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by nieksand 8y ago
I think the core of a "fix" is here. If I were building an engineering org today I'd either go remote-only or build it somewhere which is not SFO/SEA/NYC and friends. An underwhelming bay area compensation package
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by nieksand 8y ago
Three quick thoughts: * The base compensation and benefits alone, even if RSUs became worthless, are still serious money. * I would expect startups founded and running in today's boom market to fair worse than established firms. Short
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by nieksand 8y ago
Just a few cons.... The big players have drastically pushed up developer comp. The "maybe" money that might come from a best-case startup exit isn't holding up well against the RSUs of the big players. I have friends pushin
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by nieksand 8y ago
I'm getting that too with Linux+Firefox. Quite the ransom letter vibe. Though strangely, if I zoom to a smaller or larger size, it looks fine.
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by nieksand 8y ago
The article doesn't mention anybody getting arrested. Is that an omission or are there really no consequences for this kind of behavior?
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by nieksand 8y ago
How is this different than hiring a consulting company?
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by nieksand 8y ago
Their pitch towards open source maintainers is definitely promising: "Open source sustainability is a noble goal—who would stand in the way of these creators and maintainers, who invest so much of their time and effort in our shared di
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by nieksand 8y ago
When it comes to parsing JSON, they are indeed not doing the same thing. Buger's parser is not unmarshalling into an annotated struct. But often that struct isn't your end goal in life, such as when your data is being transformed
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by nieksand 8y ago
I've written some high req/sec projects in Rust, but nothing that would be apples-to-apples to that particular Go project. The memory access patterns are straight-forward enough that the remaining GC could definitely go away. If
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by nieksand 8y ago
Essentially a gloried batcher / data transformer consuming from Kafka. Even with the GC overhead, I will still able to hit my performance goal of 40k msg/sec per AWS c3.4xl. In a vacuum I would have picked Rust over Go for this.
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by nieksand 8y ago
You are right. I totally missed it in the first few tables. The lack of allocs for JsonParser was definitely a big win for my project. When processing at high rps (40k msg/sec), GC is near the top of all my performance profiles. Dri
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by nieksand 8y ago
The fastest Go JSON parser I know of is https://github.com/buger/jsonparser . I've used that one in production quite successfully. I don't see that in the comparative benchmarks for Gojay.
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The Mystery of the Sort Benchmark Outliers(reprep.io)
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by nieksand 8y ago
I've been interested in BBR since the ACM Queue article and finally turned it on yesterday on my home workstation. But slide 27 in the slide deck is incredibly troubling, where it shows BBR completely destroying the throughput of a nei
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Planet Nine makes some KBOs go wild(findplanetnine.com)
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by nieksand 8y ago
I'm unclear what you're saying regarding Ms. Manning. Though if you want to update my two examples to use a protest poster for/against her, I don't think the point changes. Unless you mean that she faced legal consequenc
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by nieksand 8y ago
It seems very fashionable to pull out moral equivalency every time China's autocracy and misbehavior is mentioned. Simple experiment: 1. Walk down Pennsylvania Avenue with a sign that says "Trump is a pussy grabber who should be i
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by nieksand 9y ago
"it’s not that bad" That is not the most ringing endorsement for a very expensive and supposedly premium laptop.
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by nieksand 9y ago
Looks like the article hyped things up. They pick an arbitrary large interval of fifteen years. And does seventeen really qualify as a child while eighteen is somehow bonafide? Seems silly. The real number is: "More than 1,000 child
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by nieksand 9y ago
This is from 2015.
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by nieksand 9y ago
Under this system, how do you keep a semblance of uniformity in promotion standards in a large organization? Sounds like this would lead to "easy" teams for getting promoted in while others with higher standards lag. End result w
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by nieksand 9y ago
Adsense, Analytics, Docs/Sheets/Slides, and Google Earth belong in the acquisitions bucket.
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by nieksand 9y ago
Indeed. The article didn't touch on how this approach reduces friction for buyers, which is hugely important. For the short-to-mid term, I suspect that frictionless shopping is a bigger deal than change in cost structure that comes fr
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by nieksand 9y ago
Seriously? "Because the US government issues its own currency, it can’t “run out of money” or go bankrupt. That means “We the People” can — and should — spend what we need to spend on what we want and need without worrying about “how t
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by nieksand 9y ago
I love Rust and use it for my personal projects. But for the next few years, C++ seems like a clear winner for maximizing career opportunities. The ecosystem is already mature and you'll find plenty of existing job listings in Germany
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by nieksand 9y ago
For my personal use I wrote a small credentials manager in Python. I use it daily for my non-critical secrets and am quite content with it: https://github.com/nieksand/pman You'll need Python 3.6 or later. (It u
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by nieksand 9y ago
The pro gun control position is fascinating. Even ignoring the constitutional issues... How do you deal with the fact the horse left the barn a long time ago? Squinting at online sources, there's around 270M firearms in the USA today,
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by nieksand 9y ago
In the case of a real car, you aren't just reacting to the environment. The actors in the environment (cars, pedestrians, traffic light sensors) are reacting to you as well.
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by nieksand 9y ago
Mysql would fall back to a disk based sort once the data set is too large. Perhaps it's his client that is OOM-ing? Back in the day, I remember the PHP mysql client loading the entire result set into a local buffer unless you explicit
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by nieksand 9y ago
This is what I used: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465078982/ If you poke around you'll find plenty of books with similar titles and target audiences.

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