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soundoflighton Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

This has been one of my favorite things in Opera since they introduced it in the late 2000s. It seemed weird Chrome wasn't better at this. I'm going to have to give this Falcon a try because it looks just like what I would want!

soundoflighton InfluxDB vs. Cassandra for timeseries data

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.0/concepts/glossary/...

You want to keep the amount of different data that you are indexing/tagging on low. As an example with my situation, I was tracking what could be amounted to connections between nodes in a very large tree. I had a lot of distinct pairs, which means that I had a high cardinality. When the cardinality increases a query that used to take a millisecond to load could move to a couple seconds.

soundoflighton InfluxDB vs. Cassandra for timeseries data

Good to hear! I have a project coming up soon that I want to use it on.

soundoflighton InfluxDB vs. Cassandra for timeseries data

From using InfluxDB (up to v0.10 I think it was), it's a great database but performance REALLY depends on the cardinality of your data.

I can't stress it enough, calculate your cardinality before switching over to it. If your cardinality looks good, InfluxDB is a perfect, logical choice. I really enjoyed it and it is dirt simple to figure out. We had a junior dev just out of college with little experience set it up and get a high level of proficiency in a matter of hours.

Edit: I should point out, I was doing about 10 million records on my db (hosted on a Mac Mini in development!) a day with a 2 week sliding window. I was pushing the data from InfluxDB into custom D3 visualizations. I would cache certain queries in Redis, so I wasn't always hitting InfluxDB with each read request.

soundoflighton Re: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL

I agree with @dev360. I think it has to do with RavenDB being more common with .NET developers (at least from my experience).

soundoflighton Oracle and the fall of Java EE

Also, Xamarin makes .NET runnable on Android with their runtime and compile it down for iOS.

.NET Microframework makes it runnable on IoT.

soundoflighton Show HN: A minimal setup for React/ES6 sites with a Firebase back end

Firebase gives you a real-time database with no initial setup. The only really big competitor I know of it is RethinkDB. Having "three-way" databinding in a SPA is pretty cool and wouldn't be something that would be trivial to setup without either of these two databases.

I could see Firebase being a great go to for a certain size of project in the small to medium size that would rather pay for this feature set that using AWS, Azure, Rackspace, etc.

soundoflighton Oracle and the fall of Java EE

And runs on more platforms than Java.

soundoflighton Announcing .NET Core 1.0

I could be wrong, but I think this is what you are looking for. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnUpdateOnASPNETCore10RC2.aspx

soundoflighton Announcing .NET Core 1.0

MVC 6's name is now also ASP.NET Core MVC 1.x.x. It's really a version number reset. The confusing thing is that it's not plugged through everywhere and people interchange the two regularly.

soundoflighton Apple launches coding camps for kids in its retail stores

Microsoft already does this at their stores with YouthSpark. https://www.microsoft.com/about/philanthropies/youthspark/yo...

soundoflighton Museum of Soviet arcade machines

They just talked about this on the latest episode of the Idle Thumbs podcast! The podcaster's favorite was one with a mechanical car that drove on top of a video.

https://www.idlethumbs.net/idlethumbs/episodes/disable-enemi...

soundoflighton Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced

You could have hooked a Mac up to Visual Studio for building and Deploying Xamarin apps. I used to have a Mac mini on my desk for this.

Here's the instructions btw. https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/getting_started/ins...

soundoflighton Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks

I've worked on proprietary frameworks very similiar to what the author describes. They are great for the web and in my opinion allow for tighter code. The issue is that I haven't found a good, open-source one for the web.

Also, interesting, is the fact that computer engineer "coding" is much more into the state concepts brought up in the article.

soundoflighton React-boilerplate: setup for performance orientated, offline-first React.js apps

I think that's in opposition to "battle hardened". A wiseman wouldn't take "new and shiny" over "battle hardened".

With that said even with some years under its belt yet the react community is still in a state of flux (no pun intended), and one is signing up for new and shiny for the next couple of years. One should know that and embrace it going in. There is nothing wrong with that. I feel like we are currently in the "walking" phase with React and have stepped out of "crawling". These tools are helping us learn to "run".

soundoflighton Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery

Um, isn't the point of Zepto a modular jQuery that may not support 100% of what jQuery does but it tries to at about the same speed (or better)?

soundoflighton Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark

The GitHub page explicitly says Community Edition though. Might give a link to Community Edition if user can't enroll in Dreamspark as not all school participate (albeit most do).

soundoflighton Ask HN: Anyone need a landing page photo for free?

How about a photo of a man doing a handstand right next to a pickle that is on the ground.

soundoflighton Ask HN: Did you go to a 3 month coding school? Did it work?

Even at an entry level I would have a hard time considering someone with only ~500 hours (60 days/8 hour classes) of programming experience. If you want to get into something new make sure you put time and effort into it no matter what you do.

soundoflighton Ask HN: Serving rendered html and static content vs. building APIs

Like all questions, it really depends.

I would build out your project entirely first then look for possible optimizations like this. You will need to see how often this content changes, how often it is requested and the cost of regenerating it. In addition to this, you will want to look at the added engineering costs of this.

If it's something that rarely changes, I usually just have a background job generate it and serve it as static content, but only if it is accessed a lot.

soundoflighton The Next Big Programming Language You’ve Never Heard Of

I think Wired presumes you have not heard of it because they assume the reader is not a programmer.

soundoflighton Show HN: Never lose a website again

As an Opera user, there has been many times where the in-page content searching has helped me find stuff. When I'm in different browsers, that loses its usefulness. I'll definitely come back to this when the local version is done.

soundoflighton MonoGame.Js

This repo needs some TLC and the Visual Studio stuff removed. The concept is interesting, but it doesn't give any real reason to use it over things that are firmly planted in the JS consciousness (i.e. Phaser)

soundoflighton Neutralizing the iOS camera click sound through active sound cancellation

It looks like he posted it AND answered it at the same time though, which is really weird.

soundoflighton Source code of ASP.NET

The old one was open sourced a couple months (years?) back and is on CodePlex. http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/

soundoflighton Ask HN: As an experienced dev, how do you learn a language/framework quickly?

I like to use CodeSchool, PluralSight and Udemy. If it's pluralsight or udemy, I will stick the speed at 1.5x to 2x. You can burn through a course really quick that way. Also for Pluralsight/Udemy, I skip following along in code and doing exercises and just learn the gist of what is going on and what are the different capabilities.

Once you have gone through the course do a small project. I like something more involved than a "TODO" application.

soundoflighton Enough Machine Learning to Make Hacker News Readable Again [video]

Interesting enough... the greens are all ones I clicked on earlier today and read. A few false negatives but not bad!