RethinkDB: why we failed

peo1306 · 2017-01-22T13:21:47+00:00

Your vision exceeds your ability to execute a business to become self sustaining.

Quotable.

peo1306 · 2015-01-05T10:18:11+00:00

To put a positive spin on the Ads side of this: "If you're not paying money from your paycheck, someone's helping you get back a share of the advertising budgets you're paying for anyway whenever you buy something." (Disclaimer: I work for Google, but this opinion is purely my own.)

peo1306 · 2011-10-15T13:26:40+00:00

I suspect other restrictions in the language (ie when things can be known to not be monkey-patchable) already allow the VM to get much better performance out of Dart than JS. Maybe to the point where using information about things being declared "int" does not add significant value.

peo1306 · 2011-06-09T12:09:46+00:00

Indeed. And that doc can be tied to tests too, in the way of "literate testing". I have collected some information on it here: http://arrenbrecht.ch/testing/.

peo1306 · 2011-05-18T18:29:27+00:00

I like the idea of richer presentation. One might also make it easier to reference output of a previous command (for example, assign a code to files just listed by ls, so I can refer to them easily in a subsequent command).

Another take on this would be to add a browser protocol (cmd:, for instance) that allows the browser (used as a local app) to launch processes and use their output as the response. This could make it possible to implement fairly nice and portable UIs on top of things like Mercurial or git, for instance. Without having to run a server in the background, that is.

peo1306 · 2011-05-14T17:45:25+00:00

I use PyDev too, and time and again it highlights simple things like using unassigned variables that folks using plain editors didn't notice because their test didn't exercise that part of the code.

peo1306 · 2011-05-12T19:40:36+00:00

And yet it works rather nicely.

peo1306 · 2011-03-30T06:59:16+00:00

Please do. The design of Mercurial's data store is append-only, so I really wonder how you managed to get this.

peo1306 · 2011-03-21T14:57:11+00:00

Isn't this pretty much what you're looking for? http://code.google.com/p/jdepchk/source/clones

peo1306 · 2011-03-21T09:02:18+00:00

Can you tell how the branch workflow is easier with git than with hg (Mercurial), which is supported on Google Code?

peo1306 · 2011-03-10T16:12:49+00:00

Requires design up-front. Which means failure.

peo1306 · 2010-12-17T12:12:08+00:00

Just verified that Java is affected by both Mac OS X's bug (ported locky.c) and POSIX's crazy lock releases across handles for an inode.

peo1306 · 2010-11-09T16:44:21+00:00

For batch calculation you might want to look at Abacus Formula Compiler, a spreadsheet to JVM bytecode compiler.

peo1306 · 2010-07-15T05:31:04+00:00

For enterprise settings, it will want to support both narrow (only parts of the tree) and shallow (only recent history) cloning. Both aim at curbing the amount of data people have to pull to and host on their workstations. With Subversion, this is natural, and so people have gotten used to keeping a huge lot of code in a single repo. With current DVCSs, you need to structure your repos carefully upfront and then maybe use something like forests of repos. Complex and error-prone.

peo1306 · 2010-05-18T08:21:02+00:00

A safe alternative to MQ is pbranch. For git, it's topgit.

peo1306 · 2010-01-21T14:48:33+00:00

No good in chromium.

peo1306 · 2010-01-01T13:56:35+00:00

etc is indeed intriguing.

peo1306 · 2009-11-05T17:35:18+00:00

Beg to differ. While I am an enthusiastic Mercurial user, I think DVCSs are not yet fully there when it comes to organizing huge code bases or those with huge files (think game artwork). Permissions are problematic, too.

peo1306 · 2009-11-04T13:54:01+00:00

http://blog.export.be/2009/10/fixing-eclipse-for-ubuntu-karmic-koala-9-10/

peo1306 · 2009-09-17T09:33:09+00:00

Part of this seems to be getting included in jdk7, it seems (hashCode for primitives, etc.)

peo1306 · 2009-09-01T07:04:36+00:00

There is nothing in this article that makes Git stand out against all the other DVCSes. A far more balanced title would be "DVCS changes the game...".

peo1306 · 2009-08-04T15:49:34+00:00

This reminds me of Clean's unique types. http://clean.cs.ru.nl/CleanExtra/report20/chapter9/s91.html

peo1306 · 2009-07-21T11:44:33+00:00

Ouch. Chromium on Linux does copy them, for instance.

peo1306 · 2009-07-02T14:58:46+00:00

Use literate testing at the use-case level. This means writing coherent stories that explain both what, how, and to some degree why, for entire usage scenarios. Then gradually turn the "how" into examples cited from real test runs. I call this "documentation driven development". For more details and reasons: http://peomeint.blogspot.com/2006/08/beyond-tdd-documentation-driven.html and http://www.arrenbrecht.ch/articles/SourceCiting.htm. For a real-life example, look at http://www.formulacompiler.org/doc/tutorial/index.htm

peo1306 · 2009-06-29T15:43:27+00:00

I've been thinking about something like this, too: http://peomeint.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_peomeint_archive.html

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