g9yuayon

16 ms·

181.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
Many comments below focus on failures with a single startup. I think it misses the point. Working for startups is risky, but the key is to build a system that increases your accumulated probability of success -- this is exactly why it'
182.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
Startup is not a lottery. Working for startup is risky, but the key is to build a system that increases your accumulated probability of success -- this is exactly why it's important to live in the bay area and work for some startups th
183.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
What the author said was a typical challenge in big enough company. Big companies over hire as time goes by, and the number of teams eventually outgrows the quantity of work. As a result, you have meetings all day to align, to coordinate, a
184.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
Maybe it's because Fowler's target readers are developers of enterprise software who are not familiar with distributed systems at all, and Fowler's background is not in distributed system either. Therefore, he chose to use co
185.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
I remember there was a huge discussion about Prop 13 on HN. IIRC, people passed Prop 13 because 1. California government double taxed; 2. Inflation was crazy and people believed that it was cruel that retirees had to leave the home they had
186.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
Is there any evidence that people criticized Yellen because she is a woman?
187.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
I can accept that they ran out of cash. It's just like a company running out of servers when traffic spiked. On the other hand, moralizing their decision and citing misinformation and user-caring erodes trust.
188.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
Yeah, you're right. I think this article lacks specifics, but they did mention capital requirements. I was referring to their previous blog entry: https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-cu
189.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
This sounds the real reason that RH limits the trading of a number of stocks today? If so, why didn't they give this straightforward reason? Instead, they resorted to vague excuses like misinformation and "for your own good".
190.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
I doubt it. Robinhood is now citing misinformation as the reason to "protect its users". Misinformation and disinformation are really the weapons of mass destruction. Cite it, and you get your superpower. Twitter does it. FB does
191.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
I don't know if there's any communication protocol with eye contact. People were so afraid of persecution that they used only eye contact to exchange feelings, or so I read. One may argue that it's different this time aforeme
192.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
Robinhood phrased their message as if it was for user's own good. Moralizing everything beyond protocol and rules and law has serious consequences. It does nothing but driving people cynical. Didn't the elites learn the stories of
193.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
I thought Stallman created GPL so software can be "free as in speech". It's another dimensional of ideology, and respectably so. It, however, has nothing do with whether it is moral for AWS to host an Apache-licensed open-sou
194.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
So your company cautiously chooses which services in AWS to use, and sticks to infrastructure offerings for now. Netflix called it "paved path", and it worked really well too for Netflix. Over the years, though, the "paved pa
195.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
Does FOSS mandate that anything and everything must be open sourced? Richard Stallman holds this belief that all software should be free as in speech, but is such belief universally held? Or simply put, did MS violate any license at all? An
196.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
Chinese has a saying, which I don't know how to translate: 升米恩，斗米仇。It roughly means that you give a starving man a bowl of rice, he will be grateful; if you continue to give the same man a bag of rice for him to live better, he will ha
197.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
Parsing is frontend of a compiler. That the compiler course focuses on compiler backend does not mean it's not relevant to the industry. I personally find aliasing, flow analysis, and and optimization very relevant to what we needed to
198.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
I'm not sure. Most of us voted the same group of politicians year in and year out, right? It looks we lost check and balance years ago, but that's voters' choice, no?
199.
by g9yuayon 6y ago
> Classes are only a fraction of the in-person university experience in the USA today. I guess it really depends on the type of student. If I were a college student now, classes alone indeed are a fraction of the in-person university exp
200.
by g9yuayon 7y ago
Sometimes it's all about priority. I can't speak for the author and I don't know what the author needs, but my experience tells me, again and again, using cloud services is all about productivity, and people tend to underesti
201.
by g9yuayon 7y ago
This sounds like mobs in the French revolution. You don't agree with my political view, so you deserve the guillotine. And people do this all in the name of justice and righteousness.
202.
by g9yuayon 7y ago
It's interesting BBC noticed so called four great sorceries of Asia (亚洲四大邪术). Applying digital makeup to someone to the point that his or her mama couldn't recognize the person is certainly one of them.
203.
by g9yuayon 7y ago
I feel sick to my stomach. I give tips specifically to the drivers, yet those companies took a cut without even telling the drivers. A so-called high-tech company behaves like a rogue restaurant owner. How low can we go?
204.
by g9yuayon 7y ago
Thinking colleges don't matter at all in tech is another extreme. It's like saying one should not go to college at all because Carmack didn't and was very successful. Not everyone is autodidactic. Many people do need structur
205.
by g9yuayon 7y ago
Of course they understand economics. They just don't think it matters or don't care as long as their constituents support them. Well, their constituents do support them -- it's easy peasy anyway. People in California hate Rep
206.
by g9yuayon 8y ago
Isn't this simple supply and demand? The housing price is too high? Build more houses or apartments. Yet San Francisco authorities tried every possible way to suppress supply: rent control and all kinds of regulations, to say the least
207.
by g9yuayon 8y ago
Companies should jointly give CIFAR a big fat award too. :-D Without CIFAR's 10 million dollars back in 2003 to the research groups of 15 people, led by Hinton, the research groups may have dissolved due to lack of funding, and our his
208.
by g9yuayon 8y ago
Netflix gives every engineer the same title: Senior Software Engineer. That worked out beautifully: everyone focuses on getting things done and doing the right things. One's total package depends on how important this person is to her
209.
by g9yuayon 8y ago
People seem have forgotten the productivity loss of running their own data center. When I was in my previous company, most of things are just excruciating compared with what I enjoyed in Netflix. Dockers did not come with persistent volumes
210.
by g9yuayon 8y ago
You're right. It's reasonable to argue that Google should or shouldn't respect Chinese laws, and I never implies that Google has a moral obligation to Chinese people. I just want to point out the hypocrisy in the argument tha

More ›