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by dclusin 13y ago
I always enjoy reading discussions of internal application layer communication protocols. If there was one thing I would like to add though or wish for, it would be that people would go one level deeper in their thoughts and discussions. Sp
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by dclusin 13y ago
It seems to me like we're finally witnessing the birth of a 21st century news paper. The New York times has always been well regarded for it's journalism. Now we're starting to see what can be accomplished when a credible jou
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Because you're never going to find the "perfect" job and there will always be things you dislike or disagree with any employer. This is true of my friends who work at Google, Facebook, defense contractors, and the like. As lo
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From an engineering standpoint you are correct. From a business standpoint none of these problems have quantifiable numbers attached to them (my lost enthusiasm per fort night?) so they basically don't exist. Ascertaining my opinion on
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by dclusin 13y ago
A lot of startups don't use offshore workers because it's a logistical nightmare. My company (not a startup) has our QA office based out of Bangalore. As an engineer who delivers things to be verified by said team this is a real p
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by dclusin 13y ago
These also seem like good reasons not to use proprietary/closed source solutions. At least with cryptocat everyone know knows about the security issues now and take precautions as if their entire encrypted communications have been comp
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by dclusin 13y ago
The property of distributed message passing systems that everyone likes is the arbitrary scalability. Subsystem performing slowly? Add more nodes! The cost of this arbitrary scalability, as you have noticed, is brittleness, single points of
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I have a different and more pessimistic perspective. My pessimism is actually derived from my Facebook feed as well. I haven't seen a single posting about PRISM or any discussion of the massive surveillance state that we have created f
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It seems like there is still hope for the younger generations. Says the 28 year old.
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Internal documentation of functionality/features/whatever and documentation of externalized API's & protocols meant to be consumed by any johnny come lately are two separate beasts. If the QA/validation process that
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Ask HN: Unable to post links to FB about the surveilance from reddit?
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Seconded. Some of the smartest people I had the pleasure of working alongside of in University towards our respective degrees went on to work for either the NSA or one of the various defense contractors.
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Facebook also re-tooled how they display in-game sharing and such in response to Zynga and many other app companies that constantly spammed Facebook's user base. My suspicion is that this led to a precipitous decrease in Zynga's ability to
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What kinds of problems are you working on where this change in behavior of the JVM has implications for your software stack? I myself work on a financial trading platform and these sorts of things matter to us. Curious what other kinds of p
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This sort of thing has actually been pioneered by high frequency traders. Utilizing FPGA's & ASIC's is pretty standard fare for high frequency trading and algorithmic trading. What's novel about bitcoin is that it has been driven largel
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by dclusin 13y ago
Well I guess it doesn't really. The exchange could close shop and both parties could be left with nothing.
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The biggest difference is that in forex there is a clear distinction between trading and "clearing." Trading occurs when two people agree to trade (SURPRISE!) a specified amount of two (or more) currencies for a given rate of exchange at so
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by dclusin 14y ago
Huge markups on RAM, mainly.
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I agree with this. If there was any money in the pipes we wouldn't see nearly as many mergers of broadband and content companies. We also wouldn't see content companies getting into broadband either. The nice thing about Google is that thei
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by dclusin 14y ago
Or that what was created to be a bandaid over a design failure (was hashtag on purpose or not?) is now being considered a feature.
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I think testing on a closet full of devices is a huge improvement over making unique implementations for each device in said closet, and THEN testing each implementation. Still a schlep for sure, could be improved a ton. But progress is pro
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Agreed. The introductory statistics class that I took as a computer science major wasn't enough. It really needs to be integrated into computer science curriculum's with specific attention to how it applies to writing software.
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That may be a bit low. Facebook makes approximately $5/year off of each user. Another problem with a $5 one-time fees is that people expect to use your service in perpetuity. That price point probably isn't sustainable over a more than a fe
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by dclusin 14y ago
I also have not heard of them. It's probably because we aren't the target market :)
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Would a loser pays system do anything to reduce this sort of behavior? Or is that only applied to civil cases? Am not a lawyer obviously, so please forgive the uninformed question.
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by dclusin 14y ago
I've actually worried about this one a lot after reading about the solar storm of 1859. For those of you who haven't read about it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859 ) I highly recommend reading up on it. The TL;DR version i
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by dclusin 14y ago
$54 per hour for what? Is this simply the cost of running the instances? It seems to me like pinterest is throughput bound and the vast majority of their costs would be accrued via transit and storage charges.
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This is a tricky issue to sort out because opinions and desires aren't set in stone. I've known more than a few friends who have had relationships deteriorate because initially they were on the same page but one party ended up changing thei
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by dclusin 14y ago
This is good to know. Out of curiosity do you have any experience with these sorts of agreements with state DMV's? Any more info?
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by dclusin 14y ago
It sounds to me like this information was intended to be public and disseminated to interested parties (researchers, critics, etc). From the article: "Gun permit holding is public information in New York, and can be acquired through a mere

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