schleyfox

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by schleyfox 11y ago
Hi, one of the Airbnb engineers involved in this op here. Yeah... that does sound a lot like 3 years ago. The situation has gotten a lot better, especially with 5.6 and PIOPS. These days, things work pretty smoothly (even as the volume o
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by schleyfox 11y ago
From my understanding, Aurora is a modified MySQL with a few components substantially rewritten and a new, log-structured storage engine added that is well integrated with Amazon's storage infrastructure (volumes auto-grow, quorum is h
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by schleyfox 13y ago
We used sparkey for hammerspace, which is very similar to cdb. cdb was actually the first thing we evaluated, and it validated parts of our approach.
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by schleyfox 13y ago
This is what we did, except leaning on file system cache instead of explicit mmapping.
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by schleyfox 13y ago
Reading code is the best way to get better at programming. It's good to start with really smart, really good code, but you should also read bad and mediocre code (and more importantly, be able to figure out from reading why it is bad
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by schleyfox 13y ago
One of the neat tricks with using the localhost HAProxy is that developer mode can just be a single Vagrant VM with all services configured to run on the port that they would have in Synapse. With HAProxy all the production servers think t
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by schleyfox 14y ago
South Africa was hard, but the hole for Lesotho was the big tip off for me.
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by schleyfox 14y ago
The #10 state is Virginia, which is 20% African American (compared to California's 6.2%). I'd say that poverty is the more probable root cause.
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by schleyfox 15y ago
Sadly, I think this is an increasingly recent phenomenon (get off my lawn). It's kind of funny given the style and length of HN favorites like pg and Steve Yegge.
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by schleyfox 15y ago
I think in this case it is more accurate to label it as a parody. It sets up an exaggerated scenario that is clearly ridiculous, but it is only far enough from the current tulip mania to strip away some of the artifice. It's more akin to
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by schleyfox 15y ago
Is it really so hard to take existing talent and train them to use other languages? Especially in cases where the existing library and tooling ecosystems exist (e.g. anything based on the JVM) the actual language probably won't be a show s
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by schleyfox 15y ago
You get that message fairly often because the implementation uses continuations ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation ). This is one functional style for making a stateless protocol (HTTP) into a stateful one. HN could use a differe
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Testing Storm Topologies Part 2(pixelmachine.org)
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by schleyfox 15y ago
And you are falling into the "if I build it they will come" trap. He definitely has a niche business. Many of us do. For most of us, our niche is tech. Patrick's niche is education. In the tech/startup niche, often the extent of marketin
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by schleyfox 15y ago
Someone should tell the Nginx guys that blocking IO is not a problem that web servers actually have. I'm sure they will be thrilled to not have to do complicated event programming anymore.
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by schleyfox 15y ago
I psuedo-dropped out* a week ago. I think the thing that really stuck out in my case was that all of my family and friends responded with a sincere "congratulations!" when I told them about it. * I've scraped enough credits together to col
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by schleyfox 15y ago
There are deploys and then there are deploys. 99% of your deploys should be fine to go live whenever the code hits the repo. I definitely still prefer scheduled overnight deploys whenever significant infrastructure changes need to go live.
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by schleyfox 15y ago
Agreed. Can't we just say this has been a hard month for the tech community?
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by schleyfox 15y ago
Amazon Prime isn't free shipping (as far as I know >$25 standard shipping is still a thing). It's a flat rate for unlimited 2 day shipping. Two day shipping is expensive, but the combination of an annual fee and the increased likeliho
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by schleyfox 15y ago
MySQL and Postgres are awesome for a lot of what websites do. They have advantages and disadvantages. Things like sharding tend to be premature optimizations except for write-heavy sites running at high scale. I prefer a mixture of SQL a
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by schleyfox 15y ago
The one major advantage of the keyboard on the old models (and why I'm glad they are still being sold) is for students using ebooks in class. For my literature discussions we often have to reference specific sections so the keyboard, while
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by schleyfox 15y ago
Seriously. Good pairs of slacks are about as comfortable as you can get in any situation. Part of the genius is the variety in materials that go in. You have everything from lightweight, super breathable pants perfect for the summer (whe
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by schleyfox 15y ago
I like boat shoes and desert boots personally. Both are extremely versatile and go as well with jeans as they go with khakis or slacks. As an added bonus, they mostly come in browns, which provides additional discouragement to wear the de
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by schleyfox 15y ago
I found git to make a lot more sense personally after reading http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/ . The git parable is also very good.
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by schleyfox 15y ago
"The old way, the Snow Leopard way, was that advanced features were purely optional. If you wanted multiple desktops, you activated Spaces. If you wanted to put the UI to work for multi-tasking, you used Expose. It was great for people who
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by schleyfox 15y ago
"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." -- Dorothy Parker
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by schleyfox 15y ago
37,700 http://testyourvocab.com/?r=36826 without cheating and not counting ones that I only thought I could puzzle out. Maybe working on that English Minor is panning out...
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by schleyfox 15y ago
Plenty of financial institutions have also made the studied choice to limit the length and types of characters I can use in my password.
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by schleyfox 15y ago
I've spent a bit of time on the inside at NASA, specifically working on earth observing systems. There is a huge difference between the code quality of things that go into control systems for spacecraft (even then, meters vs. feet, really?
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by schleyfox 15y ago
Is this not an obvious effect of first class functions? Was it necessary to rename "functions" to "named callbacks"? Can't you do basically exactly this with function pointers in C? Hopefully v8 will implement some of the things from Mozi

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