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by bobnamob 2y ago
Hilarious, I’m sure the move to teams will do further wonders for morale. Come in 5 days a week to be sat in teams calls all day. To my ex-colleagues, the grass really is greener elsewhere
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by bobnamob 2y ago
I mean surely twitch(an Amazon brand) is leaning on the s3 scale econ for storage no?
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Anyone know if they’re stopping internal use? There wasn’t much love for chime while I was there, but I have no idea what a replacement looks like
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Correlated or inversely correlated?
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Seems like a very limited subset of software development to be basing a benchmark on Where’s the kernel dev? Where’s the embedded dev? Where’s the throwaway python script?
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by bobnamob 2y ago
* for some values of FAANG C++ has been dead and effectively banned at amzn for years. Only very specific (robotics and ML generally) projects get exemptions. Rust is big and only getting bigger
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by bobnamob 2y ago
s3 open bucket syndrome is basically cured at this point. (Aside from legacy buckets, which should all be exploited by now) The "yes I really want to do this" confirmations you need to go through when opening up a bucket these day
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Generally meta features like macros are _far_ more useful to library authors that need to do some sort of "reflection" on your application code. Serialization libraries are frequently the largest beneficiary. In my ideal world I d
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by bobnamob 2y ago
That works till management n layers up starts tracking office entry badge taps or wifi access
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann is required reading if you're in this space. I can't recommend it highly enough. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Chesterton's Fence
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by bobnamob 2y ago
As far as I'm aware, jank isn't at the point where libraries exist. It's still under initial development and doesn't implement all of Clojure just yet.
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Idk if it's RUB or Yuval, he was credited on spectre and meltdown as well (if I recall correctly), but he was at data61 or Uni adelaide at the time
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by bobnamob 2y ago
That’s effectively how datomic works. Datoms are the fundamental unit, with attributes being analogous to a column name and views being the 4 indexes that datomic keeps
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by bobnamob 2y ago
My impression of the two demographics this targets (ie people that use TikTok and people that want to use decentralised social media) is that the set intersection of the two won’t be anywhere near the critical mass necessary to get a TikTok
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Should they? You could do the maths on conversion rate increase if that latency disappeared vs the cost of spinning up a dc & running it (including the mess that is localised dbs) I’m not sure the economics works out for most businesses
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Broadly (hah) giving me Broadway/Flow [1] vibes, which isn’t surprising given Rich’s references to Elixir/erlang in his Language of the System talk [1] https://github.com/dashbitco/flow
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by bobnamob 2y ago
> 200ms for round-trip and DB queries is complete bonkers Never lived in Australia I see
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by bobnamob 2y ago
If my in-laws are any indication, yes. 15 years and I’ve only ever had “Dear bobnamob, <pre printed seasonal or birthday pleasantry> Love, <in-law x> & <in-law y>”
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by bobnamob 2y ago
^ CTO of Cloudflare for reference
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Who said it was an infrastructure failure? There's innumerable causes of this kind of failure that aren't rooted cloud service provider shenanigans (Admittedly the duration of the outage does "feel" like an infra outage)
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by bobnamob 2y ago
I’m still sad there’s such an aversion to parens Edn is a lovely config language that checks most of the authors boxes, while still being “composable”
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by bobnamob 2y ago
If Jonny startup has been building release prioritised systems all his life/career, there's a decent chance he doesn't even know what more goes into systems with higher release & maintenance standards. Conversely, if Terr
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Is apparently (re)trademarked... https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-network-is-the-computer/
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by bobnamob 2y ago
I think this article is indicative of the "vibe" I've been getting when reading any discussion around genAI programming. The range of (areas of) competence is just so damn vast in our industry that any discussion about the qu
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by bobnamob 2y ago
Yeah, I’ll admit there’s some paranoia about losing access after a botched upgrade. I’m considering investing in a https://tinypilotkvm.com/ , but that can wait till I’ve lost ssh at least once. I’m not hosting aws on the th
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by bobnamob 2y ago
As another aussie expat abroad, leaving a box behind at my parents place for an Australian residential IP has got to be one of the most unexpectedly great things I've done. Wireguard/Tailscale and my parents having access to cheap
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by bobnamob 2y ago
I can back up your anecdote. For <business reasons> we have in the order of 10^6 SNS topics in one account+region pair. In that account, while in that region, the SNS console is entirely frozen. I suspect they're doing some loope
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by bobnamob 2y ago
“sunshine” along with the “rising sun” diagram make me wonder if this entire blog is some engineer’s subtle attempt at satire
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by bobnamob 2y ago
The fun thing about control theory in CS is that (in my experience) it's far easier to build accurate simulations or even run scaled down experiments than it would be in a physical setting. See articles like [1] or any of Marc Brooker&

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