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While he was a bit rude I wouldnt assume he hasn't built something at this sort of scale.
by jzoch 7y ago
While he was a bit rude I wouldnt assume he hasn't built something at this sort of scale.
- thejigisup 7y agonah i think its a pretty fair assumption
- woeirua 7y agoLet's just ignore the fact that in this case scale has nothing to do with the actual efficiency of the algorithm they implemented. As the link I posted mentioned, had they used a more efficient algorithm they could have used far fewer resources, or used the same resources to scale up further, with much faster response times overall.
- forgottenpass 7y ago99% of people building at "scale" are borrowing bragging rights from a large company they happen to be employed by and/or tools they use while doing zero novel work unique to the size of their deployment. To say that these paper tigers are above the bikeshedding of all the plebs is quintessential software echochamber.
- dang 7y ago"Don't be snarky." "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We've had to ask you to stop doing precisely this in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19884138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19884138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13587522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13587522 Unfortunately, you've continued to post like this frequently. If you keep doing that we're going to have to ban you, so could you please review the guidelines and fix this?
- pc86 7y agoThe vast majority of programmers haven't built something at this sort of scale, so while it's very possible that he has, odds are that he hasn't.