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by alpb 5y ago
Could've waited another day and roll this out as April Fools. What a lost opportunity.
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by alpb 5y ago
Smaller companies who partner with large companies like Google or Microsoft see these large co's as single entities and not through their sub-divisions. Spotify probably partners with Google in Ads, Android, Cloud areas at minimum. Spo
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by alpb 5y ago
Isn't this the well known https://draw.io rebranded?
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VS Code v1.65: Experimental native shell integration(code.visualstudio.com)
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by alpb 5y ago
I don't know if it's fixed but "Flux developer says Apple’s new competitive macOS Night Shift feature falls short" https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/28/flux-developer-says-apples-ne...
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by alpb 5y ago
Mildly surprised the quality of this project coming out of MIT. Not only the UI was quite hard to use, I could not get beyond 10 samples. They were annoyingly obvious. Why would they not choose to not to make this as tricky as possible?
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by alpb 5y ago
All it takes is a load balancer misconfiguration on a core service to take a large scale service down.
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by alpb 5y ago
One major reason that seems unattributed is that with the Web 2.0 movement around late 2000s we started to round most elements (buttons, div containers, input boxes...) in web design.
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by alpb 5y ago
Looking at you, Cloudflare. https://www.cloudflare.com/ vs https://dash.cloudflare.com/
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by alpb 5y ago
> So in conclusion: [...] LE is definitely a NOBUS. This sounds a lot like a conspiracy theory and I don't see in the article any explanation how that's relevant or possible. LE doesn't force you to add CAA DNS records. Fu
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Prodspec&Annealing: continuous declarative infrastructure management at Google(usenix.org)
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by alpb 5y ago
I still don't understand how the elevated Consul latency ended up bringing all of the fleet to halt, fail health checks and drop user traffic. I guess use cases calling consul directly (e.g. service discovery) or indirectly (e.g. vault
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by alpb 5y ago
Backend for that seems to be Google Analytics, I wish the government didn't have to add such trackers shared with third-parties.
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by alpb 5y ago
Soo there's no "Salt Bae". I see. https://mobile.twitter.com/401_da_sarpanch/status/1339235481...
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Cloudflare view of Kazakhstan disconnecting from the Internet(radar.cloudflare.com)
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Junior vs. Senior vs. Staff SWE Roles in FAANG(blog.devgenius.io)
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Snake/24: A snake game where each pixel is served from a different IPv4(snake.126.49.198.in-addr.arpa)
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by alpb 5y ago
The site has failed under the load from HN. Here's a mirror http://web.archive.org/web/20211224205455/http://ifthisbetre...
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by alpb 5y ago
Not mentioned in the thread but YouTube encoding is also built upon ffmpeg: https://streaminglearningcenter.com/blogs/youtube-uses-ffmpe... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831292
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by alpb 5y ago
> People will tolerate sub-optimal experiences Implying the Google Search homepage loading experience is sub-optimal? Chrome starts loading it before you finish typing google.com on your keyboard.
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by alpb 5y ago
I would highly recommend reading articles/guides in https://staffeng.com/ for Staff+/Principal career path. They also have a podcast!
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by alpb 5y ago
I can hardly believe the 37signals "Remote" book would've changed anything for anyone. I've read it almost a decade ago when it came out when I was early in my career and it definitely was practically a waste of time. In
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by alpb 5y ago
Because there are other countries around the world? The largest exchange in cryptocurrency trading volume is Binance, which is headquartered in Cayman Islands. Not sure why this question is even asked, cryptocurrencies are largely created i
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by alpb 5y ago
> evaluation and promotion window ends around december Googler here, that is not when those promotion/perf evaluation windows happen.
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by alpb 5y ago
Perhaps the moderation can consider changing the title to "GitHub names new CEO as Nat Friedman steps down"?
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by alpb 5y ago
Despite its retro design, I think a lot of Aurora chasers use https://softservenews.com/Aurora.htm .
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by alpb 5y ago
I am gonna go ahead and make a claim that Twitter will outlive 95% of the personal websites that Hacker News readers will set up and host. Most of us developers don't have a good habit of blogging and we aren't good writers either
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by alpb 5y ago
They don't have obligation to ship bleeding edge off-the-shelf code but they do have an obligation to provide the operating system with security patches. If the user clicks on a tar file to extract it and it ends up writing to random p
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by alpb 5y ago
It's worth noting are some countries out there collecting innocent citizens' fingerprints at the time of common operations such as obtaining a drivers' license (presumably to match them later early on). Does a citizen even ha
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by alpb 5y ago
This is probably the most interesting part: https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com/docs/reference/faq/#can-i... > Can I connect my EKS Anywhere cluster to EKS? > Yes, you can install EKS Connector to connec

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