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by gabbo 11y ago
As jbeda mentions, hardware errors are one big reason: with the scale S3/Azure/GCS/Backblaze operate at it's a matter of when and not if you're going to run into problems. Also: TLS may guarantee the bits your clien
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How Playing the Long Game Made Elizabeth Holmes a Billionaire(inc.com)
3 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 11y ago
This is crazy. It would be like choosing America to head up the UN Social Welfare Commission. (edit: this was meant to be a mildly sarcastic zinger, if it wasn't clear)
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The Tail at Scale (2013)(cacm.acm.org)
1 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments
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CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed (2012)(infoq.com)
57 points by gabbo 11y ago|4 comments
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by gabbo 11y ago
There's no real need to be running your cache in-process with your GC'd implementation language. Fundamentally there's no need , but in-memory caching may still be the right choice. As always, there are tradeoffs. St
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by gabbo 11y ago
Good article which touches on real issues that a lot of developers won't really appreciate themselves until it happens to them (unless they have a strong background in distributed systems theory, and maybe even not then). A little st
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Paxos Quorum Leases: Fast Reads Without Sacrificing Writes [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)
1 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 11y ago
I almost entirely agree with you, just wanted to add a bit more colour to your comments on Canada and Saudi Arabia. Canada is clearly in recession but I don't think we can call it a "serious" recession yet. So far more of a m
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by gabbo 11y ago
Saudi can just borrow money to help ride things out, their debt-to-GDP is incredibly low (like 3%). That got up to 100% in the early 90s, IIRC, when government revenues had been hurt by a protracted period of lower oil prices.
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A YC-backed startup is trying to “solve” Wall Street's millennial problem(businessinsider.com)
1 points by gabbo 11y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 11y ago
It really depends. The numbers aren't huge life-changing at the beginning, but they add up over time and if you're really strong^H^H^H^H^Hlucky^H^H^H^H^Hshrewd and get promoted quickly, the numbers can get pretty large. The number
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by gabbo 11y ago
Amazon makes extensive use of capital leases support their expansion. In 2014 they were roughly on par with their other capex (in the $4B-5B range, don't remember exact number), except that their capital leases don't deduct from
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by gabbo 12y ago
No, monopolies aren't necessarily illegal in the USA. But they can be depending on the behavior of a monopolist. From http://www.girardgibbs.com/antitrust-monopoly/ : > Monopolies are illegal if they are estab
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by gabbo 12y ago
Your point may be valid, but the math is a little off. If you're an H1B holder going through the employment-based green card process (which could take anywhere from months to 10+ years), you can extend your H1B beyond the 6 year cutoff
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by gabbo 12y ago
Microsoft is hiring plenty. Go to https://careers.microsoft.com/search.aspx and search for software engineering jobs, the result is "only the first 500 results are shown." Broad layoffs like what Microsoft did oft
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by gabbo 12y ago
You can get TNs good for 1 year or 3, but you can technically renew your TN status as many times as you want. The downside is that TN status is strictly for people with "non-immigrant intent" and if a border agent believes you hav
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by gabbo 12y ago
Nit: Dunning-Kruger is actually when you're bad but don't realize it. I think you mean "Impostor syndrome," where you're good but feel like an unskilled fraud. :)
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by gabbo 12y ago
In all but the most special/uncommon cases it's likely to take more than months (unless you also consider 9-12 months to be a matter of months). I know many, many engineers who have gone through the US immigration process. Some ha
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by gabbo 12y ago
Brewing coffee is all about extracting good tasting stuff from ground coffee beans - some factors which affect extraction include: Water temperature (hotter water => more extraction) Grind size (finer grind => more extraction)
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by gabbo 12y ago
I have the same grinder recommended by devindotcom ( http://www.amazon.com/Porlex-JP-30-Stainless-Coffee-Grinder/... ) for work/travel and it's awesome. Another recommendation on the brewing is the AeroPress (
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Secret Raises $25 million at over $100 million valuation(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by gabbo 12y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 12y ago
You can do better by taking advantage of the fact that the lists are already sorted. O(n1 + n2) time, where n1 and n2 are the sizes of the original lists and O(n1 + n2) space for the output. The "trick" is to iteratively merge you
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by gabbo 12y ago
FPGAs are something you tell what to be, not what to do (and high level languages tell CPUs what to do, not what to be). That's a really great way of putting it. I never thought of it that way before, but you're spot o
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iOS designer switches to Android: 'It’s Death By A Thousand Cuts'(businessinsider.com)
2 points by gabbo 12y ago|0 comments
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Job Listing: '$40K a Year to Attend Harvard University as Me'(theatlantic.com)
2 points by gabbo 12y ago|1 comments
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by gabbo 12y ago
Hiring is really hard, but from anecdotal experience and hearsay, I still think the number of Canadian tech workers leaving for the US is a depressingly major factor. A large number of my ambitious Canadian peers ended up moving to the US,
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by gabbo 12y ago
As someone who keeps tabs on the poutine and labour markets back home, I can vouch for everything you said. I don't even live in CA/NY (so my gross pay multiple isn't quite as high, but income net tax/cost of living is p
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Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries(online.wsj.com)
229 points by gabbo 12y ago|170 comments
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Microsoft deprecates Hotmail-based custom domain e-mail service(liveside.net)
1 points by gabbo 13y ago|0 comments

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