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by zellyn 9y ago
Heh. I grew up in South Africa, where “didn't do your homework” was met with a choice (if you were lucky) between caning (getting hit with a thin bamboo rod) and essay-writing.
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by zellyn 9y ago
Interesting. I wonder how different that is from RecordIO. Also, whether there'll be a Go implementation. [Edit, after looking a bit.] Pretty different. If I remember correctly, RecordIO is re-synchronizing, whereas Riegeli seems to br
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by zellyn 9y ago
When I was at Google, I kept an eye on the open sourcing of RecordIO. Apparently there was no desire not to open source it: it was simply that nobody had the time to disentangle and/or clean it up for release. Looks like some parts of
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by zellyn 9y ago
Note: Good for the USA.
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by zellyn 9y ago
Nope. Haven't tried.
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by zellyn 9y ago
Joining (the Atlanta office of) Square, I was very nervous that “Unlimited Vacation” actually meant “No Vacation”. It hasn't turned out that way: our office has a good work-life balance. I would still expect that that is not generally
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by zellyn 9y ago
Touché
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by zellyn 9y ago
You are 100% correct about waiting for several years before using a new database product. However, if you look at the path Cockroach is taking, they're doing all the right things to shave those years down. They already Jepsen themsel
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by zellyn 9y ago
Is this an open-source library one could use to make one's own interactive tools? Just curious. Anyone have pointers? Edit: I am slightly familiar with this family of tools. I was curious if there was a pointer to exactly the one used
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by zellyn 9y ago
The image proves it's not industrial espionage only if you're playing a very shallow game. I expect that anything that muddies the waters helps the attackers. Attackers are quite familiar with forensic and analysis techniques, and
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by zellyn 9y ago
If by "generally behind the curve when it comes to hardware specs" you mean a generation and a half _ahead_, then yes.
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by zellyn 9y ago
I don't mean this facetiously: did you read the article? This work presents novel ways of "solving" the problem that cause it to beat the other contenders fairly convincingly (in non-linearizable regimes).
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by zellyn 9y ago
Right. We all agree on that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E Unfortunately, that appears not to be consistent with the dreary reality we find ourselves in :-(
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by zellyn 9y ago
It seems hard to believe 75 million people have signed up for Credit Karma: that would be like 1 in 4 for the entire US population. Am I missing something obvious?
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by zellyn 9y ago
Open question for hacker news denizens: why don't the three main credit bureaus let you register your SSN, and get alerts in an app whenever someone tries to take out a loan? I'd sign up for that in a heartbeat. Hit me up with the
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by zellyn 9y ago
Was it 3-4 minutes when updating a single file? Or only running over the whole repo?
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by zellyn 9y ago
If your entire codebase is Go, you really shouldn't be using Bazel/Pants/Buck/Please. Go's built-in build system is perfectly adequate for just Go, with light tooling for generated code (eg. protobufs). It's wh
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by zellyn 9y ago
You might like https://please.build/ . Also, I think the pants folks are considering a Rust rewrite.
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by zellyn 9y ago
I've been looking for an excuse to post this to HN, and here's the perfect thread. If you (like me) are afflicted since childhood with both Science and Religion, and you don't mind chewing through something a bit meaty, this
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by zellyn 9y ago
Ah, didn't catch that. Thanks!
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by zellyn 9y ago
I'm sure there are ridiculous penalties for interfering with actual elections, but I can't help feeling that what we need with electronic voting machines is for someone to hack them to only pick Democrats. Within 3 hours, Republ
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by zellyn 9y ago
I think self-owning corporations are neat as a Scifi plot device, but fears of human extinction due to corporate structures seem overblown. It's not as if human-controlled companies haven't needed to be restrained by law in the pa
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by zellyn 9y ago
Well, if each of those 1,000 dependencies goes three years between accidental breaking changes, you still have a broken build every day on average…
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by zellyn 9y ago
This was a strange article. These days, it's hard to tell what is (a) genuine journalism from a concerned source (b) some kind of intentional negative press funded by an adversary, and (c) clickbaity journalism that tries to collect en
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by zellyn 9y ago
The interview is clearly about a book; I assume they focused on the story around the writing of the book, rather than recapitulating the contents of the book. If you want to know what is done badly, and how to improve, I imagine the best th
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by zellyn 9y ago
(a) it is (b) there are tons of "Greyglers"
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by zellyn 9y ago
I totally agree about the unnecessary complexity of the git workflow. If you haven't seen it before, check out gitless: actual research-backed simplification of the git commandline workflow. Reduced views of files and history are super
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by zellyn 9y ago
Please respect the fact that some of us actually read comments and reply to them thoughtfully. Throwing around trite accusations of “strawman” arguments doesn't help anything. The comment I replied to was claiming that it was the git w
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by zellyn 9y ago
I'd respectfully disagree. In a monorepo the size of Google's (or even Square's, where I work now), there would be a whole schlep to open the file in your editor. Much better to fix right there where you're browsing. Als
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by zellyn 9y ago
I was at Google when they implemented something like this in their source code viewing system. If you see a typo in a comment, for example, you click the pencil icon on that line, which pops open an editor with your cursor on that line, fix

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