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by fizx 9y ago
It's probably better to specialize in business verticals than tech choices, and better to choose something that doesn't have so many kids learning it to build games. YMMV
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by fizx 9y ago
> It's an over complicated term for a really trivial pattern in development. Yes, but... The objective of most business-oriented programs is to create the One True Function(tm), usually known to developers as a the "application
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by fizx 9y ago
Scala is rough IMO less because of the expressiveness, but more because you have at least 4 paradigms in common use, none of which play well with each other. Let's see, I count (1) Futures/Async (2) Threaded (3) Akka/Play&#x
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by fizx 9y ago
A take-home coding challenge will bias your pool of applicants towards relatively junior overachievers who are barely skilled enough to complete your challenge. More senior and skilled people will decline to participate, because they know t
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by fizx 9y ago
8k karma and a known account. He might do too much marketing tho ;)
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by fizx 9y ago
> Are we that simple that our entire personalities can be fully pwned with some basic machine learning? Unfortunately, yes.
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by fizx 9y ago
The air won't have pedestrians and bikes!
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by fizx 9y ago
Plenty of things available when you google "embedded kafka". Still, it's mostly a bad idea.
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by fizx 9y ago
Having been on both sides of the situation a couple times, the distinction is pretty simple for me: do you have a seat on the board? If you have a board seat, great, you're a real founder/CTO! If you're not interested in the
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by fizx 9y ago
I haven't pinned down the research yet, but I've read in popsci mentions and arxiv abstracts that at least a couple other people have cited, that training neural nets would be accelerated by a full-scale (i.e. mega-qubit) quantu
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by fizx 9y ago
Someone hasn't heard of sex toys.
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by fizx 9y ago
> I just think you underestimate how many people want their infrastructure to cost nothing when they are in pre-launch mode, and will let their pre-launch infrastructure dictate their post-launch. Somehow, given Craig's history at
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by fizx 9y ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! - Upton Sinclair
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by fizx 9y ago
110 degrees in August.
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by fizx 9y ago
FWIW, a few years back, I was averaging <5ms for a benchmark of live traffic (many thousands of queries per second) on Pinterest queries against their full dataset on a single EC2 box with a weeks worth of customization on top of Lucene.
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by fizx 9y ago
SOAP is a shitty implementation of a perfectly good idea. GRPC, for example, is a vast improvement over JSON+REST. YMMV with Swagger, as I've never tried it.
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by fizx 9y ago
Google "learning xor".
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by fizx 9y ago
This is one reason I'm hopeful for a not-killer-robots future. I think there's a chance strong AI will have to evolve over a non-trivial amount of time (as opposed to an afternoon's super-singularity), and a strong evolution
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by fizx 9y ago
Have you heard of QuickBasic, TurboTax or Common Lisp?
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by fizx 9y ago
Same. I was excited until I saw no pricing. Representing a 7+ figure yearly budget for this.
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by fizx 9y ago
Use subscription billing, have patience, find upsells, read patio11. Source: Bootstrapped a company to substantial profitability.
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by fizx 9y ago
Have you seen how many silly versions of bicycles and airplanes we got in the early 1900s? Suicide doors on cars and funny little wings on the back? Things take a while to converge.
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by fizx 9y ago
They're probably counting e.g. SWEIII with an intern. Still, I'm more amazed that a single person has done feedback session with 9000 people in two months ;)
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by fizx 9y ago
Thrift is comparable to GRPC, and more user-friendly in practice than GRPC. GRPC is more flexible, rigorous (anal). I disagree that Thrift failed, but GRPC has more momentum right now IMO. Source (GRPC at current startup, multiple years of
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by fizx 9y ago
See GRPC for a common alternative to HTTP. Kafka and Kinesis are common event buses. But message queues are usually an added complexity for realtime inter-service messaging.
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by fizx 9y ago
The comparison is with an 8-year-old version of lucene. Lucene is (optionally) constant RAM now.
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by fizx 9y ago
As someone who has run multi-terabyte Lucene-based installs, managing gigabytes isn't that interesting ;) It's competing with a project with hundreds of committers, an amazing ecosystem, tons of diverse users, etc.
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by fizx 10y ago
It's more that if you put all of your employees up there, they start getting poached. It says a lot about Stripe's workplace culture that they're not afraid of this.
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by fizx 10y ago
Keep in mind that the infinite universes still obey conservation laws collectively. I tend to think of it like the number line. There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. If we decide to define infinite unique ranges between 0 and 1, the
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by fizx 10y ago
There was some stuff in search at one point that stored the length of a tweet in a byte. Making DMs longer was a database limitation at one point. Today though, I wouldn't expect it.

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