kentonv

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by kentonv 2y ago
Common marketing wisdom is that you need to focus on "solutions" -- what problems does your product solve? As an engineer, though, this isn't what I want to know. I want to know what your product does , and then I will dec
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by kentonv 2y ago
> They aren't getting rid of the Chromecast streaming. I understand that, but the new Chromecast devices and presumably the devices replacing them require you to log into the device before you can even use it as a Chromecast stream
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by kentonv 2y ago
This makes me so sad. The old Chromecast experience -- choose media on phone, play on TV -- is all I ever wanted. I hate using a remote to browse -- my phone is much better. I hate having my TV logged into an account -- my family, kids, gue
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by kentonv 2y ago
I always preferred Q/E to strafe, A/D to turn. But these days, almost no games actually let you bind keys to turn anymore. This makes me sad. Of course I use the mouse for precision turning and aiming. But if I'm just navigat
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by kentonv 2y ago
So many products make email verification optional in order to improve their funnel. But it's a huge security risk, because it leads to bugs like this. Very few engineers and PMs will actually stop to think: "Wait, what if the user
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by kentonv 2y ago
> If they want to compete they need to release their own phone with their own store to sell games for it. This isn't realistic. Nobody wants to carry two phones, and no one will choose to carry Epic's phone instead of Google&#x
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by kentonv 2y ago
> Google claims gRPC with protobuf yields a 10-11x performance improvement over HTTP. That... doesn't make any sense, since gRPC is layered on top of HTTP. There must be missing context here.
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by kentonv 2y ago
Thanks, I was wondering about this. The house pictured obviously isn't a $5M house, and obviously isn't the house you'd build on a $5M property either. Moreover, looking at the area on Zillow, everything is in the 6-digit ran
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by kentonv 2y ago
Those counts have always been wildly inaccurate, to the point that engineers on the team were embarrassed to be displaying them, but product people felt it was important to the user experience anyway so kept it. Nice to see the engineers fi
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by kentonv 2y ago
Everywhere has localized power outages from infrastructure damaged by weather, though. That's not really a Texas thing or realistically preventable...
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by kentonv 2y ago
Isn't this exactly how Doom worked, long before Serious Sam? But Quake went a different direction, sending the client updates about every entity they could see. Which had some benefits (players don't have to be perfectly synchroni
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by kentonv 2y ago
People are exaggerating a bit here. Texas ran out of power in 2021, and before that in 2011. These were totally unacceptable events to be sure, but I'm not sure once every 10 years qualifies as "common". People might be confu
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by kentonv 2y ago
The lines are admittedly fuzzy, but I'd say Cap'n Proto still mostly belongs to me, not Cloudflare. But contributing to someone else's codebase is tricky. A lot of times, it'll take the owner more time to review your con
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by kentonv 2y ago
> Open-sourcing protobuf was most likely not a big cost, and it had benefits for Google (otherwise it would not have been rational to open source it). Nah honestly it was more like I said "Hey I want to open source this!" and o
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by kentonv 2y ago
High density is awesome right up until you have kids and then it's awful. I think a lot of young people who don't have kids have trouble understanding this. If I had no kids I'd love to live in a downtown high rise apartment.
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by kentonv 2y ago
You're saying that highway construction encourages building of new housing, enough to use up all the new highway capacity, but that this doesn't bring down housing costs. This is quite an extraordinary claim that goes against basi
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by kentonv 2y ago
How about you ask people: Would you vote for bonds for a highway expansion that will not really make your commute better but will provide more accessible housing, bringing down housing prices, and thus allow you to have a bigger, nicer home
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by kentonv 2y ago
This is quoted a lot but misunderstood. The conclusion people seem to draw from this is that widening the highway didn't help. This is wrong. 4 lanes of bad traffic travelling at 30mph is still creating twice the value of 2 lanes of ba
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by kentonv 2y ago
> The issue is that incoming requests arrive to a ~random worker in the user's POP, and it looks like each Worker isolate has to re-establish its own TCP/TLS connection to our backend, which takes a long time (~90% of the time)
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by kentonv 2y ago
This didn't sound right to me so I did some investigation and I think I found a bug. Keep in mind that Cloudflare is a complex stack of proxies. When a worker performs a fetch(), that request has to pass through a few machines on Cloud
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by kentonv 2y ago
> kenton - if you’re reading this - learn the latest ECMAScript or Typescript and just go for it! I mean, if I had infinite time, I'd love to! (Among infinite other projects.) But keep in mind Cap'n Proto is not something I put
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by kentonv 2y ago
I wish Google would open up the ability for open source software to act like a Chromecast device, so that all the Chromecast-enabled apps could cast to it. The basic UX of casting video from an app on my phone is the way I want to control m
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by kentonv 2y ago
Thanks! Now I wonder why AMD can't do the same.
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by kentonv 2y ago
I wonder if these open drivers will be permitted to implement HDMI 2.1 (e.g. 8k resolution)? Apparently the HDMI Forum has told AMD they cannot support HDMI 2.1 in their own open source drivers, which infuriatingly means the only way to get
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by kentonv 2y ago
Durable Objects persist at the edge.
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by kentonv 3y ago
Hey that's me! Thanks! I finished the new, bigger, better one a few months ago. (The old one was actually very small -- photo angles are deceiving.) Not published on the internet yet, maybe later this year... Recently held my 28th Annu
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by kentonv 3y ago
Eh... It's a big house but not unprecedented. Apparently 7500 sqft of finished space plus a lot of unfinished basement, on a 3500 sqft footprint[0]. That's like... maybe 2x-3x a "normal" house. But if you look at the fan
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by kentonv 3y ago
> rich assholes who are transplants Matthew Prince actually grew up in Park City and his family has been there for generations, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Prince
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by kentonv 3y ago
I believe you're referring to this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/javascript-native-rpc (Just dropping the link here for anyone else wondering.) (I'm the author of that blog post, and also the tech lead for Workers
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by kentonv 3y ago
Many std library footguns are inherent to the API...

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