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by randomtree 2y ago
I was a hands-on engineering manager brought to lead a similar effort at an ad agency to build out their adtech stack inhouse. Worked out fine. I've also interviewed a number of people in similar situations. Seems to work out fine when
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by randomtree 2y ago
I guess I know what's coming to every captcha tomorrow.
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by randomtree 6y ago
As an Engineering Manager, I find that solving this kind of problems really helps in my work, and it also helped to make our interview process more objective. When working with high-load systems, it kinda doesn't help that a person kno
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by randomtree 6y ago
Very curious, what's opaque about a uniq developer id of an app you start? Sure looks like gaslighting. "You should be aware that macOS might transmit some opaque information..."
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by randomtree 6y ago
Looking at their highly optimized code on google.com, my guess is that they already use all the tricks that work on _every_ browser. And it might not make much sense for them to have two builds: one elegant, with multiple files per page fo
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by randomtree 6y ago
Yep, inlining only optimizes first page load.
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by randomtree 6y ago
HTTP/2 Push allows to _really_ optimize first page load, giving a wow effect. (Especially when you can use a single server w/o geodns to serve the whole world with a really low latency!) I use it on my pet project website, and it
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by randomtree 6y ago
I had a similar experience which turned out to be an internet addiction. Compared to obsessively checking hn, fb, Twitter, CNN, ANY job is boring. What helped me: no screen time after 8pm, and device-free Saturday. I also try avoiding scree
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by randomtree 11y ago
I think it's about a product discovery. If we always sort this way, new products don't have a chance. And I don't think Amazon would sort like this, it would make more sense for them to use hn/reddit way to sort items th
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by randomtree 12y ago
"I cannot help old programmers. They are all doomed." tad bit arrogant, I think.
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by randomtree 12y ago
I wonder if there is a release schedule? The last time I read about it, it was far from prototype.
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Anti-aging formula slated to begin human trials(iflscience.com)
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by randomtree 13y ago
If I remember correctly the details of why Nginx might be better at handling massive amount of clients is that it has event-driven architecture. If you consider a slow client that consumes 1mb of html in, say, half a minute, an Apache threa
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by randomtree 13y ago
My Indian friend who spent ten years in US went to visit his parents, he said he was going to buy bottled water while there and boil it before drinking. He was genuinely anxious about catching something. So yes, the low mortality rate after
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by randomtree 13y ago
What is the survival rate in India after that procedure, comparing to the US? My colleague _visited_ India and returned with a stomach flu, spent a week in a hospital.
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by randomtree 14y ago
If you would consider using NoSQL, then MongoDB might be a good fit. It has a messaging queue. It's called capped collections with tailable cursors ( http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Tailable+Cursors ). It's persistent, you don't need p