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by shay_ker 8y ago
I think queuing theory can be applied to A LOT of different concepts in software development. For instance, some people at Netflix use it to do predictive load balancing: https://youtu.be/6NdxUY1La2I I, personally, have bee
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by shay_ker 8y ago
Hm... I feel like that's not quite the full picture. On the backend, for instance, there are options - if you like typed languages, use them! And if not, use something else! But there appears to be a particularly strong movement toward
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by shay_ker 8y ago
This comment was enlightening, even if it appears fairly critical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946296
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by shay_ker 8y ago
I'm well acquainted with the merits of types in general (I've worked in Java & Scala for years). I'm curious why it's so special on the frontend. I can't tell if it's just part of the Javascript hype-train,
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by shay_ker 8y ago
> Imo in Ruby it's not that common that service calls are deeply nested. In frontend it's opposite. Components are very nested This feels like the answer that makes the most-ish sense, although I've worked with a ton of ne
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by shay_ker 8y ago
> These types of kitchens have been around for decades Yep exactly, I don't think anyone has done it quite like Deliveroo has though. I also wonder what the economics look like for delivery-only kitchens.
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by shay_ker 8y ago
Hmmm... I'm surprised eBay didn't go the Amazon route - see what's working well in the marketplace, and then sell it yourself. For instance, there are clearly a lot of electronics that sold at below-market rates just because
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Ask HN: Why use TypeScript?
9 points by shay_ker 8y ago|31 comments
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by shay_ker 8y ago
Where are you reading that?
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by shay_ker 8y ago
> Deliveroo has started expanding to use local kitchens (that have no physical restaurant where diners can go), though you'll also find examples of those on GrubHub/Seamless. Not nearly to the same scale as GrubHub. Deliveroo&#
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by shay_ker 8y ago
It seems like they just did too much. GrubHub, UberEats, DoorDash are all significantly difficult without the cost of making food at scale. I'm impressed that they raised the amount of money they did. The most interesting work in the f
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by shay_ker 8y ago
Cardi B did a video on Instagram about the government shutdown that got a lot of attention. I wouldn't count it out for Snapchat. Besides, no one thought Facebook was going to become a tool for politics when it first came out.
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by shay_ker 8y ago
It feels like no matter what Facebook does, its brand will impede the efforts of any new product they build. TBH, if I were Snapchat, I'd see this as a huge opportunity, since I'd doubt Instagram would get into the political space
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by shay_ker 8y ago
Definitely. Our users aren't as tech-savvy, so we wanted to have some basic WYSIWYG functionality instead of educating them on markdown.
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by shay_ker 8y ago
I ran into similar issues with Draft.js, but Trix has been amazing: https://github.com/basecamp/trix It's not that hard to wrap it as a React component and get going with it
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by shay_ker 8y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but I take exception at the name calling. No need for that.
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by shay_ker 8y ago
I like special features of AirMail, for instance, where you can snooze certain emails. If they only had a desktop client, then I can't snooze on the go on my phone. And now I have to context switch and remember to delay certain tasks t
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by shay_ker 8y ago
An email client that doesn't have a mobile companion app is an immediate thumbs down for me. I want a consistent experience for something as important as email, whether I'm on a laptop or on my phone. Sigh. That probably means Thu
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by shay_ker 8y ago
Hi Courtney, thanks for the post. Others have mentioned that there are some gotchas with Envoy, and you mention a few about the migration bumps. Did you encounter other gotchas? And do you have any suggestions on how to avoid/mitigate
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by shay_ker 8y ago
Wow. I want to wait until all the details are figured out, but my initial reaction is - if you're going through some stuff, know that there are people out there willing to listen and help you through it.
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by shay_ker 8y ago
> But as a programmer at work, I often receive feedbacks from 1 or 2 persons at most Oof, yeah, that's rough. It's hard to say something conclusive with little data, and most of the data is likely biased (yourself). I'd re
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by shay_ker 8y ago
This reminds me of an idea I had: building service maps from logs. If your logs have: 1) common format 2) service application names 3) tracer bullets Then in theory it should be possible to create a crude visualization of a service mesh acr
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David Foster Wallace's commencement speech (2005)(youtube.com)
2 points by shay_ker 8y ago|0 comments
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by shay_ker 8y ago
> I actually learned the domain of authentication only on company time True, but that same type of argument can be made for any of us. It's important not to take that argument too far, though. Remember that your company benefits fro
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by shay_ker 8y ago
This part is really eye-opening on getting an organization to open source their code: https://increment.com/security/open-sourcing-buzzfeeds-singl... There's understandably a lot of pressure in open sourcing anyth
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by shay_ker 8y ago
Clearly there's a lot of deep, financial analysis that's done in determining whether giving Amazon financial incentives is a good idea (i.e. bring enough jobs & tax revenue to compensate for the tax breaks). It's probably
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by shay_ker 8y ago
> Envoy’s active healthchecking means that you services get healthchecked by every client. This is mostly okay but (again) services with many clients can get overwhelmed by it. Man that's brutal. Is that normal in service-mesh frame
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by shay_ker 8y ago
A lot of the course material from MIT Sloan is online, for free: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/
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by shay_ker 8y ago
CEO biographies are interesting just like any other biography, I suppose. But never once have I heard/read, "I read this other CEO's biography and decided to copy their habits, and that was my secret."