z8000

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   by z8000 17y ago

   I have some concerns about MongoDB and since it gets such good reviews from a lot of people, I think I am either making a big deal out of nothing or everyone else is crazy. I wrote up some comments elsewhere but this thread is more populate
2. 32.▲
   by z8000 17y ago

   Well I'm pretty much compelled to try at it this point. The reviews around here are pretty stellar. Do you think that MongoDB would perform well on a shared environment like a Linode VPS? Does MongoDB have any sort of resource gotchas lik
3. 33.▲
   by z8000 17y ago

   once managing to corrupt a MySQL database pretty badly. Rare as a Himalayan Snowcock spotting!
4. 34.▲
   by z8000 17y ago

   You are making an assumption in your addendum that uggedal does not understand how tunneling works. All he did was ask how they handle security not "how does tunneling work?"
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   by z8000 17y ago

   Thanks for sharing that. What are you using on the backend to handle all of those AMF connections? I'm not intimate with AMF but it seems there are at least 10 server implementations that support AMF.
6. 36.▲
   by z8000 17y ago

   Results 1 - 10 of 10 for flockdb Wow. I'd like to know more about it too.
7. 37.▲
   by z8000 17y ago

   1. Rails already makes things very easy. 2. The improvement was for something that (yes, subjectively) did not look overly burdensome to begin with.
8. 38.▲
   by z8000 17y ago

   "A whole lot easier" Is this a joke?
9. 39.▲
   by z8000 17y ago

   This is just my $0.02. Everything I've heard about prgmr has been positive. For me, it was that it was a tiny operation. I've been burned by this myself for consulting gigs ironically enough.
10. 40.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    Also, random comparison of Redis performance on NewServer vs a Linode (dedicated vs VPS): https://gist.github.com/e115e1f62f5f5bad55ee
11. 41.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    I am sorry but I am not familiar with the Slicehost API. Since no one asked, I haven't really truly considered Slicehost an option for my projects. When I started researching the various options, Linode looked 2nd best by the numbers for V
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    by z8000 17y ago

    I'm in the same low-cost-seeking mode as you, self-funding a teeny "startup" for iPhone services (along with 1000s of other developers) including multiplayer gaming (along with 10s of others developers). While I can get good dedicated serve
13. 43.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    FWIW We do not keep any servers unused, all servers are recycled and added to queue so the customers have equal rights to get them... and we cannot keep them reserved because of the costs... instead you should consider
14. 44.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    Yes, you could buffer writes. Tokyo Cabinet does this for instance as does Redis. There was an article on the mysql performance blog about Tokyo and how fsync()ing at 1Hz didn't adversely affect performance; there are other issues with TC b
15. 45.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    True, but I don't think development versions of browsers have 75MM users at this time. Maybe in 2020 when HTML5 is ratified. :)
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    by z8000 17y ago

    I reviewed MongoDB and really loved the feature set but the following seem like big problems to me: Keys in the document values are stored in the document. Big keys = more space required. No async client drivers (still true? The last time
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    by z8000 17y ago

    Probably to searchyc.com http://searchyc.com/%2522ask+hn%2522+vps I like Linode FWIW. Bandwidth pooling, good API, good resources, mostly-idle (hand-waving) quad-cores, 5 data centers, a very responsive IRC channel and forums, ability to
18. 48.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    I wish there was more data offered! Request-response, XHR, long-polling, "COMET" (blarg, I hate that moniker) when talking to the backend?
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    How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million Players a Month(highscalability.com)

    60 points by z8000 17y ago|23 comments
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    by z8000 17y ago

    I suppose it depends on the thing(s) being monitored though. I certainly do not want to have 4 people for my always-on development project. I am designing the system to be as fault tolerant and self-healing as possible so I do not have to h
21. 51.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    Broderick enters "ZERO" instead of "0" for the number of players, which made me chuckle. I suppose a more modern version of WOPR might simulate WoW. Number of players? ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FORTY TWO
22. 52.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    Riak's probably not appropriate for anyone without a cluster of over a couple dozen nodes, at least. Did you pull this out of thin air?
23. 53.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    I cannot help it. The number of things that go wrong with their text cum HTML editor does double every year (EN for OS X)! It's really quite poorly implemented. Plain text suddenly transmogrifies into bold text with a different font, dele
24. 54.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    I'm starting up my own tiny business and have been spending a great deal of time understanding how to optimize every part of the product infrastructure to minimize cost (to a reasonable level). $68K per month blows my mind if the number rep
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    by z8000 17y ago

    Wow, 2 Ken Perlin related posts in an hour! I met Ken Perlin once very briefly and randomly and was a bit in shock when I realized who I was talking to. He was in shock that I was in shock. Nice (and very smart) guy.
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    by z8000 17y ago

    The dog creeps me out. This looks like interesting research: http://www.squicky.org/work/sca07gtw/ Anyone know much about motion capture? Is it something that is now doable at any sort of homebrew budget levels nowadays?
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    MIT PhD student uses MS Paint to showcase CV(squicky.org)

    175 points by z8000 17y ago|27 comments
28. 58.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    The 3d head scan to bronze statue process blew me away.
29. 59.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    There is an assumption here that they do!
30. 60.▲
    by z8000 17y ago

    touché!