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by fokker 2y ago
A fun read! My brother actually lives on Lord Howe Island along with his wife and 2 daughters. I’m visiting them in a few weeks too actually. I will share this tidbit with them haha.
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Show HN: I built my own Kafka for fun(github.com)
2 points by fokker 6y ago|1 comments
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by fokker 6y ago
About 2 years ago I was intrigued by distributed systems, particularly distributed consensus algorithms. Going down the rabbit hole of replicated logs, I decided to build my own Kafka event streaming platform. Since then, Kerala has been m
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by fokker 6y ago
Love it! Also, I think it'd be more impressive to be consistent with your units when comparing page sizes e.g: 4mb 1mb 4mb 3mb 0.005mb
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by fokker 8y ago
Yes and we’re talking about distributed state machines, right? A raft append-only log usually contains state machine commands.
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by fokker 8y ago
Considering we’re talking about distributed state-machines, I am curious why you would choose Paxos, a more complex algorithm over Raft. Raft, to my knowledge provides the same guarantees as Paxos, and is simpler to understand and implemen
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by fokker 8y ago
Curious, why Paxos over Raft?
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by fokker 8y ago
These kinds of posts are the reason I come to HN hoping to find. Amazing work! I'm going to come back and read some chapters over the weekend.
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by fokker 9y ago
Has the help menu and all hahaha
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Australian Senate passes same-sex marriage bill(news.com.au)
1 points by fokker 9y ago|0 comments
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3 trends in landing page design(medium.muz.li)
2 points by fokker 10y ago|0 comments
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How Flexbox works – explained with big animated Gifs(medium.freecodecamp.com)
2 points by fokker 10y ago|0 comments
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How We Changed the Facebook Friends Icon(medium.com)
2 points by fokker 10y ago|0 comments
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Stripe launches beautiful new stripe.com(stripe.com)
4 points by fokker 10y ago|2 comments
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by fokker 10y ago
Thanks so much!
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Ask HN: Scaling a tech team
1 points by fokker 10y ago|2 comments
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Drastically speed up your iPhone. (Instructions)(facebook.com)
2 points by fokker 10y ago|0 comments
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by fokker 11y ago
Absolutely aware of dilution and all - it's more a matter of principle. I've worked my ass off and surely should have some entitlement to the company of helped build. I was originally offered stock options in a staff pool - but I&
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by fokker 11y ago
I do have some upper-hand in that they simply cannot afford to replace me - they'd need to employ 2-3 new people plus all overheads of getting them up-to-speed with our process, adjusting to team dynamics etc.. Thanks for the advice.
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by fokker 11y ago
Ok cool, this is roughly what I had in mind. Yes, first employee.
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by fokker 11y ago
Just the 2 founders, no investors.
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Ask HN: My employee equity?
6 points by fokker 11y ago|22 comments
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[pdf] a Practical Guide to Free-Energy Devices(free-energy-info.co.uk)
1 points by fokker 12y ago|0 comments
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I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet(theverge.com)
3 points by fokker 12y ago|0 comments
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Some of my fav unix/bash commands.(fokker.svbtle.com)
2 points by fokker 12y ago|0 comments
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Phase-change memory that’s up to 275 times faster than your SSD(extremetech.com)
5 points by fokker 12y ago|0 comments
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Unlimited Public WiFi with Batshit(fokker.svbtle.com)
2 points by fokker 12y ago|0 comments
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Reverse proxy with nginx(fokker.svbtle.com)
1 points by fokker 12y ago|0 comments
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by fokker 12y ago
Stay for the 3-6 months, until you get your stake sorted, then get out in time before the shit hits the fan. Don't bother trying to reconcile relationships, don't get involved in the politics. It's a shame it's turned ou
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by fokker 13y ago
Ye I doubt the greedy guy would settle for a quarter when the other is getting 3..

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