jakozaur

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by jakozaur 11y ago
Rule of thumb: Divide number of full-time backend engineers by 5 and you get ideal number of microservices :-). Too many microservices is a complexity mess, too little means you have a monolith that is hard to iterate on.
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Scala and Play is a great choice. Another good Scala framework is Lift: http://liftweb.net/ If JVM is not a must, consider using Meteor.
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by jakozaur 11y ago
I use Sumo Logic and their Log Reduce feature. That automatically aggregates exception patterns. That eliminates duplicates and gives nice summary: https://www.sumologic.com/resource/featured-videos/demo-sumo... D
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by jakozaur 11y ago
One of the example of startup that is huge success in Europe, but in USA similar models aren't that successful (Zimride pivoted to Lyft, Ridejoy closed).
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by jakozaur 11y ago
4 / 6 PayPal founders built bombs for kicks in High School: http://valleywag.gawker.com/peter-thiel-admits-the-paypal-ma... <irony>That's even more dangerous thank just those joke. I guess the world would be
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Great step! I wonder how it translate into action: 1. Lack of degree will not be a filter, but you need to be genius if you don't have it. 2. Lack of degree is a setback, but still can get through. 3. Just consider skills, interview&#x
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Lesson for government: Software is not a typical infrastructure project (e.g. bridge). It is almost impossible to specify all requirement upfront. That's why waterfall methodology is prone to spectacular failures. Training government o
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Reads like a PR written article. Yes online courses are real, but article almost solely focus on Udacity and its success story. This is much broader trend (coursera, teamtreehouse etc.). There are also some obstacles (motivation, huge enrol
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Yay. More peering at Internet Exchanges makes internet faster and cheaper. Europe has the lowest effective cost of bandwidth: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...
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by jakozaur 11y ago
UK, Germany and Poland grown since 2007: https://www.google.pl/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&c... Poland grown 47% in GDP PPP between 2007 to 2015. Much more than USA (14%).
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Almost all European countries have high level proficiency in English: http://www.ef.pl/epi/ The challenge is that still a lot of things are distributed (you are vastly more likely to read your national news, shop at na
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Why not use a UserTesting on Peek to figure that out? :-P Sounds like a great opportunity to drink your own champagne.
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Federal Bank already owns more USA debt than any other country: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/us-federal-debt... http://qz.com/384232/guess-who-holds-even-more-us-debt-than-... At w
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by jakozaur 11y ago
This guy is awesome. We should have more that kind of funds. 0.75% yearly expense ratio: http://www.etf.com/HACK The whole finance could be disrupted if funds will charge less and less for commission. I believe anything ove
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Not really. I'm not sure if you consider taxes: 60k euro gross is 34k euro net (2.8k euro/month). http://www.parmentier.de/steuer/steuer.htm?wagetax.htm Also to pay 60k euro it will cost 21% more. So the full
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by jakozaur 11y ago
There were so many critical vulnerabilities attributed to that... and in spite of putting tons of measures this is still potential danger. I knew projects decided to use Java instead of C++ (which got array boundary checks) mostly to limit
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Good direction. I wonder how it compares to using OpenCV other on top of much nicer API and doing everything yourself.
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Got similar experience. Writing your first extension for Chrome is reasonable easy, but it is nightmare for Firefox. I'm glad developers (Edge, Firefox) copy the good model, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. Even without strict
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Nice trick, though not that practical. 1% of oversee spending may be to little benefit for the cost: 1. Get more than one card with zero foreign transaction fees. Make sure you won't get charged yearly fee on those. 2. On every transac
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Meanwhile S&P 500 is also failing: https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXSP:.INX 46 days ago, I suggested that China slowdown may have global impact: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9851214 I'
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by jakozaur 11y ago
I believe one of the tricker question is whether your revenue is truly recurring. E.g. you may say consulting services or just charge monthly support subscription. Especially in short term it is easy to convince yourself that it is recurrin
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Request for startup: Make the AWS for algorithmic trading. Strategies are not that hard, but it would be awesome if someone did hard infrastructure work and provide nice API. So the only thing you need to do is to upload some code and wire
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by jakozaur 11y ago
China is devaluing yuan for quite a while, but usually more smoothly. Will this that do the trick or there is problem in fundamentals? Like debt is growing too fast comparing to rest of the economy. Moreover, will China start making transit
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Time and priorities. There is a difference between "I wish this thing existed, so I can use it/contribute to it" and "I need it so badly that I'm willing to spend a lot of time to make it production ready". So
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Open-source library request: A library that lets you use S3 and Google Storage Cloud simultaneously and fail-back to another if one have problems. There are many use-case when paying 2x for storage is a reasonable tradeoff for higher availa
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Both sides would be fare better off if they came to out of court agreement and sell domain to Nissan Motors. 1. This is not usual cybersquating, a legitimate, but far less popular business. 2. Given Nissan Motors financials, paying few mln
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Starting from Europe is reasonable workaround: https://www.regalii.com/blog/why-do-the-best-fintech-startup...
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Also if you run on production scale it is worth investing in log tooling. It's so much easier if you can search what has happened instead of guessing. Also customer experience is much better if you tell them that is fixed instead of as
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by jakozaur 11y ago
Kudos for being honest! I have the highest respect for detailing the real reason instead of generic "awesome journey". Moreover, being acquired by SVB sounds way better than average acquihire. You actually can execute your idea, b
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by jakozaur 11y ago
I believe it doesn't matter for 95%+ of users. EC2 is used to run production services with sensitive data. Most Android/iOS testing is done with made up data, without privileged access to production. So even if it get compromised,

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