SomeCallMeTim

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   by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

   I missed that fact. In that case, the author is measuring something that's completely useless. The entire advantage of Go is that it has really good multithreaded asynchronous behavior. A benchmark that's measuring single thread
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   by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

   >That's exceptional though. Yes, it's the exception. But it's not non-existent. You just need to choose to live in an area like that. I lived in Oakland, CA, and had the ability to walk to tons of restaurants, a post off
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   by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

   Probably 30% of the housing in my town is manufactured homes, though (i.e., dirt cheap), and the city council and planners are actively looking for ways to improve diversity of housing. The people living here in the rich-people subdivisions
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   by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

   1888 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette%2C_Colorado
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   by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

   Lafayette, CO. Though neighboring Louisville is similar, and Boulder proper has some very walkable areas as well (at twice the price). Edit to add: Longmont, CO has a charming walkable downtown as well, plus gigabit ethernet for cheap. In
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   by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

   I live in a small suburban city and I can walk to: * The library (5 minutes) * A supermarket (8 minutes) * A dozen restaurants (7-15 minutes; mostly local restaurants + 2 fast food chains) * Two liquor stores * A drug store (12 minutes) * A
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   by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

   I think that their benchmark isn't pushing the server hard enough (and having one "hey" requesting system may not be enough either?). And that if it were, you'd actually see the benefit of using fewer blocking OS threads
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   by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

   The article doesn't mention whether or not these compounds are removed by using a filter (like a Brita filter). I know Brita filters don't remove fluoride normally, but these compounds sound organic, which activated carbon usually
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   by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

   >Get a good filter for your drinking water and most of these concerns vanish. Plus you'll save a fortune on bottled water. We do that. But it's worth noting that your comment implies that a filter will remove fluoride. Reverse
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    This is actually my biggest complaint about the commonly cited benchmarks at TechEmpower. [1] Their "multiple queries" and "data updates" benchmarks seem to be more of a test of the database and the specific database bin
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    I've had restaurants ask me exactly that, after asking whether I was happy, and no, I wasn't pissed. I like the restaurants in question. Heck, I've had my dentist send me an email asking me to rate them. When you live in
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    I do game for a living. I guess I assumed that people knew that games were optimized, though they usually don't fall under "enterprise." Oculus falls under games for me, which is unusual to find in an enterprise company, an
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    I see this for * Machine learning * Computer graphics * Financial ...but not much else. The Facebook app is a nightmare of terrible design that has something like 100Mb of generated code to do something that should take a couple megabytes
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    >Unfortunately, with modern libraries helping "abstract away" underlying architecture like databases and the network, code like this is very easy to write without even realising that there might be a problem until it hits you i
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    > If you're depending on people to "discover" your app without having ever heard of you, then you are choosing to gamble and attempting to game a system that every other gambler is trying to game right alongside you. Bingo
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    >Your problems with Apple are not my problems as a user. My problems with Apple are exactly your problems as a user. If you want the apps that don't ever ask for reviews, then search past the first 100 that show up. Almost no one
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    Google doesn't wipe the slate, to my knowledge. Has that changed?
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    And I'd be happy to not have customers who are so extreme with their viewpoints, to be honest. If you have that kind of extreme negative reaction and would rate an app one star for asking you for help in promoting an app that they o
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    >Secondly, the 3rd items you list is actually a dark pattern. If you are going to ask users to review, let them be honest. Directing 5 stars to app store and 4 or fewer to an internal system is gaming the system. Sorry, but that particul
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    If you're getting 10 calls because all the apps updated at once, it's hardly one app's fault. Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13479086
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    >What's your preferred user response to the practice of seemingly every single app begging for reviews? An actual, actionable response. Complain to Apple for having a broken system, but don't hurt the developers of the very app
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    Ha! I always tell people I have a complicated love-hate relationship with C++. It was my tool of choice for writing games for 20+ years (combined with Lua for scripting). I knew all the C++, and loved, yet hated, it. Maybe I'll give
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    I've never used D, but I think it was written before the developer community was ready for a new language. Now that developers are ready for new languages, D is already an "old, failed" language. It reminds me of selling
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    I think it's more than a rumor. As far as I know, Google stopped allowing new XMPP servers to federate, because almost all of the new servers that were trying to were sending spam. It's possible that they grandfathered you in, if
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    I've been on Pandora forever, but not Spotify. Maybe I should defect.
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    $5 gets you a gadget that will stream music from a headphone jack into a tape player in a car. I had one for my last car; it worked great. Or are these folks so poor they don't even have a smart phone? "Free with plan" Androi
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    I collected stamps as a kid too, though I did eventually quit. And I still have binders of my old CDs and some of my truly ancient video games. I should probably ditch the lot of it, but we haven't moved in quite a long time and probab
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    >The dominance of digital and streaming services has stolen this experience from us, and we are fighting to get it back. I used to collect books. It was a big part of my life. Now I pretty much only buy books on Kindle. I almost sort-of
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    I have a Chevy Volt. No transmission whatsoever. That's even better. :)
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    by SomeCallMeTim 10y ago

    I always carry a 16Gb USB flash drive in my pocket. I can play music from it in both of my cars (USB ports), at most places I visit (plug it into a computer), and the music doesn't degrade with playback. Oh, and I could throw about 1