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by markpapadakis 1y ago
What an inspired name :)
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by markpapadakis 1y ago
This looks like a disaster. It is like it was fast-tracked based on the oomph factor because seriously, how come you didn't notice how hard it is to read text or even notice overlapping objects/controls? Maybe once we use it for s
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by markpapadakis 3y ago
https://github.com/skypjack/entt is a fantastic alternative; also, one of the most beautiful codebases/elegant designs I 've come across.
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by markpapadakis 4y ago
Velocity is about familiarity, about expressiveness, about being able to quickly translating what you want to accomplish to code. It’s also about, for me anyway, not being constrained by inherent limits of the language or runtimes. Like I s
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by markpapadakis 4y ago
All our infrastructure technology, services, and almost all “applications” we have built are written in C++. That’s millions of lines of code and span everything from IR, distributed storage and computation, ads serving, relational and colu
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by markpapadakis 5y ago
We have been running hundreds of services that effectively consume from various topics, perform mostly simple transformations and produce back to other topics. Providing this kind of functionality makes a lot of sense. We are using TANK, an
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by markpapadakis 5y ago
This is a great related podcast episode: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/havana-syndrome/
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by markpapadakis 5y ago
Apologies for linking to something I wrote; I believe convenience is addictive: https://markpapadakis.medium.com/convenience-is-key-2aad97d5...
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by markpapadakis 5y ago
This works great for me; what's most important is understanding what it is and how it materialises. Dealing with it becomes much simpler once you can reason about it: https://markpapadakis.medium.com/how-to-prevent-burn
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by markpapadakis 6y ago
This is quite ridiculous. I’d say it’s obviously ridiculous but others may have a different point of view. The government there is eager to side with Murdoch and his friends for favorable coverage so that they can pocket money from this ext
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Cirdan, an Embeddable Data Warehouse(markpapadakis.medium.com)
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by markpapadakis 6y ago
This is fantastic news. What would you say were the hardest aspects of the design and implementation, in terms of effort and thinking that went into those accomplishments ?
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by markpapadakis 6y ago
https://medium.com/@markpapadakis/interesting-codebases-159f... In addition to those I highly recommend studying ClickHouse’s codebase. There are brilliant design and engineering bits everywhere. I learned more from st
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by markpapadakis 6y ago
Pocket ( https://getpocket.com/ ). It’s really bad. Been using it for years and it’s always been broken. Crashes often, narration sometimes works most of the time it doesn’t, other times it works if you force stop the app a
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by markpapadakis 6y ago
Postfix
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by markpapadakis 6y ago
kuro5hin, slashdot as it existed back when, dejanews, and s bunch of video gaming sites that went extinct
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by markpapadakis 6y ago
I never had coffee. I drink Diet Coke and I enjoy tea ( I have some once every week or so ). I have been writing code for over 25 years now, and I never felt that I was missing out but then again not sure I’d know either way.
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Building High-Performance Services in 2020(medium.com)
2 points by markpapadakis 6y ago|0 comments
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Building High-Performance Services in 2020(medium.com)
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by markpapadakis 7y ago
From https://500ish.com/offline-curious-85363c4aed18 > One trend I’m most curious about right now is the rise of no or low alcohol drinks. I noticed this in Europe years ago — that nearly everywhere you went they not onl
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by markpapadakis 7y ago
Our ( https://bestprice.gr/ ) services/“programs” generate three different types of events: - Short events (no longer than ~1k in size) where the cost to generate and transmit is very low(sent to dedicated service via UD
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by markpapadakis 7y ago
This is what I believe is the the main cause of burnout and how to efficiently prevent it and deal with it if necessary: https://medium.com/@markpapadakis/how-to-prevent-burnout-and...
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by markpapadakis 7y ago
I like how the blog post title is, likely, based on Google's Page and Brin seminal paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine". :) This blog post, and other in the series, mention RocksDB is used for t
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by markpapadakis 7y ago
For a few million queries we needed to index, many of them close to 30 characters in length(some even longer than that), the generated index size for max edit distance 3, was really large. So we used 3 indices (one for unigrams, bigrams, an
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by markpapadakis 7y ago
Got it. This is by design - though I suspect we need to dial down the cost for misspelled first character in prefixes. We built our own FST, which is somewhat similar to the design of the Rust fst crate ( https://blog.burntsushi.
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by markpapadakis 7y ago
Could you please tell me what you entered? As for prefixes and typos, in our case, the FST is used for both matching a prefix and spelling correction of the prefix. The first character is treated specially; the chance of getting the first c
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by markpapadakis 7y ago
SymSpell is great for tiny datasets(based on edit distance/operations, and dictionary size). It’s fast, but the generated index will likely be very large; furthermore, you can’t practically encode rules and transition costs (e.g cost
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by markpapadakis 7y ago
What does each of those 200 dimensions represent/encode? This is a very interesting and pragmatic design. I tried a couple of queries and the results were great for most of them, but not so much for esoteric ones, or for queries involv
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by markpapadakis 7y ago
Was Gumbo used for parsing crawled pages for indexing reasons ? How was it used internally ? I presume they use some headless chrome like technology for most of that nowadays.
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by markpapadakis 7y ago
I dislike whitespace sensitive languages or definition formats with a passion. Especially when tabs and spaces are not treated equally. I don’t mind python as much nowadays but YAML is borderline insulting to me. I hope we all move on to so

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