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by wbsun 4y ago
> The problem is people aren’t building great things, period. +1000! Praising is cheap.
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by wbsun 4y ago
I am working on network infrastructure, we mostly use command line flags to enable/disable features. The flag values are saved in the code repository and built into each release. There is an internal initiative recently asking for dyna
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Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads(ai.googleblog.com)
2 points by wbsun 4y ago|0 comments
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by wbsun 4y ago
Note that in 2016, $250k was considered low income in Palo Alto, CA, and was qualified for subsidized housing: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-rent/palo-alto... 6 years passed, and now with high infl
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by wbsun 4y ago
They are many signs, but when you start asking this question, you are very likely already burning out. I have a few burnout coworkers around me, the signs I've observed: - complaints about the system/process/workload, - alway
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Ask HN: Why is there no cartop advertising for personal vehicles?
4 points by wbsun 5y ago|2 comments
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Schools across US cancel classes over unconfirmed TikTok threats(theverge.com)
8 points by wbsun 5y ago|3 comments
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by wbsun 5y ago
This. We really need more competitions to help.
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by wbsun 5y ago
Interesting. I also work for a cloud provider. My team work on both internal infrastructure as well as product features. We take testing coverage very seriously and tie the metrics to the team's perf. Any product feature must have unit
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by wbsun 5y ago
> I eventually had to have a friend at Google contact the Gmail team to get my account lockout sorted out. Reading this thread on HN, I started to panic thinking about what would happen if I lost my Gmail account, and then I saw this com
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by wbsun 5y ago
Sometime it is not the programmers that don't know the benefits of maintainable code or how to write it, it is the culture that rewards short-term velocity instead of long-term reliability. I've seen superstars designing shitty
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by wbsun 5y ago
With all these ARM/RISC-V based SBCs like RPi, I always wonder why no one every wants to make similar 8086/80386 SoCs and SBCs?
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PHP is the best language in the world(php-is-the-best-language-in-the-world.com)
6 points by wbsun 5y ago|0 comments
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by wbsun 5y ago
A reminder that ARM is short for Advanced RISC Machines or previously Acorn RISC Machine[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
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Who Wants to Return to the Office?(fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by wbsun 5y ago|0 comments
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Saved You a Click: Helping Rid the Internet of Clickbait(reddit.com)
1 points by wbsun 5y ago|0 comments
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by wbsun 5y ago
Here is what I did to GCE: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/15046 Can’t say more than the provided link, but that was definitely a messy weekend which is also my boss’ birthday… it is the only time
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by wbsun 5y ago
Got one, too
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by wbsun 5y ago
Reminded me of this paper on SigGraph 2007: https://ict.usc.edu/pubs/An%20Interactive%20360%20Light%20Fi... , video: https://youtu.be/8gvPS1m40gw
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by wbsun 5y ago
Reviewing architecture and reviewing code are totally different thing. Pushing code to production is not a one-step process. It has at least two phases: first push code to the repository, then build the binary and push the binary to product
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by wbsun 5y ago
+1, the truth is not important at all. The most scary path would be intentional. I can't think of any other aftermath except for WWIII.
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by wbsun 6y ago
Why 2049 is a deadline? Mind elaborating? I don't think there is any agreement on when a reunion must happen.
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by wbsun 6y ago
> I, for one, would prefer, if I have a choice, it to be just my Gov and not a foreign Gov that I consider to be hostile.. This seems intuitive at first sight but doesn't make sense to me: is it your Gov or a foreign Gov that can mo
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by wbsun 6y ago
If that's the case, then the cost of violating rules for them is trivial enough that they can simply just keep doing this: 1) pump a stock price by allowing buy but restricting sell, 2) then they short this stock to 100%+, 3) they allo
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by wbsun 6y ago
At work, I am building a reliable and scalable control plane for GCP network. I am not sure how much detail I can share here before getting fired so I'll stop here. As a side project, I am finishing an iOS app that can block phone call
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by wbsun 6y ago
Agreed. The bottom line is very clear: do not (directly) cause violent attack. The society is already bearing with them, they may even be able to indirectly cause violent attacks. You can't expect everyone to love everyone. But violenc
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by wbsun 6y ago
I am a person of color. I read those comments and got frustrated. I usually just comment/submit technical contents on HN. But recently I have been so pissed off by some obviously racist views that I commented with anger. My username is
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by wbsun 6y ago
When did step 2 happen? Banning Trump? How could inciting speech that directly lead to violence and death be legal?
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Basics of the Unix Philosophy(catb.org)
1 points by wbsun 6y ago|0 comments
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Chipotle leans into burritos to go with first digital-only restaurant(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by wbsun 6y ago|0 comments

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