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by sa46 7y ago
> prevent things like race conditions Rust can prevent all data races but not all (any?) race conditions. Related question: can you use the type system to catch a subset of race conditions? https://stackoverflow.com/quest
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by sa46 7y ago
The compression technique to achieve the 11x compression ratio is pretty clever and is detailed in the Gorilla TSDB paper. Timestamps are encoded with a delta of delta encoding scheme which allows 96% of all timestamps to compress to a sin
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by sa46 7y ago
Somewhat off topic, how would one go about getting good technical editing for something like a blog post or for a book like the OP? Is it expensive?
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by sa46 7y ago
Used to be a Googler and worked on an ACL model built on top of Zanzibar. I didn't work directly on Zanzibar so listen to ruomingpang over me. > 3. There's nothing Zanzibar can do but "pointer chase", resulting in a l
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by sa46 7y ago
If wikipedia is any indication, it doesn't work without plastering the top half of the screen begging for a donation.
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by sa46 7y ago
I understand your point but to be fair, if we cherry pick all the terminology from React it also looks bad: JSX, components, props, context, error boundaries, forwarding refs, fragments, higher-order components, container. Once you add in c
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by sa46 7y ago
> you're doing that while simultaneously claiming to represent a huge and varied field with absolutely no cited sources for that claim I suspect it was phrased strongly because the GP made the same claim in the opposite direction: &
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by sa46 7y ago
Full list of occupations ranked by fatal injuries per 100k workers. The referenced article isn't that useful because it doesn't provide any numbers to do an absolute comparison. Fatal
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by sa46 7y ago
> Elite-level women can beat 90% of all men. I was curious about this so I looked at the percentiles for the Boston Marathon since the data is readily available. Roughly speaking, the top 1% of women times lines up with top 10% for men s
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by sa46 7y ago
In the ballpark of 140.
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by sa46 7y ago
Depends on the company. At our 6 year old startup, email is dead except for external communication. Everything is on slack including ops, stand ups and informal communication. At Google, hangouts was lightly used but everything was on
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by sa46 7y ago
I see, the argument is that monorepo facilitates tight-coupling because it's easy to add dependencies. The multi-repo doesn't have the same problem because it's more difficult to have cross module dependencies. There's
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by sa46 7y ago
I don't understand how avoiding bitrot is better in a multi-repo setup. With a multi-repo, if you're changing a core-library you can make the change quickly but you can't upgrade clients until they upgrade on their own. You
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by sa46 7y ago
> Imagine, for example, the vast public good that would arise from Google or Microsoft opening up their entire code bases for free. Why stop with code? If code is always better in the open, then why not require all business communicatio
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by sa46 7y ago
> that's because businesses act unethically -- ie, for private profit over public good Are you suggesting it is morally wrong to earn a profit if it would better serve the public good? How and more importantly who defines public
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by sa46 8y ago
I left Google about a month ago and use Github now. Things I miss: - the ability to batch all comments in a single send. GitHub has the problem where replies are immediate and don’t necessarily represent the PR state. - built-in fixes and l
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by sa46 8y ago
So 1 full time software engineer on open source projects? Looks like they vastly exceed that already https://aws.amazon.com/opensource/
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by sa46 8y ago
> Entirely non-surprising that devs are the ones who left because by hard capping their pay you are reducing their reluctance to go work somewhere else with higher pay. The surprising part is that their dev retention (article notes small
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by sa46 8y ago
I think most of the suggestion aren't realistic. You can project the same desire for customizability to any software product. For Hacker News: - Let me configure the order of posts based on voting patterns (hot, newest, controversial
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by sa46 8y ago
One of the more interesting facts about Rogers' Rangers is that they fought for the Crown in the American Revolution. It's a tad ironic that the we named our premier light infantry after them. The submission differs from the U.S.
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by sa46 8y ago
> Static typing is an ideology, almost a religion Dynamic typing is also an ideology by your definition. The ideology is that you must never add static types to your source code. > Because static typing could be easily left as an opti
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by sa46 8y ago
I agree with the sentiment but I'm not so sure about 100% and calling it night and day is exaggerated. I've had anecdotes both ways. I think there's some important factors to consider: - Units send their best enlisted folks
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by sa46 8y ago
For an no-nonsense analysis of the battle of Alesia, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1Ej9Yqt68 on the Historia Civilis channel.
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by sa46 8y ago
Congrats! Google is still fantastic. You'll have a blast and learn a ton. Sidenote, anyone have an extension to hide all HN headlines with a keyword filter?
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by sa46 8y ago
Like many things in a large bureaucracy, the rules and norms are written in the blood and tears of previous generations. It has pros and cons. On the pros, you can usually count on everyone to not lose equipment. For the cons, you spend
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by sa46 8y ago
Yep, the lucky grunts in the weapons squad get to lug around the 7.62 ammo. The Army doesn't use the M249 as a crew served weapon (unlike the Marines) so the automatic rifleman on each team usually has 600 rounds of 5.56mm linked ammo
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by sa46 8y ago
Ah, an article I can comment on. I was an Infantry officer for 6 years and did all the normal schooling and a deployment. This is a pretty well done article. Here's some general ideas to keep in mind. - Most dismounted missions are r
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by sa46 8y ago
You should really read the hacker news comments on that rather one-sided view of the topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188519
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by sa46 8y ago
Yes, this is what I don't understand. I'd wager the most dangerous weapon used by the US military is either Microsoft Word or PowerPoint to produce operations orders. It seems that if a product's utility isn't directly
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by sa46 8y ago
Everyone uses the more mild version of dehumanizing language, reduction to abstraction [1], because it's more efficient to consider groups of people and it removes emotions from decisions. For example, when considering latency you migh

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