gmmeyer

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by gmmeyer 6y ago
Well, either that or DNS
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by gmmeyer 6y ago
This article seems to mix up AMD and ARM
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by gmmeyer 6y ago
I've never had slack lose a message when it's up
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by gmmeyer 6y ago
Slack and the others have different contractual guarantees and different regulatory environments. Comparing them is not really fair because the reality is that these other services probably just lose tons of messages and slack/teams ca
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by gmmeyer 6y ago
There's no need to rewrite a system that works and that you're not gonna change. While programming languages go out of fashion there will always be people who are capable of writing them. The median age of a cobol programmer has n
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by gmmeyer 6y ago
This looks so good, especially the fake monitor effects
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by gmmeyer 7y ago
Busses are great in NYC. I take them regularly. They are nice and clean and fairly quick. They're not always as fast as Uber but they're much cheaper, so you have a tradeoff. And, sometimes they are faster than Uber, since they ha
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by gmmeyer 7y ago
same I have never had an issue
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by gmmeyer 7y ago
I'm sure shareholders will sue, because they try to turn everything into a violation of securities law. But securities law shouldn't be the only way to regulate companies imo
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by gmmeyer 7y ago
Integrating through a database or other data source is a time tested method of linking together services. For some services in critical paths that might not be the best way to do it but the pattern you've described here sounds pretty n
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by gmmeyer 7y ago
It's a bit hagiographic, but it's overall a very good book.
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by gmmeyer 7y ago
what's your favorite standard that you've read?
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by gmmeyer 7y ago
It's what Spotify did, I think it's a decent question but it also allows for liquidity, especially since it's such a big part of comp it's not unreasonable to list
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by gmmeyer 7y ago
This is gonna be some racist bs
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
yea this is just standard
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
What's wrong with RPMs?
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
It was a study that was retracted: https://qz.com/1222744/mits-uber-study-couldnt-possibly-have... She probably never heard about the retraction, it got a lot less press than the original study
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
Oh yea they're evil. I have no compunction about saying that
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
Message queues (or similar things like Kafka, which isn't quite a proper "message queue") are used for basically everything at this scale. Messages are being passed indirectly. An event happens, it gets popped on a queue, and
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
Last time Tumblr broke out the numbers porn was 11% of the biggest blogs. More than 1 out of 10 blogs is a porn blog. That's a huge portion of their user base and will likely cause it to totally crash.
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
I really couldn't roll my eyes harder at this. Yes, they're not building a distributed system. But they can do things that make them feel like they're solving problems.
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
Yea that's a part of the string theoretic calculation, that some of these higher dimensions are different than the three we're accustomed to. They're curved and swirled and weird. It's pretty unclear that they're re
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
Don't forget about race.
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
Whose life has been endangered by this? Art heists are many things, but they rarely seem to be very dangerous except in movies
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by gmmeyer 8y ago
that is terrifying!
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by gmmeyer 9y ago
They went up on the app stores over the last week
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by gmmeyer 9y ago
this is one of the greatest articles I've ever read on the internet
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by gmmeyer 9y ago
Craigslist has an amazing interface. It's so easy to use. It's ugly, but who cares! I don't care if it's pretty. It does exactly what I want. There was a great article on this a few years ago that I think is perfect: ht
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by gmmeyer 9y ago
you misspelled best, though it needs to have flaming skulls follow your mouse pointer around to be really great

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