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by ckdarby 7y ago
How to track everyone, everywhere.
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by ckdarby 7y ago
TSYS EnsureBill
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by ckdarby 7y ago
If Apple is serious at crushing PayPal it'll purchase Shopify.
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by ckdarby 7y ago
> I have yet to see a merchant not accept Visa and accept Mastercard Costco in Canada.
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by ckdarby 7y ago
This is also what I thought :(
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by ckdarby 7y ago
Where did you find $16 per employee for Google? I'd like to read more about this.
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by ckdarby 7y ago
> Women Visit Libraries Nearly Twice as Frequently as Men Doesn't surprise me. It is pretty hard to "cat call" someone at a library with the whole silence thing.
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by ckdarby 7y ago
Really? I figure most people just take a little bit of everything the first round to figure out what they liked and then come back for more.
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by ckdarby 7y ago
What other problems did it bring up?
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by ckdarby 7y ago
> In most countries they actually have written laws which require you to help in such a situation though. "I wasn't aware someone got hit. I thought it was an animal." What the law says & what people do :P
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by ckdarby 7y ago
> Open source participants are volunteers and owe you nothing. Equally, someone gets hit by a car while crossing the road. I don't owe them anything to go help them but society, morality and being decent are these unwritten rules th
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by ckdarby 7y ago
Thanks for the link, sadly the data isn't that up to date with everything happening :(. Data is all the way back to 2015
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by ckdarby 7y ago
I'm the presenter, this was inspired by an HN thread seen here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21938463
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Kafka is no longer the best choice thanks to Apache Pulsar(youtu.be)
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by ckdarby 7y ago
I recently did a talk covering a lot of what I wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLruEmh3ve0
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by ckdarby 7y ago
> Grocery checkout automation is atrocious, which is why higher end chains like Whole Foods don’t have them, even though they’re better able to afford automation. No, Costco for example I expect to not have automation because I'm bu
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by ckdarby 7y ago
> Usually impossible to get heads down in a project while firefighting 90% of the time. Put the phone away & magically there is time in the day. People have a lot more time than they're aware of but fill it by normally numbing o
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by ckdarby 7y ago
Damn, I got lazy on my reply & just hoped nobody went further, but well played on digging deeper. 5. Kafka is silly expensive Pulsar supports message ack with subscription groups. The worst case with Pulsar is you're storing the e
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by ckdarby 7y ago
Kinesis is very expensive in the long run. There's almost always an intersection point on AWS where you need to consider moving away from AWS services/"managed services" and bring it in house.
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by ckdarby 7y ago
These are also valid. I wrote the reply explaining some of the OpEx here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21938463
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by ckdarby 7y ago
> Please could you try and explain how you came to this conclusion? 1. Stateless brokers With Kafka any time a broker goes down you need to be aware of the kafka broker id. Yes, this can be fixed by creating your entire infrastructure as
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by ckdarby 7y ago
The standalone mode will let you get started as a developer. You grab tar.gz, uncompress, run standalone.sh. There are helm charts for running an actual cluster.
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by ckdarby 7y ago
> found the documentation very lacking Really? It is one of the few open source projects that we've felt has had modern documentation. How long ago was this? > As a small startup You'll spend more time & money on the OpE
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by ckdarby 7y ago
Can you please maintain the Linux/Ubuntu package I don't think anyone has touched it since like 2011?
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by ckdarby 7y ago
Software Engineering Daily Manager Tools Selfish plug: Launching in 2020 one about working with big data & the challenges that come with it. https://techatscale.com
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by ckdarby 7y ago
Can leave everything on AWS but end up building out the CDN in some unmetered datacenters. 95th billing makes this kind of stuff cheap :)
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by ckdarby 7y ago
Love the tool there are a couple of downsides: 1) Doesn't work with powerpoint if you have to use that 2) There's no "pause" point. A lot of time you want to have the command play to a certain point but then cause until
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by ckdarby 7y ago
The original owner is much kinder than me because I honestly would have plastered the person's name who refused to return the money once I had gotten it from the courts. Hard for me to not be a pessimist when thinking about the future
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by ckdarby 7y ago
This is AWS running Outposts in internet exchanges instead of them building out full datacenters.
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by ckdarby 7y ago
A very hard book to get through the middle of :(

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