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by collinf 8y ago
Is Google Fiber still expanding? Last I heard it was pretty much cut.
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by collinf 8y ago
Universal Studios is owned by Comcast [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Pictures
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by collinf 8y ago
Anecdotally speaking, I have a couple friends in medical school right now and they do everything on their iPad + keyboard. My mom has used an iPad as her primary computer for the past 5 years. For a lot of people who primarily interact with
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by collinf 8y ago
Ah got it, according to Amazon it isn't released until August 4th. https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Workbook-Practical-I...
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by collinf 8y ago
This book is pretty well known in the HN space, are you referring to "The Site Reliability Workbook"? That looks like it hasn't even been released yet in print, which is very cool that they are offering free downloads. If so,
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by collinf 8y ago
This seems like it would be a nightmare to deal with if things ever went wrong. Is this actually a viable option?
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by collinf 8y ago
What an amazing read. These folks really pulled off some fantastic engineering without a JIT. It will be interesting to see if the team decides to add additional knobs to configure the Go GC for different workloads like Java has now.
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by collinf 8y ago
Well, there is the overhead of creating and removing namespaces each time a container is ran, or communicating with the Docker daemon. I think to most people it would be negligible, but fb operates at a scale where these normally insignific
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by collinf 8y ago
Richard Hipp (creator of SQLite) had this to say about Rust and SQLite in the comments: > Rewriting SQLite in Rust, or some other trendy “safe” language, would not help. In fact it might hurt. Prof. Regehr did not find problems with SQLi
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by collinf 8y ago
These are pretty cool and we actually have them in our office, I see my current company on your list of companies using them. Unfortunately, team culture takes precedence over neat tools. It's just a common thing on my team to do take
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by collinf 8y ago
This is certainly a good point and part of the reason why I just deal with the noise. Desk segregation based on noise levels rather than teams is actually a pretty good idea. Not sure of the implementation of something like that.
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by collinf 8y ago
My biggest issue with my open floor office is that it seems like everyone just takes calls at their seats. We have private spaces and enclaves for that, but I am just bombarded with 4 people within 10 feet of my workspace on their phone. To
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by collinf 8y ago
> I don't want a serious gaming monstrosity, I just desired something that can do the job well, had great build quality and could run the Unix-based tools I need to use to get through the day while offering reasonable battery life.
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by collinf 8y ago
Somewhat interesting. I have a different reason for the declining weekday rates of the MTA (NYC's subway system). More and more companies every year seem to be alright with their employees being remote on a more regular basis, which wo
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by collinf 8y ago
Literally just listened to his podcast he did with Freakonomics Radio yesterday. Definitely a great mind. For all of you developers/operations folks out there, I recommend reading his book The Checklist Manifesto. Every team can learn
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by collinf 8y ago
I use Personal Capital and really think it's a great piece of software. If you're worried about a cloud solution that has access to your financials, you might as well use a spreadsheet. I'm pretty sure YNAB (You Need a Budget
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by collinf 8y ago
Sent this to all of my non-techie friends who asked wtf GitHub was and how it was worth $7.5b. Great read.
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by collinf 8y ago
Wow, for anyone who hasn't read into this, check out the Wikipedia page[1]. Feels like sci-fi dystopian futures are closer everyday. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
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by collinf 8y ago
Unrelated, but this reminds me of one of my favourite Mitch Hedberg bits. “I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end
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by collinf 8y ago
I haven't seen anyone touch on this, but I remember reading about this in Data Intensive Applications[1]. The way that they solved the celebrity feed issue was to decouple users with high amounts of followers from normal users. Here is
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by collinf 8y ago
I find it hard to believe you _only_ use Septa to get around Philadelphia. I have the regional rail pass for my commute as well and Philadelphia's public transportation system is not great for getting anywhere in the city. I uber all t
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by collinf 8y ago
What sort of Fortune x00 company doesn't use a corporate VPN?
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by collinf 8y ago
As an intern, no less.
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by collinf 8y ago
As far as a technical book, Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman. This book covers distributed systems as well as databases, data-warehousing, and data-processing. A lot of tools and patterns you don't see in school that desc
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by collinf 8y ago
From the Q4 Earnings Report, it looks like it was a one-time tax on foreign earnings: > 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act On December 22, 2017, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Tax Act) was enacted into law and the new legislation contains s
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by collinf 8y ago
I think one thing that people get caught up in with Go as well is... well it's stupid easy to learn and work with. I work for a giant enterprise company and the range of programming talent that we have is incredible. I know some people
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by collinf 9y ago
Seems like a lot of hoops to have to jump through! Thankfully I managed to avoid having to go through all of these trials by being turned off that it didn't have systemd. Your response makes me glad that my unwarranted dislike for othe
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by collinf 9y ago
Security guide is for RHEL6? Nobody is actually running K8s on RHEL6 without systemd, are they? Are they?!?!
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by collinf 9y ago
> Like the FTC on Facebook (link is external) Really got me there, lol.
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by collinf 9y ago
I'm sure the executives take issues like this incredibly seriously. None of this stuff is insidious in nature, it's just what happens when people bypass processes. Engineer doesn't take the time for proper password management

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