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   by dminor 11y ago

   I believe go has switched to it or its considering switching. Someone linked to a code review awhile back.
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   by dminor 11y ago

   I suspect that rather than paywalls, we'll start to see a lot more "native" advertising, where some or all of the content itself is an ad.
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   by dminor 11y ago

   We ended up using consul's K/V store for discovery.
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   by dminor 11y ago

   Using DNS for service discovery is very convenient but it also makes it difficult to change your setup quickly in the face of ops emergencies, since it's so aggressively cached. We're in the process of transitioning from our datac
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   by dminor 11y ago

   I believe it was a case involving State Street Bank in the mid nineties.
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   by dminor 11y ago

   Only the devops positions.
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   by dminor 11y ago

   Say Media - Software Engineers, Full Stack Engineers, Senior Front End Engineer (San Francisco, Portland OR), DevOps (San Francisco, Portland, REMOTE), Engineering Manager (San Francisco) Say Media is building a platform for digital magazin
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   by dminor 11y ago

   PCG is not simply Marsaglia's xorshift applied to an LCG. I'd recommend reading the paper on the site - it's quite good.
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   by dminor 11y ago

   Same here - first thing I wrote in go, just to play with the language: https://github.com/davidminor/gorand
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    by dminor 11y ago

    MLSSoccer.com did this last year during the playoffs.
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    by dminor 11y ago

    Say Media - Full Stack Engineers, Senior Front End Engineer (San Francisco, Portland OR), DevOps (San Francisco, Portland, REMOTE), Engineering Manager (San Francisco) Say Media is building a platform for digital magazines. This year we&#x2
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    by dminor 11y ago

    Note: due to the wait for H1B visas we aren't considering international candidates, except for REMOTE DevOps.
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    by dminor 11y ago

    Say Media - Software Engineers, UI Engineers (San Francisco, Portland OR), DevOps (San Francisco, Portland, REMOTE) Say Media is building a platform for digital magazines. This year we're scaling from 50 million page views to 500 milli
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    by dminor 12y ago

    Portland, OR and San Francisco, CA; Remote OK for devops Say Media is a platform for digital magazines. We are looking for programmers, UX, and devops. We're not looking for proficiency in a particular language, just good engineers who
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    by dminor 12y ago

    I guarantee nothing, other than they look somewhat like English words :)
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    by dminor 12y ago

    I did something similar using Markov chains and a dictionary - you can see it at http://password.supply
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    by dminor 12y ago

    obi-nine you appear to be hellbanned - by default no one can see your posts.
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    by dminor 12y ago

    Three: not considering good programmers who don't have experience in the language(s) the company uses. We as programmers know it's not a big deal to learn another language, but somehow this hasn't translated to the hiring pro
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    by dminor 12y ago

    Netflix's Hystrix is another implementation of this pattern.
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    by dminor 12y ago

    Hey, I applied via your website a few weeks ago and haven't heard anything. Am I in a queue somewhere?
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    by dminor 12y ago

    Location: Portland (Hillsboro) OR Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, JavaScript, CSS, Ruby, C#, Clojure Résumé/CV: 15 years experience - email for details Email: daveminor@gmail.com I've worked at small compan
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    by dminor 12y ago

    thecolorblue has already paid unemployment insurance, via his employer, for exactly the situation he's in now. He is his own burden.
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    by dminor 12y ago

    > Sift through projects on Odesk / Elance. You may find some part time work that may provide some supplemental income while at the same time improving your dev skills. You're probably better off taking unemployment and working
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    by dminor 12y ago

    I once skipped the "simple programming exercise" part of the interview process for someone who was senior, and severely regretted it when it turned out he struggled with basic programming tasks. He had a nice code sample (pre-gith
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    by dminor 12y ago

    Here in Portland, Frontier and CenturyLink are experimenting with gigabit internet and Comcast just doubled their speeds, all based on the threat of Google Fiber as an option.
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    by dminor 12y ago

    In my first job out of college we used linear programming to solve combinatorial auctions - two things I had no idea existed until I interviewed with the company. It was sort of the nexus between OR and econometrics. Very interesting to lea
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    by dminor 12y ago

    Merriam Webster provides a second definition: "following the event". Post-mortem is widely used to refer to analysis of a completed project, failed or otherwise.
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    by dminor 12y ago

    > The word "patent" sounds especially weird to me in that context. Are they seriously "patents" for taxiing people? "Patently" is a synonym for "obviously" - nothing to do with patents.
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    by dminor 12y ago

    Replying to a comment removes your vote on it, so you've put him at net +1.
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    by dminor 12y ago

    Thanks