matt2000

This is probably the wrong title for this article. In the article she gets right up to the available memory limit and keeps trying to allocate more, the VM is forced to work increasingly hard to find the memory requested. I wouldn't call that slow GC, just trying to use too much memory.

I can remember wanting one of these so badly when I was a kid, but check out the specs!

12Mhz CPU 64K RAM 64K VRAM

Now this thing has 83x the clock rate and ~8,000x the memory for $9: http://getchip.com/pages/chip

I can remember reading articles about how fast and cheap computers would get, but man.

I think you've nailed the toughest part about working on projects in general, not just side projects - determining whether the thing isn't working or just needs more commitment and time.

Does anyone have a reliable place for browser javascript benchmarks? Some searching only brought up a range of promotional type stuff from browser makers and old articles. Thanks!

Is there anyone here who works on weather models who would be able to explain why custom supercomputers are still needed vs. large commodity clusters?

Thanks!

Note: Capacity isn't the same as production, but interesting nonetheless. As far as I remember from other articles, 63GW of newly installed capacity is well above predictions made even a decade ago.

I'm always suspicious of "breakthrough" announcements when it comes to fusion, especially ones that originate from a college's PR office. Can someone put this in context for us? Is it a big deal?

Haha, I just might do that now.

I've used this in the past and found it to be great. The UI took a little getting used to, but once you did it was fast to accomplish fairly complicated things. Definitely worth a try.

Thanks, very helpful. And did you find any problems debugging the javascript output in the browser?

Anyone have any experience with typescript vs. dart? I'm thinking of learning one of the two for frontend and wondered if anyone had any success or horror stories either way. Thanks!

I've just started using this too, not much real world experience but in case it's useful to someone: https://github.com/joewalnes/reconnecting-websocket

This really made the difference clear to me, thanks for the write up.

I honestly recommend you don't worry about it. If your users love your product then you'll be fine, and the only way I know how to do that is talking to users, iterating and just trying to figure things out. If you get those things right you won't have problems with press, VCs, etc.

I know this is a gross simplification, but it's really worth trying to focus on what matters because there's so many ways to get distracted.

I just wanted to suggest to everyone here who is building a product this thought: product hunt didn't launch on product hunt. It was a simple email test which found an audience and grew from there. That's the opposite of hoping to launch on some list of top products and grab an audience.

It's not a bad thing, but you don't need it. And if you're counting on it having a major impact on your traction, you probably shouldn't be.

Really fun to read article, but could someone give me a couple examples of what kind of system you'd use this with? I guess I'm so used to S3 now that I've forgotten what it's like to manage your own files.

I could not agree more. The rapid versioning and huge quantity of dependencies in Node and javascript development in general is just a recipe for disaster. This will become more obvious as large legacy node projects start transitioning to new teams and the true scope of the downsides will become obvious. However, I'm not sure it will be obvious here because the focus is almost exclusively on green field new development with the latest tools.

The legacy of node will be nothing but sadness. (Sort of a joke, but also kind of true)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hco_Av2DJ8o for anyone interested in checking it out.

I actually was coming here to say that it was nice to have links to interesting stuff on Youtube. I agree it can be jarring when you're trying to read stuff and get hit with a video - maybe a HN youtube channel would be cool or something.

Flynn looks very exciting, congrats! I am having trouble figuring out what the minimal and recommended setups would be across providers. And what exactly happens when I issue scale commands? I'm looking to get an idea of costs to compare different providers, but also to compare against running on heroku. Thanks!

Are you using aurora? How's your experience been so far? It sounds interesting but I haven't heard much real world experience yet.

Very fun, thanks for making this and open sourcing as well. Maybe as our kids get older they can start checking out the source.

The fact that this story is the top of hacker news should indicate to us all that this site has lost what it had. How is this different than reddit? How do we want it to be different? This is simply a sensational, horrifying article that has been up voted because of its shock value. We can do better.

Nice to have this comparison in one place, but I think also serves as a good illustration of the limits of regex usefulness. It feels like this would just be better off implemented in the language of your choice instead of an impenetrable string of characters.

Would love to hear from any existing users on their experiences so far (assuming that's allowed under previous licenses). Choosing a database is one of those decisions where I tend to go with the safest, well known option, but maybe I'm missing out.

I've probably posted a similar comment a few times before, but why don't the dynos ever improve? I have no problems with the pricing, but dyno performance and memory has been the same for, what, 5 years? Longer? The whole time I'm getting emails from AWS telling me about cheaper, better instances. Doesn't make sense.

The announcement I would love to hear from Heroku: "We found out about Moore's law and are passing some of that on to you."

As far as I know, their dyno specs have never improved or decreased in cost.

This is coming from someone who loves Heroku, but wish the dynos were better.

I never personally learned Rails so I'm just an interested observer, but can someone explain the problems with Rails currently? And why the switch in language rather than just making fixes to the framework? After looking through the article it doesn't seem like there was a very strong case made for Go. Thanks!

Are people using Atom as their main editor now? i.e. have successfully made the switch from sublime? Just wondering how it holds up under daily use.

One question I always have with secure systems distributed by app stores, even the open source ones, is how to you verify the source you're reading is the app you're using?