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deitcher | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Dotmesh – A git-like CLI for application states

The primary focus is, indeed, archiving (and replaying and sharing, with ease) states of data. Merging has been explored, but nothing concrete on it yet. Even something relatively simple, like merging code, often requires a human to resolve (sometimes with real effort). Imagine trying to do that with filesystem snapshots of database files.

We are exploring it. We have some thoughts on higher level understanding of data that might make it possible.

But definitely starting with the basics, as you said.

deitcher | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Dotmesh – A git-like CLI for application states

I have seen a growth of such "vcs-like" databases, but I think the preponderance remains SQL stores like MySQL/MSSQL/Postegres or NoSQL like Mongo/Cassandra/Redis/Couch/etc. For those - or anything that has its own model of storage or processing and, in the end, is backed by filesystem-type storage, dotmesh provides a really nice solution.

I haven't used Relaxo itself, but personally, I like the fact that independent groups are thinking of version control semantics for data. Tells me it is heading in a positive direction.

deitcher | 11 years ago | on: Elevator.js

This was a lot of fun. I don't care that it isn't hyper-practical, or a jQuery plugin may or may not exist. We aren't that serious about ourselves, are we?

deitcher | 11 years ago

CrashPlan since 2006, Mozy before that. Once every quarter or two, a full Time Machine to a USB drive.

deitcher | 11 years ago | on: 30% of People Have Never Backed Up; Let's Change That

Not that I am in love with "World Backup Day," but I think it is worth starting the conversation why people do not back up?

Personally, I am surprised Microsoft or Apple has not bought out CrashPlan or Mozy (from EMC) or Carbonite and made it standard on their platform. Apple especially, since it already has recurring services it charges for.

Come to think of it, great concept for my next article. But I wanted the discussion.

deitcher | 11 years ago | on: The I-JSON Message Format

It was, I just didn't know it at the time! I was simply looking for some way to write emails and spec docs in a way that everyone would have a common frame of reference with zero extra work.

Yeah, in storage (as above), I use epoch all the way through and convert as needed. But as the thread above shows, not everyone likes this path...

deitcher | 11 years ago | on: The I-JSON Message Format

I had not thought of that. Ha!

I would go for UTC, since that is what 99.99% of the people think of (and so few even know about TAI, except for the smart ones like @jameshart! :-) )

deitcher | 11 years ago | on: The I-JSON Message Format

And JavaScript is milliseconds as well. I think either would be fine, as long as it is an agreed standard. Personally, I use ms, because most programming langs can instantly convert with any additional math. But it probably is wasteful. Then again, 1000 is just a few bits on each...

deitcher | 11 years ago | on: The I-JSON Message Format

Fair enough @pimlottc. But most of the time I am far more concerned with accurately capturing a moment in time than I am with making it instantly readable. I also have helped some companies that ran into serious datetime management issues when they worked with strings that led engineers to assume a certain timezone, others to assume others, and chaos ensued.

Epochs may not be instantly readable, but they do force everyone onto the same page.

In any case, I tend to view a timezone as a separate piece of data than the actual moment in time (but I know others have a different paradigm): datetime = accurate moment in time; timezone = the timezone for which this should be viewed, or was captured or, etc.

deitcher | 11 years ago

Patent trolls are a major issue, especially for tech companies. I always am heartened to read stories of people standing up to these leeches.

deitcher | 11 years ago | on: The I-JSON Message Format

Dunno, I always liked storing date/time as epoch. Every language under the sun seems to have a native method for working with it. Yeah, I need to deal with de/serialization, but it is a small price to pay, no?

deitcher | 11 years ago | on: The I-JSON Message Format

I love it. When I first started in IT (1994, don't ask...) working with London and Tokyo and San Fran and Singapore and everyone wrote dates differently. I just started writing YYYY-MM-DD everywhere, and all of the questions went away.

deitcher | 11 years ago | on: HTML6 proposal for single-page apps without JavaScript

I don't like this. I would like to see a standardized html way to load html partials into other html, similar to ng-include. I think that is clean. But to start mixing logic? How are you supposed to render a JSON array loaded via ajax? How do you put in authentication information or headers? How do you do error handling? This is the stuff that is handled by angular or ember or knockout or aurelia or etc.
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