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by exacube 11y ago
I don't think Larry and Sergey are interested in upping their $$$ status to $$$$. They are pure technology enthusiasts and want to change the world with it, and they use their money printing machine as the enabling engine.
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by exacube 11y ago
That may be somewhat true, depending on how crucial and dependent Google is on Homebrew. But 90% of Googlers don't rely on Brew for work. It is just a figure he made up to make a point about how popular his software is. Using his sof
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by exacube 11y ago
Thanks for your comment. I don't know how to feel about Protothreads. It's just syntatic sugar for using a state-machine to provide continuations. You're also not allowed to carry state over between continuations (although
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by exacube 11y ago
Firstly, you're not entitled to any job you want just because you wrote Homebrew. If you accepted an interview with Google, then you accepted the fact that Google will judge you based on your problem solving skills, just like every o
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by exacube 11y ago
What are stackless coroutines? What do they look like?
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by exacube 11y ago
You need green/user-space threads if you want to use co-routines effectively, because if a coroutine blocks, it would block off the entire OS thread from doing anything else.
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by exacube 11y ago
I like the proof of concept, but I hate that anyone would abuse Reddit this way.
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by exacube 11y ago
Man, these guys have a lot of stellar engineers with really strong backgrounds. They also have "free fridays".. which is crazy.
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by exacube 11y ago
Someone needs to do it first
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by exacube 11y ago
GFS/Colossues are distributed file systems, which GCS doesn't really address (I think GCS is akin to AWS' S3?)
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by exacube 11y ago
This is a very good point, and I'm sure it depends on all 4 of things very heavily. There were multiple Facebook competitors, but Facebook executed their product MUCH better than everyone else (real names/people, exclusive to cert
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by exacube 11y ago
The central point discussed here in that the mobile and internet infrastructure is far ahead of its time in Seoul. But the author makes a few statements that don't settle well with me: > By 2020, the [South Korean] government predi
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by exacube 11y ago
It's always exciting reading Rust posts on HN, so very happy about a stable release!! I can't help but feel the language has a very steep learning curve, however; doing something like making an event-queue-with-callbacks is very
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by exacube 11y ago
Whatsapp is worth 19B to Facebook, not to the rest of the industry.
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by exacube 11y ago
Note that chroot will provide containerization, but without isolation (processes can always fork out of their chroot jails). You still need things like pid namespaces etc.
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by exacube 11y ago
i think the problem is in generating revenue. According to their numbers, Twitter's user base is still trending upwards no?
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by exacube 11y ago
I see the argument for competition, but I don't think that freedom is as important as the freedom of communication and education. Imagine someone in the slums of India (there are tens of millions in these conditions) wanting to learn m
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by exacube 11y ago
Can someone give me a good argument as to why no internet is better than free limited internet with facebook + google search + wikipedia? If Facebook will provide free limited internet (and as always, you can pay regularly to get full inter
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by exacube 11y ago
Google search is on internet.org, so is Wikipedia.
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by exacube 12y ago
i think it's awesome
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by exacube 12y ago
This seems like it's just taking the idea of decoupling your service and talking to them via APIs a little further by saying.. decouple them to an even smaller granularity? This has always been the generally accepted way to scale out s
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by exacube 12y ago
I think it's very important to understand and accept that what you are feeling is not a normal state. I would say try to think focus your efforts on arriving at the normal state; of being able to feel pleasure and happiness. Depres
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by exacube 12y ago
They're making a widely used bad language better, so people using (or forced to use) said bad language can improve their code. I think it's noble!
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by exacube 12y ago
But not everyone that uses Linux compile X libs or Firefox themselves (a very tiny fraction do). Why does it make sense to have include headers and source?
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by exacube 12y ago
Redis cannot replace etcd: etcd (like zookeeper and chubby) offer strong consistency, which Redis does not. These requirements are key for building things like a directory service (which is how CoreOS uses etcd).
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by exacube 12y ago
Oh avodonosov, being anti-drugs on an HN post again. Let's all collectively try harder to please avodonosov, because after all, HN posts solely for his/her pleasure.
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by exacube 12y ago
5% is a little high (it would be much lower if gofundme and company were non-profits), and i hate how high VISA/other CC fees are. I hate that 8% of all donations are gone through the cracks for profiteering.
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by exacube 12y ago
I think programming might help you write very prose pieces, but there is still a lot more to literature that remains very artistic.
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by exacube 12y ago
This article doesn't explain what fuzzing is/means.
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by exacube 12y ago
Maybe it's forgivable for now because it's still in Beta and is invite-only.

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