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graetzer

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About graetzer

Currently working at ArangoDB

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    Comment #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 fo…

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    Comment #41553756

    The numbers reported on arewefastyet.com seem to stop at July 15th though

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    Comment #30283150

    > 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

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    Comment #26289494

    The battery cells are made by Panasonic on-site https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/08/panasonic-to-expand-batter...

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    Comment #26065182

    Maybe it is designed for cars as cargo i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-on/roll-off

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    Comment #22797204

    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 …

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    Comment #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(), u…

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    Comment #21857919

    homeless encampments are not shelter with an admission policy

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    Comment #21259289

    The price money was donated by the swedish central bank, I do not think they need to cash-in on anything

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    Comment #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.…

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    Comment #20927748

    Maybe the pub-sub pattern of https://zeromq.org/ could work for that

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    Comment #19757398

    thats still only half as much as Lyfts $100M/year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19282624

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    Comment #19466415

    I tend to agree, but unfortunately none of the WebRTC based video conferencing solutions seem to work without hiccups for >5 participants

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    Comment #19389767

    AFAIK MongoDB Atlas still earns quite a bit of money, despite the 3.6 API compatible AWS DocumentDB.

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    Comment #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-…

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    Comment #19225530

    I think it was directed and voiced by his brother Van Neistat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXDzL-h7cI

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    Comment #18954488

    I think you can also just use telnet to see star wars: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

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    Comment #16813431

    I wonder how they did the performance benchmarks, maybe I missed that part?

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    Comment #16377285

    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 exam…

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    Comment #16377237

    It is a lot of effort to build all the setup scripts, benchmark code etc.

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    Comment #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:…

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    Comment #15191913

    Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

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    Comment #14812257

    Thanks! I hope we will get some good feedback for all our new features

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    Comment #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

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    Comment #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 comp…