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by saryant 10y ago
Err, Enron? Both Lay and Skilling were sentenced to years in prison.
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by saryant 10y ago
Twitter is not moving away from Scala. Source: I work there.
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by saryant 10y ago
...like all VC firms?
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by saryant 10y ago
Every day I'm glad I bombed my GRE.
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by saryant 11y ago
When you need to reindex, all the original writes are still on your Kafka topic and the consumer that fed ElasticSearch and replay from the start.
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by saryant 11y ago
They really serve very different use cases. Redis pub/sub consumers only receive messages while connected, whereas Kafka consumers can pick up where they left off. Event ordering, back pressure, etc. There are many use cases Redis pu
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by saryant 11y ago
The biggest difference, IMO, is that Kafka is typically used when a message will be consumed by multiple consumers, whereas RabbitMQ or SQS generally send a message to a single consumer. We use it to ingest ~40mb/s and fan it out to a
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by saryant 11y ago
Kafka, Redis and Logstash+ElasticSearch have really nothing to do with each other. Kafka is a distributed, fault-tolerant and highly scalable message broker. Redis is a very fast key/value (another other data types) store. I suppose th
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by saryant 11y ago
I find myself in awe. Men like Rockefeller made our modern age possible.
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by saryant 11y ago
Follow that up with Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll and you've got a fascinating and compelling look at the last ~120 years of oil and American history.
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by saryant 11y ago
Well, her father did work there. (Though, in his defense, not in a business unit related to their fraud)
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by saryant 11y ago
Houston's a fascinating city. I lived there for a few years between leaving the Bay Area and winding up in Colorado. It's a vibrant and energetic place with a never-ending influx of new immigrant cultures from Africa, Asia, Lati
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by saryant 11y ago
That's certainly not true.
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by saryant 11y ago
Not all of them and not on all issues. There are many statist Democrats in Congress, Feinstein is one of them.
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by saryant 11y ago
Err, it's Feinstein, who represents California , that's introducing this legislation. Republican representatives have been pushing back against these bills. Representatives Amash, Issa, Labrador. Senator Paul. Last weekend I wa
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by saryant 11y ago
His attitude frightens me too. Can we get him banned from conferences now? /s See the problem?
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by saryant 11y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by saryant 11y ago
Probably a lot of Twitter engineers upvoting the article from within the company VPN. I don't think it was solicited though.
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by saryant 11y ago
Houston uses buses like that for its long-distance commuter service. I used to ride it every day from Katy to downtown. 30 miles, no stops along the way. During peak hours buses departed every 5-8 minutes.
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by saryant 11y ago
Enron's accounting fraud was only discovered because they're a public company and forced to disclose those records. Once someone actually looked at what Enron was up to, the shorts took over and hammered them until they folded.
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by saryant 11y ago
That's just nuts. I'd rather go to a conference where I can just tell the racist to go pound sand than have that bizarre attitude over my head.
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by saryant 11y ago
That's not clear at all. In fact, this episode has shown that many disagree with that statement.
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Personal Thoughts on the LambdaConf Controversy(degoes.net)
19 points by saryant 11y ago|3 comments
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by saryant 11y ago
It's also the exact opposite virtually everywhere in the US. Only accepting Amex is extremely rare here. Much rarer now that Costco is switching to Visa.
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by saryant 11y ago
No. Costco was unique in that.
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by saryant 11y ago
I expect there's a reason that Amex's high-end credit cards are light on rewards and heavy on benefits: people in those income brackets don't really care about getting an extra percent back on their credit card bill.
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If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly [pdf](dl.dropboxusercontent.com)
1 points by saryant 11y ago|1 comments
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by saryant 11y ago
Then post it. This bullshit game of I-have-proof-by-na-na-na-I-won't-show-you is a waste of everyone's time.
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by saryant 11y ago
True, I forgot about the travel expenses as I'm a local speaker.
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by saryant 11y ago
FWIW, LambdaConf speakers are not paid.

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