johanj

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by johanj 2mo ago
One of my former colleagues wrote this on how Uber approached the same CPU-quota throttling problem, but with dedicated CPUs as the solution: https://www.uber.com/dk/en/blog/avoiding-cpu-throttling-in-a... Es
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by johanj 3y ago
They hired the Emmett Shear (Twitch co-founder) as a new interim CEO: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968848/openai-new-ceo-...
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by johanj 4y ago
The contract details are outlined in the blog post. Depending on the number of hours worked to fix some issues, it is likely fair. > Contract terms were roughly as follows: > * Uber reports issues to github.com/ziglang&#x
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by johanj 5y ago
@dang: Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30011382 https://curl.se/mail/archive-2022-01/0043.html
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by johanj 5y ago
Both are subsidiaries of Google, not Alphabet.
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by johanj 5y ago
Yes, the codename for Windows Vista was Longhorn.
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by johanj 6y ago
Part 2 of the videos mentions that Notch replied, saying that he doesn’t remember where the image is from, and that it’s likely coming from a world generated with a random seed.
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Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm [video](youtube.com)
5 points by johanj 8y ago|1 comments
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by johanj 8y ago
The press release: Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion: https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-g...
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by johanj 8y ago
Direct link to recode.net: https://www.recode.net/2018/5/31/17390030/uber-ceo-dara-khos...
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by johanj 8y ago
robots.txt is really only supposed to be used for blocking the Internet Archives first snapshot, and not to remove existing snapshots – and even this might not be the case in the future as they try to preserve most snapshots. They made a fe
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by johanj 8y ago
Many people are using leader/follower instead of master/slave.
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by johanj 9y ago
It was only just made public today at the trySwift conference where an Apple engineer working on Swift NIO presented a talk.
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by johanj 9y ago
Really? It’s been discussed a lot on various podcasts, on Twitter and I’ve heard multiple people IRL talk about that use case and the slightly annoyance it is with the iPhone X. It is pretty common for spouses to have a finger added on thei
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by johanj 9y ago
Unfortunately only High Sierra gets Intelligent Tracking Prevention: https://twitter.com/rmondello/status/911066050556436482 Still a good release though.
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by johanj 9y ago
Besides lacking some other features (as mentioned in another comment), it is worth noting that even though it’s using the same SoC it is clocked lower at 1.1 GHz vs the iPhone 6’s 1.4 GHz. (Source: https://browser.geekbench.com&#
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by johanj 9y ago
Interesting. I had the opposite perception. Most Europeans I know (Scandinavians, Germans, Dutch, British) prefer subtitles on movies (even when they are foreign non-English movies), whereas the impression I have gotten of Americans through
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by johanj 9y ago
He has commented on that saying that it isn't very common in the electronics markets, particularly for one-offs or low volume. Apparently you can only really start haggling once you're buying 100+ of something.
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by johanj 10y ago
Then he'll make his email or other contact information available in some manner.