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mainguy

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    Comment #47904619

    Ironically, people keep saying this, but then gloss over the core problem of coordinated between these agents... For completely independent codebases with no dependencies, sure thi…

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    Comment #46678630

    IDK, at many large orgs...there are developers that essentially communicate through "tickets" and "their lead"... and Def never talk to "business" people or customers. It's not ver…

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    Comment #42485967

    I think the problem with C (well my problem) was the *& characters all over the place. I think because I spent too much time with pascal where (in my opinion) the pointer syntax is…

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    Comment #42485939

    I don't think that's an exact analogy....maybe if you're using react in some oddball/low skill way. Flash (and ...javafx/applets/whatever the id equivalent was...I can't remember) …

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    Comment #42485929

    I was going to say the same, I have a webxr (virtual reality) site that has a few react components on it, plus a few vanilla javascript libraries in the main page template.

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    Comment #42485922

    Umm, how is it a one way street? Just add a tag and implement what you need... I'm not 100% convinced that using react from jump street "Just in case we need something in the futur…

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    Comment #42186882

    User of Couchdb for similar use case...been keeping up to date on a parallel branch of my solution using fireproof instead of couch. Still early, but great potential...stumbled ont…

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    Comment #40144185

    I noticed planned maintenance in Duesseldorf, wonder if someone accidentally "flipped the wrong switch"?

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    Comment #40144174

    Hmmm, suspicious that right after this cloudflare dashboard goes down. Sorta feels a bit like when AWS east cost took a hit and random other things stopped working (because they or…

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    Comment #40144148

    We beat their status page by 10 minutes and downdetector by 5 minutes.

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    Comment #40144077

    Well I was in middle of DNS change and the "remove" was completed when it went down....I guess I need to start to get a little more diligent about "what will happen if second part …

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    Comment #40144007

    Hmmm, now my DNS is horked and I can't fix it :o

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    Comment #39816090

    Note, just saw big traffic spike and realized there's no way to give feedback in the tool (sad trombone).

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    Show HN: Immersive VR Digramming Tool

    A platform to enable multi-user diagramming (think 3d mural/lucidchart/etc) using webxr. Uses distributed pouchdb to share realtime updates with other users (both desktop and vr he…

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    Comment #38979850

    Yeah, docs say last write wins (at the field level though, not the document level).

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    Comment #38979825

    I don't 100% know in the case of triplit, but pouchdb does what you describe for "free" (i.e. you don't need to code it). firebase uses a websocket, pouch uses (I believe) long pol…

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    Comment #38979814

    Interesting take, I just switched from firebase realtime to pouchdb. I was getting concerned about firebase "local first" not really working how I expected and pouch fit the bill n…

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    Comment #34510663

    I wonder about this myself (sorry don't have a strong opinion)...but today we're so connected and I constantly wonder "if a tree falls in the woods and nobody tweets about it, did …

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    Comment #34510518

    For the non technical-ish... Have a drink every time I say "uh"...

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    Comment #34329826

    Or as I like to say "Oh, you have a big ball of mud in your monolith because of poor design and want to move to micro-services?"..."now you have n^n big balls of mud" Poor design i…