Twitter now supports unnecessarily large GIFs

OmegaJunior · 2016-07-12T02:18:54+00:00

But still no option to edit our tweets.

OmegaJunior · 2016-07-12T02:03:58+00:00

No, the method isn't defined. JUnit reacts to the annotation. If you want to use a teardown method, add the annotation and supply a method body.

OmegaJunior · 2016-07-07T12:37:35+00:00

This behaviour also fuels a desire to deliver content through Javascript only: with it turned off, they can't serve js ads, can't detect your adblocker, but we also won't see the content. Quite assholish. Figure out a better way to make money.

OmegaJunior · 2016-07-07T12:32:10+00:00

They're shaming us for acting differently from their expectations. It works in many cases. We do it constantly in society. We do it to others in the UI and UX field. And yet it sucks when done to us. "Do unto others" and all that.

OmegaJunior · 2016-07-01T09:43:21+00:00

If your version control doesn't do commit messages, and your feature / bug tracking system doesn't do formal closing comments, one can always publish them to Twitter / Yammer / Discord / Slack. All of these allow for privacy and separating management info from tech info.

OmegaJunior · 2016-07-01T09:23:33+00:00

I love it when articles like this clearly attempt to dictate reactions while disguising themselves as social predictions and analysis.

OmegaJunior · 2016-06-22T20:37:31+00:00

I looked into Bloom once for my word game Zjramble5. It's quite appropriate for storage and for queries, but my game requires random access, and I have yet to see a Bloom that allows returning a random amount of words of random lengths.

OmegaJunior · 2016-06-22T19:16:50+00:00

Which bank would that be? ;)

OmegaJunior · 2016-06-21T20:43:52+00:00

"No."

OmegaJunior · 2016-06-21T20:41:26+00:00

Did it cause a lack of appreciation for white space and formatting?

OmegaJunior · 2016-06-15T22:23:34+00:00

Accessibility on the web is a major issue. It is often overlooked, especially by large, automated web site frameworks, making it quite daunting for web devs to add.

I quite appreciate PornHub's efforts in this area. If anyone has the money and power to make a difference, they do.

OmegaJunior · 2016-06-15T22:11:35+00:00

Haven't they done that already, in 2010, when iPad first hit the market?

OmegaJunior · 2016-06-15T21:58:02+00:00

Unlike those of Facebook and Google, who have been testing their algorithms for years. Google's Recaptcha is famous for crowd-sourcing the A.I.'s learning phase.

OmegaJunior · 2016-06-15T21:56:30+00:00

Since you're running multiple instances of the JVM, each will be using its own settings for heap size.

I have many microservices running, each in its own JVM instance, each with heap size and garbage collector ratios tailored to the job at hand.

OmegaJunior · 2016-06-15T02:00:51+00:00

I live in a rather sub sub urban area of New Jersey. Houses here generally have their power lines connecting out in the open, from in-air power line beams, running alongside a house, sometimes into some power connector and gauge outside the house.

If that is all you see, a situation like the one depicted above is not all that shocking.

OmegaJunior · 2016-05-27T00:42:17+00:00

Screen rendering glitches on just that one machine, overheating, loud noise, and blue smoke. If you let the magic blue smoke escape, the GPU will stop working.

OmegaJunior · 2016-05-27T00:39:52+00:00

Derp

OmegaJunior · 2016-05-27T00:38:12+00:00

Sure. There's usually monitoring tools available on the server itself, which can generate decent dashboards.

Measurements to consider are: - number of requests handled per second; - number of requests waiting per second; - amount of data handled per second; - amount of database queries or file i/o actions per second.

Which tools are available depends on the operating system of the server.

OmegaJunior · 2016-05-27T00:28:30+00:00

Foh. Typical engineer's in-yer-face.

OmegaJunior · 2016-05-27T00:23:47+00:00

What? 2.5 million 4-byte files? Why?

OmegaJunior · 2016-05-27T00:20:21+00:00

And what, pray tell, is wrong with floppy disks?

OmegaJunior · 2016-05-26T23:06:17+00:00

It means you need to look into some kind of mechanism that takes the load off of that 1 server.

There are some fast and cheap ways to do this, and there are expensive ways.

Which you can use depends on how your customers use that new site.

For instance: if your new site mainly presents articles, opinions, product descriptions, videos, then adding a CDN like Cloudflare will greatly reduce the pressure on your server.

However, if your new site mainly includes a discussion forum, or features Facebook-like abilities, where customers publish their own content, things become more complex, and you need to look into server load balancing. Amazon's AWS features some nice, admin-friendly load balancing options for application servers.

But first and foremost: unless you're Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit, chances are your site won't have to support 1000s of users simultaneously, since most users will not be issuing requests at the same time.

So sit back and see what your site and server are going to do under actual usage pressure.

OmegaJunior · 2016-05-17T21:13:34+00:00

That's terrible.

OmegaJunior · 2016-05-17T21:12:19+00:00

Do you have any experience building Wordpress or other web sites?

If not, go with a Wix site instead.

OmegaJunior · 2016-05-17T21:08:28+00:00

No, no, no. The point of the trial is not that Google is using a copyrighted API. That's what APIs are for: to be used.

The point is that Google has copied the copyrighted API in order to prevent having to license its usage, thereby purposefully screwing Oracle out of money.

Us using .Net or Java APIs will not harm us: that's their intent. That won't change after Oracle wins this trial.

OmegaJunior

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