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by farazbabar 7y ago
Exactly once processing is not possible in distributed systems. Anyone that tries to sell that snake oil is dishonest and anyone who buys it should not be making purchasing decisions. The definition and requirement of idempotent processing
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by farazbabar 7y ago
Can I please complain a little? Is hackernews the small local news source for the bay area bubble? I don't know what pioneer is or which scores are being manipulated or what happens to winners (or losers). I assumed the electronics com
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by farazbabar 7y ago
I went through it all in less than 2 years and ended up hoarding the things I enjoy very much to this date. I have no regrets (never), coming into millions in thirties is an incredible life experience and the vacations, scotches, watches, c
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by farazbabar 7y ago
Kind of like CRDT (conflict free replicated data types for the biologists amongst us).
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by farazbabar 7y ago
As one grows and evolves, one learns to better themselves. A fairly significant number of smart and capable people have been guilty of acting in not so ideal manner when dealing with incompetent or otherwise incompatible people but the answ
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by farazbabar 7y ago
> It must be allowed to discriminate based on ability, even if a certain ability correlates trongly with age, sex or something else. Wow! I rarely openly disagree with strangers on the internet but wow! I am currently focused on improvin
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by farazbabar 7y ago
Aerospike
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by farazbabar 8y ago
Multiple criteria: 1. When you go from one machine running the code to more than one 2. Any system that may experience failures and detection of such failures and recovery is desirable 3. Most distributed systems due to the failure scenario
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by farazbabar 8y ago
Warning, unpopular opinion coming up. Bay area may have the critical mass for investors and technologists but I think we owe it to ourselves to have some diversity of thought and ambition. I am on the west coast but have avoided moving to b
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by farazbabar 8y ago
I write about it on my company blog for internal developers, perhaps I can get our legal folks to go over it and I can publish some of it. There is a lot of tribal knowledge for sure but on my journey from issuers to merchants to networks,
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by farazbabar 8y ago
There is a lot more to it than that, there is merchant acquiring (merchant relationship with a payment services provider that gives merchants the credentials and equipment to accept payments), there are sometimes aggregators that transactio
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by farazbabar 8y ago
My personal favorite is https://vertx.io because it is a little more transparent in how it works and the Rx abstractions are something I was familiar with when I started using it. Not to mention springboot did not offer reactive
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by farazbabar 8y ago
In traditional I/O, a hardware interrupt is triggered whenever data arrives at hardware boundary and the interrupt can get serviced by any core that is available to the scheduler. One can imagine how much overhead is involved in contex
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by farazbabar 8y ago
The one thing that sets many ultra wealthy, especially the self made ones apart from a lot of people is how much they value time. I especially liked the fictional evolution of ultra wealthy into immortals in "altered carbon" becau
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by farazbabar 8y ago
UUID is not enough to prevent duplicate resource creation. Consider the following steps: 1. Receive a request with uuid, 2. Persist the fact that system received this request, 3. who or what processes it? Even if you are working off atomic
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by farazbabar 8y ago
This comment is at once so endearing and so alarmingly indicative of the bubble we live.
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by farazbabar 8y ago
I think this can be further generalized, that there is a tier of talent that we must excuse from having to filter themselves and that this may serve humanity even if it rubs some the wrong way.
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by farazbabar 8y ago
This is already the case with 1099-K and even though the link at https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/how-does-paypal-... refers to sales, the catch all mechanism is entirely driven by number of transa
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by farazbabar 8y ago
As someone trying to build a brand new team, I am happy to pay people whatever they think they are worth. I wonder if there is a way to do this without offending the engineers I am trying to attract - I mean, if they are not to answer the q
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by farazbabar 9y ago
Modern operating systems are very efficient at scheduling threads with negligible workloads compared to threads that are performing under load. I suspect that a lot of test code for toy examples and default workload for thousands of threads
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by farazbabar 9y ago
Of course it is. However, divide and rule was the original british mantra. It saddens me personally how well it worked on the Indian sub-continent and as a student of history I wonder why it did.
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by farazbabar 9y ago
How sad that British were able to sow enough seeds of hatred and division in India that brothers in arms ended up fighting each other and separating into two not quite at peace neighbors less than a hundred years later.
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by farazbabar 9y ago
Oppo makes a great product but the thing that set them apart for me was their ability to play SACD disks. The number of players that can play this format have been dwindling and Oppo's demise is just a sign of the times. I wonder if ph
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by farazbabar 9y ago
I don't get the downvotes for this comment. This is a real issue that I have first hand experience with. The poster even qualified the statement saying its probably not the case for this store but it is certainly true of a number of es
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by farazbabar 9y ago
Oh boy, that and perturbation.
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by farazbabar 9y ago
I have thought about a natural language understanding (NLP/NLU) based startup to do exactly this. So much to do, so little time.
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by farazbabar 9y ago
If you paid millions in taxes personally, then you have sufficient funds to qualify for investor/job creator visa (which in turn leads to a green card as well). I have family that were able to accomplish this with as little as 500K and
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by farazbabar 9y ago
I have been wanting to do this in Phoenix, AZ. We have then ultimate duopoly between cox and century link and no other alternatives for most neighborhoods. I find it perplexing and think that market exists to offer better service. I have so
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by farazbabar 9y ago
As an ex pakistani, I have always admired how much India has been able to overcome the odds and continues to prosper and charge forward. I think the gp has some merit in hoping that within a generation or two, India has a chance to overcome
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by farazbabar 9y ago
I said no to mortgage backed securities in 2006. Beginning to think about targeted advertising disguised as dopamine driven feedback loops along the same lines.

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