adgar2 · HackerTrans

So to be clear: you care more about the integrity of exercising Arc via HN than you care about your users. Because we both know that writing HN correctly would reduce latency dramatically along with short- and long-term ops effort. It'd also fix all those nasty "dead or expired link" errors. Also, users wouldn't be terrified to click "reply" without copying their posts to the clipboard, first.

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Please list your assumptions about what ideas I have - since you're clearly assuming I don't work for a company that knows how to write websites that scale.

Edit: I find it adorable that you all think HN is a hard site to run. Good luck breaking 200 qps.

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Based on replies, it seems like you may not have done a better job than eBay.

What data do you have to support your belief that you're doing a better job?

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Yeah... writing a site as simple as HN that doesn't fall over in a week isn't rocket science.

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> We restart HN every 5 or 6 days, or it gets slow (memory leaks).

Because competence wasn't worth it a few hundred restarts ago and isn't worth it now.

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> Consider everyone who lives in an apartment who doesn't have the option of replacing their lock

I've lived in apartments. Giving other people access to your apartment is - in general - a horrible idea. I let guests into my apartment. Personally. It's a pretty straightforward workflow, believe it or not.

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If you keep your landlord out, you're violating your lease. At least under any sane lease.

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MongoDB is considered a complete joke by most who've programmed a distributed system.

So.... poor example.

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> What an embarrassing post to be occupying the top of this thread. Blaming Markdown.pl for security flaws?

I believe markdown.pl is being blamed for over 100 bugs. Not just security flaws.

> I suppose the memory corruption bugs in the "optimized" C Markdown parsers are somehow his fault too?

Strawman, you're better than that.

> He wrote a text-to-HTML parser with a particularly elegant little language design and got on with his life

And he did a horrible job of it. Horrible. But he considers himself the BDFL of Markdown. Break that down for me.

> which involves writing more than keeping up with bug reports in Perl scripts

He clearly can't keep up with any bug reports, so it's good his life is more broad than bug reports.

> Get over yourself; comments like this make us all look bad.

No, comments like this make us look like we have higher expectations than "it worked on my machine, suck a dick!"

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> But there are problems --- like, backend processing, or proxies, or routers and transformers, or feed processors --- where event loops are the most natural way to express a performant solution.

Your backend processing apparently fits in one machine, since you "hook Mysql up through Redis." I'm personally astonished you get so much done without a distributed environment tolerant of the relevant failures I see when I read that sentence.

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Your more general adage is useless. The one you responded to is useful. A more useful, also general adage would be "the more choice in selecting parameters to an API, the more likely there will be bugs consuming that API."

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Exactly. Money exists to be extracted from fools at their expense, whether those fools are your investors, employees, customers, or all 3. That's real value in the market at work.

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If you aren't being DDOSed, you aren't an interesting service.

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Google. Amazon. Microsoft. Apple. Facebook. Most startups.

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Because high availability is for legacy waterfall chumps. Github's too busy being rockstars.

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If you want to make a service worth a damn to the world, you should expect regular DDOS.

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Nearly every reasonably popular site on the internet gets DDoSed. It's embarrassing that Github goes down every time they're targeted.

Honestly, grow a pair, fellas. It's part of doing business on the Internet.

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That would suggest people in charge know what they're doing.

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This is correct. They needed ~90 dynos to keep up with about 500 qps on their status page in the last outage.

Source: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=4524489

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You originally wrote:

> Freedom of speech is lagging behind: a company cannot fire you for being black, but can fire you for saying "vile" things online under a pseudonym.

You changed that, likely because you realized that companies have always fired people for saying "vile" things publicly outside of work. Which is why pseudonyms have always existed.

Nothing's changed about freedom of speech. It's just that it's not so easy to hide the vile things you say online as it was, say, 10 years ago.