newtonapple | 4 years ago | on: immudb – world’s fastest immutable database, built on a zero trust model
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newtonapple | 6 years ago | on: Google Maps Hacks
I drove through North Lake Tahoe one time on a weekday around midnight, and Google Maps was showing all red as I was driving up the mountain... I was super confused as there were no cars around me and it was not snowing either. What I later realized was that all the trucks were parked alongside the freeway taking breaks... I never realized that you could basically trick Google Maps by using a bunch of cellphones. Very neat!
newtonapple | 6 years ago | on: Let the callers of your API control allocations
For low level APIs, I would say anything that could be configured on a per call basis should be parameterized: memory allocations, database & http connections etc.
newtonapple | 7 years ago | on: Crystal 0.26.0 released
Do you have a reference to this? As far as I'm can tell, core devs are still aiming to ship parallelism w/ 1.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13213619. But, Windows support might be held back: https://dev.to/dougeverly/comment/lob.
newtonapple | 9 years ago | on: Prepack helps make JavaScript code more efficient
What will happen if you have bug in your function? Take the fibonacci function for example, what if you have a bug and created an infinite loop? Will Prepack terminate?
newtonapple | 9 years ago | on: MacBook Pro
"Then again, with Chrome taking up >4GB of RAM, they probably could have gotten half that performance just by closing their browser or using Safari." This is so true. I've recently stopped using Chrome and switched to Safari. Now my 5-year old MacBook Pro runs like butter.
newtonapple | 10 years ago | on: Sony Music Tries to Force Creator to Pull Video It Licensed from Him
newtonapple | 11 years ago | on: What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
I'd argue that sometimes you don't really know what good taste is or whether or not you would enjoy something until you've acquired a certain level of competency for it. Sports, programming and math are all like this. The more you work on them the more enjoyable they become, and you'd become a lot more "tasteful".
newtonapple | 13 years ago | on: Crocodoc (YC W10) Launches Preview of Revamped HTML5 Document Converter
It seems like Dropbox is using the native Chrome PDF viewer on Chrome and PDF.js on Firefox for PDF files.
newtonapple | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (for Chrome)
Looks a lot like http://www.readshout.com/.
newtonapple | 13 years ago | on: Typing Practice for Programmers
I made something similar except you can practice using any Gist you want. http://newtonapple.github.com/Gistype/#1 It still needs some work on the current cursor movement for longer Gists, but the basic functionality is there. No login required, just type. :) Note that if you have Vimium installed, you'll have to put the URL on your "excluded URLs" list.
newtonapple | 13 years ago | on: SML: Scalable Machine Learning Class (with video lectures)
I watched some of the videos they are quite good. The data streams lectures are definitely worth a watch: http://alex.smola.org/teaching/berkeley2012/streams.html.
newtonapple | 13 years ago | on: Mac App Store Apps Get Some Analytics Love
Does anyone know how this actually works? From their website: "Unlike other conversion tracking solutions available to app developers, Tapstream doesn't rely on mobile ad networks, cookies or UDIDs. Instead, we fingerprint your web visitors with our tasty secret sauce to match them up with conversions that you define inside your app." This sounds a little fishy.
newtonapple | 13 years ago | on: Orbitz shows costlier hotel options to Mac users
They're redirected to this: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/torval....
newtonapple | 14 years ago | on: Scribd says: Beat our programmers at a coding challenge
Tikhon Jr?
newtonapple | 14 years ago | on: Subpixel vs. Greyscale Antialiasing
I ran into a similar problem with the Google Mobile AdSense animation on iOS Mobile Safari. Basically when you put an absolutely positioned element with higher z-index over the iframed ad, it'll trigger greyscale antialiasing. Here is a demo (see it in Mobile Safari): http://newtonapple.github.com/frontend_tidbits/mobile_safari...
newtonapple | 14 years ago | on: Scalable Machine Learning Lectures
The lectures on data streams are my favorites: http://alex.smola.org/teaching/berkeley2012/streams.html.
newtonapple | 14 years ago | on: Increased performance ten-fold by switching to a superior language
Apparently he also rewrote Erlang from scratch to be "more efficient and performant" (private repo): https://github.com/eddiedeck/airlang
newtonapple | 14 years ago | on: TechCrunch Redesign Live
I ain't gonna lie. I vomited a little when I first saw the new logo. The pixelated green is seizure inducing. Congrats TechCrunch, you've just topped the Gawker redesign. Keep up the good work.
newtonapple | 15 years ago | on: I just released an eBook about exceptions and failure handling in Ruby
The sample has more than two pages: http://exceptionalruby.com/exceptional-ruby-sample.pdf
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Also, what are the system requirements for immudb? What kind of machine would I need to run a medium to large website (say, 1TB of data, 5-25K qps, e.g. Wikipedia)?
It mentioned in the documentation that it can use S3 as its storage? Are there performance implications if you do this?