fyrerise

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by fyrerise 9y ago
The title is a little misleading. The article itself acknowledges that there was a tulip fever: > That’s not to say that everything about the story is wrong; merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredib
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by fyrerise 9y ago
Fair enough. When I first read your original comment, I thought that you were being unnecessarily pedantic. I imagined that by using "partitioning" most people would probably know what I was talking about, but I've been worki
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by fyrerise 9y ago
> But this isn't the official compiler, this is someone's personal project? True, but compilers are complicated machines and Rust is still changing at a fairly frantic rate. The author seems to be doing quite a good job of de
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by fyrerise 9y ago
> Both MySQL and PostgreSQL support out-of-the-box partitioning. Are you referring to sharding? Hopefully it's fairly obvious from the context, but yes, I'm referring to horizontal partitioning [1], or sharding. --- [1] http
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by fyrerise 9y ago
This is probably not the answer you're looking for, but MongoDB no longer has much technical justification. Compared to Mysql and Postgres , it does have an out-of-the-box partitioning scheme, which is something, and a reason to use i
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by fyrerise 9y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by this? You're Matt Kroll and you're confirming that you still work for MongoDB? (I'm afraid that nothing is obvious from anyone's usernames.)
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by fyrerise 9y ago
> what other language would you choose? As far as I can tell the goal of the project isn't to target more platforms (Rust targets quite a few by way of LLVM), so I don't think I'd choose any other language, including C++
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by fyrerise 9y ago
Neat project. It looks like this was largely written by one person, and I'm fairly in awe at anyone who can take a big project like a compiler this far alone. Isn't there a bit of cognitive dissonance in believing that Rust as a l
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by fyrerise 9y ago
> I know this will never actually happen, but I sincerely wish the Social Security Administration would publish a complete official database of real name to SSN mappings. A full list might not even be necessary — a form that would allo
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Subtleties of the X clipboard (+ how to setup a consistent clipboard on Linux)(mutelight.org)
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by fyrerise 16y ago
This isn't accurate. Shaw has recently jumped on the same bandwagon and started enforcing hard caps with overage fees. Just go here if you want to check that: http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/High-Spee... ($2.00/GB for e
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by fyrerise 17y ago
One more in Calgary. We should organize a meetup, all the cool stuff that's happening in San Fran all the time is making me pretty envious ;)
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by fyrerise 17y ago
The trouble is that to run more complex operations, it's nice to have a high-level language to write your tasks in. Rake uses Ruby for this, and Nemesis Haskell. Either app can be used for other purposes, for example, I use Rake to compile/