rer | 9 years ago | on: IPFS is the Distributed Web
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rer | 9 years ago | on: IPFS is the Distributed Web
Why isn't HTTP going away?
rer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
Where is the 16ms hardwired latency in the browser coming from?
rer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
Finally, someone gets it. Thank you!
rer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
> we have to migrate everything to javascript
Why?
What I really want is the whole browser to go away.
rer | 9 years ago | on: RethinkDB is shutting down
ACID correct distributed transactions are possible. Google's F1 paper shows how: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Very, very painful problems are very, very valuable.
rer | 9 years ago | on: RethinkDB and Compose: Where Next
Compose didn't offer only RethinkDB. It offered many other databases as well.
rer | 9 years ago | on: RethinkDB is shutting down
I wish they had added transactions. It seems like such an important feature.
rer | 9 years ago | on: RethinkDB is shutting down
Does RethinkDB not support transactions? I thought it did.
rer | 9 years ago | on: RethinkDB is shutting down
Did RethinkDB spend $8M in 3 years?
rer | 9 years ago | on: RethinkDB is shutting down
I wish RethinkDB had published a performance benchmark against Hadoop. It'd be enough to show the world how ahead of its times RethinkDB is.
I also wish I knew what RethinkDB's investors are thinking.
rer | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why are there open-source software licenses?
Sentences are creations. Does this mean every sentence we write on HN or say to each other by default is closed and needs a license?
rer | 9 years ago | on: Employee #1: Coinbase
Another gem
> My belief is that the inexperienced, interested person will outperform the experienced, uninterested person over time.
rer | 9 years ago | on: Employee #1: Coinbase
> I did customer support by myself until we had 250,000 users
It's good to know what the limit to customer support can be. Don't say customer support doesn't scale.
rer | 9 years ago | on: What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]
Is hot reloading that big of a problem?
rer | 9 years ago | on: How to Build the Future with Sam Altman
I'm trying to be an objective observer here.
My text classification software marked the third line as the most authentic, most truthful line.
Huh.
rer | 9 years ago | on: UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
There's a huge discussion in this thread on tabs being slow, which made me wonder: is it necessary for browsers to have tabs?
Windows desktop apps work great without tabs. Could life be better without tabs?
rer | 9 years ago | on: This new electric car is designed for a $37 weekly subscription service
Why isn't Tesla doing this?
rer | 9 years ago | on: How Norway spends its $882B global fund
In the "Top of the World" graph in the article, there's a dip for Saudi Arabia. Does anyone know why?
rer | 9 years ago | on: Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app
If both Allo users have responses recommended by the app, who's chatting with each other -- the users or the apps?
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Can you imagine ways there could be less of it?