adgar2

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by adgar2 14y ago
So to be clear: you care more about the integrity of exercising Arc via HN than you care about your users. Because we both know that writing HN correctly would reduce latency dramatically along with short- and long-term ops effort. It'd als
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by adgar2 14y ago
Please list your assumptions about what ideas I have - since you're clearly assuming I don't work for a company that knows how to write websites that scale. Edit: I find it adorable that you all think HN is a hard site to run. Good luck bre
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by adgar2 14y ago
Yeah... writing a site as simple as HN that doesn't fall over in a week isn't rocket science.
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by adgar2 14y ago
> We restart HN every 5 or 6 days, or it gets slow (memory leaks). Because competence wasn't worth it a few hundred restarts ago and isn't worth it now.
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by adgar2 14y ago
> Consider everyone who lives in an apartment who doesn't have the option of replacing their lock I've lived in apartments. Giving other people access to your apartment is - in general - a horrible idea. I let guests into my apartment.
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by adgar2 14y ago
If you keep your landlord out, you're violating your lease. At least under any sane lease.
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by adgar2 14y ago
MongoDB is considered a complete joke by most who've programmed a distributed system. So.... poor example.
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by adgar2 14y ago
> What an embarrassing post to be occupying the top of this thread. Blaming Markdown.pl for security flaws? I believe markdown.pl is being blamed for over 100 bugs. Not just security flaws. > I suppose the memory corruption bugs in
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by adgar2 14y ago
> But there are problems --- like, backend processing, or proxies, or routers and transformers, or feed processors --- where event loops are the most natural way to express a performant solution. Your backend processing apparently fits
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by adgar2 14y ago
Your more general adage is useless. The one you responded to is useful. A more useful, also general adage would be "the more choice in selecting parameters to an API, the more likely there will be bugs consuming that API."
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by adgar2 14y ago
Exactly. Money exists to be extracted from fools at their expense, whether those fools are your investors, employees, customers, or all 3. That's real value in the market at work.
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by adgar2 14y ago
If you aren't being DDOSed, you aren't an interesting service.
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by adgar2 14y ago
Google. Amazon. Microsoft. Apple. Facebook. Most startups.
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by adgar2 14y ago
Because high availability is for legacy waterfall chumps. Github's too busy being rockstars.
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by adgar2 14y ago
If you want to make a service worth a damn to the world, you should expect regular DDOS.
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by adgar2 14y ago
Nearly every reasonably popular site on the internet gets DDoSed. It's embarrassing that Github goes down every time they're targeted. Honestly, grow a pair, fellas. It's part of doing business on the Internet.
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by adgar2 14y ago
That would suggest people in charge know what they're doing.
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by adgar2 14y ago
This is correct. They needed ~90 dynos to keep up with about 500 qps on their status page in the last outage. Source: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=4524489
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by adgar2 14y ago
You originally wrote: > Freedom of speech is lagging behind: a company cannot fire you for being black, but can fire you for saying "vile" things online under a pseudonym. You changed that, likely because you realized that companies ha
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by adgar2 14y ago
> You may call it FUD if you wish, but I would either have to be logged out when making Google searches or risk having some of my e-mail with senders and subject lines revealed to anyone watching my screen. Considering that's just compl
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by adgar2 14y ago
Engineers have responsibility. Otherwise you're just throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks.
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by adgar2 14y ago
I don't think WoW is inherently evil - were you referring to your parent poster, or me? I just think nearly everyone in this addiction subthread is woefully underinformed about the realities of addiction.
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by adgar2 14y ago
Do you actually think Ken disagrees with me? Hint: he doesn't. He wouldn't accept a line of code starting with "rm -rf $VAR" in ~30 minutes on a Sunday morning.
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by adgar2 14y ago
> It's not like anybody suffers from second-hand MMORPG. Addicts always say they're making a personal choice that doesn't affect anyone else, whether it's WoW or booze or blow. And they're always wrong. The last AA meeting I went to,
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by adgar2 14y ago
I expected an extremely negative interpretation. My criticism is harsh because the failure here was unacceptable. Look at the pull request they merged in. Any line added to a script which starts with "rm -rf $VARIABLE" cannot be scrutinized
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by adgar2 14y ago
I've never heard this argument before. Why was Microsoft owning the desktop and browser market so fundamental to the US economy?
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by adgar2 14y ago
Didn't say I was one of them. Enjoy your strawman. Personally, I prefer a bit more flavor. Though your implicit ad-hominem tastes a bit juicy. Writing a package manager is actually really serious business. This package manager runs under u
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by adgar2 14y ago
You just wrote off everything I said except the word "dopamine." Given your outright advocacy ("anti-gamer") throughout this thread, it seems you aren't interested in a real discussion.
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by adgar2 14y ago
> Except it can do also a lot of other bad things, and its too much to review. So in the end you trust the tree owner, and he blindly trust a zillion people. > I actually have zero good solution to this, but it'll be interesting whe
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by adgar2 14y ago
I'm 24. I've been addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, and WoW. It's the same fucking thing . They use the same mechanics to tickle your dopamine receptors so you'll come back instead of looking out in the outside world for that sam

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