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by _bpo 7y ago
> A better question would be, why do you think you did not succeed. Is that a different question than "why you failed?" from the GP?
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by _bpo 8y ago
Nice & succinct problem definition for why ACLs are so important for everyone: > Let me show you an example. You have a Redis instance and you plan to use the instance to do a new thing: delayed jobs processing. You get a library fro
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by _bpo 10y ago
The tldr here is that this is a nice recounting of personal experience interviewing with Uber and being frustrated by it, pointing out the many warning signs seen in the interview about a toxic work culture. The post was prompted by the phe
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by _bpo 10y ago
> even for a small company, $8k/year is admittedly a small fraction of one engineer This is certainly true, but overlooks the fact that many major products start out as experimental projects, and $8k/year is a significant inves
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by _bpo 10y ago
Capital expenditures might shed some light on this. I don't think there's enough public data to be clear but in 2015 Amazon (4.8B), Google (9.9B) and Microsoft (5.9B) were at least on the same order of magnitude in terms of CapEx,
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by _bpo 10y ago
Lots of downvotes here – any explanation? The GP uses the phrase "the phenomenon itself" referring to the Kantian term "Ding an sich", which (as applied to phenomena) is just a logical error...
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by _bpo 10y ago
"Entitlement programs" is politicized as a term, certainly. "Cost disease", though... possibly in search for a new keyword? > I'm referring to the phenomenon itself. From your example, Elizabeth Warren and Tom Pr
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by _bpo 10y ago
> "cost disease" has become politicized Citation needed. Where is this term common and where is it broadly discussed?
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by _bpo 10y ago
Tangential, but why do people write things like "even after adjusting for inflation" when discussing long timespans (40 years in this case)? Is there any reason to not adjust for inflation? The "even..." in the sentenc
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by _bpo 10y ago
Author here. I completely agree. Embedded gists didn't have this annoyance when I wrote the article. I figured GitHub could be relied on to not change things up too much, but that's what I get for depending on an external service.
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Redis Pub/Sub: Node.js Howto(redisgreen.net)
3 points by _bpo 10y ago|0 comments
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Redis Pub/Sub: Intro Guide(redisgreen.net)
3 points by _bpo 10y ago|0 comments
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by _bpo 10y ago
Lots of useful, successful things appear to be magic (especially in their selling points). Early Heroku is a great example in this space. I didn't see anything in the initial premise of otto that was technically untenable. We could spe
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by _bpo 10y ago
It's too bad (and uncharacteristic of mitchellh) that this post is so light on specifics. Were the "previously unknown challenges" simply that not enough people adopted Otto? Or were there actual technical hurdles? The premis
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by _bpo 10y ago
> Languages are faster, development times are shorter, and chips are WAY faster. This is due to Moore's law, not the software design choices that the article bemoans. Those $30k/month Sun servers were many times faster and chea
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by _bpo 10y ago
It doesn't need to be compared to anything to be called a mess. dpkg/rpm have been widely useful, but package and dependency management is still a PITA.
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by _bpo 10y ago
Even if you are genuinely curious, such inquiries from a boss/"authority figure" can easily come off as threatening, so tread very carefully with advice like that.
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by _bpo 11y ago
Looks like your blog is down at the moment
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by _bpo 11y ago
You get lockin issues with any vendor - even server colocation :) AppEngine is a great tool for a great price. It scales smoothly with an affordable increase in pricing. Heroku is sort of famous for getting too expensive at large scale. The
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by _bpo 11y ago
Their total costs between Heroku and Redis infrastructure are less than $3000. I don't think you'd be able to hire a devops engineer for less than $30k, anywhere. It's surprising to me that people think they're spending
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by _bpo 11y ago
"Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management"
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by _bpo 11y ago
There are many non-state actors who can threaten life/personal-freedom.
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by _bpo 11y ago
Perhaps the problem was that I didn't travel by bus :) Or perhaps I was just consistently ID'd as a foreigner and mark. Either way, fifteen euros to get across that border seemed reasonably sufficient to all. It's entirely po
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by _bpo 11y ago
No idea why this is near the top of hackernews, but I've been there. One time when I was there, there was a huge billboard in front of the old ministry of culture with the (then) presidents of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria s
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by _bpo 12y ago
You're certainly correct, but if you compare this: http://linux.die.net/man/1/indent with this: https://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/ even just by line count, you'll see the
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by _bpo 12y ago
I didn't mean to imply Go invented automatic formatting :) It's unique among the popular language that I know in that the formatter is built into the standard toolkit. It also goes well beyond indentation. I've never seen a d
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by _bpo 12y ago
A big problem in large-scale systems is dependency management. One of the significant decisions that Go makes in its design is its approach to package management. Its approach isn't perfect, but is simple, making it a breath of fresh a
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by _bpo 12y ago
There can be fast differences in fork times between different virtualization schemes, even if your code is CoW-friendly (and Redis's is).
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Redis Lua Script Library(redisgreen.net)
3 points by _bpo 12y ago|0 comments
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by _bpo 12y ago
I worked for years on systems built on top of MTurk (building trust systems, scaling tasks, etc) The hardest thing is always task design, as the author discusses. It's quite challenging to create a task that will work in all browsers,

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