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by rbranson 6y ago
This sounds a lot like land ownership.
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by rbranson 6y ago
How would you expect that to actually work though? If a goroutine could be arbitrarily stopped at any point, that would trivially lead to degenerate program states. A lock could be held open or another goroutine could be waiting on it for a
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Serving 100µs reads with 100% availability(segment.com)
5 points by rbranson 6y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 6y ago
As it turns out, not everyone who works in tech in SF is an opportunist. There are plenty of kind folks who just want to make a life for their family, but like any boom, it also attracts a multitude of people who are just here for the money
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by rbranson 6y ago
> The fact that you're white and a tech worker isn't the problem. It's that you had the opportunity to move to San Fransciso for work due to the tech boom, and now you're trying to pull the ladder up so others cannot
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by rbranson 6y ago
Segment employee here. Our Kafka runbook looks 100X cleaner after this tool was rolled out by Ben and folks. One of my favorite parts is how it makes dangerous things harder :)
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by rbranson 6y ago
This is the correct take. Generally speaking, the prices set by Epic before this stunt likely approximated the highest price which didn't reduce aggregate spending.
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by rbranson 6y ago
The whole point of having the prescription drug system is so that patients can be provided with safe, monitored access to potentially dangerous drugs. The entire purpose of a doctor being involved in the system is to prevent the outcome we
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by rbranson 6y ago
An investor taking credit for founder's work is probably NOT the way to build an iconic company. https://twitter.com/rabois/status/1260257254957215749
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by rbranson 6y ago
Apple's history is mostly using older designs for the lower end devices. They are completely different chips, not just a lower frequency version of the same part.
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by rbranson 6y ago
I don't think binning is as big of a deal as it's made out to be. What does Apple do with the "low-bin" A13s, for instance?
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by rbranson 6y ago
Windows 2000 came out before Windows ME.
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by rbranson 7y ago
Author here. This should not have included INSERT. I updated the post to reflect that. Thanks for picking this up.
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Ask HN: What do you use as a whiteboard replacement for distributed developers?
11 points by rbranson 7y ago|6 comments
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by rbranson 7y ago
The new SFO arrangement is a huge improvement. At peak times it used to take 10-15 minutes for a ride share to make it from the entrance to Terminal 3. Now it takes 2-3.
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by rbranson 7y ago
How so? I’ve never seen a gigE port that didn’t also support 10/100.
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by rbranson 7y ago
I am extremely excited about this development. Less so getting everything that assumes x86 in the stack supporting a “parameterized” platform. (Hi Michael!)
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Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman once worked so hard he got scurvy (2016)(businessinsider.com)
6 points by rbranson 7y ago|4 comments
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by rbranson 7y ago
Oh brother. Silicon Valley deserves to be dragged for a lot of garbage... truly... but calling the whole SoftBank funded clusterfuck the “Silicon Valley Economy” is just nakedly intellectually dishonest. Does the contemporary New York Econo
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by rbranson 7y ago
FBIDs are complicated because the number space includes legacy IDs, but the modern space have a 24-bit shard ID prefix and a 38-bit autoincrement identifier. Two of the bits are “thrown away.” Timestamps aren’t involved. EDIT: ugh. Still ea
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by rbranson 7y ago
The ID generation code doesn’t use hashing and has nothing to do with Facebook. The blog post was published afterwards but the sharding code predated the acquisition.
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by rbranson 7y ago
Python 2.7 will be forked in...
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by rbranson 7y ago
AWS has always had high margins. And I don’t care if they are in a market position to dictate the short-term price, I believe it’s bad business over the long term. Charging more for the same thing is certainly not customer obsession. Oh, an
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by rbranson 7y ago
RDS is a value-add on top of EC2. Therefore its actual price is the extra premium. If a food delivery company doubles their fees from 10% to 20% and the restaurant cuts its price proportionally, do you really say the delivery price is the s
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by rbranson 7y ago
As much as AWS wants you to believe otherwise, the actual price of RDS as a value-add is its premium on top of EC2 pricing.
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by rbranson 7y ago
Not saying it’s a bad deal. RDS is a great service. I’m saying that suddenly doubling the cost of a service is not a good look unless the value delivered is also doubled. As a customer, in what situation would you find this acceptable?
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by rbranson 7y ago
The RDS premium % is the same across the entire instance class. The pricing is all public. It’s simple math.
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by rbranson 7y ago
I’d buy the fixed cost argument if the premium % decreased as the instance size increased. It doesn’t.
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by rbranson 7y ago
My guess is that this is on-demand DynamoDB wrapped with a Cassandra-compatible frontend. Just based on the pricing and stated characteristics. It would be really hard to provide on-demand capacity for compute and storage using anything rem
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FDA says stop using all THC vaping products(fda.gov)
4 points by rbranson 7y ago|1 comments

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