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by fizx 7y ago
I use SQLAlchemy to serve tens of thousands of requests per second on one of my services at Reddit. It's painful, but possible. SQLAlchemy uses the data mapper + unit of work patterns. This means that your connections and your record
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by fizx 7y ago
I have a non-striver on my team of strivers. He is quite valued, because he's: - always fun to be around (a consequence of not being overloaded) - the guy to say "the emperor has no clothes" (having time to look around does
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by fizx 7y ago
I've often thought that on my next startup, I should just start it in Cabo San Lucas. Package on-site interviews with a weekend trip. Pay middle-America salaries. Work hard, beach often.
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by fizx 7y ago
Quantum computing is reversible in this way. Rabbit hole starts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancilla_bit
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by fizx 7y ago
Humans tend to fall into patterns that are easily described by n-gram frequency. A pretty good RPS bot is a typical second/third year university project.
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by fizx 7y ago
We ended up leaving a few hundred thousand in the bank and running it off debit.
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by fizx 7y ago
I ran a bootstrapped company with $150k/mo of well-documented, above-board recurring revenue and Chase wouldn't give it a credit limit above $5k. Entrusting my finances to another startup like Brex is scary, but damn is the pitch
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by fizx 7y ago
ASGs + Zookeeper is really easy, but you have to use https://github.com/soabase/exhibitor . It coordinates replacing downed ZK nodes using S3, and also provides a bunch of extra management tools. I had a single Zooke
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by fizx 7y ago
As a cyclist, I can't wait for self-driving cars. I'll take a small chance of being accidentally killed as a systemic, correctable mistake over the small chance of being killed by the 5% of people who are consistently impatient, i
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by fizx 7y ago
Modern engineering is a social endeavor.
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by fizx 7y ago
I've found it easer to do some traffic-shaping with (i.e. queue up more than N connections per ip). The status page/dashboard is really nice. The English docs are better. This might have changed in the last three years
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by fizx 7y ago
This is almost exactly the specification of offshore workers. I pay anywhere from $5/hr-$100/hr, depending on skillset. I'm not sure if this gets you a modest quality of life where you live.
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by fizx 8y ago
If you don't care about heritage and politics then I'm the King of England.
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by fizx 8y ago
I think it's less about the working style and more about the promise of working in the future(tm). When Rails 0.9 dropped in 2004, I instantly rewrote my old PHP app in it and never looked back. It just felt so expressive and naturall
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by fizx 8y ago
If you handwave enough at this, it looks like capsule networks.
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by fizx 8y ago
1.5 million videos uploaded implies the involvement of at least persistent script-kiddies, if not possibly state-level actors getting involved for propaganda. This seems likely to be an arms race.
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by fizx 8y ago
Close enough for a popsci article!
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by fizx 8y ago
I don't know if you're looking for advice, but: It seems like you aren't a manager, but rather a junior director who doesn't know it yet. 13 people across 4 initiatives is too much to directly manage effectively. Find s
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by fizx 8y ago
Economics 101 says that governments can discourage activities through taxing them. Most people would argue that society should rather give people more income than corporations larger profits. Therefore, corporations should be taxed more, an
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by fizx 8y ago
Read this as "some foundations built". Even that is much-needed progress.
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by fizx 8y ago
For those who don't know, Andy was one of the early growth hacker leads at FB & Twitter.
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by fizx 8y ago
Each person only uploading one copy of video in a multiparty situation is a huge win for quality on mediocre connections.
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by fizx 8y ago
If any VC could have bought $TWTR at a $280MM cap in 2010 they would have. Only employees got that deal. Twitter was already a unicorn, but the internal paperwork hadn't caught up yet. It's arbitrage, not clairvoyance.
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by fizx 8y ago
It's actually easier to "invest" as an employee than as a VC. VC's have to wait until the next round, and have to compete with other VCs. As a potential employee, you can see a company wildly succeeding (twitter in 2009
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by fizx 8y ago
Docker can save tons of time by letting you bundle up a copy of your staging environment/backend onto an image that mobile developers can run a copy of on their laptop without having to know all of the custom CFLAGS you used to install
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by fizx 8y ago
IP addresses are more promiscuous than email addresses--i.e. your family and neighbors are relatively likely to share an address and/or subnet. That means that your family can see ads targeted at your bad habits that they might not oth
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by fizx 8y ago
While you might say "I don't know React, but will start learning it as soon as I come into work," someone else is saying "React is so cool! Yeah, I haven't done much with it, but I was playing around with it the ot
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by fizx 8y ago
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." ~Arthur C. Clarke
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by fizx 8y ago
(I went back and looked, and that number was specific to a reporter's analysis of Facebooks reporting threshold about a year ago.)
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by fizx 8y ago
>I've observed that in pursuing the 1% unicorn candidate, many people step in unicorn shit and hire smart people who are bad employees. What's fun is that this isn't just a possibility, its likely! Despite the following b

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