LaserToy

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by LaserToy 7y ago
Funny, right. I worked for at least 2 companies that at some point in time put a lot of money into Oracle. One of them is a leading gaming network, a lot of billions in revenue. Teams struggled with migration off it. It was a multi year&#x2
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by LaserToy 7y ago
Well, you folks now made your business super coupled with AWS. I just have 1 word: Oracle
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by LaserToy 7y ago
Looks like hiring enterprise architects payed out.
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by LaserToy 7y ago
Fun post about efficiency from a company that is chronically loosing money.
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by LaserToy 7y ago
Makes total sense. Here is a presentation from AWS reInvent from PlayStation folks: https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-reinvent-20... You just can't beat memory
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by LaserToy 7y ago
Pricing is a key. As far as I know, Game streaming currently doesn't have viable business model. PlayStation Now (former Gaikai) was a startup that wanted to sell game ads (try before buy), and after expanding into actual game streamin
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by LaserToy 7y ago
What can I say, Playstation Vue is in deep trouble
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by LaserToy 7y ago
I'm surprised with comments that puts all the blame on the investor and make the impression that authors never do similar things (rely on systems they don't fully understand). The thing is, software is all around us, some is more
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by LaserToy 7y ago
Worked there, It might be that I was in a wrong place (and folks I know), but high quality standards, sometimes vague deadlines that can be moved desire to do the best thing result in a very slow dev process. I might be wrong, but there is
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I’m sorry, but infrastructure as a code is a fake news. Most popular tools offer infrastructure as a config with some horrible and limited scripting language (in some cases even JSP doesn’t look like a horrible idea - hello helm). Declarati
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Brilliant. Can I setup a line so all Robocalls are charged $1000 per minute?
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by LaserToy 8y ago
My guess, they did it because of the browser. Idea is very good and makes total sense - you don’t have to integrate your controller with every browser, you just stream in it. Simple and genius.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Former PSN eng here. So, it will be very interesting to see what is going to happen. I feel we were not very successful with Playstation Now. It requires a lot of money to even start scaling, you need a powerful (read expensive) machine wh
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by LaserToy 8y ago
From my expirience, at some scale (system and organization) it became a easier to solve technical issues of having multiple DBs than dealing with bottlenecks on 1 shared DB. We had a fleet mucroservices that used 3 semishared DBs (1 for 1 d
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Months? Years :). Know couple of teams in my current place (very well known company) that couldn’t hire for a year... and lost position, as business argued - if you can’t hire for a whole year you don’t really need t
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Interesting idea. I got an email from Facebook with invitations for the interview. Replied: “I can do it but i’m Letting you know, I will not spend a minute preparing for it. So, we can do it today”. I never heard from this person again, wh
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by LaserToy 8y ago
A lot of things can then be explained as a debt. If you ate a cake you were not suppose to - you are putting weight debt. Watched Netflix instead of Ted talks - knowledge debt. Too many Ted talks - entertainment debt. I can go on and on.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I will go even further - all code is bad and probably broken. Why bad - because if you put 10 engineers in the room and ask them to look at it, they will argue about personal preferences and not about what code actually does. And you can al
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I didn’t say I did not spend time, I said - could not. Same applies for most people in the team. I think we had coupe folks who were spending a lot of their time explaining CSS. My theory is that CSS was something that was treated as a task
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by LaserToy 8y ago
CSS... sweet memories. For some reason I never was able to learn how the damn thing works. I worked for Google Analitics in 2011 and we rebuilt it using new in house built framework which championed an idea of a separate styles for an on sc
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I don’t think this number is reasonable if you are going for a tech solution, especially if you trying to build something fairly complex. Less then a half of what strong SWE is paid in Silicon Valley... or almost total of one who works in a
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Well, it depends on your job (and HR department). Our policies are very vague, and when i followed them and honestly notified my company that i want to try something on the side (even using my PTOs) which had no conflict of interest - i was
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I would say that we were too eager to jump on "Learning" term. It implies that those things are somehow close to us, humans. In reality NN don't learn anything, it is just a optimization problem on the simplified model. And a
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Saw this recently: Neural Networks seem to follow a puzzlingly simple strategy to classify images https://medium.com/bethgelab/neural-networks-seem-to-follow-... It is no magic
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Postgres was misusing fsync for 20 years. Yes, everything is broken. I’m actually thinking it might be worth snapshotting my bank accounts, to make sure super reliable bank software doesn’t lose my money. At the end of the day it is written
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Each language was created as a tool to solve some specific sets of problems. Saying - this is the only and the best one is a receipe for the disaster and a sign of emotional attachement. Use a proper language for a job be it c, java or pyth
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Neural Networks seem to follow a puzzlingly simple strategy to classify images(medium.com)
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by LaserToy 8y ago
This one does deserve to be called vulnerability. It is a plain stupidity.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I know whole bunch of people who complain about Oracle lock but fine with moving everything to DynamoDB/Lambda
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Very interesting design. It looks like they are capturing events, and trying to predict things. I wonder why they went with Uber database and didn’t use cheaper S3 got storage, some processing for prediction and something simple and cheap f

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