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misframer··on Ask HN: Why do product devs switch into data eng/data ops roles?
What do you mean by "mission of self-service still hasn't yet been proven"?
misframer··on Ask HN: iPad Pro Instead of MacBook Air? 16GB RAM?
I mostly use an M1 iPad Pro for personal use. I can get 90% of my personal work done on it, but not everything (e.g. I had to use my laptop for some tax filing work).

GitHub Codespaces works well enough to work on my blog but it’s not a replacement for the full dev environment I have on my laptop.

If you just had to pick one, I would go for the MacBook Air.

misframer··on How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
Their jobs pages (e.g. [0]) mention "ScyllaDB/Cassandra".

[0] Senior Site Reliability Engineer: https://discord.com/jobs/4004051002

misframer··on Impact Campaign: SEAL Calls On Starbucks To #UpTheCup
They brought it back[0]. I remember getting discounts for lattes and mochas.

[0] https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2021/starbucks-brings-...

misframer··on Questions to ask yourself if you’re considering an iPad over a MacBook
iPhone and iPad have replaced almost all of my personal computing needs. I still use a MacBook for a DAW to play guitar. I am traveling these days and the MacBook stayed home.

My work laptop is now an M1 MBP. It's working out fine (after a few Docker hiccups).

misframer··on Ask HN: Are you using Go for web development?
Yes, both for personal projects and at work. I write APIs in Go (and there's React on the UI side that talks to it). I use VS Code to develop and build as a Docker image.

At work the images are deployed on DC/OS, and for my personal projects I use Docker Compose.

The most difficult part (which isn't really that difficult) would probably be the actual deployment part, and that's not specific to Go.

misframer··on Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
I use Fastmail with a personal domain name.
misframer··on Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account
Here’s the email I got from Tastyworks:

> Apex Clearing, who acts as the custodian of all tastyworks accounts, has informed us that the following symbols (AMC, GME, & KOSS) will be set to closing only order status immediately. You will only be able to submit orders to close out any open positions that you have in these symbols.

> New opening orders will not be accepted at this time. We will update our clients should the clearing firm lift the Closing Only status in the near future.

misframer··on Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood
I don't think they use Apex anymore.

https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2018/10/9/introducing-cleari...

misframer··on Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood
Apex is the clearing firm for Tastyworks and Webull too. I got an email from Tastyworks about restrictions (which just got lifted).
misframer··on Simple Bank Is Closing
I switched from Simple to Ally a few years ago and had 0 problems. I recommend them all the time.
misframer··on Make Writing a Habit
Can you explain more about the encryption process?
misframer··on Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Lisp in 2020?
Try writing an interpreter! “Make a Lisp“[0] and Norvig’s “(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))”[1] really helped me understand the basics.

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal

[1] https://norvig.com/lispy.html

misframer··on Zuckerberg Smile
The frames are here: https://terkelg.github.io/zuckerberg.smile/assets/sprites.jp...
misframer··on Go Is on a Trajectory to Become the Next Enterprise Programming Language
What do you mean by area? Geographic location or technical?
misframer··on Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017)
Separately. I haven't updated it to use the plugin. Thanks for Caddy, BTW!
misframer··on Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017)
Thanks! Yeah, will look into a CDN or just hosting it from an S3 bucket.
misframer··on Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017)
I’m using Hugo and Caddy. It’s running out of file handles.
misframer··on Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017)
Author here. Sorry, resizing my droplet now.
misframer··on I Built a Lisp Compiler
Great post! I started writing a Lisp interpreter in Go with the mal guide but switched to Norvig's (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) [0] since it was more approachable (IMO) as a Lisp beginner. I'm looking forward to writing a compiler next like the author.

[0] http://norvig.com/lispy.html

misframer··on Ask HN: If you’ve recently left SF, where and why did you move?
A few people I follow have left SF for NYC. I’m curious if anyone on HN has done the same and why.
misframer··on Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again
These are refurbished.
misframer··on FaunaDB 2.5.4
This was done a few years ago. See https://web.archive.org/web/20150325003526/http://blog.found....
misframer··on Notes on the Amazon Aurora Paper
What was the concurrency like in those benchmarks?
misframer··on Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA
> Firestore is literally built on top of spanner.

Do you have a source for this? Thanks in advance.

misframer··on Badger vs. RocksDB
>> Badger provides better performance than RocksDB, both in terms of reads and writes.

> It's not that simple. It's never that simple.

Yeah. The post that is linked[0] within that quote has a "Benchmarks" section, but it looks like they're either 100% reads or 100% writes. Most real workloads aren't like that.

[0] https://blog.dgraph.io/post/badger/#benchmarks

misframer··on FoundationDB Record Layer
I wrote a blog post on how to implement secondary indexes using an ordered key-value store a couple of years ago: https://misfra.me/2017/01/18/how-to-implement-secondary-inde...

It would work with FoundationDB, RocksDB, etc. I actually learned these techniques when I interned at FoundationDB but have used them the most with other K-V systems.

misframer··on Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
I think they're built on a common storage system, just like the MySQL compatible version too.
misframer··on Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
Not sure why I'm getting downvoted. The characteristics sound exactly like Aurora.

- "replicates six copies of your data across three AWS Availability Zones (AZs)" [0]

- "Amazon DocumentDB uses a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 64 TB per database cluster." [0]

- "When writing to storage, Amazon DocumentDB only persists a write-ahead logs, and does not need to write full buffer page syncs." [1]

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/faqs/

misframer··on Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
Sounds like this runs on the same storage service as Aurora.
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