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by nrser 4y ago
I clicked through to the technical intro, and it says you’re using AntidoteDB for the top-level replication https://electric-sql.com/docs/overview/technical-intro I happen across AntidoteDB just the other day, and
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by nrser 6y ago
The further you get in physical/geopolitical distance from the US the more you invalidate assumptions that many US sites and services make. I've had sites fail because my local time can be one calendar day _ahead_ of theirs... and
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by nrser 6y ago
Spending the night hanging out with people from Syria I think they might disagree with your depiction of US cities. Measurements in mm are different than those in lbs.
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by nrser 8y ago
If it's feasible to write (most) all of your app backend in Elixir, then I think it's a pretty great option. I feel like language context switches tend to be very expensive and error prone for developers, plus the increased hiring
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by nrser 8y ago
How long you live(d) there? It freak me out at first, like many things that are different, but after getting acclimated for a few years I actually think it works out pretty well. I had to get used to the "flow" and get used to bei
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by nrser 8y ago
I'll just say this... I still have 2.7 as my base install... for Ansible. Because they haven't switched yet. Ansible is owned by... Red Hat. They acquired it in late 2015. Seems like Red Hat - the people in the post that we'r
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by nrser 8y ago
Whether they respond with process and patience or not, I’m hard pressed to think of powerful states that abide “f*ck yourself” once they’ve started to think national interest/security.
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by nrser 8y ago
I live in Beijing, and the bike and scooter shares are everywhere , including blocking sidewalks and in huge piles and it’s absoultly great. They’ve been a terrific improvement. It’s great to use them, and it’s great to see so many other p
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by nrser 8y ago
I think that he's kind of right about the problem. In my opinion, Python's primary business value has been that sweet spot it occupies. It's not the most fun, but it's pleasant. It's not the fastest, but it's n
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by nrser 9y ago
It's cool. It's creative. It's different. Things that do not often top you're typical Hacker Newsie's values list, but - hey - if making software's a means to an end I never understood why anyone would write co
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by nrser 9y ago
Yeah, I when I thought about it I realized when I say "SV VC" I mean probably only the top 10-20 firms or so - the "top tier" or whatever, Sequoia, Accel, KPCB, Benchmark, etc. (highly subjective but you get the idea) -
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by nrser 9y ago
I don't really understand your question... this is the favored approach of many Silicon Valley VC firms, and they are widely considered some the smartest tech start-up investors in the world. If it really is a bad idea, and those firms
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by nrser 9y ago
I'm sorry if my wording was confusing; the company in these both situations is convincing people (investors) that they can become those things in the future, not that they are at the current time when they're not (which would like
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by nrser 9y ago
I think all of those services are cloud-based, yeah? Cloud services are a great option to have available, but there are many reasons organizations choose to manage their own instances... pre-existing infrastructure investment, flexibility,
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by nrser 9y ago
Trying to get big. The conventional wisdom is that it works better to get big with an unsustainable revenue model and convince people you can make it sustainable than to stay small with a sustainable revenue model and convince people you ca
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by nrser 9y ago
NoSQL has real use cases. The model is much closer to how you usually are structuring and handling data in your application. If you application is handling hierarchically structured, variously shaped, low-relational data - which many are be
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by nrser 9y ago
Many of the top-dollar patents in FB's chest are likely very broad / fundamental to the modern web. If you implicitly or explicitly retain a license to use whatever's needed for React, etc. than you likely have a decent footh
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by nrser 9y ago
One of the big failing of Jinja in my opinion is that it's Python with only instance methods, but Python has a weird, arbitrary-seeming historic division between basic functionality being implemented as global functions versus instan
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by nrser 9y ago
Check this fiasco out for starters: https://github.com/pallets/jinja/issues/659 > It was never documented that you can override variables from higher scopes But you could, and people did... because that&#x
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by nrser 9y ago
yeah... are their any success stories with regards to these kind of post? all the ways i play it out in my head don't seems great... 1. someone at exec/board/mgmt-level somewhat detached from product development process sees
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by nrser 10y ago
hey Josh!
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by nrser 10y ago
i am the original poster. i was clarifying the compassion.
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by nrser 10y ago
it's a business decision comparison, not a technical categorical comparison. you need something to receive http request and return http responses, and you're comparing different popular (because hiring, training, and available com
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by nrser 10y ago
as the other commenter said, php is a web framework... and it's what we were using. it's actually more of a web framework than a language in my opinion (or at least was at that point). it's centered around receiving http re
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by nrser 10y ago
it's the "good problem". and the good problem can always be solved, though lack of reliability can seriously hurt your growth. but that doesn't mean that it's as easy as people make it out to be. i wrote and ran a b
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by nrser 10y ago
RethinkDB is AGPL? can you elaborate more on the issues? was planning on using Rethink, and this is making me, well, re-think it. not sure if interpretations have changed in the last six years, but i went through an acquisition with a lot o
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by nrser 10y ago
people thought evernote was worth a bit of money at some point
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by nrser 10y ago
yeah, I guess I sorta missed that... I mean the 'X' in AJAX was for XML... I've def been guilty of outputting "XML" with php tags. by the time we got to JSON there were libs available, or maybe we just wrote our own
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by nrser 10y ago
i think a major problem is that XML kinda looks and feels like HTML (and there was the whole XHTML thing to further confuse), and outputting HTML programmatically (vs string / print / template based) has most been frowned on as ov
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by nrser 10y ago
it's what you call the cops when you're more inclined to make a donation than make a run for it

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