lod723

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by lod723 9y ago
Having a bad rap inside the tech bubble affects them in relation to recruiting and retention though. If the tech zeitgeist turns against Facebook as a "cool place to work" that's pretty bad news for them.
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by lod723 9y ago
That didn't answer the question.
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by lod723 9y ago
Concurring with sibling comments, last week I had a Lyft driver who was using that feature because she was ending her shift.
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by lod723 9y ago
You mean Norway is the Canada of the EU?
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by lod723 9y ago
It's worth posting the long version. I've been following the various Pony blog posts with interest (I'm a both language geek and a distributed systems geek), but I always come away with the notion "Huh, kinda cool, but w
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by lod723 9y ago
I've read that blog post and some of your other posts on HN. I get why the JVM, C/C++, and Go were not fits. However, I have not seen a lucid explanation of why you didn't go with Erlang or Elixir.
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by lod723 9y ago
Safari's JS engine is different than Chrome's though, no?
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by lod723 9y ago
SPARC does speculative execution, so it would be vulnerable to Spectre too.
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by lod723 9y ago
Java and C# incur more much more developer complexity for web development than Phoenix. And as the the sibling comment points out, raw CPU performance isn't the only measure of efficiency. The JVM loves to eat memory, and if you get 10
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by lod723 9y ago
For an improvement of 2 orders of magnitude while maintaining the same level of developer complexity, I'm hard pressed to think of any other web framework besides Phoenix that can deliver this.
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by lod723 9y ago
Just speculating, but maybe it's because Google, Facebook, and Amazon have a tech presence in Austin and not in the other 3 metros you mentioned?
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by lod723 9y ago
No, because the JVM currently lacks features to truly isolate threads of execution, which is important for both performance and reliability. AFAIK, the JVM folk aren't even talking about addressing this, which is disappointing.
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by lod723 9y ago
You realize that this sounds like more of the same hype to anyone who was burned by the overpromising in the 1.x and 2.x days? Whether your statement about 3.x is true or not, the MongoDB people dug their own hole that they need to try extr
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by lod723 9y ago
I can think of a couple trivial ways to express this in Erlang/Elixir. You should take a look at them.
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by lod723 9y ago
I think he got it right. Mossberg was one amongst a number of everyman tech columnists for a while, but Jobs really elevated him once Apple got popular.
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by lod723 9y ago
You left out Millbrae. I don't think the grandposter tried very hard. There's definitely a number of proper Chinese places in that corridor, but the average ones do suck. That or the in-laws are looking for a specific region in Ch
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by lod723 9y ago
The JVM has the same global heap problem as Node... it's frustrating that with all the development that goes into the JVM this problem remains unaddressed.
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by lod723 9y ago
Will take a look! There really should be more ecosystems that try to solve modern problems effectively.
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by lod723 9y ago
The multiprocess Node concurrency model is brittle and fault intolerant. The event loop scan actually has real bottlenecks at a certain level of fds in flight. A real scheduler really wins here; libuv sits below the knowledge of the runtime
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by lod723 9y ago
> Once you get the hang of promises, you are capable of doing concurrent asynchronous tasks in a manner that would be significantly more difficult in any other language. FYI, anyone who has worked with Elixir or Erlang views these sort o
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by lod723 9y ago
Yeah, this is important. Therapist-client privilege has a specific legal definition, and it'd be very bad to loophole that away due to some inadvertent implementation detail.
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by lod723 9y ago
It's possible however that some juniors may take longer to reach their full potential, or perhaps never reach it at all in a remote environment. Also juniors may not have the self-introspection to perceive that the environment is not w
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by lod723 9y ago
Pulling off that balance is extremely hard to implement in practice though. Usually it swings heavily one direction or the other, so one group is marginalized.
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by lod723 9y ago
I experience regular UI glitches and occasional full app hangs that require a force kill to reset, the latter most notably in poor connectivity situations like the subway. It's not terrible , it's just not that good either. It&#x
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by lod723 9y ago
People are more tolerant of buggy and/or slow tech if said tech might increase their chances of getting laid. A more direct example is Tinder and other dating apps like it: the quality of those apps are somewhat lower than others with