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Re: A Fast General Purpose Lock-Free Queue for C++

spullara — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:14:05 -0000

I agree completely. Therefore in either of those cases the system actually provides no ordering. Just pointing out that you could provide ordering for producers if you have fewer consumers than producers and consumers don't share producers without coordination. Kafka actually provides this with partitions and consumer groups. http://kafka.apache.org/doc...

Re: A Fast General Purpose Lock-Free Queue for C++

spullara — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:16:22 -0000

You don't really have any strong ordering guarantees as far as I can tell. Since any consumer can dequeue from any queue, even if they are put in the queue in order by a producer, it can easily mean that messages are ultimately dispatched by a consumer in a different order. You would have to have coordination amongst the consumers or bind a single consumer to a set of producer queues to maintain the insertion order.

Re: Why we need responsive images: Part Deux - TimKadlec.com

spullara — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:37:48 -0000

Nit: shouldn't it be 256 values for each of the channels?

Re: Mustache is logic-less but the logic has to go somewhere

spullara — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:54:23 -0000

I use it to generate Java code all the time. I would just put those things in the code itself. You can see this in my redis generator here:

https://github.com/spullara...

Re: Mustache is logic-less but the logic has to go somewhere

spullara — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:53:22 -0000

There is no reason to name your mustache variables after your classes. I would still call it user.

Re: Mustache is logic-less but the logic has to go somewhere

spullara — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:59:33 -0000

Yep, at Twitter they have been implemented in Javascript, Ruby and Scala.

Re: Answering More Gradle v. Maven FUD

spullara — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:37:38 -0000

I find this build to be entirely too scripted and filled with bespoke configuration and behaviors designed for your custom environment:

https://github.com/gradle/g...

You clearly have different taste than me — I would have worked to make this the exemplar build for gradle. I am coming at the problem as someone that consumes open source software and creates builds at startups (dozens to hundreds of modules, but probably only a language or two). Maybe Gradle is the best solution for super complicated builds inside the enterprise. However, I'm not convinced that projects shouldn't also publish a maven pom.xml if they are expecting others to consume their builds. Further, it would be great if gradle would automatically generate one.

Re: Why your new JVM build tool is making things worse, aka use Maven to execute your build

spullara — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:07:14 -0000

It is certainly the most arcane frontend of any technology I have to work with on a daily basis. I wish people would focus on making that experience better rather than reinventing the whole thing. On the IDE side, I find it unlikely that the tooling will ever be up to par because of all the scripting that is basically a black box and not really usable by the IDE.

Re: Why your new JVM build tool is making things worse, aka use Maven to execute your build

spullara — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:05:38 -0000

Perhaps they should pull it out of apache. My understanding is that mostly apache org politics slows down their development and reaction to the community.

As for scripting... plugins are the right answer for this since they are much easier to maintain than arbitrary code in the build file and over time they can be shared and reused. Scripting code in the build is a black box that makes any further optimization or integration impossible.

Re: Why your new JVM build tool is making things worse, aka use Maven to execute your build

spullara — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:04:05 -0000

I agree with all your points about what maven lacks. I just don't see those problems being solved by the other tools. Most of their work is just getting on par with maven's base functionality.

The community would be well served spending its time adding incremental builds and other actually interesting features to the build tools. Your comment did make me seek out a solution though and I am now testing the incremental-build-plugin. Here is a blog entry about it:

http://harshana05.blogspot....

Version 1.6 under a different package is available and what I am testing with.

Re: Iteration Inside and Out – journal.stuffwithstuff.com

spullara — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:59:09 -0000

You can totally do internal iteration in Java <= 8 with anonymous inner classes. It just isn't as terse as it will be in Java 8. Google Guava's collection API is the most widely used system for doing this and the IDE support for it is quite good and cleans up much of the verbosity.

Re: Introducing the new HTML5 Hard Disk Filler™ API

spullara — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:21:22 -0000

No, but Tumblr themselves might want to do things per subdomain for caching, etc.

Re: Introducing the new HTML5 Hard Disk Filler™ API

spullara — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:24:58 -0000

What is the suggested fix? Does this mean that *.tumblr.com basically can't use it? Maybe tiered with a larger limit for the top level domain that includes the sum of the subdomains?

Re: Facebook Cuts Off Friend-Finding Access to Vine, Twitter’s New Video App

spullara — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:48:41 -0000

Facebook actually cut off Twitter first years ago: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...

Re: Building the ideal web application template engine

spullara — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:21:48 -0000

You can download it directly from the maven repo and try it out:

http://repo1.maven.org/mave...

Sam

Re: Custom Redis Command: Performance of C vs Lua

spullara — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:15:36 -0000

BTW, I have a plugin framework for Redis in a branch of my fork. spullara on github. Maybe we can convince him to standardize it.

Re: Build your own mail analyzer for Mac Mail.app

spullara — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:35:11 -0000

I have over a dozen accounts of all different types and I don't have anything in that table either. With no documents table, it is hard to imagine what the intent of document_id might be. Probably a left over table from when they had some sort of Pagess/Keynote/Numbers document integration? My guess is that the table is vestigal and they just haven't gotten rid of it.

Re: What is new and interesting in JDK 7?

spullara — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:29:54 -0000

Weird. Using disqus so don't have a lot of control over that.

Re: How I Accidentally Kickstarted the Domestic Drone Boom

spullara — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:56:05 -0000

I think he means the jets that fly across the country, not the last mile.

Re: Scripting News: I deleted my Facebook account

spullara — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:30:27 -0000

[accidental duplicate post, wouldn't let me delete it]

Re: Scripting News: I deleted my Facebook account

spullara — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:29:36 -0000

You can download your data from Facebook at the bottom of this page: https://www.facebook.com/se...

What's in your archive?
Any photos or videos you've shared on FacebookYour Wall posts, messages and chat conversationsYour friends' names and some of their email addresses
(Note: We'll only include email addresses for friends who've allowed this in their account settings.)

Re: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/11198748850

spullara — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:36:19 -0000

You wouldn't see those tweets unless you follow both Gary and the recipient. Also, Twitter will show you the full conversation for any at-reply conversation.

Re: Groupon Is a Straight-Up Ponzi Scheme

spullara — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:20:27 -0000

How many new merchants are created each year? I imagine that in starting a local business, using a service like Groupon could be part of those starting costs in order to get initial visibility. That could the be theoretical end-game for these kinds of businesses, promotion for new merchants. Especially since I think you are right that it can't work for the merchant long term.

Re: Scripting News: My iPad arrived

spullara — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:35:16 -0000

I'm befuddled as to what you thought would happen with a completely different iPad without transferring your purchases to iTunes, backing it up, then restoring to the new iPad. Did you expect them to be identical automatically?

Re: AT&T will cap DSL and U-Verse internet, impose overage fees (update)

spullara — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:58:01 -0000

AT&T wants you to move to Comcast. I think this is what some people fail to understand. They have no interest in having customers that use that much bandwidth.