Sikul

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by Sikul 1y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention video games/entertainment companies. LA is quite good if you're into those industries. I never really looked, but my gut says it has the highest concentration of video game companies. As far as t
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by Sikul 3y ago
Thanks Kagi team. It's really cool to see a search engine change in positive ways!
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by Sikul 3y ago
It gave Musk more time to destroy Twitter.
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by Sikul 4y ago
Me too. I wrote one of the more popular script packs for AutoRune. Looking back AutoRune had a pretty cool event based language. I was a noobie to programming so I didn't really understand at the time.
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by Sikul 5y ago
Ah yeah, just tested it and it says "IF APPLICABLE, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO RELOCATE TO DISCORD'S SF HQ? WHILE DISCORD IS EMBRACING A HYBRID REMOTE APPROACH GOING FORWARD, SOME ROLES WILL REMAIN HQ-BASED." It is not applicabl
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by Sikul 5y ago
That's weird. Do you have a link to the job posting?
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by Sikul 5y ago
This isn't true anymore. We switched to allowing and supporting permanent remote work (writing this from Seattle).
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by Sikul 5y ago
We've moved quite a few datasets from Cassandra to Scylla, but not messages. I think we're planning to make a blog post about our experience with Scylla at some point.
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by Sikul 5y ago
Kind of weird that California is tied for 3rd on the list but they make it a point to say people are "fleeing" California before mentioning the other top 3.
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by Sikul 6y ago
rsc said they made some big improvements for this particular type of problem. I'm not sure which version of go the improvements landed in.
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by Sikul 6y ago
Elixir is without a doubt still one of the core languages. We try to use the right tool for the job and Elixir is the right tool for parts of our system. We also combo Elixir NIFs and rust to speed up parts of the Elixir services https:&#x
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by Sikul 6y ago
Original author here. Cool to see it posted again. We're still using and investing in rust at Discord. For example, in the past year we successfully pulled part of the core messaging system out of python and into a rust service. Rust h
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by Sikul 6y ago
We are hiring at Discord https://discordapp.com/jobs
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by Sikul 7y ago
No worries, we could have mentioned that in the post as part of the service history :)
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by Sikul 7y ago
Also worth noting: Most requests to the service have to update many Read States. For instance, when you @everyone in the Minecraft server we have to update over 500,000 Read States.
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by Sikul 7y ago
We originally cached this data with a Redis cluster but we hit scaling issues. The Read States service only exists because Redis had issues.
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust(blog.discordapp.com)
1582 points by Sikul 7y ago|640 comments
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by Sikul 8y ago
Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 45 million to 150 million users in the last year. We have over 20 million daily active users and t
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by Sikul 8y ago
Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 45 million to 130 million users in the last year. We have over 19 million daily active users and t
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by Sikul 8y ago
Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 90 million to 130 million users in the last year. We have over 19 million daily active users and 8
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by Sikul 8y ago
Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 45 million to 90 million users in the last 6 months. We have over 14 million daily active users an
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by Sikul 9y ago
Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 45 million to 90 million users in the last 6 months. We have over 14 million daily active users an
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by Sikul 9y ago
Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is increasingly how gamers communicate. We grew from 45 million to 90 million users in the last 6 months. We have over 14 million daily active users and that number is growing ever
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by Sikul 9y ago
Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is increasingly how gamers communicate. We grew from 45 million to 90 million users in the last 6 months. We have over 14 million daily active users and that number is growing ever
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by Sikul 9y ago
Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is increasingly how gamers communicate. We grew from 11 million to 45 million users in less than a year. We have over 9 million daily active users and that number is growing every
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by Sikul 9y ago
Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is increasingly how gamers communicate. We grew from 11 million to 45 million users in less than a year. We have over 9 million daily active users and that number is growing every
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by Sikul 9y ago
Discord | Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is increasingly how gamers communicate. We grew from 11 million to 45 million users in less than a year. We have over 9 million daily active users and that number is growing every day. Di
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by Sikul 9y ago
You might be interested in this: https://blog.discordapp.com/using-react-native-one-year-late... We use it over at Discord.
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by Sikul 9y ago
Discord | Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is increasingly how gamers communicate. We grew from 11 million to 45 million users in less than a year. We have over 9 million daily active users and that number is growing every day. Di
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by Sikul 9y ago
Discord | Senior/Lead Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is increasingly how gamers communicate. We grew from 11 million to 45 million users in less than a year. We have over 9 million daily active users and that number is grow

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