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kfir··on Java 27
Wouldn't you go with golang in that case?
kfir··on Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements
Went with 100% ValKey, if you are solely on AWS it is a no-brainer
kfir··on Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
Microsoft did that not out of charity to Apple but as an attempt to fend off the DOJ trial accusing it of being a monopoly
kfir··on Google open-sources the Pebble OS
The lack of success in hardware is intentional. Hardware is a low margin business that will hurt their bottom line.
kfir··on Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
If you think StackOverflow is the epitome of scale, then your view of the world is somewhat limited. I worked for a flash sale site in 2008 that had to handle 3 million users, all trying to connect to your site simultaneously to buy a minimal supply of inventory. After 15 minutes of peak scale, traffic will scale back down by 80-90%. I am pretty sure StackOverflow never had to deal with such a problem.
kfir··on Show HN: A source-available billing system I've spent 18 months building
Daring tech stack!

(50%+ in php)

kfir··on Why are people paying so much for Vercel?
Why do people pay 100-200% to use Algolia
kfir··on RoR Debugbar
You probably want to post it on this thread as well - https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/ekmtgu/anything_simi...
kfir··on RoR Debugbar
Hey Julien!

Great to see that you finally released this ;)

kfir··on How to Get Started with Tree-Sitter
I believe this paper has an answer to your question - https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3487022
kfir··on Ask HN: Why don't smartphones encourage programming like early 80s computers?
Are you familiar with swift playground? https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/
kfir··on Zoom lays off 15% of employees
While I understand your point, your example is a tad flawed https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/ceos/s...
kfir··on 26 Programming Languages in 25 Days
You can get a taste here and decide if you want to go deeper or not - https://github.com/mattmight/advent-of-code-2022/tree/main/d...
kfir··on Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web browsers to use WebKit
merits != features
kfir··on CMSC 430: Design and Implementation of Programming Languages
https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2022/cmsc430/Texts.html
kfir··on Effective Go
Does anyone know what, if any is, the relationship between this site and this book - https://www.manning.com/books/effective-go
kfir··on OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
> But for ElasticSearch you’re stuck with them.

I am a bit at a loss about that statement, you can run Elasticsearch on your on infrastructure

kfir··on Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
a bit more context: High-velocity transactional systems (e.g any e-commerce store with millions of users all trying to shop at the same time), I helped to build such a 10 years ago here is the presentation - https://qconlondon.com/london-2010/qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-lo...
kfir··on Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
Here you go, this is from a system I helped building 10 years ago that is an eternity in tech - https://qconlondon.com/london-2010/qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-lo...
kfir··on Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner
Appled used PrimeSense technology to enable FaceID, take a closer look at an iPhone sensor array in the notch and compare it to Kinect - https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/17/16315510/i...
kfir··on Removing WebSQL Support
The web spec has been in maintenance mode for some time - https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/
kfir··on Cool but obscure X11 tools
To read that "editors/vim" is an obscure tool is nothing short of astonishing.
kfir··on How to send local files to Chromecast with Python
SimpleHTTPServer is no longer part of python 3. On Python 3 this `python -m SimpleHTTPServer` should be `python -m http.server`
kfir··on The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
According to Wikipedia the acquisition happened on Nov 24, 2013, basically 2014
kfir··on My time with Rails is up
Without being negative anyone else found this statement a bit strange - "as my bachelor thesis was about Rails"

* I am not aware of any CS program that do thesis at a bachelor level.

* It is hard for me to imagine getting approval for doing a thesis on "Rails", it is mostly a CRUD web framework.

kfir··on Vim-vertical: Get around 2-dimensionally in vim
or

G20

kfir··on Apple's amusingly round reuse figures
and my point was that those rounded numbers (in another unit) were just that rounded numbers, I didn't see anything amusing about it.
kfir··on Apple's amusingly round reuse figures
Of course these are not exact numbers, did Apple ever say they are?! The point of this blog post eludes me.
kfir··on 6 weeks after release, Samsung S5 VZN/ATT still not rooted. Bounty at $17k
The developer edition is $599 when getting locked phone is usually a buy one get one free kind of deal.
kfir··on HP Chromebook 11
"Don't talk shit on Android. It is FOSS" - is it? did you ever commit code to it? did anyone outside of google and other corp ever committed code to it?
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