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by revertts 14y ago
They're signed when you begin employment
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by revertts 14y ago
Larger images saved as pjpegs tend to be slightly smaller than a standard jpeg. http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2008/12/05/imageopt-4/
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by revertts 14y ago
I'll buy Arq immediately when Glacier gets added
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by revertts 14y ago
Not correct: http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/closing-keynote-...
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by revertts 14y ago
What I gather from the slides: 1. server loads the data from S3 on start (sessions are sticky to a particular server) 2. user data gets mutated on that server for the lifetime of the session 3. the data gets written back to S3 on session en
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by revertts 15y ago
To me, a lot of this divide is between books I read cover to cover and books I consider references or pick up for very specific sections (like "Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences"). CLRS, TAOCP, and Gang of Four are all books I have
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by revertts 15y ago
I found this book to be quite good: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/book.html http://www.amazon.com/Data-Intensive-Processing-MapReduce-Sy... Here's the pdf of it: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/MapReduce-book-final.pdf
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by revertts 15y ago
This is nothing new. A number of large companies avoid GPLv3 because the potential of losing IP is too high; it's a difficult license to interpret, and the legal implications of some of its clauses haven't been fully defined yet (eg. what
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by revertts 15y ago
Seattle, WA. Full time We're Amazon's platform team for media content. We own the systems for uploading, storing, and serving images/video/js/css/etc. across Amazon.com and partner sites. Small blurb about the team: http://wap-jobs.amazon
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by revertts 15y ago
Any chance you could link to it? I'd like to read the previous discussion, but I'm having trouble finding it on HN...
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by revertts 15y ago
Do I get any control over node types, or is "number of nodes" the only knob I can turn?
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by revertts 15y ago
There are also a lot of _really_ interesting but less public-facing teams (AWS and Kindle tend to get a lot of press). I had been pretty set on AWS when I accepted, but ended up in a different org and love the work I'm doing. You might t
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by revertts 15y ago
If you did an internship, you're in a better position than anyone else to decide if the company's a good fit...
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by revertts 15y ago
This might be too business sensitive to answer, but what did you replace BDB with as your disk backend? Build your own, LevelDB, or other...? BDB certainly has its problems, but I still haven't found a better alternative.
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by revertts 15y ago
I stopped reading at: There’s No 3G Web Browsing (except on Kindle Fire) Kindle Fire doesn't even have 3G. They probably should've spent more time researching first.
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by revertts 15y ago
Seattle, WA - http://wap-jobs.amazon.com/jobs.html (email is on the page linked) Nearly every team in the Website Application Platform org is currently hiring. We build the backend components that power amazon.com and many of the subsidi
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by revertts 15y ago
I think stating it that way trivializes the amount of work that _has_ gone into lambdas. There's been a lot of other, more fundamental things discussed over that 2-3 year period about their implementation; way more than syntax.
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by revertts 15y ago
This is pretty awesome. Food's the main reason I follow Groupon et al.
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by revertts 15y ago
Yeah, that caught my eye too. I assume they just got Hadoop mixed up with Google's C++ MapReduce implementation.
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by revertts 16y ago
For anyone wondering about the "back to 1" part: the Chinese very recently (this week?) took the spot with their 2.5 petaflop Tianhe-1A. It's made from Xeons, Fermis, and Feiteng-100s. Right now they're having trouble actually utilizing t
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by revertts 16y ago
I'm really disappointed to see the language support for collections get pushed back to Java 8; it's one of those minor things that really starts to wear on me when I'm using the language. I might just switch more code over to Scala...
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by revertts 16y ago
Keyboard trays. You can't beat a good keyboard tray.
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by revertts 17y ago
Thanks, that helped a lot. I had been trying to repeat with "."; hadn't noticed how many different kinds of repeats there are.
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by revertts 17y ago
I prefer swapping Caps and Ctrl. I use Ctrl-[ instead of hitting Esc. It's an extra button press, but Ctrl is a more generally useful key (screen, C-c, etc.) in that location.
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by revertts 17y ago
Last I checked there was no vi mode, which is why I stuck with zsh.
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by revertts 17y ago
This is similar to what I use, except offlineimap instead of fetchmail and esmtp instead of ssmtp. I like offlineimap because it does a bidirectionaly sync, meaning I can keep a local backup of mail, but still use the web client when I need
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by revertts 17y ago
I used Gmail for quite awhile, then started looking for alternatives. Inbox.com is decent, but has no IMAP, which made it worthless for me. GMX Mail also looks like it could be good; seems very similar to Gmail. I hear very good things a
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by revertts 17y ago
How To Solve It is a great recommendation. I had a physics professor that did an amazing job of teaching problem solving; even though the class wasn't directly to my major, it was probably the single most useful class I ever took. Next s
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by revertts 17y ago
"Facebook is all php, while Twitter is built on Ruby on Rails." Actually, Twitter's backend is Scala now.
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by revertts 17y ago
I've been reading Cryptonomicon (Stephenson), Code Complete 2 (McConnel), and Algorithms: A Functional Programming Approach (Rabhi, Lapalme). Those first two are well-known and commonly recommended; the last one I just happened upon

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