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by codinghorror 9y ago
Think of Discourse as a JavaScript app you load on your phone. Yes there is that unavoidable first time install on first page load, but once the app is installed, all it needs to render the page is the JSON data that makes up the comments -
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by codinghorror 9y ago
In my opinion, it is a truism in software that it takes three years to build the thing you originally set out to build. This was true of Stack Overflow, and it's also true of Discourse. We're supposed to be building software with
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by codinghorror 9y ago
We have hundreds of live Discourse sites running the $10/month self supported Digital Ocean (or whatever cloud you like) version for literally years without any issue at all: https://github.com/discourse/discours
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by codinghorror 9y ago
yes, but the minute you click a _second_ page, the Javascript app is already loaded, and we request only JSON for the new data. Also this 4MB number isn't correct; I count 700kb. Feel free to double check my work: http://img
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by codinghorror 9y ago
As I like to say, if nobody hates what you're doing, it isn't very interesting.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
simply press CTRL+F twice. Note that on small topics, CTRL+F will work as you expect as the entire topic fits on one "page"
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by codinghorror 9y ago
yeah this is the one! A $1100 chip for $500, by Intel's math anyway.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
not mentioning ECC is pretty sloppy, granted. And virtualization.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
The multi-core angle is the main "programmer" bit of Ryzen. If you are writing heavily multithreaded code you will get 2x the cores for your $.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
The watt budget of a laptop is prohibitive. The watt budget gloves only come off with a desktop.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
True! Basically 2x the cores Intel will sell you, at the same price. IPC is "only" at broadwell levels but that's still pretty solid.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Wait so when someone typoes cnn.com as con.com, that is ipso facto a memory error? I guess I could see that if the characters are radically far apart on the keyboard? But doesn't a simpler explanation like "one person out of billi
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by codinghorror 9y ago
While I agree CPU perf improvements have been quite incremental, PCI express SSDs and 64gb ram make Hackintoshes worth it. I almost wish Apple would just quietly make this easier for folks, blessing it without explicitly blessing it.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
This is so depressing. Shame on you, Uber.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Lack of http/2 on haproxy by now is terribly limiting and very disappointing.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
We don't see many NodeBB sites in the wild. If you want an old-schoool, traditional PHP / MySQL system, XenForo is a good choice, but there are a lot of critical security exploits, so stay up to date.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Only 1Gb is required, which is $5/month on some VPS providers. Redis, Postgres, Sidekiq, etc all need to be running. It's a modern stack.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
I totally get the concern as Disqus is a third party with their own monetization and ad goals. But it still seems a bit abusive of GitHub as a free service? Why not stand up a Discourse instance for your comments? https://meta.di
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by codinghorror 9y ago
We find that http://browserbench.org/Speedometer/ -- which is what v8 is optimizing against now -- is extremely close to real world Discourse (EmberJS, Glimmer) performance. We always wondered why Android was so craz
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by codinghorror 9y ago
I disagree. I think the higher levels are many orders of magnitude more difficult.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
My heart goes out to you. That is a heavy thing to bear witness to. We don't get a lot of death intruding in our lives when we're young. But it starts to creep in as you get older and it is ... very unsettling.
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by codinghorror 10y ago
Purley is the big Skylake based server platform chipset reset for Xeon E5 and higher so Google must have early access to it. Skylake Xeon E3 is on the current older server chipsets.. Purley is supposed to be a significant improvement.
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by codinghorror 10y ago
I think it's AMAZING that a company offering nothing but scheduling posts on social media got to $13 million per year in revenue. Amazing. And kind of weird.
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by codinghorror 10y ago
Images are meticulously optimized, problem is, retina is expensive in file size.
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by codinghorror 10y ago
I agree with this. Chat and threading are oil and water to some degree. To me it is the difference between short term and long term memory; in short term memory, forgetting is a feature -- not a design problem to be solved.
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by codinghorror 10y ago
Yeah that is a logical way to look at it, and better than $ per core.
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by codinghorror 10y ago
Oh yeah those are amazing. Fanless is the holy grail but it is very risky and super hard. See also related review: http://www.silentpcreview.com/NoFan_CR-80EH_CS-60
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by codinghorror 10y ago
Excellent retrospective. I know these are painful to write, so thank you.
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by codinghorror 10y ago
You are correct the shipped game absolutely used hardware 3D acceleration .. by 1998 3D cards were quite popular, that was the early nvidia and late 3dfx era.
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by codinghorror 10y ago
Work somewhere that public output is part of how you're compensated and promoted. See: https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/07/how-much-should-you-pay-d... "One important principle of Stack [Overflow] is that

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