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by mayank 6y ago
Yes, my bad. I meant arrow functions.
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by mayank 6y ago
Unfortunately, the language has changed so much in recent years that I wouldn’t necessarily recommend that book anymore. A large number of fundamental features have been introduced since 2008, including async/await, lambda functions, c
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by mayank 6y ago
I think you may be reading too much into it. I for one found the comment informative because it contained the price tag. HN may be serious, but we're not entirely humorless.
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by mayank 6y ago
> Monorepo would be a pain to break. It's generally acknowledged in technical circles that antitrust action is a highly effective way to break up a monorepo.
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by mayank 6y ago
Been playing Civ since Civ 1. Unfortunately, 6 was a bit of a miss in my opinion. Civ 5 is still as addictive as nicotine.
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by mayank 6y ago
> Some people never do research again after completing a Ph.D. For such people, the Ph.D. was largely a waste of time I'm in this camp (haven't published since I graduated and joined industry), and I also strongly disagree with
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by mayank 6y ago
> Yes, you’re paying for a ton of stuff there that you probably don’t use This is the antithesis of any cloud. You only pay for what you use. > At $5B it would not cost anywhere near that much to replicate. If you can recreate GCP for
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by mayank 6y ago
You’re not paying Google $5B for raw infra, you’re paying for cloud services like top-tier horizontally scalable databases, global availability, CDNs, datastores of different flavors, and transparently managed monitoring and hardware fault
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by mayank 6y ago
In that sense, any sort of client-originated telemetry is spyware. And there’s an awful lot of that, starting with ICMP.
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by mayank 6y ago
> I got about two hours into this and my account was deactivated, one of the cloud engineers sent me a truly nasty email saying that bitcoin mining is not allowed on google cloud and I should stop abusing resources and being so irrespons
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by mayank 6y ago
Ouch. That's bad alright.
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by mayank 6y ago
> But I simply could not proceed with my code as is, a very frustrating experience to say the least. How is this even possible? As a team lead, I'm sure you know...bugs happen. What sort of internal error was it causing? Something s
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by mayank 6y ago
It's quite weird that a Google blog post about a highly technical product doesn't include a link to the actual technical details: https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/concepts/overview
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by mayank 6y ago
The wikipedia page has a bunch of sources in the references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos_Capital
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by mayank 6y ago
I deal with a 40k line Terraform codebase. I love the idea of a more expressive language for infrastructure (and unit tests, validations, etc.), and even wrote a tiny JS library a long time ago for generating TF 0.11 from JS [1] However, th
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by mayank 7y ago
This is a replacement for walk, not glob.
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by mayank 7y ago
You should absolutely get "Masters of Doom", which is exactly about the early days of id and how they build Keen, Wolf3d, and Doom. A really great read that sort of gives you a real-world "Halt and Catch Fire"-vibed stor
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by mayank 7y ago
Could you elaborate? :) Because otherwise, you're possibly sending the same message as what I alluded to (i.e., we feel great because we're expecting a big exit).
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by mayank 7y ago
> 1) we own physical servers and 2) we're profitable 3) have big public companies as customers Ironically, these also make you a prime acquisition target (because the product idea rocks), which renders your long-term future unclear
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Tell HN: Your old Yahoo Mail emails are probably gone
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by mayank 7y ago
Interesting, I haven’t seen options for those. I’ll check in the settings tomorrow, thanks!
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by mayank 7y ago
It's a little unfortunate that the FAQ doesn't address the "hey, I didn't take that but you billed me for it!" issue. How will the store adjudicate disputes? Video replays of the item being put in the cart?
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by mayank 7y ago
Face recognition is not really used here. It's more object detection and tracking, along with a bunch of other tricks (based on visiting the Go store in SF).
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by mayank 7y ago
> It's pretty bad and seems to bounce left and right between the lanes. 2019 Audi SQ5, exact same problem, had to disable it too. I really wonder if these non-Tesla manufacturers are getting pre-fab'd chipsets from the same pla
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by mayank 7y ago
The little panels and answers you see in Google Search are powered by the Google Knowledge Graph [1]. [1] https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph
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by mayank 7y ago
How about dignity and care instead?
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by mayank 7y ago
For #3, you may want to include guest engineering blog posts shared to highscalability [1]. There are sometimes growth hints and stats included in the posts. http://highscalability.com/blog/category/example
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by mayank 7y ago
It’s more like 10+ years but your point is a good one. Hard to grow trees when you keep cutting off the saplings.
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by mayank 7y ago
Or Burning Man...
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by mayank 7y ago
It really depends on what flavor of spam you’re trying to date.

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