arhyth

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by arhyth 3y ago
> Databricks is often managing a million-ish Spark-sub tasks for various users. They couldn't do that using traditional operating system scheduling techniques: they needed something that could scale. The obvious answer was to put al
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by arhyth 3y ago
and these data structures are themselves able to span hundreds/thousands of disks? eg. what happens when a customer's bucket/object are too many such that the skip list "indexing" them cannot fit in a single harddri
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Ask HN: How does S3 locate object data?
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by arhyth 7y ago
kind of agree but also disagree. the runway for Go to go (pun unintended) from easy to difficult to use because of it consisting few parts is far longer than for a developer using a feature rich language to eventually shoot themselves in th
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by arhyth 7y ago
just new to Golang (in programming in general, actually) and this bug me. in the slide, it's indicated they are semantically the same. but how? (1) var thing Thing json.Unmarshall(reader, &thing) (2) var thing *Thing = new(Thing) j
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by arhyth 8y ago
thanks for the outline. article was behind a paywall from my end.
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by arhyth 8y ago
can someone please give this outsider-noob an eli5 explanation why golang do not adopt a same policy/attitude/implementation towards package management?
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by arhyth 8y ago
i love elementary OS. but gahd Calibre is just ugly and for some (probably noob) reason, can't get it to work on my machine. i'll try this one out.
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by arhyth 8y ago
+1. even for "non-believers", there are practical gems that will benefit anyone who cares to really read it.