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by hintymad 3y ago
This seems a great way for system design interviews. Interviewer: what do you know about transactions? Candidate: Transactions can be serializable. Interviewer: great, tell me the difference between final state serializability and view stat
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by hintymad 3y ago
Murat had an interesting review on a seminal queuing theory book: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2023/09/review-performance-... . It's surprising to me that these experts in distributed systems didn't f
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by hintymad 3y ago
It looks ClickHouse's competitors are catching up quickly. Particularly StarRocks, which was first a fork of Apache Doris and then a rewrite. They claimed to have faster query engines with cost-based optimizers and cross-table joins. I
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by hintymad 3y ago
I'd be happy that I was wrong, as I do hope the US value hardworking in school.
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by hintymad 3y ago
A trajectory question: why do Americans worship toiling so much when it comes to sports, like Kobe Bryant's "have you seen the streets of Los Angeles at 4:00am" were repeated endlessly by the media, but despise toiling in sch
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by hintymad 3y ago
Eh... Because keyword and BM25 do not work that well, especially for enterprise search? Many of us surely complained how bad enterprise search was, right? A company usually has a hodgepodge of documents. They don't link to each other t
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by hintymad 3y ago
> You have forgotten how to focus It could be due to aging. As people age, it gets harder for the body to release dopamine in anticipation of getting something we done, especially for things that we are familiar with. As a result, one lo
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Ask HN: Good magazines or journals about CS and software engineering
5 points by hintymad 3y ago|1 comments
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by hintymad 3y ago
Real-time analytics for human is not that useful. Human can't make decisions and take actions in minutes anyway, let alone seconds. A notable exception can be log analytics for operations, but I'd argue in that case throughput is
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by hintymad 3y ago
Do we know what Hibernate did wrong? It used to be very popular among Java engineers but later seemed have become an obscure technology.
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by hintymad 3y ago
I remember there was heartbreaking posts years ago by an Australian author of a popular Delphi library. He basically said people loves his libraries but few would pay for them, so he gave up developing Delphi libraries all together. Over th
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by hintymad 3y ago
> A company may allow WFH but still prefer people with legal right to work, no language or cultural barriers, no timezone hassles, no tax and accounting complications. If there's a demand, I was wondering if companies will eventuall
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by hintymad 3y ago
> very few people want to do it, and the reason for the exorbitant salaries is because people are paid to basically bang their heads against walls all day in frustration This does not explain why packages in London's IT sector are m
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by hintymad 3y ago
> Talking to users is for PMs, silly! I particularly don't understand why an organization would hire a PM for an internal infra team. It's like hiring a PM for Go to design the features of Go. Funny enough, executives from Goo
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Ask HN: Will WFH hurt income of some software engineers?
6 points by hintymad 3y ago|8 comments
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by hintymad 3y ago
> this straw-man version of a lazy WFH employee I thought performance management was all about managing results. So, I don't quite understand how "lazy WFH employee" could be a management headache.
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by hintymad 3y ago
I'd assume that many authors would not start with copyleft? So, as users of the OSS, we need to choose the ones that have a high chance of staying open.
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by hintymad 3y ago
All the more reason for companies to choose software that a governance body owns, such as Apache and CNCF. A trajectory question: how much has Hashi been steering Terraform? Given that companies, especially those who offer Terraform as a pr
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by hintymad 3y ago
Is this American-specific culture? Athletics seem disproportionately more important in a school than academics or anything else. That's just bizarre. In the country I came from, students who work hard or are good at a subject, any subj
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by hintymad 3y ago
The top items in my wishlist are spreadsheet-like formula anywhere in a gdoc, spreadsheet-like tables, and support of Latex or MathJax. That is, keep up with Quip.
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by hintymad 3y ago
So the idea is that S3 offers practically unlimited throughput, so we can certainly use S3 for a scalable queue? I wish the open-source community could have something competing with S3, but then S3 has made it really hard for companies to h
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by hintymad 3y ago
Is this inevitable, though? How many PMs and directors and ambitious engineers does Google Maps hire? If a company puts someone in a role, that person will do everything to make something happen, right? As for Google Maps, that means more a
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by hintymad 3y ago
In that case, probably a fork, as Netflix used rrdtools extensively before Atlas.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Netflix's Altas, a telemetry services, uses a stack language for querying metrics. The language has a relatively steep learning curve, but once one groks it, it is surprisingly easy to use to compose complex OLAP queries.
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by hintymad 3y ago
> and the elimination of Big Corp's big money political influence. And companies like Google have more than just "big money political influence". YouTube banned discussions on legitimate discussion of Covid and politics in
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by hintymad 3y ago
> I was told (manipulated?) that having things, better cars, better equipment, luxury, wealth, was the right thing to do. When I grew up, I had one pen, one mechanical pencil, one bottle of ink, and etc , at any time. They were enough, a
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by hintymad 3y ago
The cloud may be a prison, but its infra services, specifically EC2+Autoscaling Group, S3, SQS, and DDB, make the cloud a Four-Seasons-like prison. So, what specifically can we do to make local-first at least equality productive for a med-s
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by hintymad 3y ago
I was talking about the general tolerance towards drugs.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Funny. Chinese people were plagued by opium more than a 100 years ago. The Qing government, no matter how corrupted and useless they were, were willing to go to wars with British for fighting opiums. Pictures like this are national stigma e
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by hintymad 3y ago
A good example: I arrived at Budapest's train station. I asked a taxi driver if he'd take me to my hotel. The driver asked me about the address, and said 35 euros. It sounded fishy, so I pulled out Bolt. It turned out it would cos

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