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by sulam 8y ago
Did I say that? We (I spent 4.5 years there, starting with the writing of the first service extracted from the monorail and left shortly before the 'twitter' repo was deleted) absolutely went through a huge architectural transitio
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by sulam 8y ago
It's amazing he's only paying back $1600ish a month on that kind of income. As far as crying a river goes, I wonder what that's done to his credit rating... Seems like it would be in the toilet from debt to income ratio.
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by sulam 8y ago
And this is exactly what Twitter did, and how Twitter replaced Ruby and Rails with the JVM.
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by sulam 8y ago
You're making the assumption that there is a database in the mix for the 100X case. There wasn't, except in-memory. It wasn't a 100X improvement across the board, it was 10X to 100X.
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by sulam 8y ago
No, I'm looking at Twitter's numbers in production. Before and after very much tells the tale -- and it was mostly the same engineers, so it wasn't "oh well you had the B team doing Rails and the A team doing JVM code&qu
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by sulam 8y ago
You're getting downvoted, but this is one of the arguments for going with unikernels.
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by sulam 8y ago
The fail whale image was retired over 4 years ago now because it almost never showed up anymore. That should tell you enough.
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by sulam 8y ago
Yes, well, that's a nice idea in theory. In practice, you could get over 10x (sometimes 100x) the rps off a box running the new, JVM-based services vs their Rails-equivalents. Orders of magnitude probably matter a little less when you&
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by sulam 8y ago
Probably falls into the category of physics. ;)
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by sulam 8y ago
Bicycles of the mind are amazing for producing mental leverage. That leverage amplifies the benefit you can gain from intellectual capacity, and the result is that intellectual differences between people which once were minor become vast. O
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by sulam 8y ago
Have you read this thread? I personally stumbled hard on the definition for Firebase ("essentially equivalent to AWS" -- I might be paraphrasing slightly since it's been a day).
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by sulam 8y ago
Every time someone makes a statement, or series of statements that involve the words "can't" or "not" (or others) regarding the capability, adoption, or just general progression of technology to do a particular thin
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by sulam 8y ago
Except for the part where a bunch of the definitions are wrong, misleading, or woefully incomplete.
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by sulam 8y ago
He had read access to G3. Exfiltrating it all would have been hard, but he could have gotten a chunk of it for sure.
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by sulam 8y ago
Without trying to support the piece, the DNA question has a rich history of being explainable via the panspermia theory.
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by sulam 8y ago
I don’t know how affordable it is but I’ll drink Whistlepig anytime I see it.
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by sulam 8y ago
It’s highly unlikely that Amazon (or anyone) can reliably find or build datacenter space that is high quality _and_ within a few miles of other such space across all the regions they operate. If they had gone to to such lengths they would c
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by sulam 8y ago
Or VPNs. :)
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by sulam 8y ago
Really? Did you read it? She does an amazing amount of laundry, but otherwise, she's not really pushing anything other than bleach.
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by sulam 8y ago
I conquered high school biology so this isn’t news. Can you explain their math?
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by sulam 8y ago
We don't know each other (I don't think!), but trust me, no one who knows me would believe you if you said I'm at risk of that!
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by sulam 8y ago
To be honest Gmail auto-replies have been amazingly on point for me. The reply options they give me in quick, transactional emails are generally _exactly_ the sort of reply I would have typed out, so they save me a lot of time.
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by sulam 8y ago
The word you're looking for is "converge", not "coalesce", as in convergent evolution, which is well known. Here's a quick find using the googles: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg3483
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by sulam 8y ago
"(Humans have about 20,000 protein-coding genes.)" "The researchers found 6,331 genes that were present in the common ancestor of all living animals." "But 1,189 of the genes in the ancestral animal can’t be found i
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by sulam 8y ago
Pittsburgh needs to do what we do in (some intersections in) California — ban left turns during rush hour on intersections with no left turn lane. Everyone still gets where they need to go and traffic moves much more smoothly.
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by sulam 8y ago
Driving in California, the best roads literally make it illegal to turn left during rush hour when the intersection doesn’t have a left turn lane. People still get where they’re going.
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by sulam 9y ago
Except as the article points out, both Amazon and Google have or intend to make domain fronting not work, regardless of the domain being fronted.
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by sulam 9y ago
It was due to the way they exported the data. They used a SQL statement, and if you weren’t in a guild then the SQL would produce NULL. That output was then used to generate PDF badges, and it tried to do some filtering for NULL guilds. The
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by sulam 9y ago
I think it’s a miscommunication. That looks like a senior role in their CIO ‘group’, not specifically the CIO.
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by sulam 9y ago
Classic! We named our guild in EQ "NULL", as a joke. People would comment that we had a problem when they saw us running around with "<NULL>" running over our head. It bit us on the ass when someone went to Sony&#x

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