving up-and-down, something you can do without disrupting your chair posture, or making the rest of your
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by vosper 6y ago
> The point most are missing is that, $600/annum maynot be a big deal for a company, but it is a huge deal for an individual designer. There was a theory, back before the subscription era, that the reason stolen/fake Photoshop
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by vosper 6y ago
I get a laugh out of the CEO of my current employer praising about the “multi-threaded” efforts of our marketing team. And here I thought the whole team blocked, slack-jawed, after each email, waiting mindlessly for Outlook to show that “ne
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by vosper 6y ago
I think they’re talking about testing prototypes exported from the design app, not what they’d necessarily ship as a finished product?
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by vosper 6y ago
This comment is satire, right? I’m going to assume yes, but in case it’s not, or others don’t feel it: “Some legal difficulties”?! They offered him chemical castration , which is utterly barbarous, as an alternative to prison. He was perse
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by vosper 6y ago
On hardware, but not on a cloud setup? We run several hundred big ES nodes on AWS, and I believe we stick to the heap sizing guidelines (though I’ve long wondered if fewer instances with giant heaps might actually work ok, too)
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by vosper 6y ago
How (and how much) did these improvements manifest? For example, did you measure consistently faster response times when running ZGC rather than G1GC? If so, by how much? I’m always looking for a way to improve ES response times for our use
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by vosper 6y ago
A bit of A/B testing could help figure this out?
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by vosper 6y ago
Oh yeah, PoLi is indeed junk, and I've also been surprised to see NZ Govt departments using it. I refuse to use PoLi, and I'll do a bank transfer or pay the debit card processing fee (if it's not exorbitant) instead.
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by vosper 6y ago
> The system works not by making it hard to steal money, but by making it easy to get back. In other countries the system works by making it hard to steal money: I'm in New Zealand, and you can't do really anything with my acco
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by vosper 6y ago
If you're in London and are interested in the history of medicine, then once you're done with this museum you might want to checkout the Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/visit-us It's a fre
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by vosper 6y ago
> Why would Google pay for this when they already crawled and are crawling whole Wikipedia and have complete index of it? Google's not the only enterprise out there :) I believe Wikipedia's taxonomy is used by lots of people fo
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by vosper 6y ago
I’m on record here saying I really dislike Mongo DB and never want to work with it again. I stand by that. But Atlas is a really nice product (to work around the inherent failings of Mongo, but hey, you’re locked in already). Want to look a
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by vosper 6y ago
Used to ride one of these elevators, which would stall and stutter and generally freak out anyone who rode it regularly. But this, from the article (which I remember reading way back in 2012 when it was first posted here) is always what I t
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by vosper 6y ago
We're busy moving stuff AWS stuff to Graviton, too. I'm not directly involved, but my understanding is it's been all good (except that not every instance type is available with Graviton). We're going to save a whole lot
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by vosper 6y ago
There was a little footnote in my comment :) > Obviously not actually dead - I’m taking a bit of license here. People are still running these things, and maybe they’re occasionally still the right choice
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by vosper 6y ago
“No rules” would have been a better way to describe how people actually use Mongo. Though, we should remember that Mongo wasn’t the only “NoSQL” database at the time when that term was taking off - there were others competing for mindshare,
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by vosper 6y ago
You can also use SQLAlchemy Core, which is an intermediate between the full-blown ORM and running actual strings of SQL. I've had a great experience with Core - I can easily have it output essentially the exact SQL I'd write by ha
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by vosper 6y ago
Are you making a profit mining? Or is it more of a “supporting the network” kind of thing?
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by vosper 6y ago
First make it correct, then make it fast. Being nice is a superpower. So is staying calm (especially when others are not). Also, being helpful - especially to people outside your team. When people like you they’re much more likely to help y

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