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by amaks 10y ago
That's exactly right, it looks like Go has found a niche of the network servers. Here is good overview by Andrei Alexandrescu: https://www.quora.com/Which-language-has-the-brightest-futur...
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by amaks 10y ago
( http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100652-Facebook-CE... ) Zuckerberg: They "trust me" Zuckerberg: Dumb f*cks.
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by amaks 10y ago
"Google Circles, a way of organizing social contacts, shamelessly copied from Facebook’s long-ignored Lists feature." I thought it was the other way around - circles were based on a research by a guy from Google, who left later fo
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by amaks 10y ago
I agree, it looks like the demise of Google+ is direct effect of mismanagement by Vic and integrating everything (YouTube, Gmail etc.), not any kind of Zuck's "genius".
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by amaks 10y ago
STL is not inherently slow per se, some data structures are just not fast on modern CPUs, so they have to be chosen wisely. Here is good talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHNmRkzxHWs .
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by amaks 10y ago
I wouldn't call Steve Kovach as credible journalist in tech. His articles in businessinsider just prove the point.
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by amaks 10y ago
It's also very beneficial to the code health as it allows to make global refactoring, e.g. adopting new language features, improving shared libraries, etc.
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by amaks 10y ago
Now it's employees' fault. It's nice to be able to blame grass roots, not the processes.
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New stealth destroyer turned over to U.S. Navy, Capt. James Kirk(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by amaks 10y ago|0 comments
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by amaks 10y ago
Bad article. There is technological constraint that leads to inability to use end-to-end encryption when using bots (note that they are not only Google's but also 3rt party's). Same is true for other messaging platforms that use
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by amaks 10y ago
The most disturbing to me is not even favoritism and sexism conditions at work (which is ironic given Sheryl Sandberg's book and official line), but the fact that Facebook: 1. uses humans to pick the trending topics, which are inherent
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by amaks 10y ago
Vulkan in Android N is huge
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by amaks 10y ago
Exactly what Larry Page and Sergey Brin did with GOOG and GOOGL.
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by amaks 11y ago
Azure is also slower in block device speeds: http://www.cbronline.com/news/cloud/public/aws-vs-google-clo...
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by amaks 11y ago
Deservingly.
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by amaks 11y ago
Except that this is not true. Almost everyone working on Midori were (very) high level engineers.
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by amaks 11y ago
Here Jeff Dean explains why there is no central parameter server in Tensorflow: https://youtu.be/90-S1M7Ny_o?t=28m59s
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What every physicist should know about string theory(scitation.aip.org)
2 points by amaks 11y ago|0 comments
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by amaks 11y ago
Fuck you, Amazon. I guess it's time to start online shopping elsewhere.
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by amaks 11y ago
- better support Need to prove this with some data - more services - more options Sure, because of earlier start. - and is easier to use How do you measure the ease of use? APIs? Documentation? Management UI?
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by amaks 11y ago
Except that Jobs knew what customers would need, and Besos doesn't have a clue, he builds what mini me would want.
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by amaks 11y ago
It should be called "Amazon Bad News"
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by amaks 11y ago
I might be missing something, but why lay off engineers as opposed to moving them to other divisions/groups? As a punishment for a screwed up product?
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by amaks 11y ago
There is a simple reason why it's needed - in distributed transaction you need to establish the causality of changes. That's why truetime is needed.
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Tesla Hands Self-Driving Technology to Select Customers(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by amaks 11y ago|0 comments
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by amaks 11y ago
"Microsoft was initially given a May 12, 2015 deadline, but this deadline was extended to July 19 at the vendor’s request. Since the company failed to meet this deadline, ZDI has decided to inform users of the existence of this flaw.&q
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by amaks 11y ago
Android doesn't have only grids of icons. Clearly, you haven't used it much if at all.
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by amaks 11y ago
Is Xbox even out of the red already?
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by amaks 11y ago
Are you sure Windows 10 will be compatible with your devices? Prior history of new Windows Phone OS releases proves otherwise.
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by amaks 11y ago
Just watch the ATAP keynote on Google IO 2015 web site.

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