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by weel 15y ago
Yes, you can beat the standard malloc. Use jemalloc. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/scalable...
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by weel 15y ago
By the way, don't interpret the above as saying that Amsterdam, or Holland generally, is a horrible place. Amsterdam is a cosmopolitan, small city -- a combination you won't find many other places. It's a college town, a tourist attraction,
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by weel 15y ago
The tax does NOT include medical insurance. You're supposed to take out your own "zorgverzekering" (i.e. medical insurance) from a private company, although you can get a subsidy to cover the expense ("zorgtoeslag") if you have a low income
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by weel 15y ago
I think you are right. But that does not mean that this isn't in Uber's interest. Normally, it's not in any business's interest to lower prices to the point where you don't have enough capacity. That would be leaving money by the curbside t
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by weel 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand what is cynical about it. The union represents a small number of taxi drivers and tries to improve their economic position at the expense of that of everybody else in the city. Moreover, basic price theory shows th
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by weel 15y ago
I've got one of these on my desk and I can assure you that it's amazingly solidly built. Evan and Mike have tweaked the dimensions just so that the plywood they use, sanded and waxed in the way they sand and wax it, fits very precisely -- o
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Trebuchette - the snap-together, desktop trebuchet(kickstarter.com)
3 points by weel 16y ago|0 comments
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by weel 16y ago
Congratulations!
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by weel 16y ago
Yes, of course. (And I believe YC already asks a question about that.) Employers regularly claim intellectual property rights to the inventions of their employees. But issues coming up does not equal issues being unsurmountable. First of al
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by weel 16y ago
A subway ad on the DC metro, maybe?
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by weel 16y ago
I know it's hard to write pithy headlines, but describing open source as "programs written by volunteers" is misleading. A lot of open source software is actually written by people who get paid to do so, or who get paid at least partially b
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by weel 16y ago
As far as I can tell, yes. In particular, the people being sued by them presumably cared quite a bit.
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by weel 16y ago
Precisely. I actually have another comment to make, though, which is about the impedance mismatch between Engineering School culture and Ivy League culture. I graduated Caltech in 2005. Caltech may be the best example of a school with extre
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by weel 16y ago
The article starts, "Think your Brown, Cornell or MIT degree carries weight in the professional world?" But what on earth is the "professional" world? "Top law firms, consulting agencies and investment banks." In other words, what is being
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by weel 16y ago
Robertson screws are not flat head screws. They are a type of screws that is particularly popular in Canada and that requires a square screwdriver. Look it up on Wikipedia... it's an interesting tale of intellectual property guarded too zea
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by weel 16y ago
After using Hipmunk and ITA Matrix, I won't go back to using Orbitz or Expedia for searching fares. They're still convenient for actually booking things, but that's it. I've lately had to book some flights between SFO and IAD on very short
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Multi Level Marketing is a great way to piss off your friend(hustlebear.com)
1 points by weel 16y ago|1 comments
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Zappos Robotic Warehouse(youtube.com)
2 points by weel 16y ago|0 comments
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by weel 16y ago
The OCaml compiler is a work of art. Reading it fills me with awe.
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How Clustrix does distributed SQL (It's impressive)(clustrix.com)
24 points by weel 16y ago|9 comments
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Funding Markets Develop in Reverse « Startup Boy(startupboy.com)
1 points by weel 16y ago|0 comments
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by weel 16y ago
I interviewed for jobs in California last week, and I got job offers from three startups (two in San Francisco, one in the Valley), one of which was pre-series-A. Each of these reassured me that they knew a good immigration lawyer and offer
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Accelerate Your Startup: Spend to Scale the Business: Tech News «(gigaom.com)
2 points by weel 16y ago|0 comments
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Updated: A Play by Play on the Comcast & Level 3 Spat : Tech News «(gigaom.com)
1 points by weel 16y ago|0 comments
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The Real Story Behind the Comcast-Level 3 Battle: Tech News «(gigaom.com)
1 points by weel 16y ago|0 comments
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Packet Inspector Kindsight: We’re the Google of Web Security: Tech News «(gigaom.com)
1 points by weel 16y ago|0 comments
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High Scalability - Some Services are More Equal than Others(highscalability.com)
3 points by weel 16y ago|0 comments
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Carlos Bueno: Internet Cartography(carlos.bueno.org)
3 points by weel 16y ago|0 comments
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by weel 16y ago
xs4all
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by weel 16y ago
I interviewed at Google today and I recall their documents specifically saying that they would appreciate my not disclosing their questions.

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