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geodel
3y ago
But then someone will complain these guys keep talking about themselves :-)
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3y ago
> Indeed, in my own career what I've seen is that if one microservice goes down the user won't be seeing 500 errors or friends Exactly what it does is that first few hours of triage call goes with people claiming "well my
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geodel
3y ago
The way I see is Netflix is mostly sprawling implementation of mediocre Java stack which is typical of large IT department in F500 companies. But their relentless tech marketing and extremely high pay for work which is a wrapper around ente
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geodel
3y ago
I did about something same. If there are 5 services each can fail independently (unlikely but lets assume) and uptime is 99%. Then P(All up at same time) = 0.99^5 which gives any one is down at any moment is 1- 0.99^5 ~5%. So this increase
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geodel
3y ago
It would just mean there are somethings you found confusing but others don't and vice versa. But you come swinging like you have done survey of Fortune 500 companies and Google stood out in naming confusion.
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geodel
3y ago
This frees up innovators to launch their own companies.
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geodel
3y ago
Well, if they could've they would've. Also in unlikely case they could've different thinking about competence than yours.
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geodel
3y ago
Huh, he is the CEO of Google posing with Google's quantum computer. Unless someone is inventing the universe there will always be others' work where ever one poses.
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geodel
3y ago
Exactly right. The way I see is (made up numbers): 1. People in the world - 10 billion 2. People who want to be successful like Swift - 10 million 3. People who have all necessary ingredients to be successful like Swift - 10K 4. People who
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geodel
3y ago
Well the industry analysts and consultants who develop metrics have decided that multiple outages is the way to go as it keeps people on toes more often. And management likes busy people as they are earning their keep.
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geodel
3y ago
Well Amazon CEO himself said, there is no shortcut to experience. I am sure gaining experience in developing infrastructure solution will give you respectable return in long term. Of course Cloud vendors will be happy to sell turnkey soluti
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geodel
3y ago
I see no problem with leveraging best-of-breed terms like learning.
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geodel
3y ago
> I was foolishly just thinking these were people sneaking into train yards at night. That would be theft not robbery.
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geodel
3y ago
Leveraging synergies to provide accelerated experience in rapidly changing customer marketplace to become thoughtiest of all thought leaders...blah..blah..
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geodel
3y ago
So wants have increasingly overtaken needs. I agree with one 750K house will be more profitable but it won't be that simple because once demand is aggregated selling 50 3x priced homes would quite a bit more difficult then selling 150
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geodel
3y ago
Sliding because features of housing keep increasing. Things that were luxury few decades back and still in most parts of the world are part of an economy house in US.
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geodel
3y ago
I read a point about lowering activation energy on JDK website about making language more approachable. Though Zig is lower level language and much of use for typical enterprise devs like me it does have vibe of low activation energy. I f
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geodel
3y ago
So what people will do after saving time by fast travel using maglev. I would've guessed spending time on leisure, food, shopping, entertainment. But since it is China all saved time will go towards spiritual fulfillment not consumeris
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geodel
3y ago
Well, when a rather dumb software like JIRA can control a million highly skilled IT workers I don't think human-level AI is near or far will make much of difference to majority of world population.
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geodel
3y ago
Wow, two awesome bowls of Pad Thai under 100 dollars with no human interaction. Sign me up!
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geodel
3y ago
Seems reasonable on one hand but also desperate that one does want to eat in restaurant but unable to follow their social rules.
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geodel
3y ago
> This energy was "free" in an ICE, Does that mean it comes from burning gasoline and it can be filled quickly anyway. Or that heating cabin is byproduct of running engine while driving?
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geodel
3y ago
Right, it is always that vast right wing conspiracy .
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geodel
3y ago
Well a century is hardly a long time unless someone think that 1987 was deadline or some such. And even during failing only few bemoan, large number of people adjust to new/worse reality.
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geodel
3y ago
Yes. The amount of digital data will be like, I don't know, 10 order of magnitude more than paper content. So I think archiving even 0.00001% for long term maybe tall order.
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3y ago
This is extremely impressive. With about no support from software industries' heavy hitters, they are able to run quite successful foundation and project. Few days back there was topic "Rust contributor's burnout" here o
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geodel
3y ago
Phone hardware most likely would've turned to crap in 3-4 years. But if one does keep it up and running despite all odds for 7 years they can keep it secure. I guess its great.
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geodel
3y ago
Maybe its time to leave the community then.
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geodel
3y ago
So basically UnPreparing for war.
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geodel
3y ago
True. I think it is news in same sense that they got hired for jobs that paid hundreds of thousand dollars. Maybe a those truck drivers making 50K/ year really want to know about SV's best and the brightest. After all once truck d
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