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by yid 10y ago
Couldn't find anything for Bain's Law, do you have a reference I could follow?
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by yid 10y ago
> you'll still possibly reap massive perf gains over Hadoop in certain contexts. Certainly, and unfortunately, the exact point at which Hadoop becomes the better option over big iron is generally an ongoing debate and shifting targe
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by yid 10y ago
> If it's "machines" plural, than you can do replication between the two. This is the start of a scaling path that winds down Distributed Systems Avenue, and eventually leads to a place called Hadoop. (Replication and cons
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by yid 10y ago
Not to be too pedantic, but most of those things have nothing to do with JS. > figuring out which events are listening to a given DOM element at any given time This is part of the DOM Specification, not JS. You may be using JS to manipul
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by yid 10y ago
> Tracking down things in JS is a timesuck of epic proportions. I think you mean your codebase rather than JS. There are plenty of industrial JS codebases where this is not a problem.
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by yid 10y ago
> and taking a few seconds to comment that this is a low hanging fruit if i need it has helped future-me at least once. The problem with "fruit" like this is that it depends heavily on the exact version of the JS runtime being
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by yid 10y ago
How is it a huge load on the system given that node can lazy load modules? Do you mean disk space?
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by yid 10y ago
> So, you are saying the "talent shortage" is a load of bullshit? You can have a lot of something and still have a shortage.
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by yid 10y ago
Yes, it's called "OPT", but is only for students on f-1 visas to get practical training in their areas of study. While it is temporary work authorization, it is not a work visa. There's a pretty huge difference in that h
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by yid 10y ago
This is absolutely incorrect. There are no temporary work visas for people with "pending h1-b applications".
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by yid 10y ago
You guys are doing a great job! Some security-related sandboxing options to docker run that people may not be aware of, which are hard to assemble individually from Linux pieces: * --read-only * --security-opt="no-new-privileges&
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by yid 10y ago
> As I see it, npm appears to be acting like there are a lot of unsolved problems in this realm, and in doing so are endangering a developer community that is absolutely full of amateurs. > The problem with npm is that the cost of ent
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by yid 10y ago
> It's not usually core, it's all the plugins by authors of unknown provenance and skill. This is otherwise known as an active developer community and is a good thing. In any open library ecosystem, it's ultimately up to
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by yid 11y ago
> In the ad, SoFi vows to propel its members to “greatness,” but says not everyone fits the bill. “Find out if you’re great at SoFi.com,” the voiceover reads. “You’re probably not.” If there's one thing the majority of people watchi
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by yid 11y ago
> Is something like HHVM considered a tech breakthrough? A largely backwards source-compatible, JIT'ed interpreter for one of the world's shittiest designed but most widely deployed languages? That runs the frontend fleet for t
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by yid 11y ago
The presence of both "so obvious as not to require stating" and "Not saying the blockchain argument win out" suggests that it's probably not as obvious as it seems. :)
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by yid 11y ago
Yes, but I'd ideally go to a licensed, brick-and-mortar store for the reputation and reliability over either eBay or Craigslist, if it weren't for the prices and availability of items. My point is that the benefits of centralized,
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by yid 11y ago
What about transaction latency, driver/passenger reputations and ratings, local legal compliance, payment for auxiliary services like maps and point-to-point navigation? All those things sound like they'd be worse off. The end ben
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by yid 11y ago
> There is no reason a blockchain based app couldn't be implemented. I don't think anyone is doubting this bit. It's the overwhelming current trend of forcing everything onto the blockchain, whether it improves the applica
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by yid 11y ago
This is so absurdly simple and yet devastating. Reading some of the comments on the Github issue you posted, this stood out (I don't know anything about lucky7coin): > So disappointing such code was not reviewed by Vern and team bef
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by yid 11y ago
The same-origin policy is not an optional choice that can be "violated".
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by yid 11y ago
> For stream processing engines, configuration will be code. Unfortunate, but unavoidable. How so? Kafka is a stream processing engine that uses plain old Zookeeper data structures for config. Edit: Kafka also seems to have the missing f
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by yid 11y ago
...until you realize that you've broken every single NDA you signed, and your (already-tiny-sized) startup finds out who you are, and you're out of a job.
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by yid 11y ago
Might be a case of MySQL natively supporting multi-master replication, whereas with Postgres you have to use a third-party/commercial solution. Especially if you're not using any particularly advanced Postgres features, the operat
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by yid 11y ago
The interesting thing here is that you can set the iframe size to a regular desktop-like size, and then use CSS3 transforms to scale the rendered page down to thumbnail size.
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by yid 11y ago
If the entire DO netblock is in the proxy block list, then your headers aren't going to do much.
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by yid 11y ago
Maxmind offers Proxy Detection based on IPs; presumably they have the entire AWS/Google/Azure netblocks listed in there. https://www.maxmind.com/en/proxy-detection-service Still not impossible, just a bit har
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by yid 11y ago
Sounds like top-notch facilities. They'd still be finite though, so how would you decide who gets to use them in order to maximize, say, societal benefit? (Edit: I say top-notch, because you'd presumably simultaneously want univer
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by yid 11y ago
Thank you, that makes sense.
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by yid 11y ago
> >The NSA reported using 3 hops for data dumps from their bulk surveillance store. I'm not sure what this means, and you appear to be referencing a comment in this HN thread. I'd imagine that if an entity uses a hardware sp

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