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biggest_louon Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop

That's fine for a single document, but definitely doesn't work for an entire directory structure worth of Markdown files

biggest_louon Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters Expansion

Do you really think it's all just tweets and ads? Spoiler art: it's much, much, much more than that. Massive analytics stack, tons of distributed computing needs, lots of well-maintained OSS projects (Mesos, Aurora, Finagle, Pants, Bootstrap, Zipkin). I could name about 20 other things. The headcount may be a bit excessive but this is a caricature.

biggest_louon Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters Expansion

Um, no. The OSS evangelism team is three people total.

biggest_louon An annotation of the Rust standard library

I suspect this is the kind of thing that wasn't posted to HN by the original content creator

biggest_louon Mapping the Hourly Wage Needed to Rent a 2-Bedroom Apartment in Every U.S. State

Am I the only one that doesn't see the value of assessing this at the state level? Given the drastic variability of rents within states, this seems like a useless (not to mention misleading) unit of analysis.

Even worse, this kind of sensationalism around rising rents seems to be bringing the rent control zombie back to life in a number of cities. What a disaster that would be.

biggest_louon Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads

FWIW I did write a bunch of documentation on sibling resolution in Riak: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/dev/using/conflict-resolut...

biggest_louon Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Rust vs. Go

The Rust benchmarks will become a lot more interesting (and realistic) when they don't rely so heavily on unsafe calls to C code.

biggest_louon Panamax: Docker Management for Humans

Is it? As far as I can tell, only their logo is trademarked. I'd be surprised if a general term like Panamax could be trademarked.

biggest_louon Riak 2.0.0 RC1

CRDTs in Riak are different from normal KV operations because you don't have to fetch CRDTs to modify them. Instead, you tell Riak which operations should be performed on them, such as adding a field to a map as you mention. Each data type had its own set of operations. Counters can be either incremented or decremented, you can add or remove elements to/from a set, and so on.

biggest_louon Riak 2.0.0 RC1

That has almost nothing in common with CRDTs in Riak 2.0: http://docs.basho.com/riak/2.0.0/theory/concepts/crdts

biggest_louon Riak 2.0.0 RC1

Check out the official docs for more info, especially re: usage.

http://docs.basho.com/riak/2.0.0/theory/concepts/crdts/ http://docs.basho.com/riak/2.0.0/dev/data-modeling/data-type... http://docs.basho.com/riak/2.0.0/dev/using/data-types/