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by shadowmatter 16y ago
I thought that the minimum value cwnd could assume is IW, but looking at RFC 2581 that isn't true: "Upon a timeout cwnd MUST be set to no more than the loss window, LW, which equals 1 full-sized segment (regardless of the value of IW)." The
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
"Benefiting _their_ users," yes. But they're not benefiting whoever else is sharing the smallest-capacity link -- what he's arguing is that Google is crowding them out. Net neutrality is not the only way to privilege your flows on the Inter
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
Agreed. When you make an exception for developers to rely on a private method, you "promote" an implementation detail to its public interface. Now you can never remove the method, change its signature, or change its behavior. Nevermind that
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
"Balanced binary tree versus hash table is an implementation choice for the associative array abstract data type." You can treat it as an implementation detail, but it's a good idea to let the client know that the underlying key-value colle
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
You can give a peer bonus of $200 to any individual with their manager's approval (which is very easy to get). They encourage giving peer bonuses for when someone goes the extra mile on something, but very few engineers initiate giving a pe
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
How about Newd? For "New Datastore," of course. And all your clients can say "I'm going newd" when they adopt it.
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
These are exactly the two books I was going to recommend. Don't Make Me Think is like the K&R of web UX books, and Designing the Obvious is like a nice web 2.0 companion for it. Also, I'd throw in The Design of Everyday Things -- see h
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
Peter Theil, co-founder of Paypal, would probably disagree. In the book Founders at Work, you'll find that many co-founders of large, valuable companies claim that having another co-founder understand the business side was invaluable. (Note
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
Love Made to Stick and Founders at Work. I haven't read 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, but I'll check it out, thanks. One excellent marketing book I recently read is Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (no ref link: h
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
Actually, another case: Vladimir Yaroslavskiy recently came up with a dual-pivot quicksort method where the number of swaps is reduced from 1 n ln(n) to 0.8 n ln(n). Yes, he's only twiddling the constant factor, but the benchmarks have been
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
JS: The Good Parts is will be a quick and informative read if you've already done a bit of JS programming. Once you're done with that, the next book I'd read is ppk on Javascript ( http://www.amazon.com/ppk-JavaScript-1-Peter-Paul-Koch/dp/0
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
Hey, lay off man! If Chicago doesn't have to teach multiplication, New York doesn't have to teach grammar, alright?