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by robbyt 6y ago
This sounds like inflation. Didn't the economics say there wouldn't be any/much as a result of printing so much money?
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by robbyt 6y ago
All software breaks at some point. If you're dealing with this scale of load, it's mandatory to perform synthetic load testing to validate, otherwise you're just guessing what the breakage threshold will be.
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by robbyt 6y ago
The only logical reason I can think of is corruption.
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by robbyt 6y ago
Google's free consumer-facing products with no SLA being shut down... HN loves to complain about this. Any time there's a thread about Google, someone has to complain about the time when they shut down Reader.
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by robbyt 6y ago
Agreed, I was forced into using it years ago and still have PTSD from how awful it is. API endpoints randomly return with 500s, block devices hang or just become disconnected, provisioning is extremely slow. The unquantifiable "just wo
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by robbyt 6y ago
Apply some time stretch, pitch shift, slight distortion, and the watermark is likely destroyed.
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by robbyt 6y ago
Are they receiving any compensation?
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by robbyt 7y ago
Supporting all that flexibility is challenging for development, and could cause issues for the end user. I can imagine that people over-customize Firefox, forget about their changes, then have bugs, finally abandon Firefox thinking it'
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by robbyt 7y ago
I know from personal finance that having a buffer in the bank is good... But this seems to be a rather large buffer. Can someone please explain what's going on with these numbers?
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by robbyt 7y ago
"We never intended to deceive any customers when we invented a new definition of e2e encryption"
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by robbyt 7y ago
I read they're prized for curing male impotence, because you know... They have hard scales.
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by robbyt 7y ago
I assume, Rockefeller University. It's a large hospital on the upper East side.
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by robbyt 7y ago
Many of the bigger SV tech companies have an internal kernel/os team.
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by robbyt 7y ago
There's insurance for this type of thing, and I'm guessing that the organizers do not have it.
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by robbyt 7y ago
Or they're being praised for "fixing the website"
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by robbyt 7y ago
I don't think engineering costs are an issue for msft. Empirically, the source of msft's quality issues seem to be managerial / organizational.
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by robbyt 7y ago
To explain what I think this comment means. When working on embedded systems, you can interact with hardware devices by writing directly to specially mapped memory areas. E.g., if you want to write text to a small screen, the kernel driver
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by robbyt 7y ago
Stripe has the ability to negotiate with their upstream processors that we end users do not. Instead of trying to reduce their costs by pressuring their providers, they're passing along the fees to their customers.
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by robbyt 7y ago
Elastic databases have been the source of leaks because of incompetency of the people deploying it, not because of its FOSS license.
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by robbyt 7y ago
Great people don't work at crappy companies.
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by robbyt 7y ago
I think this is part of the problem with the language- a fragmented set of keywords, all with slightly different behavior.
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by robbyt 7y ago
This is the same reason why it took Sun years to open source Solaris. There was still major parts of the OS they didn't release source for, because it had licensed code. The Open Solaris initiative was rewriting these parts to make the
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by robbyt 7y ago
Not bad luck, bad design. Same for Gandi, and for the situation you just described. Drive failures and HVAC failures due to bad power are not "black swawn" events. These are very common problems for DCs, and a good design takes th
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by robbyt 7y ago
Sure, but in this case, the choice of Azure over AWS was due to government corruption, rather than actual technical diligence.
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by robbyt 7y ago
Ironic, because normally Oracle are the ones doing this
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by robbyt 7y ago
Reliability of AWS and GCP is one of their best features. Everyone just assumes Azure works as well as the others (spoiler alert: it doesn't). The main reason you hear about so much Azure growth is because they give free credits to the
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by robbyt 7y ago
I use vim, so I can't comment directly, but lately people have complained about stability of the VS Golang plugin
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by robbyt 7y ago
I agree, but my point is that federal taxes as disproportionately higher. With software performance optimization, it's best to focus on the most expensive problems first. A few hundred dollars per quarter for state taxes vs. a few thou
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by robbyt 7y ago
Federal taxes are still much higher than state taxes. How is the federal government helping the situation?
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by robbyt 7y ago
I really think this inequality is caused by technology. Generally throughout history, investment in technology helped the bourgeois factory owners reduce their manual labor costs. Think about advancement in factory automation replacing work

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