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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf](web.mit.edu)
7 points by wbsun 6y ago|0 comments
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by wbsun 6y ago
+1, one can't know everything. Knowing the unknowns is often easy to fix, either learn them or find someone knows them. My company usually review postmortems of outages in production, almost all of them I have reviewed are because of a
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by wbsun 6y ago
As a distributed software developer, I have found debuggers less useful these days. If I need a debugger, it probably means I don't really know the code that I am working on. Good IDEs with good static analysis, good unit test/int
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by wbsun 6y ago
As a Silicon Valley company employee, I don’t think talking about politics at work is professional. But whenever I hear an opinion that is different from far left, most of time it has discrimination. I guess as a SV immigrant SWE and father
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by wbsun 6y ago
Any reason the hash function and the collision handling can’t be separated and mocked for unit tests? What if you decide to increase the bits of hash values or change the hash algorithm?
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by wbsun 6y ago
Off topic, I am wondering what are missing in mobile browser before we can completely move these games to web and get rid of native apps? Faster JS? Accelerometer and other censor APIs?
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by wbsun 6y ago
I mostly use c++ at work, I used to be a big emacs fan and use emacs with etags, now using company’s internal IDE that has better auto suggestions and auto completion. The IDE has more syntactically and semantically accurate and useful sugg
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by wbsun 6y ago
Click is a very good software router to read and learn: https://github.com/kohler/click It can be more than a router though.
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Why is YouTube auto playing Trump's attack ads on the homepage?(reddit.com)
10 points by wbsun 6y ago|1 comments
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by wbsun 6y ago
I guess you probably never broke a system and caused an external visible outage? I am working in a FAANG company, almost all the things slow the dev velocity down are originated from postmortem action items, new hire super stars stop compla
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by wbsun 6y ago
In my experience, correctly identifying the culprit is the most difficult, but during an incident, mitigation is the most important. Most incidents I ran into happened after a job rollout, in order to find and mitigate an issue, a distribut
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China Is Winning the Trillion-Dollar 5G War(yahoo.com)
1 points by wbsun 6y ago|0 comments
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by wbsun 6y ago
This is awesome work! Kudos to the folks making this happen. But at the same time, so sad the open source community have to spend their efforts on this while vendors could have made this happen at beginning. (I know there could be commercia
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by wbsun 6y ago
Have you ever worked in a distributed system? If not, try one. If yes but you don't feel it hard, try improving its reliability/availability/scalability/performance/latency/debuggability/observability&#x2F
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Ask HN: What's Your Definition of “Hacker”?
2 points by wbsun 6y ago|0 comments
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by wbsun 6y ago
I have given up educating people I met in daily life who misunderstand "hacker" and "cracker", but now I feel sad even on HN and with ESR's article [1] that people here still misunderstand these two. Hope most HN re
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by wbsun 6y ago
So you read ESR's definition of hacker in step 1 but instead focus on what he called "cracker"[1] in step 2/3/4 (not 4b)/5? Either you misunderstood "hacker" or unintentionally gave a misleading examp
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by wbsun 6y ago
> The old guys tend to trend towards reliable tech, reliable architectures. That's because they have experiences, the experiences from past failures. I don't think that's anything wrong.
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by wbsun 6y ago
Hmm, DevOps+Reliability experience, I am surprised Google is the wrong door. Did you try SRE role at Google London or Zurich office? I can help forward the resume if you'd give G a chance. Contact me at <my HN username> AT google
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by wbsun 6y ago
> That's how you get $5K screwdrivers and $30K toilet seats, and half a million dollar aircraft carrier toilet flushes. A bit off topic: what are these? Mind providing more details or sources?
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by wbsun 7y ago
Finally, although there are still more than a year to wait. Hope there won't be any extension to this deadline. Before that, I'll keep allowing calls from my contacts only, and bear the miserable inconvenience that sometime my p
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by wbsun 7y ago
Last year, I explicitly checked with Safari customer service about this, told them this is too good to be true since a regular Safari membership costs 3x of the ACM membership. The customer service replied and confirmed there is nothing dif
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by wbsun 7y ago
- similar to preparing for an earthquake (in SF Bay Area): food, water, propane, gas cooker, first-aid. - dozens of N95 respirators, which may or may not help... - lots of mini hand sanitizers carried in cars, backpacks, jackets. - watching
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by wbsun 7y ago
There are just 10? For Hangout related, there are already: Hangout, Hangout Chat, Hangout Meet, Chat, Meet, etc.... btw: Does Google Duo also count?
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API Design Guide(cloud.google.com)
4 points by wbsun 7y ago|0 comments
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The TTY Demystified (2008)(linusakesson.net)
1 points by wbsun 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How big is your database?
2 points by wbsun 7y ago|2 comments
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by wbsun 7y ago
cd pwd ls
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by wbsun 7y ago
How to stop worrying and start living -- this helps every day. How to become a hacker -- not actually a book, but helped build my belief. The mythical man-month -- this tells me to never take software project time planning seriously because
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Startup’s ‘AI’ to build your apps is just a bunch of human devs(thenextweb.com)
2 points by wbsun 7y ago|0 comments

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