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Would it go away if there was less of it?

Can you imagine ways there could be less of it?

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Why isn't HTTP going away?

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Where is the 16ms hardwired latency in the browser coming from?

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Finally, someone gets it. Thank you!

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> we have to migrate everything to javascript

Why?

What I really want is the whole browser to go away.

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ACID correct distributed transactions are possible. Google's F1 paper shows how: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Very, very painful problems are very, very valuable.

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Compose didn't offer only RethinkDB. It offered many other databases as well.

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I wish they had added transactions. It seems like such an important feature.

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Does RethinkDB not support transactions? I thought it did.

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Did RethinkDB spend $8M in 3 years?

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I wish RethinkDB had published a performance benchmark against Hadoop. It'd be enough to show the world how ahead of its times RethinkDB is.

I also wish I knew what RethinkDB's investors are thinking.

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Sentences are creations. Does this mean every sentence we write on HN or say to each other by default is closed and needs a license?

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Another gem

> My belief is that the inexperienced, interested person will outperform the experienced, uninterested person over time.

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> I did customer support by myself until we had 250,000 users

It's good to know what the limit to customer support can be. Don't say customer support doesn't scale.

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Is hot reloading that big of a problem?

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I'm trying to be an objective observer here.

My text classification software marked the third line as the most authentic, most truthful line.

Huh.

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There's a huge discussion in this thread on tabs being slow, which made me wonder: is it necessary for browsers to have tabs?

Windows desktop apps work great without tabs. Could life be better without tabs?

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Why isn't Tesla doing this?

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In the "Top of the World" graph in the article, there's a dip for Saudi Arabia. Does anyone know why?

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If both Allo users have responses recommended by the app, who's chatting with each other -- the users or the apps?

Submissions

RethinkDB. The MySQL storage engine for solid-state drives (2009)

Tell HN: Today is the last day to apply to Y Combinator

Ask HN: Why are there open-source software licenses?

I prefer this over that

A lock-free wait-free hash table [pdf]

Ask HN: What will HN be able to do in 10 years from now?

Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?

Donald Trump is like a biased machine learning algorithm

Butterfly your everyday terminal in your web browser

Asana’s in-house framework for writing great web apps

Too big to fail (2013)

Squashing a Schrödinbug with Strong Typing

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