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by weddpros 10y ago
before: mongodb is bad because it imposes we handle the case where we'd like to shard the db (which breaks joins). after: mysql is sooo much easier with joins. Who cares about sharding anyway. I hope people understand distributed syste
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aka. The Mongodb hater's bible EDIT: guys, be honest... if this article appears again on HN today, it's because mongodb haters are still alive and well. Downvoting my comment doesn't make the arguments in this article more va
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CS courses are not be the culprit to the failures I have in mind... I had to study Chemistry for 2 years (no CS DEUG at that time), failed to pass because of thermodynamics, was finally rescued in-extremis because the jury's head was a
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by weddpros 10y ago
if only we could get the point that motivation is the solution, not the problem ;-)
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Philanthropy is uncommon in France, and X.Niel should be thanked for accepting this "rounding error". Many others don't care.
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I think 42 is right: people can become good software engineers, even if they suck at university studies. CS studies were elitist, with math prerequisites: now they're more open. "of course it will be extremely difficult to catch u
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by weddpros 10y ago
This is how you promote the dark web...
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by weddpros 10y ago
Many/most backends are stateless... In a way, they push the complexity of distributed systems to the db. They don't deal with sharding, load balancing, request routing... so they leave some performance on the table. They are still
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by weddpros 10y ago
That's 5h20 NOT working, 7 days a week... bs ?
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by weddpros 10y ago
If you ever want to scale your app to more than one process (CPU core), or more than one server, you'll have a problem... Using Redis could be a solution (if Redis can accommodate your read pattern), or you'll need a pub/sub
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by weddpros 10y ago
Saying "France isn't so bad, so it's working" doesn't cut it for me. Actually France is the "other way of organizing society" (having something that looks a lot like Basic Income, see higher in the thread)
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by weddpros 10y ago
I wrote this in reaction to "RSA is extremely limited": almost 10% of a population is not "extremely limited". And I didn't say these statistics say anything about prosperity or happiness, but look higher in the thr
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I think it's one of the problems of UBI: it can only exist in addition to all other social benefits, because it can't solve every situation appropriately. Disabled people will need more help than a fit 22yo guy for instance. Socia
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When you expect your very subsistance from the State, when you start to believe that "it costs nothing, because the state is paying" (said french president lately), then you lose what the french have lost: responsibility. As for m
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Actually 5.3M adults have RSA in France(pop 66M) [1] Of them, about 1/4 receive it as a supplement to their low wage job. Yes, the bureaucracy is daunting... and I don't pretend it's a life I'd like. I'm just saying
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Value creation isn't defined "for society", but "for people". Society is not part of the market, people are. And the market determines value -> people determine value. Society is a mean, with no regard to standar
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by weddpros 10y ago
I didn't say the problem in France is RSA. But both RSA and UBI need dirigisme. UBI is definitely a form of central planning, with a very wide reach, to shape the society, the people. So UBI will never come with less dirigisme, but wit
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by weddpros 10y ago
Indeed, government spending represents 55% of GDP in France (#2 worldwide)... so most money is spent by the state (ie badly).
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France already has something that smells a lot like UBI, except it's not Universal (RSA). France also has free education and health. Now if you judge by the numbers, it's not really a success: high unemployment and low people sati
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by weddpros 10y ago
It's not as bad as it seems: SSL v3 is supported, but no cipher is supported for SSL v3... It should get a B instead of a C ;-) (shameless plug: I used https://sslping.com and tried to understand why it didn't catch th
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by weddpros 10y ago
read David Ellis for sound and clear counter-arguments https://davidellis2.wordpress.com/2016/06/05/reflections-on-...
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Not sure why this didn't make it to the frontpage. Consensus algorithms are so essential today... @gridem, are you the author?
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I'd really like to hear what the community has to say, what the tradeoffs may be, etc.
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The same researchers probably think there will be no oil either, just like researchers thought there would be no oil today. 20 years ahead projections are always wrong, sometimes VERY wrong. It's just another case of "X will kill
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Considering most CMS systems barely reach 100req/s (uncached), I think we can say raw database speed is less of a problem than bad query patterns. Or if you prefer, the use of a SQL db is no guarantee for performance. Maybe mongodb wil
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I think it's often a matter of immediate freedom... even if I have a clear idea of what life is without high education. "You'll do whatever you want but get a degree first": tell me you've never heard these words. M
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"I don't see any moral justification for a software engineer earning more than someone collecting waste" That's because moral justification isn't at the center of our society. The market is. Many attempts have been
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by weddpros 11y ago
I'd say it's more true of cloud providers who don't schedule your VM for 15+ seconds, from time to time. As I said, we've deployed our production environment on bare metal (in reaction to this exact problem...)
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by weddpros 11y ago
At clanofthecloud.com (Gaming backend as a service), we needed to implement autoscaling for DO, in node.js. We used consul.io for service discovery. CPU load was used as the central metric, and each service instance would store it in consul
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by weddpros 11y ago
I never switched to Atom (from WebStorm), but I've made the switch to VSCode and I like it! It just works. The workflow is fine for me, git integration is a plus. Compared to Atom, I don't need to try plugins to get descent functi

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