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by kevinconaway 9y ago
Per the GAO report[0] > According to Army officials, the delay in distributing the software from the United States to all Patriot locations was due to the time it took to arrange for air and ground transportation in a wartime environment
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
You can even use it to make a great pie crust https://www.cooksillustrated.com/articles/37-foolproof-pie-d...
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
The issue at hand is how LinkedIn defines “public”. From the public profile settings page the author linked: > Select what shows via searches on Bing, Google, etc. as well as on public profile badges and permitted services like Outlook,
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
> We have a saying here in Spain: from swine, even the gait. The American version is “everything but the oink”
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
Thanks for the writeup Sean. I've been interested in pony since I read about here on HN a while back. I have a question on this quote > The standard JVM garbage collection strategy is “stop the world.” That is, when the JVM needs t
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
> see e.g. Stuxnet taking out Iran's nuclear program using a previously unknown method of generating SHA-1 collisions, that looked kind of like how the academic community knew to generate collisions but with a different fingerprint)
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
Two large projects that I know of are CockroachDB and Influxdb A quick glance seems to indicate that cockroachdb takes about 9 minutes [1] and infuxdb about 15 minutes [2] [1] https://teamcity.cockroachdb.com/viewLog.html?bu
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
Although its not part of Zookeeper core, there is an Apache Curator module[1] for doing service discovery on Zookeeper [1] https://curator.apache.org/curator-x-discovery/
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
After an initial phone screen, we give candidates a short programming exercise that they can complete on their own time. We feel that engineers work best when they have time to think about a problem and work on it at their own pace with th
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Walmart's big Jet.com purchase is paying off(axios.com)
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by kevinconaway 9y ago
> asking for monotonic time His anecdote about Google/Amazon using leap smears to solve the problem is telling. I suspect that they were unable to see outside their own bubble to think about how others may be impacted. > We did