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by tpsreport 13y ago
> -My account balance went from 10 to 0 to 10 That could potentially indicate a database infrastructure problem. Eventually consistent databases can issue responses that appear to travel backwards in time. And [1] says this: Coinbas
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by tpsreport 14y ago
base+extension@domain type mail addresses are incredibly useful for legitimate people. For starters, they can be used to track who is leaking your personal information out. So I hope this alarmist note does not prompt anyone into banning th
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by tpsreport 14y ago
Nice article, whose central message ("don't bundle your tools") is widely applicable to domains other than monitoring. Small, specialized tools that can be combined together is the very essence of the Unix philosophy.
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by tpsreport 14y ago
For me, this was the dead giveaway that the person writing the article had no idea what he was writing about: >Software-wise, most large porn sites will use a very-high-throughput database such as Redis to store and serve videos No vide
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by tpsreport 15y ago
One of the co-founders has a long diatribe about how awesome it was to have dropped out of De Paul University. Perhaps if he had stayed in school, he would have learned how not to be a misogynist, and maybe figured out how to spell as well.
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by tpsreport 15y ago
On both a very unrelated and totally related note, one of the co-founders of Kiva, Rafaello D'Andrea, dominated robo-soccer for five years.
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by tpsreport 15y ago
The point here is that this particular cargo cult around bcrypt (one subscribed to by some really loud people) has a shaky foundation and does not deserve its reputation. He's offering alternatives that have been better studied. So, by all
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by tpsreport 15y ago
What a sensible change. Kudos to the git team. Most other teams would be wary of a non-backwards compatible change on such a critical path for a widely used tool.
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by tpsreport 15y ago
Wow, I had no idea that the OP was in high school. Kudos to him! His blog entry is close enough to other software dev blogs in quality that I think we can leave his age, identity and personality aside, and talk about what it takes to win pe
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by tpsreport 15y ago
Let me reiterate my constructive suggestion that the OP provide actual data. I can see how the author wrote a pop book, as he is quite verbose, but any engineer can tell you that he is also quite evasive on technical questions. "What's the
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by tpsreport 15y ago
You have a knack for producing a lot of text with no supporting evidence. Especially of a quantitative nature. This might go over well with a certain class of people, but it offends my engineering sensibilities.
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by tpsreport 15y ago
If you're unhappy with Python as a baseline comparison, pick anything else you're happy with that other people understand and compare to that. It's not like we're setting an impossibly high bar here. Just put forward a reasonable argument f
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by tpsreport 15y ago
I'm still not seeing you report something that says "an operation that took X ms now takes Y ms." Note the absolute numbers whose units are in seconds. That's what I'd like to see for a baseline. And I won't even comment on the "we did this
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by tpsreport 15y ago
I simply summarized your article. There is nothing wrong with not being up to handling C++'s error messages. I don't feel up to that task myself most of the time. But your arguments for Go rang hollow. I'd urge you to go through the "pro-Go
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by tpsreport 15y ago
Here's a summary of the article: * author cannot write portable C sockets code * author cannot handle C/C++ * author believes his app would be too slow in Python, later abandons App, but retains his bias against Python * Go has no parens fo
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by tpsreport 15y ago
What's the baseline? When the baseline is terrible, getting 100x performance is not a big deal. No good engineer would cite "100X improvement" without quantifying the baseline level. This is PR, not engineering and not science.
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by tpsreport 15y ago
Not surprised. Twitter seems to have a large amount of bot traffic that tends to drown out the normal human-to-human discussion. It's a write-mostly medium.
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by tpsreport 15y ago
The intellectual laziness shown above indicates that you cannot be trusted even with a MySpace profile. Or especially a MySpace profile.
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by tpsreport 15y ago
Redis has a rich API but it doesn't scale and it doesn't guarantee consistency.
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by tpsreport 15y ago
It's a consistent, scalable, high-performance key-value store. If you need the use cases spelled out for you, you should not be using it or anything else related to the web.