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   by flamingcow 5y ago

   c?
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   Show HN: No More “Next Slide Please”(github.com)

   1 points by flamingcow 6y ago|0 comments
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   In Praise of Blame(firestuff.org)

   1 points by flamingcow 7y ago|1 comments
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   by flamingcow 7y ago

   Bug fixed early today -- you may have a cached copy. Try shift-reload.
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   by flamingcow 7y ago

   Thanks for the suggestion. I'd previously added the tutorial linked below, but that clearly wasn't cutting it, so I've now added an example diagram for first-time visitors. If you already visited, click on the top object (pro
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   by flamingcow 7y ago

   I spend lots of my time at a whiteboard diagramming current or proposed systems. The whiteboard experience is less than ideal: my handwriting isn't great, folks on the other side of a VC can't see, etc. Most diagramming software i
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   by flamingcow 7y ago

   Thanks for this and filing the github issue as well. I put together a tutorial to walk through usage in more detail: https://github.com/firestuff/architype/blob/master/TUTORIAL....
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   Show HN: Fast, Easy System Diagrams(architype.io)

   59 points by flamingcow 7y ago|11 comments
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   by flamingcow 7y ago

   [I am the Cloud SQL tech lead] This is a networking issue, and your data is safe. Cloud SQL stores instance metadata regionally, so it shares a failure domain with the data it describes. When the region is down or inaccessible, instances ar
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    by flamingcow 7y ago

    [I am the Cloud SQL tech lead] This is a networking issue, and your data is safe. Cloud SQL stores instance metadata regionally, so it shares a failure domain with the data it describes. When the region is down or inaccessible, instances ar
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    Syscall efficiency(firestuff.org)

    3 points by flamingcow 7y ago|0 comments
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    Optimistic parsing(firestuff.org)

    5 points by flamingcow 7y ago|0 comments
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    Show HN: Generate unique printable password books(passmate.io)

    2 points by flamingcow 8y ago|0 comments
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    by flamingcow 8y ago

    [I'm the Cloud SQL TL] Confirmed. We know it's a problem that we need to fix. HA reduces downtime in unexpected failure cases (live migration for your primary only helps in planned shutdown cases, not if the physical machine fails
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    by flamingcow 8y ago

    [I'm the Cloud SQL TL] We do recommend connection pooling whenever possible. You save server resources, but you also save connection latency.
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    by flamingcow 8y ago

    [I'm the Cloud SQL TL] I can't comment on timelines, but we're aware that customers are interested in more features around maintenance window scheduling, deferral, and notification, as well as shorter downtime for updates and
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    by flamingcow 8y ago

    [I'm the Cloud SQL TL] What features would've kept you on Cloud SQL?
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    by flamingcow 8y ago

    [I'm the Cloud SQL TL] Note that we currently only support PostgreSQL 9.6. Obviously supporting major versions across both MySQL and PostgreSQL is a priority for us.
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    by flamingcow 8y ago

    [I'm the Cloud SQL TL] No, it isn't. We agree with you that it's an important feature for managed databases, and we're working to get it right. We decoupled it from this launch to get PostgreSQL to GA faster.
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    by flamingcow 9y ago

    Does it really? Even if the code author hadn't learned to escape/sanitize close to use so it's visible (or to avoid cases where you need to escape/sanitize entirely, like using something that bypasses the shell and takes
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    by flamingcow 9y ago

    A researcher with hundreds of publications hadn't heard of p-hacking or the reproducibility crisis until a month ago? Lay people who occasionally read science news have been hearing about those for years now. This is the "I'm