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PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B(techcrunch.com)
313 points by i0exception 7y ago|177 comments
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Sampling – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly(medium.com)
2 points by i0exception 7y ago|0 comments
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by i0exception 7y ago
Most people who joined in 2015 were getting RSUs and not options. Also, the strike price on options is dependent on the 409A valuation and not the valuation at which they raised money.
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Sampling – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly(medium.com)
2 points by i0exception 7y ago|0 comments
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Sampling – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly(medium.com)
1 points by i0exception 7y ago|0 comments
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by i0exception 7y ago
1. The US issues approximately 1M greencards every year - employment based petitions are around 10% of that number 2. The bill does a gradual rollout of eliminating the cap - so most people who have already applied for a green card and are
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by i0exception 7y ago
Kafka can probably guarantee exactly ones semantics on publishing (conditions apply). It definitely cannot guarantee exactly once semantics on the consumer and processing side. Imagine a scenario where you receive a message from Kafka and p
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Map Iteration in Go(medium.com)
2 points by i0exception 7y ago|0 comments
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by i0exception 7y ago
We don't run a TSDB. A TSDB doesn't work for the kinds of queries we run - specifically, TSDBs don't work if you want to * analyze every datapoint you receive * when the dimensional cardinality is high * you want to a
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by i0exception 7y ago
Disclaimer: Not the author, but I was on the team that migrated our infrastructure to GCP. As a startup with limited resources, it's important for us to invest all our engineering strength into the things that create direct value for o
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Safely Rewriting Mixpanel’s Highest Throughput Service in Golang(engineering.mixpanel.com)
9 points by i0exception 7y ago|0 comments
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Analyzing GitHub data for engineering insights(engineering.mixpanel.com)
2 points by i0exception 7y ago|0 comments
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Data Deduplication at Scale(engineering.mixpanel.com)
84 points by i0exception 7y ago|11 comments
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by i0exception 7y ago
Being on-call/carrying the pager for a complex and unstable distributed system is a great way to understand how to build a good one. Building a distributed system isn't hard per-se. It's almost always the non-determinism and
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by i0exception 7y ago
We try to avoid microservices wherever possible. If we're adding something new, it typically starts off as part of the service being deployed - either as a container within the pod (we use kubernetes) or as a library that the code can
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by i0exception 7y ago
Averages are a little misleading because pretty much everyone touches python only about half the engineering team uses it as their primary programming language. I don't have the median number of commits or lines per commit handy - but
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by i0exception 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Mixpanel We have a monorepo and I imported our entire commit history into Mixpanel - https://twitter.com/i0exception/status/1010663994435067904 As you can see, over the last 3 years, we'
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by i0exception 8y ago
If anyone's interested in writing and testing their code for this - https://www.spoj.com/problems/MUL/
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Slack Taps Goldman Sachs to Lead IPO(reuters.com)
103 points by i0exception 8y ago|107 comments
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Cloudera and Hortonworks agree to merge(twitter.com)
7 points by i0exception 8y ago|1 comments
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by i0exception 8y ago
I'm surprised that GKE is not included in the list of "Good"s. Managed kubernetes has been a game changer for us.
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SurveyMonkey confidentially files for IPO(reuters.com)
6 points by i0exception 8y ago|0 comments
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150-Year Wait for Indian Immigrants with Advanced Degrees(cato.org)
4 points by i0exception 8y ago|1 comments
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Some common traps while using defer(medium.com)
1 points by i0exception 9y ago|0 comments
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Runtime overhead of using defer in go(medium.com)
1 points by i0exception 9y ago|0 comments
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by i0exception 9y ago
His use of b.N is correct. The code you have is simply multiplying N by 100 with the inner for loop - so your times are 100x of what each "concat" operation (+,WriteString) takes. You are also allocating a new string/buffer&#
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by i0exception 9y ago
I really hope they use some of this money to better screen dashers and improve customer support. We used to order lunch on Doordash once a week till things got so bad that we decided never to use Doordash again. Orders would regularly have
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Dropbox S-1(sec.gov)
629 points by i0exception 9y ago|378 comments
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by i0exception 9y ago
That's like saying if everyone maxes out their health insurance, insurance companies will go out of business. In any given year, not everyone is going to use the ~$8000 allocated to them. Also, healthcare in India is cheap. $8000 goes
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Some thoughts on testing in Go(medium.com)
1 points by i0exception 9y ago|0 comments

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