[HN Gopher] Going Global
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Going Global
Author : tosh
Score : 40 points
Date : 2021-02-01 18:51 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.repl.it)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.repl.it)
| sneak wrote:
| > _While that 's not a significant issue if you live nearby, for
| our friends all over the world it means every time you type a
| letter, you had to cross an ocean at least twice! That means you
| could see latencies as high as 300ms for each keystroke!_
|
| I feel like we should be doing a lot more to minimize the effects
| of latency between the client and server, like mosh does.
|
| For something like a _browser-based_ IDE, where you have a whole-
| ass rich client programming environment, the best in the world,
| literally nothing about the client-server latency should be
| "each keystroke".
|
| Even in full "multiplayer", 500ms latency should not affect
| anything meaningfully. The _whole point_ of using js and the web
| is to free us from shared screen sessions and ssh.
| amasad wrote:
| That was meant to be about the terminal. Will update. In the
| editor it's instant and multiplayer updates are batched. Try
| it.
| Aeolun wrote:
| > we require employees to overlap with PST working hours for four
| hours a day
|
| Whenever I read something like this I feel like any claim towards
| 'being global' loses some of it's power.
|
| That basically excludes everyone outside the Americas, which is
| most of the world (assuming they want to work normal hours).
| u678u wrote:
| NZ/Australia though. Seriously for most of their life it has
| suffered because hours are completely different to Europe and
| East Coast USA. Now they sit half way between California and
| China, how is that for lucky.
| lmiller1990 wrote:
| Same. I work for a US company and have regular 2ams. At least
| they gave me the opportunity.
| ZephyrBlu wrote:
| I live in NZ and have recently been looking at some jobs.
|
| Very few companies allow remote from anywhere other than
| US/Canada, so I don't feel very lucky in that regard.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Orgs must learn just like people. Give them time to grow while
| continuing to cultivate the culture that will drive their
| success.
| amasad wrote:
| Unrelated but because the blog is hosted from a repl, it's fun to
| read the logs when a post is on frontpage HN. You can see the
| request stream live here: https://blog.repl.it/__logs
|
| EDIT: Amazing! People are chatting in the http logs:
| https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1356344510465286144
|
| Btw the source is here https://blog.repl.it/__repl
| andrewxhonson wrote:
| I just looked at it and ended up having a discussion with
| someone from Germany about having a Hacker News meeting in
| Albania when COVID is over. Someone else chimed in,
| "_________________________the_most_niche_chat_app_ever". I see
| a future in this :)
|
| EDIT: I almost asked how you knew the blog was posted on a
| REPL, then saw you're the CEO. Tiny cool internet world.
| tosh wrote:
| this is the funkiest thing I've seen in my browser today
| amasad wrote:
| haha! Super cool. Btw, this is an XTERM terminal so you can
| probably do more interesting thing other than just chat ;)
| andrewxhonson wrote:
| I appreciate that you didn't just tell us to cut it out! :)
| flavius29663 wrote:
| how do you chat?
| amasad wrote:
| just send get requests
| flavius29663 wrote:
| I've tried that, getting 404, any URL?
| amasad wrote:
| Yeah the path in the url is your message!!!
| flavius29663 wrote:
| it was trying the full site, not the blog...thanks
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