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by kevinconaway 7y ago
I believe the decision to remove that was forced on them by a lawsuit The following HN thread has more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388833
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Go Turns 10(blog.golang.org)
337 points by kevinconaway 7y ago|223 comments
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Working with Errors in Go 1.13(blog.golang.org)
184 points by kevinconaway 7y ago|114 comments
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Photos taken by the EPA reveal America before pollution was regulated(insider.com)
157 points by kevinconaway 7y ago|62 comments
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Performance Under Load – Adaptive Concurrency Limits Netflix (2018)(medium.com)
2 points by kevinconaway 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevinconaway 7y ago
> With 200 CPU threads (128 CPU cores), I think most startups can run a complex microservice environment on a single machine. Why would you want to? Your whole environment will be down when the machine, or some component thereof, fails
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by kevinconaway 7y ago
David Fahrenthold at the Post won the Pulitzer for his investigative journalism in to Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/washington-po...
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After Trump cites Amazon concerns, Pentagon reexamines $10B cloud contract(washingtonpost.com)
13 points by kevinconaway 7y ago|0 comments
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Pentagon rebukes Oracle as debate over Jedi contract turns caustic(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by kevinconaway 7y ago|0 comments
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Slack’s new desktop app loads 33 percent faster and uses less RAM(theverge.com)
11 points by kevinconaway 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevinconaway 7y ago
I think there is a difference between architectural changes that would inhibit the overall performance of an application vs language specific optimizations like the article is referring to. My comment re write-profile-optimize was geared to
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by kevinconaway 7y ago
Most of these techniques sacrifice readability so before implementing them, you should really profile to make sure that the code in question is a hot spot in terms of allocations or CPU usage. That said, the example using sync.Pool is not q
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by kevinconaway 7y ago
> How many people are willing to spend thousands on an exercise bike? A lot, myself included. My wife and I gave it to each other for Christmas one year, right before our daughter was born. At the time when we were new parents, it was p
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Police use genealogical databases to solve decades old rape and murder(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by kevinconaway 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevinconaway 7y ago
There is sync.Pool [0] but I wouldn't reach for it until you've profiled your application[1] and found that the specific allocation in question is a hot spot. As of now[2], they get cleared when a GC occurs so they can be a bit qu
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by kevinconaway 7y ago
You might have read it here on HN [0] 9 months ago [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17770707
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by kevinconaway 7y ago
Yep [0]. They had cooling issues at one of their data centers that took most of South Central off line for hours to days, depending on the services you were using [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17910916
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by kevinconaway 7y ago
I don't believe those are "altars" in the sense that you're implying, as if people are worshipping him. They are ofrendas [0] which are part of the Day of the Dead celebrations. My understanding is that they are usually
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
> This concept simply cannot scale to an entire economy. Why does it need to?
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
There was a front page story about it in the New York Times last week (in fact there is still a story on the home page below the fold about it [0]) but it got bumped for coverage of the attack in NZ [0] https://www.nytimes.com&#x
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
Isn’t this the guy driving all over Africa in his converted Jeep? I wouldn’t be surprised if he is being sincere about visiting Sudan
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
It makes you wonder about some of the other insightful sounding top comments on topics that you aren't as well versed in
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
> Unless you're in a niche that people are willing to pay a margin for or serve upscale customers who also don't mind paying margins (Costco, Whole Foods, Nordstroms, Apple, etc) Is it fair to lump Costco in with these other co
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
>Ro Khanna is my hometown progressive. So..obviously..I distrust the politician representing us. As someone not from the Bay Area, will you please explain why this is obvious? > Why can’t he do a better job with our multitude of probl
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
You're right, it is a two-way street. Candidates go in to the process hoping to get a job and employees go in to the process hoping to get a co-worker. Both are acting in good faith Most companies disclose what their process is up fr
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
Recruiting is a time consuming task for all involved and for you to casually waste peoples time in that manner is horribly disrespectful
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
> I don't understand people who take a "no thank you" personally, some of the comments are along the lines of: "Ha! sure showed them!" but really it's just like dating, sometimes you get passed up for no oth
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Starwood Guest Reservation Database Security Incident(answers.kroll.com)
1 points by kevinconaway 8y ago|0 comments
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
>Ruby is used in a lot of places where Rails isn't, by a few large companies. And indirectly by many more who use chef
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by kevinconaway 8y ago
> I wouldn't give my dog their chocolate You really shouldn’t give your dog any chocolate. It is considered poisonous to most dogs

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