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by ctvo 4y ago
> Remember when everyone cut jobs and canceled orders at the beginning of the pandemic and it really bit them? No. Did they have layoffs previously? I also don't remember anyone cancelling orders and cutting jobs at the beginning of
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by ctvo 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand. A system diagram from source code or infrastructure alone is difficult, but adding some constraints and boundaries may help? What if we only cared about http based services and the boundary is at the service
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by ctvo 4y ago
Is the next step creating and updating these diagrams automatically? That dream seems to come up and die in cycles over the years, but it may be possible now depending on the compute platform and network appliances you use. This push to aut
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Where did you learn about this "staff engineer" track? The consensus around what a staff engineer is is mostly captured here: https://staffeng.com/guides/ There's minor disagreements, but it's
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by ctvo 4y ago
> This is not true. Market price will not go up arbitrarily. Scalpers will not keep scalping if the retail price is greater than what they can sell it for, which will happen at some point. How are you using such confident language on wha
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by ctvo 4y ago
Or it's the way upvotes work for the most part?
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by ctvo 4y ago
I don't think the context changes at all. This talk is about high performing systems (millions of requests per second) written in OCalm. There is nothing here related to the criminality of FTX or what its non-technical founder decided
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by ctvo 4y ago
I'm unsure which point you're following up on. Yes, it's a legitimate extra layer of security if you do what you're suggesting, but that's not what's occurring here, though it may be what's happening withi
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by ctvo 4y ago
No, I think you're right. The author conflates Amazon's own access to data encrypted at rest, which is what this appears to be about, with other security issues. This will help prevent, say, old hard drives being disposed of impro
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by ctvo 4y ago
Being curious isn't a bad thing. The more important question is why do you think it's a negative? Who cares if you skimmed it, nodded along, and moved on? It's OK to never revisit them. Getting exposure to what's possibl
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by ctvo 4y ago
> When you have alternatives you aren't being exploited. That's a narrow definition. Perhaps a better definition is when the other party knows you don't have leverage and takes advantage of it, you're being exploited.
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by ctvo 4y ago
Maybe? But do they want to? Here's the thing with being a founder led company: You still think it's your toy, your vision, and you know best. If the goal was to make money, Meta may be interested in cloud computing. Some of the bi
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by ctvo 4y ago
Is anyone aware of any dating app releasing data anymore? OKCupid used to, but that was before they were bought years ago. Some useful data I'm sure these apps all have access to: - What are women filtering by on apps with height filte
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by ctvo 4y ago
It's not the distributed system bits. It's the heavy abstractions over the distributed system bits that make me question if operating it requires specialized knowledge. I have a performance issue or an edge case with actors from t
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by ctvo 4y ago
The abstractions I’m talking about are the Erlang VMs and the primitives like actors that are provided by the OTP. I have cold sweats thinking about needing to debug a non-obvious performance issue and diving into that layer.
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Elixir is a very nice language to write distributed systems in. Functional in all the right places plus it has OTP. This is the biggest blocker for introducing Elixir to any company I work at. I don't want to become / hire ex
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by ctvo 4y ago
It's a little presumptuous to assume the teams and developers using Go are lying to themselves about Go vs. they've made the calculations and like the tradeoffs. Opinionated language and tooling plus good enough performance with
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by ctvo 4y ago
They didn't though. It's ... familiar quibbles surrounded by noise. I'd love it if you could summarize the thoughtful constructive criticism you saw for the rest of us.
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by ctvo 4y ago
I don't think a lot of people dispute that more screen time is harmful. Not in itself, but usually because that screen time is spent on social media or platforms like YouTube. It harms our self image, attention span, spreads conspiracy
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by ctvo 4y ago
Burning the FBI (literally, of course) to the ground will solve your issues? Aren't you missing the military, congress, the executive branch, ... the rest of the government? Or was it merely the start of your insurrection? Being so fli
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by ctvo 4y ago
> They are routinely overstepping the bounds of civil behavior, so these institutions need to be burned to the ground - literally if need be. Or you know, work on changing the civil forfeiture laws and save the libertarian revolt talk fo
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by ctvo 4y ago
Please cite where the FBI failed to follow the law in this case. The FBI is a law enforcement agency. If you have an issue with the law, that's separate. In this case it appears the law is the issue: > For most of the country’s hist
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by ctvo 4y ago
Workflow engines. Every company develops one base off of queues or some form of async messaging. Works great when prototyping and your initial customer base. Works less great as you grow, add more complicated features, and realize you didn&
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by ctvo 4y ago
You're already ahead of most people interviewing. My advice if you're currently prepping: Don't worry too much about hard problems. They're much more rare. While true you may get an interviewer who hasn't properly c
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by ctvo 4y ago
I don't think it matters as much as people here seem to think. You're the current CTO of a unicorn looking for a more technical role with stability so you apply to be a staff+ engineer at Google. Now the opposite: you've take
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by ctvo 4y ago
Everytime I read these comments I feel like I work in another industry. Who cares about the gaps in your resume? Truly, have recruiters commented in anything but passing? Your interviewers? I've hired candidates with large gaps in thei
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by ctvo 4y ago
Because their advertising business is still wildly profitable even with the ad tracking changes. If they continue to reduce costs and stop investing in the metaverse they’re a great company. Now, add in TikTok potentially being banned in th
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by ctvo 4y ago
Paul, how do you reconcile your previous statements about how long (easy) it'd take to create something like Twitter with the reality of the challenges facing Elon with an already built Twitter?
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by ctvo 4y ago
Assumed this was a euphemism for an escort service. The real thing is 30 USD a month to be introduced to other people.
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by ctvo 4y ago
tl;dr author finds it a hassle to set up proper encryption at rest and rationalizes away why they shouldn’t need to do it. > You used the AWS default key to encrypt a database? Don’t do that? Create a separate account to hold keys. Lock

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