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by dhd415 7y ago
It's certainly possible that Stripe is offering productivity as the reason for their embrace of remote work when it's really about cheaper labor, but I'm hopeful. I know there are other companies where those decisions are tra
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by dhd415 7y ago
Great to see that a well-known company such as Stripe is embracing remote work because they've seen that remote workers are effective, not just as a mechanism to leverage locales with lower wages. Hopefully other companies follow suit.
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by dhd415 7y ago
My point is that many of the contributors to Lucene are motivated by the benefit it provides to their own companies and are paid to make those contributions as part of their job. Their contributions also benefit anyone else who chooses to u
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by dhd415 7y ago
A lot of those people are Elastic and LucidWorks employees who are monetizing their contributions to Lucene through their companies' respective products. I'm sure there are others there, too, but those were the obvious ones.
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by dhd415 7y ago
The significant majority of contributors to Elasticsearch are Elastic employees. Nothing prevents outside contributors from attempting to monetize their work through selling, supporting, consulting on, or hosting Elasticsearch. They're
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by dhd415 7y ago
Frankly, open source is more of a distribution model than a way to solicit free work from outside developers. As a developer paid to work on a popular open-source product with paying customers, most of the outside PRs I see are small tweaks
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by dhd415 7y ago
Sure they would. AWS's Elasticsearch offering has fewer features than Elastic's offering but is still competitive due to its integration into AWS's other service offerings. The same is true for AWS's Redis offering.
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by dhd415 8y ago
Only a partial explanation, but Superfish was not installed on the business-grade laptops, i.e., the T, P, and X-series, and those are really the only ones that the HN crowd would use. LSE was definitely a major mistake though they at least
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by dhd415 8y ago
Amazon's record with OSS contributions is notoriously poor. For example, see their refusal to allow their query routing extensions to pgbouncer to be used on anything other than AWS: https://github.com/awslabs/pgbo
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by dhd415 8y ago
With the rise of cloud computing, the effort by cloud providers to commoditize their complements, i.e., software, inevitably leads to this particular kind of conflict between companies backing OSS software who wish to deploy their own SaaS
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by dhd415 8y ago
To be clear, no Elasticsearch code or features that were OSS were closed. As new Elasticsearch features are developed, some of them are now released as OSS and others are released with a commercial license.
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by dhd415 8y ago
Putting aside the ethical questions of this approach, I've not been able to determine how good a job will be within the first week. It usually takes me a couple months.
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by dhd415 8y ago
If you click the "History" link on the front page, you can look at a bunch of examples.
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by dhd415 8y ago
It's definitely the project system. I once worked on a solution containing ~150 projects. I consolidated all the code down to about 15 projects and the build time of the solution dropped by about 5x. I've been working in Java late
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by dhd415 8y ago
Wrapping a sync method in a Task causes a thread to block on the sync method's completion and blocking threads is much of what async/await is intended to alleviate.
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by dhd415 8y ago
Yes: https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation
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by dhd415 8y ago
I'd dispute the idea that a car with 130k-150k miles can't be enjoyable. I've had multiple BMWs with more than that many miles that were plenty enjoyable. None of them had any drivetrain replacements though all of them had su
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by dhd415 8y ago
401(k)s are fundamentally about the tax treatment of a certain class of employer-affiliated individual retirement accounts. There's a reasonable range of securities that can be held within a 401(k) account (often at least partially at
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by dhd415 8y ago
Elastic maintains a page documenting the current status of their "resiliency" efforts on Elasticsearch: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/resiliency/cur...
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by dhd415 8y ago
I've also had friends who have had their MailChimp accounts deleted or locked without explanation, warning, or recourse, so I wouldn't rely on MC specifically for anything business-critical. That said, if you have business-critica
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by dhd415 8y ago
That applied only to certain AMD CPUs that were available in 2012. It's just an example in which there was some effort to take a "fairer" approach to per-core licensing. It's especially notable since the EPYC line is evi
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by dhd415 8y ago
SQL Server switched from CPU-based licensing to core-based licensing as of their 2012 version and they included a "core factor" that reduced licensing costs if you were running on AMD cores to 75% of the cost for Intel cores to ac
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by dhd415 8y ago
I've encountered some well-run and successful companies that hire remote employees and the two things that seem to be common to them is that they're remote-first and remote-first from day one. Transitioning into either of those se
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by dhd415 8y ago
LSM trees are good for frequent updates on recent data. Frequent updates of old data are much worse on LSM trees since they trigger merges on the oldest (and typically largest) levels of the tree. Some storage engines allow for in-place upd
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by dhd415 8y ago
VS has never been required to develop on the .NET platform. E.g., CSC works fine for C#.
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by dhd415 8y ago
The concept of "status illegibility" is certainly an interesting one that coincides with some experiences I've had. In a former role in which I reported to the VP of Engineering, due to his lack of ability to directly evaluat
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by dhd415 8y ago
Completely agree. I've taken to running Windows Server on my workstations for that reason though the price is much higher.
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by dhd415 8y ago
It's been a very long time since brick or stone were commonly used as structural elements in US houses. For decades, houses have typically been stick-frame, perhaps with brick or stone used for the facade. In such cases, the brick or s
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by dhd415 8y ago
There is definitely a lot of corner-cutting when it comes to new housing construction in the US for the low end of the market, but it's usually seen with poor insulation and energy efficiency, low-quality cladding and paints, and &quot
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System.IO.Pipelines – High Performance IO in .NET(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
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