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by dabei 8y ago
Using Kubernetes is a good start. It should be easy to migrate your server between EKS and GKE. However data is trickier to move around. So you won’t be immune from all global outages.
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by dabei 8y ago
Agree that you need a balanced set of skills. However the advice in the article is pushing it too far. Being a generalist is great in terms of broadening you career options, at an early stage anyway. But until you truly master something mos
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by dabei 8y ago
My strategy as a parent: cultivate healthy hobbies with your kid. I taught chess to my daughter when she was 5. We play it together all the time, not only standard chess but also all kinds of variants (she invented a few fun variants herse
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by dabei 8y ago
> "The app will take care of a lot of those pre-flight interactions" It's easy to automate the happy path interactions. But it's impossible to enumerate and prepare for all the problems and particular situations the c
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by dabei 8y ago
The whole website is a treasure trove for learning about system design.
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by dabei 8y ago
Spot on. News publishers have been suffering from declining ads revenue for years. They needed to pivot to something anyhow.
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by dabei 8y ago
Personally as a software engineer I feel quality sleep makes a big difference on the quality of learning I get through experience. I'm more sensitive to the details that matter and develop deeper insights when encountering a new probl
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by dabei 8y ago
How does this work for mobile? Most of my emails are read on the phone, outside of home.
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by dabei 8y ago
YouTube is not built on GCP.
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by dabei 8y ago
Any idea or guess on the cause?
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by dabei 8y ago
When you compare a new initiative with established business the dollar values doesn't matter. If it's inline with the company's core mission it's worth doing even if it makes significant loss. But when the team could be
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by dabei 8y ago
How is this related?
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by dabei 8y ago
> Good programmers write good code. Great programmers write no code. Zen programmers delete code. Good luck to the great and zen programmers in creating anything or finding a job. It might make more sense to say we have good moments wher
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by dabei 8y ago
You mean the most basic form of functional programming? Without higher order functions I'm not sure it even qualifies that.
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by dabei 8y ago
Being able to search code so efficiently across the whole company’s code base is a huge productivity gain. But I found people who hasn’t worked in Google or other companies that have this capability generally don’t believe it’s a big deal.
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by dabei 9y ago
Maybe we should pause and think what value does Facebook provide to the users? Is that value worth the $400B? Given how much we are connected through all kinds of channels, the answer is a clear no. Sure you can say their advertising busine
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by dabei 9y ago
If you are that high level then your family and close associates are all targets. Same goes their family and network...
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by dabei 9y ago
How much to offer to and gain from their customers is a balance that every company has to strike. They choose the balance not out of the goodness of heart, but as a way to optimize their long term reward, given the regulation and competitiv
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by dabei 9y ago
C++ in the right hand is very succinct and expressive for solving algorithm problems. If someone claim c++ expertise but switch to their secondary language for some questions I'd think twice about hiring them.
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by dabei 9y ago
The decision of not to evacuate seems justifiable. But the deeper problem is mass evacuation is not even an option. What happens when a disaster that's 10x or 100x bigger comes?
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by dabei 9y ago
Marketing is a must for an idea to become a successful business. However most side projects are much more about learning and exploration. It's easy to get excited about our side project and make it real. But that's a long way ahea
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by dabei 9y ago
Indeed interesting to think about the end game. Let's suppose the Airbnb's end game is desirable for the society. But the process of getting there means a lot of people who love their home have to move away because the location is
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by dabei 9y ago
"But what these businesses have turned into are marketplaces for exactly what they were trying to replace" I suggest you actually go and talk to a few Uber/Lyft drivers. Most of the ones I talked to are not your usual taxi dr
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by dabei 9y ago
The article doesn't seem to address the question of if there is a tech bubble. How does assigning an acronym for the top companies indicates a bubble? Yes, 7 out of top ten valuable companies are tech companies, but they are dominant p
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by dabei 9y ago
Make sense however platform independence is very hard in reality. As a startup you have to try to squeeze the biggest bang for your buck. That means to fully exploit what the platform offers and stretch to its limit. Moving to another platf
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by dabei 9y ago
For most people who's not a billionaire it's unrealistic to commit to such grand purpose. I believe your ability is not that different from Elon. But given where he is now and the platform he built it's much more in reach for
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by dabei 9y ago
Absolutely agree. However there is a "perfect language" for every programmer to learn, depending on their background and spare bandwidth. For many programmers the jump from their primary language to Haskell or others is too high,
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by dabei 9y ago
Facebook's strategy certainly has worked so far, but I doubt it's sustainable. Every time Instagram copies a Snapchat feature it is a pivot from their original vision. Unless Snapchat starts copying Instagram, over time the two wi
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by dabei 9y ago
It's pretty impressive performance if you manage to only waste half of your advertising spend on digital.
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VR augmented rollercoasters(economist.com)
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