smegel

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by smegel 11y ago
So how did it happen in this case?
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by smegel 11y ago
Given that there is so much probability in the world, you would think you would want to be certain about things you can be objectively 100% certain about, especially for one off long term choices that have big implications.
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by smegel 11y ago
> Yahoo had about 11,000 employees as of June 30 That's still a pretty big company in tech terms. A bit less than Facebook.
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by smegel 11y ago
This is starting to sound a lot like Android developers still asking if they should use Android Studio or Eclipse...
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by smegel 11y ago
Got rid of something called Conduit Toolbar for me. Although I politely declined it's offer of disabling all my extensions and resetting everything back to default.
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by smegel 11y ago
> You need to protect your state by communicating with channels or using a lock. But what are you protecting? Setting a value will not cause a map rebalance, and so long as you are just setting a new value (not incrementing or like) it s
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by smegel 11y ago
> As always, if one goroutine is writing to a map, no other goroutine should be reading or writing the map concurrently. What if you are writing to a value in the map? Surely that is safe to do concurrently with other processes reading a
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by smegel 11y ago
What a strange title for an article. It's like back-to-front thinking. Surely someone uninformed on the topic would want to read something along the lines of "anti-submarine warfare" or even "submarine detection", d
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by smegel 11y ago
> This is effective enough to the point where nefarious carriers have asked users to install configuration profiles to add the carrier's root certificates, which are used to modify and inspect what should be private traffic. It make
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by smegel 11y ago
> „Tier 3“ What's the down-up bunny ears? Does this mean anything or just a typo?
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by smegel 11y ago
Feminist persecution.
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by smegel 11y ago
It needs to call them, not implement them. I am guessing the former is a lot simpler than the latter.
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by smegel 11y ago
> explodes on landing This is a pretty unfair characterization. It actually made the landing for most purposes, then a specific failure occurred - a leg failed to lock and it fell over. And yes, when a rocket falls over it will often exp
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by smegel 11y ago
Yahoo: from $11 in 2011 to $50 in 2014 to $30 in 2016 I am actually surprised Yahoo is worth three times as much today as it was in 2011.
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by smegel 11y ago
I only skimmed over the release notes, but I hope they avoid adding too much complexity and keep it's prized simplicity.
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by smegel 11y ago
https://www.nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boost-performance-9x... ...and it was 9x not 8x...
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by smegel 11y ago
> Aside from the thousands of applications using Nginx on Linux with fantastic results. Citation needed. Name a big company using nginx on Linux to serve up lots of static content. > Yes, yes we know *BSD has a better networking stack
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by smegel 11y ago
> It was completely ephemeral Doesn't sound much like email to me.
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by smegel 11y ago
Well when NGINX introduced thread-pools on Linux to handle async tasks (mainly waiting for block device IO) I think the speed-up was around 8x. Thread-pools make NGINX on Linux tolerable, but it just works flawlessly and beautifully on Free
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by smegel 11y ago
Does docker run on FreeBSD? Because it is crazy to run NGINX on anything other than FreeBSD because of Linux's appalling bad async IO support. For all I know Windows might be a better choice.
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by smegel 11y ago
Did anyone break it to him that when he writes C, he is writing C++?
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by smegel 11y ago
Sell off the parts of Yahoo still worth something to give each team some startup cash, and let them raise more from investors? I am sure many would also just be bought outright by other companies for the talent alone.
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by smegel 11y ago
> As all of them would now have to pay for legal, accounting, recruiting, HR, customer support and other services True, but I guess this is true for all startups. And the reality is, for a bunch of guys and gals working out of a garage y
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by smegel 11y ago
I feel like Yahoo would be best broken up into lots of tiny pieces which would have the opportunity to become little independent start-ups in their own right, taking whatever "bit" they have and turning into a new concept and buil
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by smegel 11y ago
Hey, your landing page has me impressed already!
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by smegel 11y ago
Do you have a blog? I am currently in Australia, and actually becoming a digital nomad is a kind of dream of mine. Not really sure how to make it a reality though...it seems that webdev/online contracting is such a saturated and race t
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by smegel 11y ago
Yep. Japan is marching towards peace with Russia as well...I suspect Kim is getting nervous.
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by smegel 11y ago
I envy you. Out of interest, what do you do (if not a tourist)?
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by smegel 11y ago
What amazes me is the lawyers haven't been able to come up with some legalese that allows companies to transfer your data around their internal systems for your own use without stating "we can do whatever we want with your conte
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by smegel 11y ago
Out of my world, but I could see why the super-rich might like something like this. But I guess they have their own personal assistants for this stuff anyway.

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