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by iampims 8y ago
Same thing happened when someone noticed a correlation between successful kids and kids who have books at home. Someone ordered that every household should have books at home while failing to realize that correlation != causation…
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This Github repo is a pretty good start to get familiar with distributed systems: https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer
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It’s kind of surprising, I always imagined self driving trucks to be a more profitable business and “easier” challenge.
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A good intro by Rib Pike for those who’d like to learn more about parsers/lexers https://youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE
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mixpanel is neat but gets very expensive very quickly.
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I think many people believe that Kubernetes has won and this where the money is. Big Co’s will be looking for contract support for anything they run on kubernetes.
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GC pauses are a problematic issue for proxies. It’s a lot of work to work around the GC on the JVM, so I’m not surprised to see them move on with Rust. There’s also the JVM stigma, that is difficult to squash. Looking forward to Linkerd2
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Is amazon video their biggest competitor? I’d have thought that Hulu, HBO Go, iTunes and other streaming services might be more popular than Amazon Video. I have no data to back that up though. ps: given that Amazon Video is available for a
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Who’s surprised? They can’t afford to run on their biggest competitor’s platform.
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“GeoMesa is an Apache licensed open source suite of tools that enables large-scale geospatial analytics on cloud and distributed computing systems, letting you manage and analyze the huge spatio-temporal datasets that IoT, social media, tra
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Let’s vote all of the anti-NN out of office, that’s the only leverage we have left.
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C corps require more red-tape around day to day actions, and as a result are generally more expensive to operate.
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I felt like if anything went wrong I'd be in a world of hurt trying to debug it. This is the part very few k8s aficionados mention: how complicated is it to troubleshoot when something goes wrong?
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It’s subsidized by AdSense. Like every Google product.
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I believe they’re referred as “Silent notifications” on iOS. It’s very convenient to update state in the app without having to wait for the user to perform the action manually.
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That’s pretty neat. For my use case, a weekly digest would be enough though.
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I'm surprised that AWS does not offer anything more advanced than RR. For a refresher on some of them, checkout out http://liblb.com
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For Google it makes sense. The faster you resolve DNS, the more webpages with ads you visit. Small price to pay to increase impressions.
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I applaud the efforts to increase privacy,reduce data collection and hardened security. Do we really want a SPOF in Cloudflare for this though? A single outage (or AT&T snafu) and many millions of users would be affected.
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Same, I’ve had a single service run (almost) unchanged since 2009… it just works.
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Launch today and charge money?
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Log compaction is one important feature missing from both Google Pub/Sub and AWS Kinesis streams.
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Disgusting. We need to rethink “privacy and surveillance” in the age of 24/7 cameras and image analysis.
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This happened 10 years ago, and while I don’t doubt there were articles warning you about the dangers of student loans, it probably wasn’t as visible as it is today.
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yeah, I'm also curious what the process is to buy this data.
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It is sad that often, a slightly less appealing .com domain is a better choice than a slick domain on an unreliable tld.
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Scrolling is mostly broken on mobile safari.
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https://hyper.sh aimed to be a CaaS (Container as a service) and Joyent’s Triton as well. It’s an interesting premise, but from the outside both don't have much traction.
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Do you have more info on this?
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Heroku does everything every new platform hopes to achieve and has been doing it for years…

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