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by ayush--s 6y ago
Opera mini used a proxy to compress & downsize content (including images) on the fly
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by ayush--s 6y ago
its literally marked as "Show HN"
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by ayush--s 6y ago
Elastic APM is great, and free (as in cost)
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by ayush--s 6y ago
I'd say that only 10% of the people I've worked with can hang with a world-class team.
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by ayush--s 6y ago
the fake credentials problem is true, especially if you're hiring recent grads. but isn't that really simple to filter?
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by ayush--s 6y ago
if your problem is geeksforgeeks culture (which translates to poor knowledge of software coding standards I guess), then you're clearly not filtering your candidates well enough. Does your interview process has any debugging or refacto
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by ayush--s 6y ago
that link is the indian analogy of "Ivy league or gtfo"
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by ayush--s 6y ago
isn't Rabbitmq prone to "split brain" problem on HA setups?
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by ayush--s 6y ago
couple of problems with this: (1) RPUSH can fail (2) LPOP's result might never reach your client after redis has executed it.
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by ayush--s 6y ago
rabbitmq used to be one of the hardest things to self-host (even at relatively small scale). But it has been pretty stable since moving to Cloudamqp as a managed solution.
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by ayush--s 6y ago
a Redis list (what he's using) would handle this easily (I think Redis' PubSub also handles this)
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by ayush--s 6y ago
> the CEO explained that the company would not be able to pay anyone this month due to issues attracting funding. I don't think this will change in the recent future either. Really sorry for the position you're in, but a job se
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by ayush--s 6y ago
They might have implemented a metadata store 1 layer before S3 to guarantee read after write consistency since write to a new object is consistent in S3. Only updates are eventually consistent.
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by ayush--s 7y ago
Great that it's here. I tried Nim around 8-9 months ago, and left it because I didn't want to work with a language that wasn't stable yet. Guess I'll give it a visit again.
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by ayush--s 7y ago
thank you so much, looking forward to the book
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by ayush--s 7y ago
did you mean hosting a DIY mail server? that's one of the tougher setups I've done, and the result was mail going to spam folder because I couldn't get DKIM right. OP is definitely better off using a service.
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by ayush--s 7y ago
I think you might be able to fit your needs in free tier of mailchimp/sendgrid itself. If not, AWS SES is the most cost effective way.
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by ayush--s 7y ago
this will be great for choosing postgres version for pet projects.
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by ayush--s 7y ago
are all the scripts/tools Brendan is talking about going to be open source? (I'm sure some of them are, including the ones on his Github)
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by ayush--s 8y ago
zfs used to have a better compression algorithm (lz4) before btrfs landed zstd with kernel version 4.15. Btrfs still doesn't have stable support for RAID 5+6 https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56
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by ayush--s 9y ago
Squad is looking for an Engineering Lead. We're based in Noida, India (remote is also welcomed). pitch + apply here: http://bit.ly/squad-el
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by ayush--s 10y ago
It's stuff that should be a part of very beginning of any CS101. Float arithmetics != Decimal arithmetics
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by ayush--s 12y ago
while i enjoy flat design, it won't be fun if everything becomes flat