saltysugar

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by saltysugar 1y ago
https://x.com/Mihonarium/status/1946880931723194389 OpenAI jumped the gun before *the closing party* - didn't even let the kids celebrate their winning properly before stealing the spotlight Also in the artic
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by saltysugar 7y ago
Having worked for AWS, one of the things we got a lot push back from was offering something free and then walk back from it. AWS really strongly focuses on gaining customer trust, and they will only lower price, and never increase price. Th
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by saltysugar 8y ago
And in Berlin the cashier eyed me suspiciously when I tried to use Google Pay. He was totally expecting the payment to not go through
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by saltysugar 8y ago
Amazon employee here, but the statement I'm making is of my own. Internally we treat customer names and email addresses as the second highest data classification. The highest one is credit card/financial/password data. What d
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by saltysugar 12y ago
> Given that segfaults almost never happen in the JVM (I've never seen one) I've seen 5 segfaults over the last week in our system. Unfortunately we don't enable core dump in our system (yet) so we haven't really had
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by saltysugar 12y ago
Anything that's convenient for them, I guess?
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by saltysugar 13y ago
You don't even bother to read past the section about the limitations that the engineers were well aware of in advance - they re-emphasize a common concern for people who question their choice of JVM. The next line reads: "As a res
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by saltysugar 13y ago
Read their paper before making a claim that performance isn't important in Kafka: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/srikanth/netdb...
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by saltysugar 13y ago
Kafka is mostly in Scala (which runs on JVM). Scala provides many attractive features to build scalable and type-safe code. And about performance, Kafka is used of LinkedIn and it process hundreds of gigabytes of data, close to a billion me
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by saltysugar 13y ago
My flickr account is created with Google login. I wonder whether they'll force me into singing up for Flickr cause it's the service with most storage for photos out there (albeit the lack of desktop sync).
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by saltysugar 13y ago
Yes, from the server side's mishandling of TXT extension. Probably the server put the MIME type in the HTTP header as "HTML" instead of TXT, and the browser renders the page as such.
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by saltysugar 13y ago
Father? It's the second item on the list for me (and I use incognito)
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How is LinkedIn as a place for software engineering?
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by saltysugar 13y ago
I think this problem is fixable with technology. Or sometimes it can just happen to a small number of people, just like 3D glasses.
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by saltysugar 13y ago
We Vietnamese don't even have anything equivalent to "you". We use "friend/friends" (we don't distinguish between plural and singular) for a generic "you". Otherwise, in social situation, we have
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by saltysugar 13y ago
Facebook somehow allows a website to determine whether the user likes a page or not. I've seen websites asking users to click Like (basically liking a page that paid the money to the click farm) in order the view the content. This kind
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by saltysugar 13y ago
Bugs are often sorted according to priority. It's clear that Apple doesn't care enough to prioritize this problem.
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by saltysugar 13y ago
iTunes videos are DRM-ed
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by saltysugar 13y ago
That's a very expensive assumption for most people
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by saltysugar 13y ago
> here is only one target device you have to build for (Chromecast) not hundreds of TVs, BluRay players, and dongles. Just chiming in, Google actually has plan to work with TV makers to integrate Chromecast technology into future smart T
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by saltysugar 13y ago
Apparently it doesn't have much priority on their list considering the problem has been around for two years. If you think about how fast the mobile landscape has changed, this is no excuse for Apple
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by saltysugar 13y ago
Used to be like that, but they fixed it a while ago. Though sending messages across carriers is rather expensive.