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Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure(blogs.dropbox.com)
148 points by redm 8y ago|61 comments
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by redm 8y ago
I think its human nature for things to seem 'obvious' after the fact, but creating something novel doesn't require it to be technically challenging.
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by redm 8y ago
We know what Glassdoor is supposed to do, but it doesn't because the incentives for Glassdoor aren't aligned with its mission. Their real customers are companies that are willing to pay to have good reviews/ratings. They tell
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Domain Registrars Liable for Site Infringement(torrentfreak.com)
9 points by redm 8y ago|3 comments
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by redm 8y ago
This BizJournal article from about a month ago lists a few of companies expanding to Atlanta, such as Square, Pandora, and New Relic. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/10/09/bay...
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by redm 8y ago
I think it's cool your tackling this space. I would love an open source system that supported my Control 4 hardware. Having to swap out hardware is a deal breaker for me.
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by redm 8y ago
This was tried relatively unsuccessfully by a company named Red Swoosh (Travis Kalnik's baby before Uber). [1] The concept pre-dates BitTorrent, and the technology worked pretty well, I deployed it at scale. There were two big problem
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by redm 8y ago
Maybe not in a few months, but things like this are funny. People who were looking for a reason to leave Chrome may use this to justify it, and while it may be a small audience, small audiences can be trendsetters, especially if they are pa
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by redm 8y ago
"Companies have no loyalty folks...neither should you." That's a broad brush to paint with; companies are just a group of people, not some inhuman construct. People make the decisions and just like every other aspect of life,
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by redm 8y ago
I think this is semantics, many people are talking about distributed ledgers more than Blockchains specifically. "A distributed ledger (also called a shared ledger, or distributed ledger technology, DLT) is a consensus of replicated, s
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by redm 8y ago
“Google has never manipulated its search results or modified any of its products to promote a particular political ideology." -- "Our processes and policies would not have allowed for any manipulation of search results to promote
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by redm 8y ago
This strikes me as one of those "Ah-hah" projects, why didn't someone do this sooner. Breast pumps were ripe for disruption. One thing I don't see is how cleanable it is/whats the cleaning process. IMHO, that'
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by redm 8y ago
I find it interesting that the conversation is mainly about fair use and not about false positives. I've been working with filtering and fingerprinting technology for some time, and while its "pretty good", false positives ha
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by redm 8y ago
I agree, sadly its never that simple. I tried diligently (all in) to use Quantum when it came out, for over a month. It just wasn't stable/fast enough when running a larger number of tabs. I'm hopeful it will get there soon a
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by redm 8y ago
Time to remove https://www.blitz.io/ from the list or add them to a dead-pool. Looks like they are shutting down October 1st, 2018. :( "It's time to say farewell... Blitz will be shutting down on October 1, 2018.
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by redm 8y ago
Interestingly, my Indy Irix “learning” workstation, circa 2001, is selling for more today on eBay then i bought it for back then. I guess it really has become a collectors item.
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by redm 8y ago
Why do you think that companies don't care about employees? Everyone who works at a company has an emotional stake in the work, the product, and usually pride in what they do. That matters. Most founders that I know do care about thei
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by redm 8y ago
Good for them. Having been on the receiving end of patent trolls seven times, it's a challenging situation. It's easy to settle, and risky to fight. To give credit where its due, this aggressive defense strategy dates back to Lee
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by redm 8y ago
There are of course two sides to every coin. The flip side is, cell carriers never signed up to be a secure identification mechanism. SMS wasn't designed for security, and there's little financial incentive for them to invest in t
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by redm 8y ago
"If they would do something I don't like, I would just never upgrade anymore and be done with it." -- That sounds like a good strategy but in my experience, it never works because your technology environment is not a vacuum (
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by redm 8y ago
"If I pay with a credit card I have level of protection. When I put my money in a bank the money is insured." Just out of curiosity, what makes you think that insured transactions to verified parties will not occur at some point?
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by redm 8y ago
In the sense that they are both 'diamonds' they are the same thing. In the sense that one was created by the earth, and one was created by man, they are not the same. Just like with the painting, where it came from, its provenanc
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by redm 8y ago
"..it's the exact same thing." This seems like flawed logic. It's not the exact same thing. If a painter reproduces a Picasso, otherwise knows as art fraud, does it have the same value as the original? Why not? I&#x27
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by redm 8y ago
While I'm no fan of Google, the premise of this article annoys me. Good and Evil are such a simple concept and have no place in reality. Good and Evil are always subjective to the viewport. I don't disagree with the facts of the a
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by redm 8y ago
I'm sure this will be unpopular, but these kinds of posts seem out of touch with the reality of a startup. I'm trying to imagine a founder starting a company and sitting down with this 15 point checklist. In my experience, things
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by redm 8y ago
I suppose its inevitable that we dissect the lives and actions of "great" people like Steve Jobs. The fact is that no one is perfect, and those who usually accomplish great things have fascinating lives and personality flaws. At t
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Amazon had 1300 IPs hijacked for two hours(arstechnica.com)
9 points by redm 8y ago|0 comments
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by redm 8y ago
Just some of the ways Google collects data [1]: Google Search, Google Fiber, Google Recaptcha, Google Translate, Google Adsense, Google Chrome (Safe Browsing checks etc.), Google DNS (8.8.4.4 etc.), Google Mail, Android Integrations, Google
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by redm 8y ago
Great news, I enjoy seeing old sites like Flickr being saved from oblivion. SmugMug is a great company too. On a side note, this is a terrible announcement page when viewed on FireFox 59. It's barely usable. It works well on Chrome tho
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by redm 9y ago
How quickly everyone forgets Google's big privacy changes in 2012 that allowed them to aggregate user data from YouTube, Google Search, and all its other platforms. [1] Until the privacy conversation meaningfully includes Google, it se

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