chadd

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Microservices at Snapchat(eng.snap.com)
7 points by chadd 5y ago|3 comments
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by chadd 5y ago
It's definitely harder to setup with 8 stakes, and you must carry poles, or borrow a friend's poles, but it's incredible how much lighter it is over almost any other option.
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by chadd 5y ago
We (me and some folks at my old consultancy) wrote an Erlang version of Redis ( https://github.com/cbd/edis ) for some of the same reasons - multithreading changes some of the scaling semantics in interesting ways. It wa
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Snap Developer Ecosystem(eng.snap.com)
2 points by chadd 6y ago|0 comments
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RIP Chuck Yeager(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by chadd 6y ago|0 comments
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by chadd 6y ago
Interestingly, the way the survivors have reckoned with it in the past 10-15 years at the end of their life was to build a number of monuments to their units at the 8th air force museum in Georgia. It's worth a visit.
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by chadd 7y ago
I left MSFT and went to Viair (with folks from the MSN Mobile and Outlook Express team), and we didn't have a bug tracking system... so we had someone send us a few screenshots of RAID and built a VisualJ clone one weekend. Fun side pr
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by chadd 7y ago
"We will be closing all of our retail stores outside of Greater China until March 27" - Does this mean all stores globally closed, except inside China, which are back open?
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by chadd 7y ago
good idea! I think we're just going to get a hydrogen tank, some protective gear, and go that route.
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by chadd 7y ago
Yes they won't sell except to existing customers. New customer == no helium.
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by chadd 7y ago
I need 200 cubic liters and they won't sell that much
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by chadd 7y ago
With my 16 year old son, I built a weather balloon with one, including an Arduino, a few temperature sensors, a GPS, LoRA radio, and we're going to launch it next month. Having a hard time finding Helium.
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by chadd 9y ago
This is timely for our community in Topanga, CA (between Malibu and Santa Monica). We've got an ongoing issue with an Internet provider where about 10% of packets are dropped. Nextdoor became a rallying point for hundreds of customers