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Re:There is no Vibe Engineering on Monday March 31, 2025 @11:18AM (#43536032)
This is so true, I think a lot of the hype conveniently leaves out the fact that there are many low- or no-code solutions which are quite succesful in their niches (like complex form builders forgoverment tax forms, insurance etc).
Re:What Firefox trains are we in? on Monday September 16, 2024 @03:50AM (#41553756)
The numbers reported on arewefastyet.com seem to stop at July 15th though
> newer database engines that use inductive indexing are on another level

Can you provide me some resources where I can read more about this? Google is not helpful

Re:Two days with Volkswagen’s electric ID.4 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @07:22PM (#26289494)
The battery cells are made by Panasonic on-site https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/08/panasonic-to-expand-batter...
Re:Wallenius Oceanbird: Wind-powered cargo vessel on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:49AM (#26065182)
Maybe it is designed for cars as cargo i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-on/roll-off
Probabbly don't really know what I am talking about, since only ever used async IO through boost.asio:

Isn't it a bit crazy that there are so many different ways of doing async IO on linux alone ? You would think that this is a more or less solved problem by now.

Re:A simple C++11 thread pool implementation on Thursday January 09, 2020 @11:27AM (#22002510)
Its usually a good idea to hold the lock because the other thread(s) might not have called wait() yet.

As a rule of thumb: its usually a bug to not hold the lock before notify(), unless you synchronize it with another condition

homeless encampments are not shelter with an admission policy
Re:Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global Poverty on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:14AM (#21259289)
The price money was donated by the swedish central bank, I do not think they need to cash-in on anything
Re:Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:57PM (#21130545)
I remember seeing several videos from different companies with their own version of a "pizza robot". Just look at this ad for a pizza vending machine from 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyrav_9Pbsc
Re:Waltz: A Distributed Write-Ahead Log on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @09:14AM (#20927748)
Maybe the pub-sub pattern of https://zeromq.org/ could work for that
Re:Slack S-1 on Friday April 26, 2019 @09:48AM (#19757398)
thats still only half as much as Lyfts $100M/year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19282624
Re:Zoom S-1 on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:09PM (#19466415)
I tend to agree, but unfortunately none of the WebRTC based video conferencing solutions seem to work without hiccups for >5 participants
Re:ArangoDB Receives $10M Series A Funding on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:56AM (#19389767)
AFAIK MongoDB Atlas still earns quite a bit of money, despite the 3.6 API compatible AWS DocumentDB.
Re:ArangoDB Receives $10M Series A Funding on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:16AM (#19389380)
You should certainly be able to use ArangoDB as a replacement for Cassandra or Neo4j.

Check out the SQL / AQL comparison page to get a quick overview: https://www.arangodb.com/why-arangodb/sql-aql-comparison/

Re:Ten Bullets [video] on Friday February 22, 2019 @09:24AM (#19225530)
I think it was directed and voiced by his brother Van Neistat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXDzL-h7cI

I think you can also just use telnet to see star wars:

  telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Re:ArangoDB Use Case on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @01:32PM (#16813431)
I wonder how they did the performance benchmarks, maybe I missed that part?
I think the orkut dataset is already in a tab seperated format, to turn it into CSV you only need to add the column labels.

http://snap.stanford.edu/data/com-Orkut.html For an example you can have a look at the import scripts: https://github.com/weinberger/nosql-tests/blob/master/arango...

It is a lot of effort to build all the setup scripts, benchmark code etc.
Re:Can American soil be brought back to life? on Monday September 25, 2017 @05:13AM (#15328941)
That is actually not true, sewage can be treated and processed into 'biosolids'. I remember seeing a documentary about this, where they produced fertilizer from sewage in nyc

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/wastewater/biohome.shtml

Thanks! I hope we will get some good feedback for all our new features
Re:New homes will now require solar panels in South Miami on Thursday July 20, 2017 @08:20AM (#14811800)
Can't you get solar panels essentially for free and just pay for the generated electricity? I thought that was the business model of companies like SolarCity
Re:Android Is a Dead End on Sunday July 16, 2017 @09:15PM (#14785025)
You can definitely do ahead of time compilation with .net bytecode. That's why you can write iOS apps in c# with xamarin's SDK.

I think the performance differences between JIT compiled code and native code mainly come from the 'convenience' features offered by languages such as Java or C#. I am thinking of garbage collection, (default) virtual functions or reflection.

In let's say c++ you can do all of these things too, but the cost is not hidden from the developer.

Re:Show HN: Globe visualizations in Golang on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:32AM (#14725343)
Looks really cool! How many points can one draw with this before it becomes too slow? I did a similar looking 3D globe animation with WebGL once and the total number of points was quite an issue

http://jsfiddle.net/go2t1r4q/2/

Re:How is GNU `yes` so fast? on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @05:37AM (#14543723)
I do not think Volkswagen will try to sue you for adding a new phrase to urban dictionary ;-)
Re:Firefox for iOS on GitHub on Friday December 05, 2014 @04:58AM (#8703677)
Thanks, just to clarify: the new version is still in the review process, the version in the AppStore only works with older Firefox versions.

You will have to install this from source to get the latest version

Re:Firefox for iOS on GitHub on Friday December 05, 2014 @12:25AM (#8703106)
I think it's great that they are going to officially support iOS again.

Coincidentally I submitted a new version of my own browser app to the AppStore, on the same day they made the announcement. I added support for the new Firfox sync protocol - it took me forever to get it working and now it's kind of redundant :-/

Anyway, if someone is interested in the source: https://github.com/graetzer/Foxbrowser

Re:Firefox for iOS on GitHub on Thursday December 04, 2014 @10:17PM (#8702872)
They are probably trying to get the bookmark synchronization to work first.

Displaying web pages is easy with the build in UIWebView (or WKWebView) component

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