flyingramen

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by flyingramen 10y ago
That may be a good analogy to make but it is not that simple. I am going to try find it, but there was at least one paper showing how it really depends on the placement of the kind of actors in a system. Enough (but an easy minority) of goo
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by flyingramen 10y ago
What would an ideal way forward be for Uber? Recent incidents combined with a tainted past make public trust in Uber not the best. Lot of people have suggest these problems stem from the culture. Culture of companies and people is similar t
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An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors(medium.com)
3 points by flyingramen 10y ago|1 comments
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by flyingramen 10y ago
Your one machine's disk fails and you'll lose data if you have anything other than synchronous replication. And once you have synchronous replication let's hope it is on at least a different rack if in the same data-center. P
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by flyingramen 10y ago
There is a better response to this up in this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13661735 ). The test is testing the worst-case scenario of everything needing locking. CockroachDB uses an optimistic "locking&q
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by flyingramen 10y ago
Eric Brewer who is the author of the CAP theorem works at Google now. He has a post here: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/inside-Cloud-Sp... .
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iOS 10.3 Switches to APFS(macrumors.com)
16 points by flyingramen 10y ago|5 comments
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by flyingramen 10y ago
It is fascinating that more and more people are using Cassandra. DataStax believes they have fixed problems with prior guarantees claims that were exposed by Jepsen. But there has been no official Jepsen testing since. On the topic of looki
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by flyingramen 10y ago
Seems like Safari is doing better than everything else if I'm reading the charts right.
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Inside the secret meeting where Apple revealed the state of its AI research(qz.com)
2 points by flyingramen 10y ago|0 comments
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by flyingramen 10y ago
I used video calling (almost) everyday for the past few years. I find FaceTime to be best at video calling even in the face of not the best connectivity. Unfortunately it is limited to Apple devices only. Excited to try WhatsApp for this.