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freeman478

1,065 karma · joined July 29, 2011

Software Engineer / Architect TS / React / Rust enthusiast
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freeman478··on Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
You can see it mentionned on this page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamental...
freeman478··on Show HN: Graphic-Walker – A different type of open-source alternative to Tableau
Interesting area and well done on the work !

Have you looked at https://perspective.finos.org/ ? It has at least some overlaps and can manage pretty big datasets by levering Arrow in WASM in the browser.

freeman478··on About communication safety in Messages
This exists already as part of Family Sharing.

You can do everything you said when you manage your kids accounts (manage contacts, whitelist internet websites, define appropriate content ratings and so on.

freeman478··on Dell and HPE switches come with 'American Megatrands' stickers
I think it comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
freeman478··on Shared salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year
So you are basically in agreement with the gp by saying that your A players get shortchanged because they suck at negotiating...
freeman478··on Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
It is a great tool !

Only issue with it is that the source code (of the front-end) is quite hairy to understand and modify. I tried to add support for Github Enterprise (https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues/473) and was quite lost.

freeman478··on AVX-512: when and how to use these new instructions
It seems like this should enable JIT compilers (java/.net/js) to realise even more of their theorical gains.
freeman478··on Show HN: Golimit – Ringpop-based distributed and decentralized rate limiter
Thanks, looks quite useful.

However it seems based on https://github.com/uber/ringpop-go which is marked as no longer active...

What are you using to implement rate limiting ?

freeman478··on What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M
I was thinking like you but they say they compute usage on a 3 month rolling average basis. So an infrequent hit should not be an issue.
freeman478··on Ask HN: Raw SQL vs. ORM?
I like using what is sometimes called Micro-ORM. Basically it does the mapping of query results to objects and sometimes has a basic query builder but you mostly use raw sql.

Dapper (https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper) is a great one for .NET.

freeman478··on Adding Kubernetes support to the Docker platform
AWS Re:invent is in the end of november. I'd guess there will be some annoucements there ...
freeman478··on A large satellite appears to be falling apart in geostationary orbit
No if you raise the apogee without giving the object any additional speed, the perigee will be lower.
freeman478··on Achieving 100M database inserts per second using Apache Accumulo and D4M [pdf]
Looks interesing ! Isn't this some kind of event sourcing or am I missing something ?
freeman478··on Apple Increases Prices of Macs in U.K. By 20 Percent
Be aware that in some countries the sticker price is including VAT/Sales Tax which I think is not the case in the US.
freeman478··on Show HN: A Bot to Deploy to AWS, Digital Ocean Etc.
An issue I have with these git driven deployment process (not your specifically which looks well thought-out) is that your are starting from source each time.

I like my deployment across environments to use the exact same binaries that have been validated. Is it just me that is afraid of introducing issues by not doing that ?

freeman478··on AWS Elasticsearch Service Woes
The main issue of this service is just that it is very outdated (it only supports ES 1.5.2) when the latest is 2.3.3 and ES 5 is just around the corner.

The recent versions are far more stable and includes lots of efficiency in terms of memory usage.

freeman478··on [dead]
I had to disable my adblocker for the code to appear.
freeman478··on Meat – A free self-hosted Git collaboration platform
Given the success of Github:Enterprise I think this is not considered weird by a lot of folks (admittedly deep-pocketed ones :) ).
freeman478··on Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
Clojure is also available on the CLR : http://clojure.org/clojureclr
freeman478··on Prometheus on Raspberry Pi
See the previous HN Post about it : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8995696

and more precisely related to your question : http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/#prometheu...

freeman478··on Announcing Xamarin 3
Excellent, thanks.
freeman478··on Announcing Xamarin 3
Any plan to also support Windows 8 in Xamarin Forms ? This would allow the same level of cross platform-ness for tablets.

Great work !

freeman478··on Use SQL subqueries to count distinct 50x faster
I find it disapointing that the optimizer of the database is not able to get to the fastest result by itself.

A broken promise of declarative languages I guess.

freeman478··on The 2 Biggest Mistakes I Made (Before Reaching $500 MRR)
Monthly Recurring Revenue I think
freeman478··on Apple will require all new apps to be optimized for iOS 7 from February 1
In spite of this bad behavior, Apple is still the best at supporting old devices with OS updates.

http://www.fidlee.com/android-support-vs-ios-support/

So Apple is the best at this but they are still the bad guys or just the less worse ?

freeman478··on Modelling a Basic Income with Python and Monte Carlo Simulation
Note that he did not substracte the current wealth_transfers from his cost/benefits analysis.

it does not change the comparsion of BI vs BJ but it is interesting to note that even with his assumptions it means the effective impact on USG Budget is approx 0 for BI and a big reduction of $ 2 trillion for BJ.

freeman478··on Salaries for Developers and Designers across the world
I guess the author should clarify if the reported number is the median salary (in which case your assertion that half the web dev are earning more than 93K AUD is correct) or if 93K is the average salary (which can be biased by a few very high earners).
freeman478··on Ghost 0.3 (Kerouac) Launches
It seems the code is not yet public on github. Any idea when it will be ?
freeman478··on Diablo 3 to permanently remove its auction houses in March 2014
Official annoucement here : http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/10974978/ but i felt ars added some useful context and commentary.
freeman478··on Offline reading with the NewsBlur iOS app
Newsblur is really excellent, it has replaced Google Reader for me without a single regret and the premium account is completely worth it.

The iOS app is very good too and now with offline reading it will allow me to get my news fix while commuting :)

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