larsmak

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by larsmak 11y ago
Yes, but this "enterprise" crapware is the transaction system of your bank, and those "few bytes" are your last paycheck. Have some respect for the software that makes the world around you function.
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by larsmak 11y ago
Grew up on a farm in Scandinavia and have witness a few of these up close. The amount of debris they can accumulate is staggering - mostly nails, and corroded clumps of metal (probably from old farming equipment). There was nothing particul
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by larsmak 11y ago
I don't know, S3 and DynamoDB are both eventual consistent. And keeping in mind the CAP-theorem it makes sense. And I for one love SimpleDB - it's just that, simple. And great for prototyping (really cheap) and small production-lo
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by larsmak 11y ago
Could you elaborate on which issues you ran into. We are in the process of upgrading to from jdk7 to jdk8 (at-least for the services we see having a long lifespan) and it would be great to hear some real world experience.
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by larsmak 12y ago
Yep, no problems here. 80GB dataset, indexes are around 10GB, one master, two replicas. Lots of reads, all writes are done in bulk during the night (low read throughput). We also use Cassandra and postgresql a lot - there's no silver b
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by larsmak 12y ago
I worked in the air-force as ground-crew servicing F-16 for a year. Every now and then they would exercise gun target-practice by having one jet tow a red "sail" (I think it was called a "taxan"). The towing-line was sev
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by larsmak 12y ago
I'm from Norway and I had the same experience when visiting Berlin last year - having to take out euro-bills from the ATM. Here in Norway I never carry any actual money - I only ever take out money to pay my foreign hair-dresser which
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by larsmak 12y ago
Typically you create your class manually and map to-and-from json-strings. In a web-context you'd usually let the container handle the serialization/de-serialization (jax-rs), in other contexts I tend to use Google's GSON-lib
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by larsmak 12y ago
Give him a break, this is how projects - and especially personal projects - develop. You find a cool idea you want to explore on, the end product might be something totally different then what you started with.
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by larsmak 12y ago
They do sell very well here in Norway at least - and is said to behave decent during the winter: http://www.klikk.no/motor/bil/biltester/article896042.ece
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by larsmak 12y ago
Been using http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-dbutils for the same purpose. Works well when I don't need the slede-hammer a full ORM-framework can be. Will look into JDBI as well next time.
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by larsmak 12y ago
The replication factor is set to 3, meaning that all data is stored on tree separate nodes - in different availability zones. So in practice the writes per sec is 3x.
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by larsmak 12y ago
I've been a java developer for over 10 years (8 professionally). I've worked as a consultant on large government projects, using legacy frameworks like Struts/Tiles and being forced to use older versions of Java. I've wo
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by larsmak 12y ago
Having used HazelCast extensively, and considering making some of my code Sirius-depentant, I can tell you that it is not more advanced. Sirius is basically just a distributed key-value store w/no partitioning, whereas HazelCast has a
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by larsmak 12y ago
I'd say that depends on what kind of service the provider is offering. Later generation cloud providers might specializing in providing such VMs - Heroku and GAE comes to mind. But on providers that offer more "bare metal" VM
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by larsmak 12y ago
Started with Visual Basic back in 98, switched to java around 2003 and haven't looked back. I can still remember I thought the "Obejct" in "Object Related Programming" was referring to the nice GUI-components in the
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by larsmak 12y ago
When the cloud was first being introduced one of the core principles was that your instances should be considered ephemeral - and that they can terminate at any time, without any notice or further explanation. I think some people sometimes
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by larsmak 12y ago
These guidelines does not apply to all websites but (and I translate) "private and government enterprises, communities and organizations that uses the web as it's main channel for distribution of information to the public". B
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by larsmak 12y ago
..which is exactly why we have scala, groovy, etc!
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by larsmak 12y ago
One great thing about these new language features is that you don't have to use them. You can run on jdk8 and program as if it was your grandmas vm. This was true for generics and will be true for lambdas etc. As programmers become mor
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by larsmak 12y ago
I really respect Coda Hale for the work he has done on Dropwizard, and shares his views on Java vs. scala. As for the java-hate - in my 10 years of java-programming it has always been there. They used to complain about it not being portable
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by larsmak 12y ago
OVH got a pretty good write-up on their blog[1], well worth a read. It looks as if their solution should be able to mitigate layer 3/4 attacks. From the blog: "Our surplus network has a capacity over 2 Tbps. We have three VAC in p
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by larsmak 13y ago
I admit I find my-self thinking from time to time that I need to "return multiple values from this method". But this is not often, and in most cases I find that it is a result of bad design. A method should be short and have a sin
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by larsmak 13y ago
>Java devs: what is faster, hashmap or hashtable? Ok, as a Java-dev I'll bite: They are not really comparable - because their use depends on the situation. One is meant for concurrent access by multiple threads - and thus synchroniz
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by larsmak 13y ago
If I understand this correctly then the huge improvement in latency (from 200ms to 3ms) comes from not having to deal with slow clients directly. Traffic to your front-end server are now only from ELB, and ELB is "spoon-feeding" t
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by larsmak 13y ago
Not only did he start using revision control - he went ahead and implemented a completely new one!
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by larsmak 13y ago
It's really not that hard to make thing run async / paralell in java: You just create a ExecutorService and submit your runnables / callables. The java.util.concurrent-package makes this easy, and google guava has some useful
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by larsmak 13y ago
How common is it to work out of coffee shops? Where I'm from (Norway) I think you'd be asked to leave if you were to be sitting in a coffee shop day in and day out - unless you were drinking a whole lot of coffee, eating a lot of
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by larsmak 13y ago
They should have just incremented on the F-16, now that is an exellent fighter - so elegant and simple. One of the F-16 designers has some great insights on the F-35: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQB4W8C0rZI
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by larsmak 13y ago
Well, it makes perfect sense. You are protecting the client it self - by dictating which sources can be used for fetching information and code. XSS is about malicious code injected on your site, in their browser - it's not the client w

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