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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16879392 massive

And FoundationDB has held our data durable through all of this.

There is not The speed and durability has gone unmatched. We can write millions of transactions per second w/ millions of reads w/o issue. We have never lost data or found data to …

this is amazing and this is huge for us - FoundationDB is one of the fastest most scalable distributed KV stores.

I've been in environments without any sense of monitoring; pingdom and esx health checks that provide only a tiny frame of reference to the real health of an application. Being abl…

TraffickCam enables you to help combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of the hotel rooms you stay in when you travel. Traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims p…

this is pretty true, having nearly drowned once I freaked out and grabbed all over my savior. Thankfully he was at least 5-6 years older than me and had no problem containing me as…

Scary video, reminds me of camping as a child. My mom was a life guard growing up and she taught us all to swim and was pretty good at spotting other kids in the pool. Had a friend…

This is always a difficult task to tackle, especially when dealing with data sources like Active Directory that want a surname and given name, which may not always be the case for …

one of my first projects as a consultant fresh out of college was HORRIBLY coded by my standards today. Sometimes I still fire it up and it still works (which fills me with pride);…

> I'm curious how having the capability to either take a picture of me or possibly have a video conference improves the end user experience? First of all - doing the latter would i…

the verbiage is crappy and vague, but I can see a use if you need support or help and they want to give you a personable experience. That said, this issue is two-fold...it is very …

the sad part of this is that of the team of developers I work with (when i was on the M$ side) NONE wrote commit messages, save for one guy. So this would be an impossible game, an…

something like this is just too important to not donate money to.

yeah but a lot of them are more mobile friendly which means they're not using flash as heavily anymore. I know this only for research purposes of course...

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2015/01/16/9-incredible-examples... here is a great example of how to make interesting and compelling art without drawing your females as hyper sexualiz…

> Personally, I experienced this with programming. When I learned to program in high school, it never struck me as a chore; it was always just interesting and I enjoyed it. that wa…

the portrayal of men is just as dumb and unrealistic. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy comics quite a bit (Infinity Guantlet anyone? Planet Hulk? World War Hulk???) I think hyper sexual…

> Meanwhile, in our more "enlightened" mainstream American culture, people write angry blog posts filled with stupid impact font image macros about how they literally judged an ent…

yeah but that's conflating simple with optimized, which i doubt this is. A lot can probably be done to make this run much faster. This is not a AAA title.

I noticed this as well, but I use a trackball mouse and I can flick the ball and get good responsiveness.

did you look at the source, that was written by a mathematician, he took careful care to calculate out every pixel of padding and space. Probably for his specific monitor :)

TIL, thank you for that.

how does HHVM compare to PHP 7 in terms of speed savings? PHP 7 is supposed to be pretty damn fast from what I have seen. I guess benchmarks are hard to read because they're depend…

not always, but most certainly is true very often.