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by strlen 16y ago
That was (sort of) my point. If you build something fairly trivial and not defensible on its own, "talent acquisition" is a rather good outcome.
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by strlen 16y ago
Posterous is out in the open for everybody to see. Why hasn't Facebook "killed it", then? Understanding user behaviour and preferences is part of what makes something defensible. Not having to build a product to operate at Facebook's scale
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by strlen 16y ago
This sounds completely bizarre. If your ideas are such that they can be stolen and executed upon by others trivially, than a job at Facebook (with a signing bonus) is pretty damn impressive exit.
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by strlen 16y ago
> Similarly for your "kernel preemption. A blocking mutex and a spinlock". Again I can guess, but I doubt that your terminology is both well defined and common. Really? That's standard terminology and I could define both in few sentence
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by strlen 16y ago
Scala and Clojure run on the JVM. There's very little to Java as far as syntax goes, it's basically C++ without MI, operator overloading or real templates. The real value is in the runtime: the standard library, the concurrency model, the v
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by strlen 16y ago
> Company which did too much OSS: Sun. s/did too much OSS/didn\'t do OSS early enough/
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Proposal: The Restaurant Incubator(matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
2 points by strlen 16y ago|0 comments
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by strlen 16y ago
The thing is that there aren't very many companies running 32-server (per colo) storage clusters (unless they're using grossly underpowered machines).
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by strlen 16y ago
Disclaimer: I work on a key/value store, so take my opinion with a grain of salt even though I'll stay clear from self-promotion, yadda yadda. Without distribution a key/value store is a hash table. To have any value added it's going to nee
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by strlen 16y ago
> "Let's assume you want to live in a major metro area, send your kids to private school..." That's his problem. When we moved to this country, my dad had an H1B visa and was making far below what an entry level Google employee is makin
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by strlen 16y ago
> Your main programming guy is a lisper? Right, financial organizations should hire bunch of PHP script kiddies. I am sure that's working well for quant firms like Jane Street.
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by strlen 16y ago
I hold a Masters degree in Computer Engineering and actually did my share of digital logic design, MIPS assembly, programming interrupt handlers, circuits and other things that supposed give you a large e-penis. I also work as a software en
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by strlen 16y ago
> There's an even bigger opportunity cost to spending 3-4 years of your life on something and have it come to nothing. Sometimes a binary outcome (death or success) is better than going nowhere and being unable to walk away from it. M
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by strlen 16y ago
> reporting to middle managers - on a hardware and software stack selected for them - frequently in the kinds of unsustainable scorched earth industries and overly large multinationals > frequently in the kinds of unsustainable sco
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Krati - Fast, Persistent, Append-only Data Store for the JVM(sna-projects.com)
6 points by strlen 16y ago|0 comments
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by strlen 16y ago
The btfs developer works at Oracle (and also works on OCFS).
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by strlen 16y ago
One caveat: best technical recruiters are former programmers (it's an automatic plus if a recruiter tells me "I'll take your LaTeX resume, I used it a lot in grad school").
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by strlen 16y ago
> I wouldn't say that Apple is dominated by a hacker culture at all. It's a mistake to say that. All the work that went into the LLVM/Clang, low-level development that's done OS X and iOS isn't something that you can do without hackers;
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by strlen 16y ago
> Bad programmers wrote a bad search engine, and Yahoo lost all their traffic to the good search engine? Yahoo didn't have their own search technology, until acquisition of Inktomi in 2003 (they used Inktomi to serve their results prior
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by strlen 16y ago
> " You can get programmers who would never have come to you as employees by buying their startups. But so far the only companies smart enough to do this are companies smart enough not to need to." Yahoo did do this through the Inktom
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by strlen 16y ago
There's a cynical side in me which makes me wonder if companies that embrace all of open floor plan, fixed working hours (implicit requirement due to practices such as daily 9:30 stand-up meetings), required physical presence are specifi
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by strlen 16y ago
Sorry if this sounds blunt, but a) Why did you join in the first place? b) Why didn't you find another job before getting fired?
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by strlen 16y ago
I tried using LaTeX with org-mode as well, but I've found that writing a paper / permanent document in LaTeX feels more natural than doing so in org-mode (org-mode being more suited to taking notes). I did use LaTeX to take notes all throug
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by strlen 16y ago
Reality of start-ups: if you're a founder and spend all your time coding, you're going to fail. I love coding, so I'd have to have an extremely compelling vision were I to do anything else.
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by strlen 16y ago
To add to what cperciva said, there's also the difference between the base system (/bin and /usr) and the ports subsystem (/usr/local). Most user space software is in /usr/local, which makes is convenient in that you could always solve nast
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by strlen 16y ago
The article has a serious point (there's no insurance against life, other than your own ability), but I too found the jump from an anecdote to a conclusion (with scenarios mentioned already being unrealistic) distracting. That being said, I
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by strlen 16y ago
> Amusingly, municipal bonds are in the top 4 likely candidates for our next set of major financial problem There's several kind of muni bonds, however, each with their own set of trade offs. The higher yield, the higher the risk. Som
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by strlen 16y ago
8% ROI is unrealistic, but a 2-4% is certainly possible especially with municipal bonds and insurance annuities. The former are also exempt from federal taxes, state taxes (if you live in the same state) and even local taxes (if you live in
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by strlen 16y ago
> Writing queries and getting performance out of the DB, that can be rocket science. I tend to ask questions more about database internals, but it's a crucial job for an engineer to understand how to get performance and integrity for t
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by strlen 16y ago
Cool, sounds like an interesting project and the perfect use case for Clojure. How do you intend to differentiate yourself from Direct Edge (my take is you're specifically looking to target CTRs rather than build a recommendation engine?) a

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