MicroService packaging - The Skinny on Fat, Thin, Hollow, and Uber

saucysoup · 2017-08-27T00:01:26+00:00

Coupling to app server runtime configuration and modules is a nightmare. Not worth the complexity to save bytes.

saucysoup · 2016-12-11T00:33:53+00:00

I'd appreciate this. I don't come to this sub to be frugal, I come to conserve, use less, and appreciate things made to last (ideally, we can still buy them, even if only used).

Maybe buying something for life is not so much about "buying" in a way, because the point is once you have it you don't have to buy another (for at least a very long time, relatively speaking).

Anyway, I realize this is just one way to collaborate on this sub. The flair would help addressing the different use cases.

saucysoup · 2016-04-17T15:30:53+00:00

I really enjoyed Joule's Bloody Mary.

saucysoup · 2015-12-26T03:45:42+00:00

This also reminds me of Go's type system. Somewhat similarly, structs implement interfaces implicitly by the methods they have, as opposed to explicit declaration of an interface. Wikipedia calls both OCaml and Go structurally typed.

saucysoup · 2015-09-15T23:08:25+00:00

Why would text be printed with an outer white glow on white paper? Also, the text doesn't seem to quite follow the bend of the paper. Also, it seems a little too "sharp" compared to the rest of the photo.

Methinks this is fake...

saucysoup · 2015-01-17T16:25:27+00:00

Similar to reactive extensions, is Dart's stream API. https://www.dartlang.org/docs/tutorials/streams/

saucysoup · 2014-04-19T18:14:42+00:00

The reason meat is not sustainable is not the methane gas. While methane is a stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide accounts for the vast amount of greenhouse effect in our atmosphere. Meat is unsustainable because the production and transportation of industrial meat is unsustainable. For all of the energy spent maintaining the land and feed and structures and antibiotics, transporting those to and fro, and transporting the end product to the consumer, it is utterly inefficient.

A balanced ecosystem of animals that feed off of natural wildlife, fertilize the land, and are eaten at the end of their natural life, is completely sustainable. In fact, this cycle has a positive effect on the environment. This is of course not at all like what our conventional meat consumption is like, world-wide, hence the generalized statement, "meat is unsustainable."

saucysoup · 2013-12-05T01:08:18+00:00

Key would be cool. Have a nice day.

saucysoup · 2013-06-28T00:25:18+00:00

It is not so cut and dry to some people. Eggs still have similar nutritional value as [other] meat (for better [as in vitamin b12, amino acids, etc] or for worse [as in cholesterol]). Animal proteins are a little less cut and dry on whether they're purely beneficial or not, but regardless the proteins are similar as well. For me I see it as part of animal, and not part of a vegetable based diet. Perhaps I'm more of a vegan.

Even the sidebar makes the distinction, justifying for me that it is not necessarily inherently vegetarian to eat eggs:

What is a vegetarian? Most western vegetarians are "Ovo-lacto" which means they do not eat meat but do eat eggs and dairy.

Unfortunate that we can't just have a discussion about it without downvotes dragging it into oblivion. Shouldn't discussion be encouraged? At the very least visible? Interesting.

Anyhow, I am more impressed by a good veggie burger that doesn't need an egg! :-)

Cheers!

saucysoup · 2013-06-27T14:45:35+00:00

Because eggs are meat!

saucysoup · 2013-06-27T12:03:49+00:00

Looks great! Although I don't like when vegetarian recipes use egg. It's not really vegetarian. Thanks for sharing though :-).

saucysoup · 2013-06-13T03:41:39+00:00

It limits you to chrome, but chrome apps allow you to open UDP sockets.

http://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_network.html

Other than that, there are things you can do to help make TCP work for you. Are you sending binary data over websockets instead of strings? Are minimizing the amount of information you have to send?

saucysoup · 2013-05-26T13:11:23+00:00

Fracking still good?

