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by spyspy 9y ago
I've seen that most companies are still coming around to containerization as the future of their infrastructure. Serverless isn't even on the roadmap, so we're definitely far from peak hype.
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by spyspy 9y ago
App Engine Flex is newer but I wouldn't describe it as "upcoming". My company's been using it in production for a while now.
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by spyspy 9y ago
> having trouble operating at the capacity the city requires. It's not just having trouble. The capacity the city requires is far beyond what it's currently running at. Meeting current demand would've meant planning for it
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by spyspy 9y ago
Truth. This[0] is how we did it for the NYTimes Crossword platform. It took a year and a half, but was managed with a team of only 2 people (myself being one of them). [0] https://open.nytimes.com/play-by-play-moving-the-nyt
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by spyspy 9y ago
If you believe that investors don't look at non-revenue metrics like MAU you are sorely mistaken. In fact, it's almost all they care about in this category. Twitter's stock is in the toilet because their user growth has taper
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by spyspy 9y ago
Self congratulations.
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by spyspy 9y ago
Very curious what type of work you're doing where atomic tasks can run for weeks at a time.
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by spyspy 9y ago
It means users' puzzle and game progress was never interrupted, along with login sessions. A half-played puzzle before the cutover could be picked up as it was afterward.
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by spyspy 9y ago
They should worry about making their own businesses profitable first. Sharing snap videos on Twitter? Really? That’s their genius idea? Despite bad PR Facebook is a juggernaught when it comes to actually delivering value to users and making
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by spyspy 9y ago
NYT Games Team dev here, happy to answer any questions.
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Play by Play: Moving the NYT Games Platform to GCP with Zero Downtime(open.nytimes.com)
17 points by spyspy 9y ago|1 comments
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by spyspy 9y ago
I've done something like this before: > id = flag.Int64("id", -1, "ID of the thing I want") Obviously that doesn't work for booleans, but you could take the boolean input as a string and then use strconv.Par
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by spyspy 9y ago
> no way to know whether the flag was given by the user or the default value was assumed implicitly I'm struggling to find a need for this. Flags define behavior, who cares if the behavior is explicit or implied from inaction?
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by spyspy 9y ago
Someone calculate the optimal crowd location to catch one of the chains he always tosses to the audience.
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The (Futile) Resistance to Serverless(medium.com)
2 points by spyspy 9y ago|0 comments
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How to Solve The New York Times Crossword(nytimes.com)
2 points by spyspy 9y ago|0 comments
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by spyspy 9y ago
We use this to generate the NYTimes Crossword PDFs. I'd say the API is a little wonky (there are several different methods just for writing text) but it gets the job done. I wish it supported font compression though. We have to pipe th
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by spyspy 9y ago
Yes let’s blame the victims first. That’ll solve everything.
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by spyspy 9y ago
MTA liberally shuts down service for hours/days at a time. I wouldn’t chalk it all up to not having enough time to do maintanence. It was 24/7 back when it was functioning more consistently as well.
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by spyspy 9y ago
Non-mobile link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/science/japan-fukushima-n...
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by spyspy 9y ago
> giving of graphs and other media that are meant to project an idea of objectivity Agile has the same issues.
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by spyspy 9y ago
Really moving the goal post here. Apparently _drive safely_ is an "unexpected" behavior.
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by spyspy 9y ago
> most expensive Not really. Like any hosting platform, if you know how to tune it properly costs can be kept low. We cut our infra costs in half moving to GAE. YMMV.
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by spyspy 9y ago
They've already been sitting on the same physical design for the past 4 years, from the 6 to the 8. I wonder why they waited so long to release a new chassis. The fact that they took so long and when it finally does come, they jack up
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by spyspy 9y ago
Thank you. No one ever describes why anything was written in the first place. And they almost never go out of their way to list the pros/cons of their system. Although I've never even used it, I loved that the BoltDB project menti
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by spyspy 9y ago
I recall that Facebook brute forced their way into having an onion url that was easy to remember, by generating millions of them and then picking one that was simple.
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by spyspy 9y ago
Apple has been iterating on the same phone body for too long. For better or worse Apple had a reputation for pushing design limits over and over, yet the last 3 models (6/7/8) have looked exactly the same. The X is what the 7 shou
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Prototyping Games at The New York Times(open.nytimes.com)
5 points by spyspy 9y ago|0 comments
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by spyspy 9y ago
My landlord charges a flat fee for just using their online portal and my checking account. There's another 3% fee for using a card.
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Google releases Cloud Firestore(venturebeat.com)
2 points by spyspy 9y ago|0 comments

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