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by chronid 8y ago
You'd be surprised by the number of those USB keys permanently attached to laptops/desktops or left on desks in the offices of the big tech cos. :)
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by chronid 8y ago
The chat is not the only way you can troll your team mates and cause them to rage quit (or scream at you and get banned themselves). I would actually say that the griefing created by people using slurs is actually pretty small. You can be s
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by chronid 8y ago
Youtube, Facebook and company have a ridiculous amount of false positives, for the money (and the people, they have quite a lot of human moderators) they throw at the problem. Also, they enjoy complete market dominance, so even if you wan
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by chronid 8y ago
A lot of IP ranges from cheap VM (and bare metal) providers are included in many blacklists since those ranges were (predictably?) abused by spammers in the past. Some companies are fighting this by denying outgoing traffic to port 25 until
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by chronid 8y ago
Those were decisions made a lot of time ago, when there was only a single region/datacenter, since that was what you were running your servers on. And then they remained. AWS has a similar issue internally, IIRC (oncall around DST swit
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by chronid 8y ago
And multi-DNS provider. :) Everyone always forgets about DNS, until Dyn dies.
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by chronid 8y ago
Who cares about retaining those support/ops engineers you shit on because you don't want to own the crap you write, right? :)
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by chronid 8y ago
I cannot confirm or deny that (since my memories are sorta fuzzy), but the real problem was not EC2 capacity. Many other AWS services were involved. :)
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by chronid 8y ago
Some services (before I left) just did not have the sheer capacity to have Amazon.com as a customer at peak. The service teams just said "nope, sorry, you're going to kill us". The requirements for prime day/black friday
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by chronid 8y ago
They will have to write a detailed post-mortem (with many people with titles starting from director watching it every week). Based on what comes out from the post-mortem automation/testing will be implemented to remove/mitigate th
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by chronid 8y ago
You never completely recover an order dip. Believe me :)
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by chronid 8y ago
I'm not so sure. Electronics works at different economies of scale than websites/web applications/saas, where usually (at least at the beginning) you will probably churn out bloated applications to "go fast and be lean&q
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by chronid 8y ago
With my current 1440p screen the only way I can keep two files open side to side without going blind is to limit myself to 80 characters, the screen linked in the article is 1080p and they propose to keep three files open at 120 column wi
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by chronid 8y ago
The teams in the relational databases organization were in a pretty terrible shape when I left - most of the higher management comes from IBM IIRC, and it's visible. The operations teams get the worst of it (unsurprisingly). Also, caus
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by chronid 8y ago
It's a matter of luck. We use XPS at work for all technical employees and only one laptop had coil wine issues, and we got it replaced.
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by chronid 8y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this principle since my days at Amazon. I also found that if you need to follow the principle too many times it's a good indicator the team/company goals/vision/ and yours don't align and
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by chronid 9y ago
> (NEW! Postgres-BDR 2.0 on Server Version 9.6 Now Available!) 2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the availability of BDR 2.0 running as an extension to community PostgreSQL 9.6 for its support customers. You can now make full use of the a
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by chronid 9y ago
I think (the majority of) people were far more naive back then on the importance of their personal data, and that includes whoever was working at Facebook (or Google?) at the time.
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by chronid 9y ago
BDR is available in the open (aka for free :D) only up to PostgreSQL 9.4 though, and that's really the only somewhat-equivalent solution to MySQL multimaster IIRC.
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by chronid 9y ago
In PostgreSQL varchar uses actual characters (as specified by the database character encoding), not bytes, IIRC. The same thing should be true for (at least recent versions of) MySQL.
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by chronid 9y ago
I'm not sure about the stack (depends on what you are comfortable with, your requirements...) but: 1. use something that has been around a long time and is well supported/known 2. you probably don't need stuff like cassandra
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by chronid 9y ago
> Specifically it works completely correctly like 80 - 90% of the time and as a result, if you use it a lot, you start to expect it to be working and not fail. Different environment (and stakes), but I observed the same thing happening a
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by chronid 9y ago
In my case when I gave Java a bigger allocation of RAM I got far better result (and it usually got even faster than the equivalent Python/NodeJS code). At the time at least (I don't know right now, it's been a long while sinc
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by chronid 9y ago
That could become a terrible disadvantage for Facebook and could be weaponized by competitors - unless it is mandatory for all companies publishing ads online (and maybe offline?).
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by chronid 9y ago
Isn't pushing propaganda what mass media do all the time? So are we looking at the pot (the "old school" mass media) calling the kettle (facebook&co) black? Paladins of freedom (if you ignore the obvious conflict of inter
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by chronid 9y ago
Blaming Facebook for "loss of democracy" would be ridiculous. Democracy is being lost when you start having low turnouts. When citizens lose interest in the matter of the state. When certain positions essentially always stay in th
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by chronid 9y ago
Wasn't also the Obama campaign helped (in 2008 and 2012) by massive social media/web presence? I remember articles of newspapers writing fondly of how "innovative" it was and "transformative". It's amusing
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by chronid 9y ago
The gaming industry is also full of horror stories about people burning out, months of crunch time and so on.
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by chronid 9y ago
"human error" is not a root cause.
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by chronid 9y ago
There is also increased network traffic, more bytes to keep in the caches (RAM?), maybe effectively doubling the amount of data you store (in the worst case) creates terrible effects on (some of) your queries and increase latency somewhere

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