geeio | 2 months ago | on: Selective Applicative Functors
Don’t know why, but this was an approachable intro to FP for me, just the right level of detail for me to grok why.
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geeio | 3 years ago | on: “Eeny, meeny, miny, mo” and the ambiguous history of counting-out rhymes (2015)
native english speaker here, I still cannot connect it either.
geeio | 3 years ago | on: Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager
I wasn’t expecting the app to be that good! Great recommendation
geeio | 4 years ago | on: Dictionary Compression
This might be a good fit for roaring bitmaps [1] or Minimal Perfect Hashing
geeio | 4 years ago | on: How are Rome's monuments still standing?
Pressure treated wood is kinda like that (it uses something other than tar).
[1]: https://www.homedepot.com/c/ab/types-of-pressure-treated-woo...
geeio | 4 years ago | on: A beginner’s guide to game hacking techniques [pdf]
I’ve used lulu.com for this in the past for small one-off print jobs (I think it was 5$ for something around 80 pages)
geeio | 4 years ago | on: Joker: A small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go
Agreed, when you start to need these kind of optimizations, go might not be the best choice
geeio | 4 years ago | on: Joker: A small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go
I think you could do the pointerless version (the one using an int32 index) of this in go via unsafe casting.
I’ll try it out later
geeio | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Affordable book printing/Bookbinding service in the US?
I’ve used lulu.com in the past
geeio | 5 years ago | on: Trello Android's Git Branching Strategy
> we had to make release branches SOX-compliant, adhering to additional rules and constraints.
Does anyone have an example of what is required to make a branch SOX-compliant?
geeio | 5 years ago | on: Amazon Ion
It is probably closer to something like avro, but with more features and less java focus.
geeio | 6 years ago | on: Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system
Kafka works best when the data it is returning to consumers is in the page cache.
When consumers fall behind, they start to request data that might not be in the page cache, causing things to slow down.
geeio | 7 years ago | on: Let’s Build a Simple Database (2017)
H2 has a disk persistence mode.
Though I’d probably use SQLite for this use case
geeio | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best Online Course for Distributed Computing or Systems?
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html
Read the paper/notes from the schedule and you’ll learn a ton (took this course as an undergrad)
geeio | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the Modern Equivalent of MS Access?
Maybe airtable.com?
Not sure if you are ok with a hosted solution
geeio | 7 years ago | on: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
Do you like the reMarkable tablet?
I currently have an iPad Pro but I really don’t like reading PDFs on it. I’d love to stop printing out papers and an eink display would be nice.
EDIT: just read your review linked in the post
geeio | 7 years ago | on: Reducing DRAM Footprint with NVM in Facebook
NVMe is the spec for controllers supporting NVM.
Think PCI vs PCIe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express
geeio | 8 years ago | on: The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? (2009)
I don’t think this would be possible even with a fair coin.
geeio | 8 years ago | on: Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres
Time to install is much faster, bundle install is just so damn slow.
And now that I'm not a ruby dev any more, I don't install a modern ruby on my computer.
geeio | 8 years ago | on: Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres
I do the same thing. Small projects start with the job queue in postgres.
As things eventually scale up, I move the queue to its own dedicated postgres node.
Once that starts to be too slow, I finally move to redis/kafka. 99% of things never make it to this stage.
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