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Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by kklisura »

tuxie_ wrote: post #23
kklisura wrote: post #8

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Isn't that the whole point of "Show HN"? Or what do you expect when you click on a "Show HN" story?

I expected to learn something from it - especially when it's popped on the front page of HN. Am I expecting too much of HN?

My train of thought when I saw the link "a key-value store": what data-structure are they using? A hashmap? How are they resolving conflicts? Is it in memory? How are they persisting data? Do they support multiple instances? What about concurrency? etc.

Of course I might be a bit disappointed when the project is just 4 web APIs on top of sqlite table.

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by kaoD »

markstos wrote: post #35
chrisseaton wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems unnecessarily snarky. You can make anything sound silly by reducing its functionality to the most basic level possible, ignoring all aspects of ergonomics and packaging. And you could make this comment about any storage engine. Like the infamous Dropbox comment here.

Fair. The project could do a better job of explaining what benefit is it has over the file system API.

Mostly the "remote" command as seen in the README.

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by yreg »

izhak wrote: post #36

Not trolling or trying to downplay anybody here, but honestly - how “kvass” (readed as “k-v-ass” given it is a “key-value” storage) is a good name?..

About as good a name as the password manager which I'm unable to read in any other way than keep ass.

(Just in case you are unaware, kvas/kvass is a traditional north-eastern europe drink.)

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by nkrisc »

markstos wrote: post #9

For personal use, I’ve had good luck storing things in files. Then when I need those those things, I read the files.

To your point, the very first examples don’t really demonstrate much value, even if they are the most basic examples of how it works.

It’s a bit like selling a car by showing all the different things you can hold in the cup holders.

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by pydry »

chrisseaton wrote: post #40
pydry wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dropbox explained itself pretty well. A simple one paragraph why at the top of this project's README wouldnt be amiss.

For example > Its trivial to set up and operate kvass across multiple devices > remember the file we stored earlier? Let's get a shareable url for it!

I read it. Im pretty clear on what it does. Im still not feeling the why (or the differentiator from other things that store files and give you URLs).

Remember when Dropbox explained itself by telling you you didnt need to carry around USB sticks in your jean pockets that get washed or lost? I thought that was pretty neat.

Re: Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

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Post by vbezhenar »

chrisseaton wrote: post #27
markstos wrote: post #9

For personal use, I’ve had good luck storing things in files. Then when I need those those things, I read the files.

This seems unnecessarily snarky. You can make anything sound silly by reducing its functionality to the most basic level possible, ignoring all aspects of ergonomics and packaging. And you could make this comment about any storage engine. Like the infamous Dropbox comment here.

What's wrong with Dropbox comment? I still didn't find any use for this service, but rsync works for me almost every day. IMO Dropbox is useless.
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