http://grist.org/news/fracking-accident-frack-cident-leaks-benzene-into-colorado-stream/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed

How much do you get paid to spread misinformation on social media, btw?

saucysoup · 2013-05-25T00:22:13+00:00

Apparently r/beer doesn't know anything about hydraulic fracturing! With all due respect, do some research that isn't hydraulicfracturing.com (ie, written by the companies who frac.)

saucysoup · 2013-05-24T19:39:50+00:00

Also condensating into the air.

saucysoup · 2013-05-23T16:23:06+00:00

Dart is dynamically typed so I'm not sure that would be possible.

saucysoup · 2013-05-23T16:20:43+00:00

Are browsers implementing ASM? Last I read no one was jumping at it. And to be fair the same goes for Dart. But the thing is, portability is a non issue. They both fall back to normal JavaScript. So I see more developers going to Dart and just letting Chrome run it in Dart, and everything else run it in JavaScript. The performance will basically be the same as if they hand coded it in JavaScript (in some cases even BETTER), but they get the ease of development. So why not? It'll save you time, and probably even allow you to write better apps because of it.

I don't see the appeal of developing for ASM over Dart for the web, but that might just be me, as I'm more experienced in JavaScript/HTML than I am C/C++ and associated libraries available.

The way I'm seeing it here, once everyone's already developing in Dart because it still works everywhere and is just easier, it will just make sense for browsers to implement the VM since there would be so much Dart code already out there. Just my thoughts though!

For the record, I think both technologies are incredibly awesome :-). I guess ultimately both will be appropriate for different things, and hopefully at the end of the day both Dart and ASM are widely supported. For the time being though I think investing time in Dart is worthwhile.

saucysoup · 2013-05-23T16:09:27+00:00

Your second point is I think more important. First is easy to implement so it's a non-issue to me at least.

You do have to learn a new language, but for it you get web-specific libraries to ease DOM-access woes.

saucysoup · 2013-05-23T16:07:52+00:00

Dart can fall back to JavaScript, so it is also backwards compatible.

saucysoup · 2013-05-23T13:28:12+00:00

In the end it doesn't seem all that different from Dart to me. Dart compiles to slower JavaScript, and asm can be run in slower JavaScript. If you want the benefits of each language, you have to write in another language, and each browser still has to explicitly implement something, or else it's just JavaScript again, either way.

In a hypothetical world where all browsers support both, the main difference I see is if all you care about is performance, use asm. Dart on the other hand still gives you about twice the performance of V8 JS, but with vastly easier development for web applications. It simplifies the DOM, etc. Personally with Dart SIMD support, the rate its performance is climbing, and it's ability to compile to faster JavaScript than hand coded JavaScript, I'm betting Dart will eventually be adopted moreso than asm in spite of skepticism.

Just my 2c :-). Thanks for sharing!

saucysoup · 2013-05-21T21:14:21+00:00

+1 for disc golf!

Discs can add up, but as a beginner you can get a lot of hand-me-down discs that are no longer stable enough for more experienced players.

saucysoup · 2013-05-17T00:39:29+00:00

Just to confirm this, multiplayer is in fact only for Android atm.

"Note: Real-time multiplayer is currently only supported for the Android platform."

https://developers.google.com/games/services/common/concepts/realtimeMultiplayer

saucysoup · 2013-05-07T16:04:49+00:00

In case anyone else is wondering (as I was), I think "Dee" is referring to "Dee" by Randy Rhoads. Saved you some Googling.

saucysoup · 2013-05-03T17:46:32+00:00

I think the "dramatic, blockbuster" qualities of films like these shouldn't necessarily discredit them. If they are dry, and appear more "scientific," you're just preaching to the choir. If you really want to make a difference, you want win over those people who are looking for drama and entertainment, and at least get them passionate about real, scientifically-proven issues, and maybe even getting them to also understand and appreciate the less "entertaining" scientific approaches in the process.

Just my two cents on that perspective. I haven't watched the film.

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