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by sideway 3y ago
After moving to the UK in 2016, I found my first job in London via Who's hiring. I formed deeply meaningful, very strong relationships with some of the amazing people I was fortunate enough to meet there.
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Microsoft's big bet on helium-3 fusion explained(theregister.com)
4 points by sideway 3y ago|0 comments
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KYC and AML: Beyond the Acronyms(bitsaboutmoney.com)
4 points by sideway 4y ago|0 comments
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The global health-care collapse(economist.com)
149 points by sideway 4y ago|397 comments
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by sideway 4y ago
Does anyone have any source (books/videos/open source projects) on backend development for multiplayer games? The scale and real-time aspect of it seems like a fascinating subject.
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by sideway 4y ago
Such an insightful article. I'm really curious how one acquires the knowledge and develops the skills needed to write so eloquently about a deeply complicated topic. What does patio11 read, who are the people he interacts with, what he
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by sideway 4y ago
I'm intrigued by all these comments praising second-hand bookstores as I've never been in one myself. My discovery methods are pretty simple and quite targeted. Could you name some interesting, non-fiction books you've discov
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by sideway 5y ago
Interesting question, I wrote and deleted many answers, all probably equally valid. At the end of the day, it is frightening to raise a child in a world you are not optimistic about. And I can't imagine my youth without this idea of a
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Ask HN: How can I start thinking optimistically?
13 points by sideway 5y ago|22 comments
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by sideway 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what industry is your company in?
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by sideway 5y ago
If I could, I would downvote anything that does not increase the signal-to-noise ratio. In the last 1-2 years, there has been an upward trend in reddit-like comments like "Yes!", "That sucks", and smart-ass/low-qual
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by sideway 5y ago
> Now they try to reduce their labor costs by stretching the limits of the law Why would you say they are stretching the limits of the law? My understanding is that they had no obligation to renew those 3-month contracts. > Except if
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by sideway 5y ago
Thanks for your recommendation, I pre-ordered it =)
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by sideway 5y ago
Thank you so much for your input on this topic, very informative answers!
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by sideway 5y ago
* Designing Data-Intensive Applications * Monolith to Microservices * Streaming Systems * Designing Distributed Systems * Building Event-Driven Microservices * Kafka-Streams in Action A comment in this post also suggests "Building Micr
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by sideway 5y ago
Exactly-once is not a requirement but ordering is. I had Kafka and Kinesis in mind when writing this question but just in case you haven't seen it, there is a way to get ordering guarantees using SNS and SQS: https://aws.ama
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by sideway 5y ago
> do event-driven architectures work at all, and has anyone "fully embraced" it. It doesn't have to be "fully embraced" to be successful. For context, I've seen successful event-driven architecture implement
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by sideway 5y ago
Interesting, does serverless help with data ownership?
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by sideway 5y ago
You are right, that's what I was referring to. I have seen DDD working sufficiently well for some use-cases but issues started appearing when the business redefined what the domains are and how the org is structured. I guess there is n
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by sideway 5y ago
Thanks for your answer, it really helps. Does moving the DLQ messages back to the normal queue mean that all consumers can deal with out-of-order scenarios?
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by sideway 5y ago
Thanks for your detailed answer, really appreciate it. Two follow up questions if you don't mind me asking, even though I understand you were not on the publishing side: 1. Do you know if changes in the org structure (e.g. when uber wa
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by sideway 5y ago
> For us, it's either a function that will retry the messages after some time, or manual intervention. What does manual intervention look like? Are all downstream consumers blocked until the DLQ is emptied or do all consumers know h
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Ask HN: Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?
284 points by sideway 5y ago|168 comments
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by sideway 6y ago
> and, frankly, threatens to take down the entire stock market Could you expand on that?
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by sideway 6y ago
> ...applying the value investing style. I thought this style is pretty much dead, because market efficiency has increased compared to the times when Benjamin Graham analysed securities by hand Do you mean the manual part has gone out of
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Ask HN: How to do compliant analytics/ML?
3 points by sideway 6y ago|0 comments
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by sideway 7y ago
I've been following many threads on Reddit (and one on HN) about people getting fired already. As there is no indication this trend will be reversed any time soon, I get the feeling that a) lots of industries have already been hit hard
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by sideway 7y ago
Would you mind elaborating?
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by sideway 7y ago
You mean natural languages, not programming ones, right?
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Ask HN: What skills will be useful during an upcoming recession/depression?
169 points by sideway 7y ago|185 comments

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