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by aristus 12y ago
I used to be a server monkey long long ago, and played with the mockups of these servers that were set up at FB HQ. One thing to realize is they are heavy . Loaded with hard drives, one of these servers is roughly the size, shape and weigh
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by aristus 12y ago
I audited McKusick's kernel class at Berkeley extension. 8 hour sessions every Saturday for a couple of months. I don't have a formal CS background but at the time had 10-12 years of professional experience. It was the most useful
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by aristus 12y ago
I once built a system that pulled multiple TV channels, encoded them on the fly and rebroadcast via multicast over the office LAN to reporter's desks. This was for a newsroom and would have otherwise required dozens of DVB cable drops
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by aristus 12y ago
Well, which minute matters. :) Revenue at noon Pacific is much higher than 2am, because neither humans nor wealth are evenly distributed around the world. In fact, noontime Pacific is kind of a perfect storm: lunch in one populous wealthy t
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by aristus 12y ago
There's one on my corner. It's also an Ingress portal. :) I stock it with kids books, mostly. And of course keep it shielded.
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by aristus 12y ago
We're still in the middle of a shift. The killer feature of the internet is that you can give everyone the same version of your software at the same time, and even give them all different versions (eg A/B test buckets) at will
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by aristus 12y ago
That’s a fair question. Quitting at the first mention of patents would be hard to justify to my wife and family, and in any event would not avoid the situation. IIRC John had left Facebook while this was in process and was still obliged to
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by aristus 12y ago
It was not my decision to pursue this patent application, so you're asking the wrong person.
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by aristus 12y ago
Author here, or as they say, “Principal Inventor”. This started out as an Easter Egg John and I put into Facebook Chat in 2012. It was very simple: if you typed the ID of a Facebook object in double brackets, like [[zuck]], it would display
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by aristus 12y ago
The idea of the book is to take all advice with a grain of salt, and measure yourself. Inefficiency spread everywhere is kind of a best case. Or it might be an indication that you are looking at the wrong layer of the stack. Also, judging f
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by aristus 12y ago
Just FYI, this is a freely downloadable book: http://carlos.bueno.org/optimization/mature-optimization.pdf
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by aristus 12y ago
Still going on that vein, eh? If you notice a global imbalance in CPU usage, you should be totally focused on understanding the cause , not inventing excuses why g() is not the problem or why people investigating f() are wrong. I frankly d
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by aristus 12y ago
"We don't know which", and will stop there. That's fine. All I ask is you be explicit about where you stand: on the side of the status quo, not wrapped in the flag of math as you would like pretend, but simply content wi
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by aristus 12y ago
A good example of the debate and tactics I'm describing. :) If you agree that women are not somehow less mentally capable than men, then the fact that technical jobs are 85% dominated by men should be a concern. Not just for "nor
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by aristus 12y ago
This is a tactic that I've yet been able to counter effectively. It's more about mixing levels of rigor. Case in point: a tech company releases diversity numbers. A reasonable point is to ask for a breakdown into tech, admin, supp
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by aristus 12y ago
Please, stop repeating this tiresome excuse. Absolving a company and blaming the pipeline does not help actually solve the problem. 1) There is a "filter" problem, eg bias in interviewing. This is what you are talking about. 2) Th
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by aristus 12y ago
The green cab question was changed from the original in a way that (I think) changes the logic. http://heatherlench.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/bar-hille... In the original, witnesses are only 80% acc
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by aristus 12y ago
Using fake outrage at a hypothetical situation as an excuse to maintain the status quo is not a valid response. A woman, asking companies to look at how they hire and giving specific examples of how their hiring is biased is not shitting
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by aristus 12y ago
Sure, hire the best. But first you have to recognize that N is probably larger (and less replicable!) than you think. Also, that there is more than one "N". Job interviewing is not a 100-yard dash with only one metric.
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by aristus 12y ago
I was going to answer in kind. But if you truly believe there is not a problem, that everything is just fine, then I can't help you. "So be it" has led us to the situation we have now: dogmatic, unexamined assumptions and rev
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by aristus 12y ago
Let's assume that the best candidate should always be chosen. How certain are you that your interview process is so damned accurate that it can distinguish people within 1%? I would love to see a writeup of your methodology, and how
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by aristus 12y ago
Boy, I hope tired horseshit like yours goes away someday. Seriously. The OP took the time to make a reasoned, step-by-step argument for hiring more women in order to build a better company. Grow up.
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by aristus 12y ago
They are deciding whether or not to take on the risk of essentially underwriting the project. PayPal is on the hook for chargebacks; recently I got back $400 we had paid last November to a company that turned out to have been incompetent
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by aristus 12y ago
Facebook deploys code twice a day. It used to be once a day but as the org grew they decided to double down. They can deploy even more often if there's a "pusher i haz a hotfix" situation like this.
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by aristus 12y ago
By far, your most important accomplishment. Don't be modest. ;)
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by aristus 12y ago
Augh. The editors changed my title. I will ask them to change it. Some readers have pointed out that the research on diversity I quote is about investors, not founders. This is a very important point. It's the closest thing we have to
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by aristus 12y ago
We use react with D3 in MemSQL Ops. http://memsql.com/ops
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by aristus 12y ago
Called it, five years ago: http://www.web2expo.com/webexny2009/public/schedule/detail/9... Run in multiple clouds from day one. Take the pain. It gives you flexibility. Basic vendor management 101.
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by aristus 12y ago
You mean like these? http://www.penguincomputing.com/products/open-compute-soluti... They are not tier 1, but Penguin has been around for quite a long time.
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by aristus 12y ago
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." Bertrand Russell

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