dvko
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Comment · 1 year ago
Never forget! Crazy to see how far it's come. And how lackluster the initial reception on HN was back then.
Comment · 2 years ago
I got my first 99 after a 15 year break. Farming, obviously!
Comment · 2 years ago
I’m a bootstrapped founder but hard disagree with this take.
Surely it can’t be the founder taking home a healthy salary from day 1 despite the company being far away from any revenue at all that is taking the risk in your book?
Comment · 2 years ago
My daily crontab at just after midnight UTC did not run yesterday. I wrote it off as a server hiccup, but now you got me thinking it might be related to leap years…
Comment · 2 years ago
Hetzner VPS + nginx works fine and goes a looong way. Alternatively, SourceHut pages or GitHub pages is okay too.
If it’s been a while since you did any server work: https://www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2024/static-site-hosting...
Comment · 2 years ago
> It says it is free but where is the github page for it?
Not sure if serious, but you do realise that free is not at all about having a GitHub page?
Maxim has been working on nginx for years and just forked the project so that he can continue working on it. The license remains the same as the original nginx project and you can already download its sources here: https://freenginx.org/en/download.html
Comment · 2 years ago
I never even knew this was an option, despite relying on them for well over 10 years now for well over half of my business' revenue (with 0 issues whatsoever, fwiw). Just enabled it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sounds like any static site generator supporting Markdown will do.
- Jekyll: the OG, but requires a ruby toolchain.
- Hugo: compiles to a single static binary, but you may have to get used to its (Go text/html) templating.
- Zola: also compiles to a single static binary, but uses Jinja-like templating.
- Gozer [^1]: my own, like Hugo, but 1000x simpler. I rolled my own because I wanted something that didn't move under me in the next 10 years and just because it was fun and easy enough to build.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is inspiring to me, as I'm in a similar boat and while I'm pretty okay at my job in practical terms, I often feel as if I lack a certain mathematical foundation. May I ask how old you are, whether you are enrolled in a full-time course (w/ much younger other students, I suppose?) and how that has been for you?
Comment · 2 years ago
On most Linux distributions and when the file is mmap'd, if you run it a second time the data will still be in RAM and not have to be read from disk. This gets the runtime down to 1.1s for this AMD 2950x (https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/46#discuss...).
With SIMD and certain assumptions about the input this can seemingly be further reduced to well under a second, eg see https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/138.
Comment · 2 years ago
> I love C.
You and me both. I'm also a polygot but I originally started on interpreted languages like PHP and Python. I then learned some C, which was quite frustrating before I learned how to reason about memory ownership and hold myself to some idioms. Oh and Valgrind.
I then rewrote a bunch of projects in Rust and while it lead to correct and working software, it didn't spark the joy that C did for me. I don't exactly know why and at times I almost feel ashamed to mention this. I do hope there's a future where there's a version of C with some more substantial changes/improvements though, perhaps taking a lesson or two from Rust or Zig (eg string type w/ length).
Comment · 2 years ago
There’s an implementation in C which should run in well under 2 seconds on your M3.
Comment · 2 years ago
I tried the linear search by station name in my first naive approach. Using a hashmap was at least 2-3x as fast with the ~415 distinct keys in the 1BRC dataset.
Comment · 2 years ago
You can run the bin/create-sample program from this C implementation here: https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc
It’s just the city names + averages from the official repository using a normal distribution to generate 1B random rows.
Comment · 2 years ago
There are a handful of implementations in other languages already. Here’s mine in C99: https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc
I’ve also seen versions in Rust, Go, Python, Clickhouse and DuckDB. The discussions tab on the GitHub repo lists some of these.
Have bootstrapped two separate SAAS businesses to $40K MRR and even though it gained me financial independence, I would probably not do it again.