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by endymi0n 9y ago
Good point. Definitely not as directly as Google, but in this case I guess I could make a fair point that their reporting and campaign management APIs for accessing campaigns we as a client pay 6-7 digit amounts per month for could be count
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by endymi0n 9y ago
This. In GCP, they are handling these things transparently, professionally and proactively - usually giving you a personalized heads-up, alternatives and reminders as early as possible. Facebook on the other hand has been shutting down crit
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by endymi0n 9y ago
Went from imploded startup burnout to a job like you describe as a "secure way out". Went directly from burnout to bore-out, as I had to defend an architecture I never would have built like that but no means or resources to do it.
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What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know(cbsnews.com)
3 points by endymi0n 9y ago|0 comments
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Don't have a degree myself and about a third of the people I hire also don't have one. Why? Because I don't give anything about them. I'd say if you don't want to work for a large, respected company first , it&#x27
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by endymi0n 10y ago
While an interesting observation and research area, I'd be curious how much of these effects are offset by the better utilization that containers enable. I'd bet that the reduction in idling server capacity much more than equalize
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Or - if you absolutely must, at least share your passwords with open source technology: https://www.justwatch.com/gopass/
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by endymi0n 10y ago
> The use and support of the GPL has grown with it, but new strengths have also emerged related to corporate adoption of open source, leading to stronger growth of associated approaches to licensing. TL;DR: Although we're trying to
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by endymi0n 10y ago
JustWatch | Backend, Frontend & System Engineers | Berlin, Germany | INTERNS, VISA, ONSITE, https://www.justwatch.com/us/talent We're always looking for hungry & curious engineers (from INTERN to senior le
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by endymi0n 10y ago
The coffeeshop fallacy (2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3134322 > Lots of people think they want to start a coffeeshop. They likely don’t. That’s like buying a minimum wage job for two hundred grand. What the
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by endymi0n 10y ago
How We Realized Putting Blockchain in Everything Was Not the Answer (2020)
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by endymi0n 10y ago
While the last part of apologizing for the "incompetent" employee is definitely too much, the supervisor escalation is a pretty good move actually. I worked in customer support too and often times, people just want to let off some
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by endymi0n 10y ago
My personal upvote for the Google Cloud Platform blog: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/ ...a pretty mixed bag with some product & PR posts inside, but the gems inside (especially SRE / CRE life lessons) are pr
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by endymi0n 10y ago
https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/minikube/ > Running Kubernetes Locally via Minikube > Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally. Minikube runs a single-node Kuber
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How Google ate CelebrityNetWorth.com(daringfireball.net)
4 points by endymi0n 10y ago|0 comments
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by endymi0n 10y ago
The problems aren't facts. The problems are what completely distorted pictures of reality you can implicitly paint with completely solid and true facts. If 45 states that "the National Debt in my first month went down by $12 billi
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by endymi0n 10y ago
It's not just the storage itself (which is really cheap nowadays), but more of the fact that every byte read and written needs to go through the processor, pollutes RAM and poisons caches. Less storage usually translates into direct pe
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by endymi0n 10y ago
While I appreciate PostgreSQL every day, am I the only one who thinks this is a rather bad idea? The row based engine of PG is the antithesis of efficient storage and retrieval of timeseries of similar patterns, yielding almost no compressi
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by endymi0n 10y ago
With all due respect, I don't think so. Program lifetime cost of the F-35 Lightning is projected at a whopping 1.5 trillion US$. For the same amount of money, you could bring the renewable energy level to 50% of US electricity consumpt
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by endymi0n 10y ago
JustWatch | Backend, Frontend & System Engineers | Berlin, Germany | INTERNS, VISA, ONSITE, https://www.justwatch.com/us/talent We're always looking for hungry & curious engineers (from INTERN to senior le
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by endymi0n 10y ago
To understand that, you'd need to know just how bad search was before Google. Search wasn't even a "thing" on its own, it was usually merely a feature of large portals (AltaVista, AOL) which were large, slow, cumbersom
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by endymi0n 10y ago
I couldn't care less about IP myself - but the real reason this stuff is pretty standard is that investors are somehow really bullish about IP (the "secret sauce"). Against our own beliefs, we decided for pretty strict contra
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Why back up my claims if you do it for me? :) > Housing units, population, jobs, and desirability of the area is what drives housing unit prices. Well, if anything is driving up population density, it's increasing the number of inha
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Sorry, but that makes no sense. Skyscrapers are a stopgap measure that shortly lowers prices, which only serves to get more people into town if demand stays the same (and creating more demand: everyone needs a hairdresser, a school, a super
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by endymi0n 10y ago
s/database/in-memory-map/g should be fine - and suddenly it's pretty lightweight (subtracting service restarts and a highly available message bus of course :)
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Poe's law in full action. If for some reason this is not a joke, it's a pretty lousy tutorial, as for every single arbitrary framework/tool decision here, there's not a single rationale here but "because it's
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by endymi0n 10y ago
And don't think he'll accept the sudden 20% drop that exactly coincides with inauguration as "proof" if he doesn't accept the current 10000x larger temperature change gradient than anywhere in earth history as &quot
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by endymi0n 10y ago
...this, staying lean, smart and profitable - and waiting until the unicorns dismount themselves (see Uber vs. Lyft play out)
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Not convinced. By a lot of their definitions we're a Zebra (profitable, no VC, using 1% of our gross revenue to make a positive impact, not aiming for a 1 bn valuation) - but for my taste, their manifesto is way too much feel-good, sel
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by endymi0n 10y ago
Having gone through about a hundred interviews on the employer side and a dozen on the employee side myself, I think I can drill down the essence of the problem to: "Everything that can be standardized is a bad predictor of hiring succ

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