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bootcat··on How Facebook encodes videos
So they are using feedback to see how many people are watching a video to use more cpu for advanced compression - There is nothing innovative here - we want to make sure we provide resources to something thats viral and not to all videos, whats innovative here ? I think in cloud and all companies are using metrics to optimize their resources,
bootcat··on Show HN: Manuzoid – Database of More Than 1M Manuals
1) I had very similar idea, How are you planning to monetize it ? 2) 10 years back I made a similar site using manuals online.com, 3) did you look at react-pdf ?
bootcat··on FCC approves 100% foreign ownership of U.S. broadcast properties [pdf]
yeah,
bootcat··on Unofficial APIs
https://github.com/deepanprabhu/duckduckgo-images-api
bootcat··on Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor
He says its coded in lua but it seems to be completely coded in C ?
bootcat··on JVM Garbage Collectors Benchmarks Report
Why isn't the benchmark code public ? For people to adopt/convinced, they should be able to run the benchmark themselves, and see a similar pattern in the numbers as well.
bootcat··on Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
Respects !
bootcat··on Show HN: Ddgr – search DuckDuckGo from your terminal
Something related, I made a DuckDuckGo Images API here - https://github.com/deepanprabhu/duckduckgo-images-api.

This gets image search results and can be embedded into other projects !

bootcat··on [dead]
Yahoo pipes had a very similar thing long back !
bootcat··on LTE Base Station Software
Is the code available for this ? This has been out from bellard's site for some time.
bootcat··on How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)
This is an amazing read. But i think for people to implement, it should be how to crawl billion pages on cheaper boxes, may be spanning to a week or something.
bootcat··on Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture?
I was working for EllieMae, to build their cloud platform. They were not happy with the performance of the product, though it reduced ops work.
bootcat··on Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks
Yoga and Ancient Indian technology has already talked about BrahmaMuhurtha, which is the apt time for meditation and thus time to practice any skill required. BrahmaMuhurtha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmamuhurtha).
bootcat··on Anna: A Fast, Scalable, Flexibly Consistent Key-Value Store
Looks interesting, especially about coordination free consistency and lock free structures !!
bootcat··on Would anyone be interested in a simple tiny compiler ebook?
Sorry i did not completely understand your comment. You mean to say, to implement a subset of C. I have already answered that question. Before we implement a real language or a part of it, implementing mathematical expressions has to come in place with actual code. Reason is, before we jump to implementing an actual language, we can learn all the phases of a compiler, simply compiling expressions into assembly. Extrapolating, we can implement a subset of C, which is not easy to begin with, but with experience, it is achievable.
bootcat··on Would anyone be interested in a simple tiny compiler ebook?
A second comment, wanting me to implement in C rather than Java !
bootcat··on Would anyone be interested in a simple tiny compiler ebook?
I would consider Java to be simpler, but i see this is subjective and C seems like a popular language to proceed with. In java most of functionality we need is available as standard library.
bootcat··on Would anyone be interested in a simple tiny compiler ebook?
Seems like a nice idea. The reason i picked NASM language is its easy to watch your simple assembly code assembled and converted to an executable and actually watch it run ! But I would have this in mind.
bootcat··on Would anyone be interested in a simple tiny compiler ebook?
You are right, people would be interested to implement a real compiler for an actual language. I have tried it. But when you actually sit down to implement, its atleast months. But if you choose a simple language, you can get the entire compiler done in perhaps a week/month at most. Indeed, that prepares you for implementing an actual language. My 2 cents, what do you think ?
bootcat··on Write dumb code
I have to completely agree with the article, and that has been my learning working for biggies in the US. But not all people agree on that. They consider themselves smarter, after writing complex code with no documentation. Also, certain people make value with complex stuff instead of making it easy as a breeze for others to understand and contribute.
bootcat··on Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time
Thank you ! I was thinking to put time into deep learning and it seems like this is a good way to start !
bootcat··on Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project
Great project, hope it works as advertised. I had asked for support in hackernews for supporters and co founders who can contribute and grow a product !
bootcat··on Hetzner Cloud
Does anybody know if Hetzner charges forex on US debit/credit cards ?
bootcat··on Hetzner Cloud
I am also on Linode as its price point is its strength. Really considering if Hetzner would charge forex on US cards, otherwise, seems like a good plan.
bootcat··on Advanced Distributed Systems
So this course is only to be taken by students of university ? Theres no web version ?
bootcat··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?
In the company i worked for, they had their own CI/CD system which tracked information about each service and the systems onto which it has to deploy. Once it was all configured, it was basically button pushes. Also the system tracked feedback after deployment to confirm if the build went good or needed to be fixed - if certain parameters were unwell, basically it did a role back ! Also there were canary deployments to make sure code was deployed only to portion of systems to make sure it indeed pushed correctly and worked. If not, they are rolled back !
bootcat··on Writing a minimal x86-64 JIT compiler in C++, Part 2
Thanks, really useful site and article !
bootcat··on Writing a minimal x86-64 JIT compiler in C++, Part 2
Amazing but simple explanation. Really allowed me to grasp JIT.
bootcat··on Ask HN: How has meditation helped you?
I am doing something related to meditation, where i close my eyes for 40 minutes and chant for a good part of it. It is really helping me progress spiritually.
bootcat··on Ask HN: Is there a hackable Network Switch?
Great !
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