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by rrdharan 5y ago
Amusing name collision with https://oxide.computer/ (who also use Rust).
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> I assume that when the FBI sends a request to a tech company about a user, they probably also contact lots of other tech companies too about the same user... You assume a lot. I know it’s fun to pontificate about dragnet surveillance,
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Dropbox syncs over the local network.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
It had 315M DAU: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/whatsapp-hits-1-5-billion-...
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Referring to the LLVM codebase as legacy makes me feel old…
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Given it was created by / for Instagram, I’d say it’s likely that Cinder is (machine count wise) seeing far more production use than even Pypy, but perhaps you mean production ready for users other than its creator? (E.g. hhvm at Faceb
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> (If you would like to hire such a worker in the NY area or remotely, PM me!) Your profile is empty and Hacker News doesn't have a native PM function. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186475
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Seconding calibre-web; I rarely interact with calibre itself anymore since calibre-web handles the bulk of the tasks I’m trying to accomplish.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Their hiring posts certainly are but I can’t recall seeing much else about them beyond that - am I just mistaken?
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Do you still have it? Asking because your post sort of reads like you don’t have it anymore and if that’s the case I’m curious why you got rid of it. I was strongly considering the Volt when it first came out but never pulled the trigger so
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by rrdharan 5y ago
“Permission” vs “identity” while not perfect is at least more distinguishable...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Is it fair to call this non-profit funded? The money comes from Bloomberg and Google.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
You could try running significantly slower (jogging, ~10 min/mi pace). Worked well for me.
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Oracle Has Built a Data Operation That It Doesn't Want Regulated(techdirt.com)
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by rrdharan 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
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by rrdharan 6y ago
For completeness here’s Git as a SQL Database (2018): https://opensource.com/article/18/11/gitbase
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by rrdharan 6y ago
But like I said, it would have almost certainly been a cash transaction, right? So yeah, engineers who were retained would have done better with their AAPL stock grants, but that’s not really the measure to compare is it? By that logic most
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Answering my own question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e... So I guess it was indeed proposed around the time I was born and “proven” by the time I had outgrown dinosaurs as an interest&#
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Out of curiosity, when did the asteroid extinction theory cement as the scientific consensus? I seem to recall that in my childhood (1980s, Canadian elementary schools) it was still treated as only one of several competing explanations, but
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Except Dropbox succeeded as a separate company by most reasonable metrics. The Jobs offer was $1B IIRC; they’ve got a $12B market cap and some reasonable ROI far beyond the acquisition offer by now (remember even the IPO investors - non-ret
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Yeah I just checked and you’re both listed as authors on the design doc (as am I, amusingly, though I really don’t remember doing anything particularly useful or significant for it).
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by rrdharan 6y ago
The irony of the name Cloudera has not been lost on keen observers of this space.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
These are use cases and examples where open source makes sense, not a business (i.e. sustainable profit) model.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
50 years from now: “we backported <AGI> to an AMD Ryzen with only 64GB of RAM and 16 cores”...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Feedly is great!
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Kind of interesting given that they passed on Slack for $8B not too long ago... https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Taiwan also has serious quarantine monitoring/enforcement that would never fly in America, which you didn’t mention: https://qz.com/1825997/taiwan-phone-tracking-system-monitors... ‘They both pointed out that whil
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> Twitter (who uses AWS) Twitter also uses GCP, and Azure I’m sure. Their serving layer is not hosted by AWS though, and I’m reasonably certain AWS could not shut down Twitter immediately simply terminating their AWS account.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Pretty sure not. Posted in reply to the sibling. This is a VMware research project but looks like the target use case is for OVN: https://blogs.vmware.com/opensource/2018/07/26/open-source-o... https:&#
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by rrdharan 6y ago
https://twitter.com/Ben_Pfaff/status/1047905803250724865

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