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bandrison A Review of Time Series Databases

The image embedded in the Gist says 10Gb network.

"This the first major Vim release in ten years. There are interesting new features, many small improvements and lots of bug fixes.

Among the new features are:

- Asynchronous I/O support, channels, JSON

- Jobs

- Timers

- Partials, Lambdas and Closures

- Packages

- New style testing

- Viminfo merged by timestamp

- GTK+ 3 support

- MS-Windows DirectX support"

bandrison AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go

Worth adding that LeoFS is being used in production by Rakuten for years now. Still not a widely known project for some reason.

http://www.slideshare.net/rakutentech/scaling-and-high-perfo...

bandrison The Exceptional Server – Another Erlang Battle-Story

Nice investigation into how exceptions in gen_servers are handled with surprising result.

At least I believe most Erlang developers will find it surprising.

bandrison Unison

From the about section: "Unison is a new programming platform that rethinks just about every aspect of the programming experience."

Haskell + Semantic editing + Collaborative editing + Distributed ...

Organised links about the project by the author: http://pchiusano.github.io/unison/

bandrison Hungarian government briefly proposes to criminalize encrypted services

I fear that they have jailing opponents in mind.

bandrison Pinterest replaced 10k lines of Java with 1k lines of Elixir

Using half as many servers as before. More info on the blog:

https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/introducing-new-open-...

bandrison League of Legends Chat Service Architecture

An Erlang success story.

bandrison Erlang/OTP 18.0 has been released

The improved time handling is the biggest new feature for most users probably (apart form maps improvements and the new license).

http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/time_correction.html

bandrison Infection inflicts a persistent decrease in IQ: study with 180,000 participants

The correction seems to be there now.

bandrison An introduction to Core Erlang (2001)

An interesting use of Core Erlang is LuvvieScript that compiles Erlang code to Javascript.

http://luvv.ie/toolchain.html

bandrison Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin

If you would like to pronounce Szabo, saying 'sawbow' is close enough. (Sz is a letter in Hungarian, pronounced as S in English.) IPA: /ˈsɒboː/

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Szab%C3%B3

bandrison Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions

The new paper the blog post introduces: http://www.bailis.org/papers/ramp-sigmod2014.pdf

bandrison Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular?

Rails made Ruby very popular.

Django made Python very popular.

There is no killer webframework for Erlang. However, N2O looks promising. [1]

Also, the learning curve: I took me half a day to be good enough in Python and years to learn the basics in Erlang. It is way more complex and the standard library is plagued with inconsistent/messy interfaces. (They say it is because of legacy code support or other BS.) But under the ugly surface lies the hidden beauty: single assignment is great when reading other people's code. Patching several running servers without stopping with one command is thrilling. Or the built-in nice abstractions for distributed programming like rpc:multicall [2].

[1]: http://synrc.com/framework/web/

[2]: http://erldocs.com/R16B03-1/kernel/rpc.html#multicall/3

bandrison Google to Acquire Nest

Or 2 youtubes.

bandrison It's a Dumbphone, But It's the Nicest Dumbphone You Can Buy

There are too many raw edges on a Nokia 301, probably related to new features (which are not many). One can google for them. To me the most annoying is that panorama mode fails to save the photo ~20% of the time on a large and mostly empty SD card. 39 days standby is a lie. Mine barely manages a week of standby on 2G only. Earlier versions of this platform are more robust and seemingly less power hungry. I wish I had bought a 2-3 year old one.

bandrison Memorizing a programing language using spaced repetition software

I prefer http://exponwords.com/ Lean, free, open source, web based, works well on mobile. I use it every day, mostly to learn German. (I know the author.)

bandrison 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

Neither is mine.

bandrison Poll: How long have you been programming?

Scroll down to pmcjones for example:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3789788

bandrison [dead]

And people in the UK don't know it? :)

bandrison Racket

"Racket's interactive mode encourages experimentation, and quick scripts easily compose into larger systems. Small scripts and large systems both benefit from native-code JIT compilation. When a system gets too big to keep in your head, you can add static types."

Impressive.

bandrison Stevedekorte's vertex.js

"vertex.js is a graph database inspired by filesystems that supports automatic garbage collection and is built on node.js and tokyocabinet."

bandrison Go Data Structures: Interfaces

I can't believe nobody finds this interesting. :(

bandrison REMUS Transparent high availability for Xen

Remus has been applied to the official Xen repository, and is expected to be included with the next major release.

bandrison Peace.facebook.com

A more detailed analysis:

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/demowar.htm

bandrison Piratebay strikes back

BREIN appears to have forged evidence. Piratebay files criminal charges against them.

bandrison [dead]

http://fastflip.googlelabs.com

bandrison Directed Edge sees a post-search web where recommendations rule

Also congrats for DirectedEdge for doing the animation without flash on the front page. Nice!

bandrison Iterators must go

Worth to note that the author is Andrei Alexandrescu. A must read for C++ programmers!

bandrison Ask HN: How can I get up early in the morning?

The alarm device should play pleasant music you enjoy, but not too soft. And placed out of reach.