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by vinay_ys 6y ago
This is brilliantly put. That's pretty much what engineering is – constraints and tradeoffs – giving software project planning/execution a healthy vocabulary to talk about makes it so much better. Much of the crappy feeling that d
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
That's pretty much how Linux kernel releases work. Just having a regularly scheduled release train that always runs on time – that you can catch (or not) is great.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
> We've actually used CMS to improve recruitment and retention of engineers in an organization. Would you mind revealing which organization? And how long have they managed to sustain these values? It would be super interesting to le
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
> But then again, most high frequency trading also runs on the JVM, so it can often be worked around. JVM is an awesome piece of technology. And you can do robotic control systems to high-frequency trading systems with it with careful pr
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
There was nothing imperfect in what I read. It was perfectly clear what features this product considers in its scope. I just didn't agree that those feature went well together with the stated goal of replacing current email systems.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Exactly. There's no replacing email with something that's closed membership / invite-only etc. The whole point of e-mail is its your address where someone can initiate a contact, like phone number. You can choose to filter it
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Yes, it is unfortunate they chose to do that. I stopped reading when I saw that section.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
If you want to host a game state object in memory (vs serialized and saved to SSD) because you have lots of frequent write/reads happening to that object in a very short window of time such that the IO cost and CPU cost (ser/deser
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
How much sensor data is kept in memory in the actor object? What's the cost tradeoff between memory vs an SSD? I wonder if SSD based solution would still be cheaper and more scalable than live memory objects based solution.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Why would it need to do that? To protect others from the same url, the same hash checking method should work.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Firstly software development is not one monolithic job. There are many different jobs within software development. You can be a systems engineer – understand the computers at a fundamental level – with focus on systems software – building l
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
The signal server project in GitHub isn't updated in 9 months. Have they talked about why they don't do server development in the open?
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Where can I read about the signal server-side architecture? Is it open-source as well?
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Junior engineers and PMs need the software to have a skeletal structure on which they can hang their features. This skeletal structure has to be put together by the lead engineer and lead PM. Usually I see both PMs and engineers churning wi
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Sounds like a big company problem. In most startups anywhere in the world, I would think they would be pressed for cash to just hire software engineers.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Most people don't imagine they want those features until they see someone else in their social group using them – fancy status in the form of stories is a great example of this. People have a strong desire to imitate and one-up others
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I think it is fair to expect Signal to support a solid encrypted backup/sync mechanism. They can allow users to manage the encryption keys out of band. Users can use a password manager (or a piece of paper) to save the encryption key.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I don't give access to my contacts to any app. And I don't give any access permissions to Signal. Signal must make it easy to invite friends without giving access to contacts. A simple Copy invite message with a mobile install lin
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
This isn't about free of fees vs not. It is about changing privacy policy drastically in an era when people do actually care about privacy.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Prioritising observability and load stress mitigation mechanisms/playbooks is the right thing to do for modern cloud native application service clusters. In such an environment, you could fairly easily make it possible to subject your
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Rather than load testing, do red line testing. That is – gradually increase load on your service with concurrent requests until it is saturated. Measure how the latency and errors progress with more concurrent requests and understand at wh
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I think they are saying Indian taxpayer funded research will be made available to public for free by passing a law and for international scientific journals they will make a deal for a country-wide subscription and make it available to the
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
It may not even be a 'mode' as such.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
One could argue we have more games today and they are more richly animated and more complex than it ever was and they have better reach to more number of users (with iOS / Android) than ever before. So from a user's standpoint, th
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Vaccines have "efficacy" (lab conditions) and "effectiveness" (real-world conditions) as two different metrics. Vaccine efficacy- % reduction in disease incidence in a vaccinated group compared to an unvaccinated group u
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
For someone to see your criticism as objective, the objective standard should be established ahead of time. For design/code reviews this means having coding standards/guidelines and training everyone to stick to them – rules of th
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Sounds like a psychological conditioning (behavior modification) regimen. Beware, it has a very sharp slippery slope towards unethical conditions.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
> All things considered, as a regular person who is concerned about protection from thieves and not especially concerned about being a target of governments, I am OK with these risks. As a regular person, you have to consider these possi
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
In this case, screwed w.r.t privacy (your credentials may still be safe). But you may become a target because of your sign-in activities which are no longer private.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
It is much better to use a password manager than trying to remember poorly crafted passwords in your head. But also really/truly remember not to really put all your eggs in one proverbial basket. Password managers are not without dange

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