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by sulam 5y ago
Their developers decided donating their time to a bunch of demanding know-it-alls with no appreciation for their work was a bad deal for them.
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by sulam 5y ago
Again, you seem to be nitpicking my upper bounds estimate of their traffic. Fair enough. Are you making any broader point other than that we may mildly disagree on what that bound is? If so, that's fine, I picked a higher round number
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by sulam 5y ago
source?
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by sulam 5y ago
I'm going to assume that since you are referring to exponential distributions in one part of your response that you're familiar with this topic, even though you refer to averages in another part. Averages are, as you likely know,
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by sulam 5y ago
Math on peak RPS doesn't work that way. It's extremely non-uniform. I agree that 10K rps wouldn't be sustained for an hour, but I bet they hit it at points, or get close to it. 1k rps is likely something they exceed for 10&#x
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by sulam 5y ago
Let's say "trivially shard most of their traffic" and I can agree. Product managers are constantly coming with cool ideas that are hard to shard.
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by sulam 5y ago
Stupid nitpick, but I'd prefer to have someone correct me: s/guild/gild/
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by sulam 5y ago
His LinkedIn page has "Hebew" as a language he's fluent in. Given his background/interests, he obviously means Hebrew, but this lack of attention to detail is at least a yellow flag for me. I also am surprised that Linke
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by sulam 5y ago
6M requests a day. Assuming a "US East Coast dominates" traffic pattern which is typical for this kind of site, that means their rps probably spikes north of 10K, but I'd be surprised if it's over 50K. I disagree that st
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by sulam 5y ago
I mean, Fitbit had 2000 people when we sold to Google. The Peloton stores are the wildcard factor that likely gives them a much larger number.
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by sulam 5y ago
This is because creating the exact right abstraction for the job is time consuming. It may pay off later, and your typical FP person is fairly convinced that it will in terms of being able to be confident you got things right without havi
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by sulam 5y ago
My bonafides for the comment I’m about to make: 5 years of professional Scala development at a serious Scala house. I have never done Haskell, but many of my co-workers have, and I had at least one interviewee do all his coding in it (he go
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by sulam 5y ago
Hey, at least the founder is fluent in "Hebew".
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by sulam 5y ago
This is how long it's worked so far, the title is a bit misleading.
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by sulam 5y ago
I undoubtedly compressed too much into too few sentences. My allusion to genius||wrong is raising exactly this concern. How do you decide which? For me in this argument it comes down to results. Why do people organize in this way? As I stat
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by sulam 5y ago
Btw, I never said “telling the rest of them what to do.” That is a complete misconception of management, at least the way I believe the best managers practice it. I only get involved in decisions that my team has been unable to make themsel
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by sulam 5y ago
And yet one that billions of people participate in. You are either a genius of epic proportions or just wrong in your thinking here. As long as people in coordinated groups get more done than individuals, I believe you are wrong.
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by sulam 5y ago
Well then you are mistaken in your characterization of this not being work.
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by sulam 5y ago
Your imagination is very far from the reality of what managers do. I’ll give you a run-down of my day: 1) reading emails. These emails generally consist of a few categories of things — stuff I need to be informed about, questions, asks for
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by sulam 5y ago
It’s funny to me that in the neighborhood he professes he was most worried about being preached at, likely no one interacted with him, and of course he was actually preached at in the other neighborhood. (I say likely, because he didn’t not
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by sulam 5y ago
Is dgraph?
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by sulam 5y ago
When I’ve recruited for niche roles, which these are a lot like, I would hyper target with good results. Meaning go after people on a particular team at a particular company, or recruit from people who graduated from a specific program or l
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by sulam 5y ago
I haven’t heard about that. I’ll reach out to CS and see what’s up. We haven’t made any forced updates that I know of (and I should know). That said phone updates do sometimes break or lower the reliability of our Bluetooth connection, and
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by sulam 5y ago
Yeah, a pure service model would be lovely in many ways. If I ever start a company that makes HW (fat chance) my experience at Fitbit means it will certainly be service-based.
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by sulam 5y ago
Unfortunately not with such a broad statement. Our CS team is usually abreast of issues with products that are in market and keeps me and others in the loop when there’s something we need to fix from an engineering side.
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by sulam 5y ago
You seem to saying a lot of things here rather declaratively. I will speak to my experience only, but we have used version control, drivers, various HALs, and automated testing (plus some manual, this is HW after all and some end to end tes
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by sulam 5y ago
Heh. Not going to comment on Apple Watch for obvious reasons, but I will say that we measure free memory in 10s or 100s of bytes on most of our older products. Even a single GB would be amazing, but also amazingly expensive.
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by sulam 5y ago
I don't know much about Fuschia. I'd be surprised, though, if updatability wasn't a major concern. Part of why I don't know much about it, though, is that AFAIK it's 64-bit only, and the MCUs we run are 32-bit affai
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by sulam 5y ago
Google has actually started extending its security update policy for its hardware to 5 years. I don't know what "enough" is, but as someone who has to do these updates (ironically, for Fitbit devices, yes we are owned by Goog
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by sulam 5y ago
It’s funny to think that my pet, without having the ability to vocalize a human language or think abstractly, still manages to communicate more effectively than this pile of words arranged into a simulation of ‘deep thought.’

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