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by jsolson 10y ago
Sure, but you can get similar things from Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Storage (Nearline), BigQuery, and Google Cloud DNS.
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by jsolson 10y ago
GCE is just plain old VMs, no Docker involved. There's also GKE which is managed Kubernetes complete with Docker containers. (And yes, I work on the virtual machine monitor backing GCE)
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> I understand that there currently isn't a target for Docker so that takes Google Cloud out of the equation. Google Compute Engine runs a lot more than just Docker images. It allows you to run arbitrary x86 VMs, just like EC2. It i
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by jsolson 10y ago
Honestly, despite years of thinking otherwise, I have absolutely no interest in building a business. Wanted to do the startup thing, tried bootstrapping a mobile app consultancy around 2008, etc. I went entirely broke (after having been a g
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by jsolson 10y ago
Fair enough. My experience didn't take me to AWS, but in retail it was a problem for entire tier 1 services to get resources with VP support, let alone new development/research initiatives. Perhaps Amazon has changed, or AWS is si
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by jsolson 10y ago
Freedom to control what your group works on versus resources (high quality staff, compute, etc.) to effectively pursue that work are very different things.
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US News ranks it #23 of domestic schools. It has top-10 graduate programs in Compute, Mechanical, Electrical, and Environmental engineering with an overall engineering school ranking of #5. It has a top-10 fine arts program (#6). It is weak
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by jsolson 10y ago
I have worked for Amazon (although not in AWS). The compensation was ok at the time, but starting to lag their peers by the time I left (within a year of leaving my comp had a little more than doubled). My understanding is that they've
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I would wager moving from being a tenured private university professor in Pittsburgh to Seattle to work for Amazon for money, even in a VP level role, would be a poor choice. Unfortunately, moving because you believe Amazon will throw resou
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It seems to assume people who read a CS professor's blog or a site called Hacker News will know Carnegie Mellon University, given that it has consistently hosted a top-5 CS program for the last 20+ years.
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I mostly agree. We do have that in the form of static analysis, Status and StatusOr return types, and MUST_USE_RESULT (which is also visible in external codebases like V8). There's still a fair amount of boilerplate, but on the other
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It has improved considerably since the adoption of (much of) C++11. Still no exceptions, though.
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He did hire a professional -- to design his daily uniform. http://gawker.com/5848754/steve-jobs-on-why-he-wore-turtlene...
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Agreed. My point was that it doesn't deal well with "exciting" driving. Given a long stretch of mostly empty interstate highway Autopilot is great (and keeps it suitably boring/low stress). It does miserably in suburban
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That's not really true. It has all of the primitives you need to support PCI graphics devices (or even memory-scraping legacy VGA if you hate yourself). It had all of the primitives you need to do emulated USB on 10.10 -- passthrough i
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I would be absolutely fucking terrified to engage autopilot at all in Mountain View, let alone at 25mph. It's a great feature, but it's a great feature for boring driving.
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Knowing how and putting it into practice are two different things. I know I should eat better and exercise more, and yet here I am eating a scone and not having been on my bike in nearly a month.
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Java applets were problematic. They created a distinct runtime with different degrees of freedom and communications mechanisms than the web, generally. It was a security and interop nightmare. Java as a language that can compile down to J
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Would totally cut it for the casual gamer who plays AAA games, though. Not every gamer who purchases the AAA titles is buying hardware to match them. Many times the question boils down to "is my current hardware good enough"?
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What client workload is actually disk intensive by nature?
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Eh, I had a pretty good ride there myself. I believe every incident in that NY Times article happened. If you were at Amazon for any length of time and didn't notice the existence of toxic teams and the random chance element of being h
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Not yet -- I carry it because I'm required to have chains or an equivalent (the autosock counts) in the vehicle when driving into the mountains in Washington state and British Columbia during winter. Since the Tesla (P85D) is all wheel
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by jsolson 10y ago
> People are going to be putting stuff into the frunk, even stuff that may be really solid and pointy and likely to breach into the cabin in the event of a crash. Others may have different practices, but for my wife and I we put very lit
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by jsolson 10y ago
At work I use exclusively an 11" MacBook Air. One terminal, ssh'd into one tmux session. Typically running emacs in two column mode among many other tmux tabs. I don't get distracted much :)
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Yeah, that becomes apparent pretty early on. Annoyingly, the author refers to "the" compiler and sort of assumes the entire world is on Windows. This turns what would otherwise be a useful but incomplete reference into something m
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A GE90 jet engine like those used in a Boeing 777 can have a power output up to 75 MW. Let's take a fairly beefy phone battery -- 2500 mAh at 3.7 volts. Converting those units into something more useful we get 9.25 Wh. If we assume the
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There are two common ways in which I've seen this happen. In one, the code started simple and evolved in place to accommodate bugs or additional use cases. Some refactoring has happened in the past, and that added some complexity to th
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> You can’t contribute to ejabberd when you work on Hangouts. As a Googler I suspect you could, you'd just need permission (possibly per patch). Googlers contribute to lots of open source projects. Google itself is fairly liberal in
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Giant parking garages for one, yes (which mostly go below ground). Also, many people who work in Seattle live in Seattle. Probably not a majority, but not a small minority either. The rate at which new housing is being constructed in the do
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It's actually because I'm so terrible at remembering certain types of things that I keep so many tabs. They are essentially an accumulation of "what I need to work on" for the next few days or weeks, along with the suppo

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