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by elq 19y ago
hrm. Perhaps someone should send the paper referenced in this post to Zuckerberg, though I doubt it would change his mind.
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by elq 19y ago
I've updated my profile with my email addr.
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by elq 19y ago
hrm. I recently left one of Eric B's teams, and no more than 7 months ago he held a meeting where he said (essentially) that hardware cost more than people's time. I'm not sure what has changed since then. I still work there (for the next
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by elq 19y ago
Most people don't build their apps to work with an infrastructure like EC2. Or. Their apps can't easily fit into the EC2 model. In essence, how is EC2 different? 1- Each EC2 instance is essentially 1/4th of a typical server (w/ 4 cores, 16
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by elq 19y ago
That's really pathetic. Me thinks they're not going to get the best qualified people with that kind of attitude.
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by elq 19y ago
Please do add comments... I don't really like being snarky, but in lieu of comments I've added a post about one of the loopt jobs - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27310
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by elq 19y ago
Erlang and Lisp aren't exactly canonical examples of procedural programming languages.
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Loopt: server engineer - Knowledge of a procedural language (e.g. Erlang, Lisp, etc.)(loopt.com)
3 points by elq 19y ago|6 comments
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by elq 19y ago
Now, I know this story has gotten a bunch of people's panties in a bunch. For a minute, ignore the RAID angle, hell - even ignore the RDBMS angle. IMHO, partitioning and replication is one of the cheapest and safest way to scale reads (and
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MySql and the death of RAID(feedblog.org)
5 points by elq 19y ago|3 comments