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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Bragging aside, explaining the whole business from a (potential) customer experience is what differentiates good from bad companies (_nb_ I was tempted to write successful vs failing, but then I realized there are some very bad companies ou
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We don't sell saddles here(medium.com)
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
> Maybe the ultimate solution is a personal wiki [...] Maybe this: http://zim-wiki.org (haven't used it myself yet though)
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
I've never upgraded before, just started out fresh. But y env got pretty complicated so I'd like to try an upgrade. What's the experience with the "Fresh upgrade"[1]? [1]: http://community.linuxmint.com&#
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Just (extremely curious): what's new about this new build system (except the Node.js dependency)?
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
I haven't read any of Zed's book and Amazon doesn't have a decent number of reviews, so I was wondering if someone could provide the shortest "why should I get this book" thanks
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Can you share what you store in each of the databases? Here's what I'd speculate: - Redis: message lists for active users - Postgres: account details - Cassandra: all messages Thanks.
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
I use a bookmarking service (Pinboard) as I do for all pages I consider that I might need to get back to at some point. I also have the Pinboard archival service that saves a copy of the web page in case that goes away.
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Do you accept visitors?
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Everything's looking great... except the desks :-(
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Beforing logging in, I'd really like to have an idea of what JellyReader is. The homepage looks good, but not as good as to show me what it is :-)
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
I think this is quite incorrect. I've recently got the new iPhone and looked at the possible options across AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile (I haven't included Sprint for a reason I cannot recall right now). If you calculate the costs
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
That's exactly what I've been searching for!
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Thanks for digging this up. I find the 2 models being almost identical. And as one can read in that thread there can be subcategories that one might consider. My preference is still with the formulation Slava came up with: 1. it's slig
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
When talking about painkillers I think we should also think about how many have that pain. If it's too little, then that painkiller can be a distraction. So while I fully agree with you that a distraction is not a painkiller, the oppos
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
I have always wondered how many people use the stock Janus/maximum-awesome Vim setups? How do people maintain their customizations? (the same questions actually apply to other configuration systems like dotfiles, etc.) The reason I ask
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
I've recently tried adopting the http://www.bulletjournal.com/ system, but using Evernote. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it work for me . After just a few days I've found myself not being able to figur
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
> This is a picture of me in 2009, right around when I started Pinboard. I'm standing on a balcony in Botosani county, Romania, in the poorest county in the European Union. I had no idea (based on his name) that Maciej started Pinbo
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Using git bundle looks like an interesting idea, but the solution suggested in the post is seems incomplete: 1. it's only working for master 2. it bundles everything making an update on a different machine more difficult I'm prett
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
That's a very interesting subcategorization of game changers. What I find quite interesting about thinking only in terms of hooks and painkillers is that this categorization might trick you. A series of hooks could prove to be only
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
I think this is very much true considering Samsung's most (?) successful campaign lately has been focusing on the exact opposite message (Apple fanboys not knowing what's happening outside their world)
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
> Yeah, I thought about that, but it seems like you can only use them to get the "map" part of map/reduce... no aggregation. Unless I'm missing something. I think that's correct.
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
How about "they should be an invitation to learn more about the system" :D? As far as I can tell, in many cases these defaults have almost never been reviewed by devs because most of the early users already knew what tweaks they n
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Considering RethinkDB's secondary indexes can be defined around pretty complex ReQL expressions [1] you could already get some of it already. [1] http://rethinkdb.com/docs/pragmatic-faq/#how-do-i-take-advan...
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
One aspect of micro-benchmarks that is most of the time ignored is that they reveal different default settings various systems come with. And unfortunately after seeing the results, not too many dig deeper to figure them out.
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
While both CouchDB and RethinkDB store JSON, the differences between them are more radical. I cannot post an as-extensive comparison as the one with MongoDB, but here are some aspects. Please keep in mind that this is not an authoritative
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
What I wanted to suggest is that: at the tool level npm, gem, pip are simpler to get started. But I don't think that's the case at the env level where you'll need more tools. So while I've used some wrong words in my com
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Maybe these other systems are more fluid, but their are also a lot weaker in what their platform gives them. What I mean by this is that the Java world never needed the extra rvm, virtualenv, etc. The complexity of dependency management doe
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Lately if I see a post starting with "Unless you have been living under a rock", I stop reading.
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
I'm always impressed how such obvious tools (e.g. memcached, junit) can change the face of software development. Do you have similar other obvious ones in mind? (please no rails :-)

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