deitcher

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by deitcher 9y ago
Pretty cool. Is there a write up on architecture and usage models? I’d like to see it. I was a happy couch 1.x user, but moved away with 2.0. Nothing specific about it, just needs and timing.
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by deitcher 9y ago
The primary focus is, indeed, archiving (and replaying and sharing, with ease) states of data. Merging has been explored, but nothing concrete on it yet. Even something relatively simple, like merging code, often requires a human to resolve
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by deitcher 9y ago
Would you mind sharing more details about how they are confusing? Always happy to take feedback. Feel free to comment here or on the community Slack, although a GitHub issue may be the best place. Whatever works... and much appreciated.
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by deitcher 9y ago
I have seen a growth of such "vcs-like" databases, but I think the preponderance remains SQL stores like MySQL/MSSQL/Postegres or NoSQL like Mongo/Cassandra/Redis/Couch/etc. For those - or anything th
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by deitcher 11y ago
This was a lot of fun. I don't care that it isn't hyper-practical, or a jQuery plugin may or may not exist. We aren't that serious about ourselves, are we?
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Pay Yourself First(blog.atomicinc.com)
1 points by deitcher 11y ago|0 comments
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Developers or Engineers?(blog.atomicinc.com)
1 points by deitcher 11y ago|0 comments
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Should Your Mobile App Shutter Your Web Site?(blog.atomicinc.com)
1 points by deitcher 11y ago|0 comments
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by deitcher 11y ago
Actually, it is an inconvenient insecure mess. It just looks good at first blush. Here is my take http://blog.atomicinc.com/2015/03/16/yahoos-on-demand-insecu... I wonder if they put a college intern in charg
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Should Apple and Microsoft Buy an Online Backup Company?(blog.atomicinc.com)
1 points by deitcher 11y ago|0 comments
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by deitcher 11y ago
CrashPlan since 2006, Mozy before that. Once every quarter or two, a full Time Machine to a USB drive.
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by deitcher 11y ago
Not that I am in love with "World Backup Day," but I think it is worth starting the conversation why people do not back up? Personally, I am surprised Microsoft or Apple has not bought out CrashPlan or Mozy (from EMC) or Carbonite
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How to Decide When to Buy and When to Build(blog.atomicinc.com)
2 points by deitcher 11y ago|0 comments
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by deitcher 11y ago
It was, I just didn't know it at the time! I was simply looking for some way to write emails and spec docs in a way that everyone would have a common frame of reference with zero extra work. Yeah, in storage (as above), I use epoch all
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by deitcher 11y ago
I had not thought of that. Ha! I would go for UTC, since that is what 99.99% of the people think of (and so few even know about TAI, except for the smart ones like @jameshart! :-) )
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by deitcher 11y ago
And JavaScript is milliseconds as well. I think either would be fine, as long as it is an agreed standard. Personally, I use ms, because most programming langs can instantly convert with any additional math. But it probably is wasteful. The
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by deitcher 11y ago
Fair enough @pimlottc. But most of the time I am far more concerned with accurately capturing a moment in time than I am with making it instantly readable. I also have helped some companies that ran into serious datetime management issues w
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by deitcher 11y ago
Patent trolls are a major issue, especially for tech companies. I always am heartened to read stories of people standing up to these leeches.
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by deitcher 11y ago
Dunno, I always liked storing date/time as epoch. Every language under the sun seems to have a native method for working with it. Yeah, I need to deal with de/serialization, but it is a small price to pay, no?
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by deitcher 11y ago
I love it. When I first started in IT (1994, don't ask...) working with London and Tokyo and San Fran and Singapore and everyone wrote dates differently. I just started writing YYYY-MM-DD everywhere, and all of the questions went away.
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by deitcher 12y ago
All of these have the same problems. If the client encrypts, then the client can be subverted. With webmail, the client is downloaded every single time, and thus can be subverted on the server.
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by deitcher 12y ago
I don't like this. I would like to see a standardized html way to load html partials into other html, similar to ng-include. I think that is clean. But to start mixing logic? How are you supposed to render a JSON array loaded via ajax?
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Software Engineering and Human Nature(blog.atomicinc.com)
1 points by deitcher 12y ago|0 comments
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by deitcher 12y ago
TextMate or SublimeText support anywhere in the future?
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by deitcher 12y ago
No debate, I agree with everything you have said. But sometimes you have to clean that garbage up because it does matter to the market.
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by deitcher 12y ago
Yes, but engineering is cheaper than running after real-time problems.
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by deitcher 12y ago
That is what I like about the cloud. Running in your own hardware lets you be, well, "lazy" about application architecture. Running in a place where it is shared and instances can disappear forces you to design a lot more robustly
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by deitcher 12y ago
Oleksiy, can you share the economics? You said 50% savings. What was everything you had running in EC2 (easy to figure out the costs), what were your equivalents in softlayer? Would be very interesting to see the economics.
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by deitcher 12y ago
Amazon is not know for posting operating profits, because they plow funds back into new research and businesses. But they most definitely operate with gross margins on everything they sell. Update: in FY2014, they sold $89BN ($70.1BN in p
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by deitcher 12y ago
If Yahoo really thinks that, they have issues with security... oh wait, they do! :-)

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