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by wgjordan 4y ago
Puma is a multi-thread, multi-process Rack HTTP server that implements a request buffer. By comparison, Unicorn (the project upon which Pitchfork is based) is a single-thread, multi-process Rack HTTP server that does not buffer requests, so
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by wgjordan 4y ago
I'm the author of the original 'refork' feature introduced to Puma a couple years ago [1], that served as an inspiration for this project. As I understand it, Pitchfork is an implementation of a reforking feature on top of Un
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by wgjordan 4y ago
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Please don't post shallow dismissals. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by wgjordan 4y ago
First incident posted: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/2nd6fyb4drjx
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by wgjordan 4y ago
While labor laws are indeed relevant, I think prevailing on-call compensation standards for software engineers have more to do with companies applying their own fairness standards to a tight job market than strict legal compliance. In parti
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by wgjordan 4y ago
A typical on-call setup would be to have 'calls' sent to a mobile device, that can be acknowledged directly from the mobile. Sitting at a desktop computer with a browser open during an entire on-call period would be extremely unus
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by wgjordan 4y ago
Relevant US case law is Berry v. County of Sonoma, 30 F.3d 1174 (9th Cir.1994) [1], holding that county coroners' on-call time (requiring carrying pagers and responding by telephone within 15 minutes) was not compensable under the Fair
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by wgjordan 4y ago
> Why try to compete with Rust while not really being a better Rust? The article addresses this directly and is clear that Carbon is not designed to 'compete with Rust', and instead targets a much narrower use-case: > Carbon
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by wgjordan 4y ago
"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by wgjordan 4y ago
I've been similarly impressed by the quality of Sequel [1], a database toolkit for Ruby that accomplishes a similar feat. 0 open / 1150 closed issues, 0 open / 672 closed PRs. [1] https://github.com/jeremyevan
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by wgjordan 4y ago
The only point was to confirm that Wirecutter doesn't always actually test all of the products they review, regardless of whether it's (arguably) justified in each individual case.
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by wgjordan 4y ago
>> They didn't actually try any of the products themselves (they admitted as much in the article). > I’m going to dissent here on this thread because I’m not seeing any references. OK, here's one such reference in "T
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by wgjordan 4y ago
If you read the page you linked more carefully, you will see that OSI does not own a valid trademark for "Open Source", only for "Open Source Initiative". OSI in fact tried to file for a trademark on 'Open Source&#x
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GitHub Incident(githubstatus.com)
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I think it's perfectly reasonable to blame/be upset with both the delivery operator (for infringing upon the restaurant's trademark by causing confusion as to the source of goods/services), and the e-commerce platfor
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by wgjordan 5y ago
Excellent tour through this topic, here's my best attempt at a tl;dr summary: 1. write a 'Hello World' HTTP server to show how Tokio's async-Rust primitives work for epoll-based I/O; 2. show how the tracing crate ec
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by wgjordan 5y ago
> and it just so happens that I started an MVP shell-script testing library for just such an occasion when I ALSO got frustrated with the bash-accessible testing libraries available to me I found Bats straightforward and simple to use, n
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by wgjordan 5y ago
> AIUI you would be able to reproduce Steamboat Willie verbatim The cynic in me suspects that even this might be challenged. Is there anything specifically preventing trademark protections from applying to unauthorized verbatim reproduct
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by wgjordan 5y ago
Shifting goalposts here: At first, you said that if any CC could achieve net-zero emissions, then it would be significantly more cost-effective than rebuilding infrastructure. Baseless assertion without any specific numbers to cite. Now, yo
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The linked Dangerous by Design 2021 report [1] shows the data on increased pedestrian deaths: > The number of people struck and killed by drivers nationwide while walking increased by an astonishing 45 percent over the last decade (2010-
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by wgjordan 5y ago
> In a world where vaccines are widely available, there is little value in forcing the vaccinated to collectively protect people from their decisions to remain unvaccinated. Three reasons unvaccinated-by-choice individuals continue to po
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by wgjordan 5y ago
Aside- thanks for engaging in detailed discussion here and more generally for all of the Ruby-performance contributions you've made over many years, I truly appreciate them. First, my lack of confidence in depending on Jemalloc 3 in pr
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by wgjordan 5y ago
Thanks, these extra details are helpful and seem like the more significant motivations underlying this distribution. > For reasons that are not yet clear, significant memory savings are only achieved with Jemalloc 3, not with Jemalloc 5.
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The parent comment noted that using jemalloc for Ruby without compiling is already trivially easy, so the argument that 'compiling is hard' is irrelevant even if true. The real argument is that installing jemalloc separately and
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by wgjordan 5y ago
> I think $6 a month for "unlimited data" is going to end badly. Backblaze has been offering their 'unlimited data' for over a decade [1], and it hasn't ended badly for them yet. It's fully sustainable becau
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by wgjordan 5y ago
> Amazon began selling a competing product with a similar (not identical spelling but pronounced the same) name they successfully trademarked B Trademarks are published for opposition for this reason, right? Client could have filed an op
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I would add a comment, but HN is down.
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> Is Llama a typo for Lambda? OR is there a service which uses Lambda for doing remote builds? Sorry, unable to figure it. "Recently, I blogged about building LLVM in 90 seconds [1] using AWS Lambda and my Llama project." [1]
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by wgjordan 5y ago
Just post salary ranges for open positions! If the position is vague or covers a wide range of experience, just post a wide range. Salary transparency is a very good thing, it empowers employees and is good for the industry overall. Note th
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by wgjordan 5y ago
Pretend that Apple is a federal agency, not a corporation? Then its monopoly power would be legitimate and antitrust laws would not apply.

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