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Hey, in the most non-antagonistic way possible -- do you know who "cperciva" (Colin "Did you win a Putnam? Yes, I did." Percival) is? You might want to take th
by gavinray 6y ago
Hey, in the most non-antagonistic way possible -- do you know who "cperciva" (Colin "Did you win a Putnam? Yes, I did." Percival) is?
You might want to take them up on the offer, you don't get an opportunity like that everyday.
Absolute legend.
- cperciva 6y ago"AWS Hero" is probably more relevant than "Putnam Fellow" here. ;-) But seriously, it's clear making this more efficient isn't a priority for them, and I completely understand and respect that. I ignore plenty of good advice for the same reason: "Working on more important stuff in Tarsnap right now".
- JackWritesCode 6y agoHaha I didn't know who he was. But the fact Alex Debrie follows him is certification enough for me. And I was wrong. Looking at his Twitter, it looks like he knows 2000x more than me about servers.
- psanford 6y agoIf you want more blog posts for Hacker News, take him up on the offer and then blog about it: "Cperciva replaced our millions of Lambda invocations with one m6g.medium and now I'm stuck as a FreeBSD admin!"