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by bkeroack 8y ago
Flashbacks to CORBA.
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The Philosophy of Infrastructure and SRE(engineering.dollarshaveclub.com)
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by bkeroack 8y ago
Dollar Shave Club | Los Angeles, CA or Remote (US only) | https://www.dollarshaveclub.com Dollar Shave Club is looking for an experienced Go (Golang) engineer interested in Kubernetes, Docker and related infrastructure and secur
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by bkeroack 8y ago
Interesting! We built and use a service called Furan: https://github.com/dollarshaveclub/furan That said, Furan isn't suitable for untrusted Dockerfiles (or multi-tenant environments) exactly due to the security i
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by bkeroack 8y ago
Option 2 is very similar to how signal handlers work in Go. When a signal is received, a value is written to a channel and the library user is responsible for reading values from the channel and responding appropriately. https://
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by bkeroack 8y ago
Dollar Shave Club | Infrastructure Engineer (Go/Golang SDE) | ONSITE, Full-time | Los Angeles, CA | https://www.dollarshaveclub.com Want to work on Kubernetes, Docker, GRPC and related ecosystem full-time? Itching to contri
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Tests absolutely cost time, inversely proportionate to the raw ability of the programmer. A 95th percentile engineer can write cowboy code with zero tests that largely works. Enforcing tests could cause up to a 50% slowdown. It’s probably w
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by bkeroack 9y ago
That's why they're the dominant player. Because even when a horrible defect is exposed people still desire the product over the competition.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Imagine seriously believing that guaranteed lifetime employment, very generous pension and health benefits (unheard of in the private sector), a well-defined career ladder as well as a six figure salary somehow aren't enough. Out of th
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by bkeroack 9y ago
The very assertion that you must protect people from exposure to various ideas is deeply problematic and against everything the Enlightenment taught us.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Google the phrase "forced technology transfer". The basic strategy is to woo Western companies with extremely cheap labor and vague promises about access to the Chinese market, in order to get the companies to export most/all
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Ah, ok. That makes sense. Thank you for the clarification.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Wait, so even the "bare metal" i3.metal sits under a hypervisor? It would seem inaccurate to call it "bare metal" in that case.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
"I'm part of a large, multi-organizational effort to put as many people out of work as possible."
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by bkeroack 9y ago
I like it when kdb is mentioned because then I can post this link: https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/c/c/k.h#L96 It's one of my all-time favorites. A window into a certain type
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Agreed. There is a strong drive in industry to commoditize "coding". For example, the wide proliferation of bootcamps. The world being what it is, if the perceived skill is equal companies would prefer to hire the cheaper 20 year
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by bkeroack 9y ago
> they mostly need to be profitable through advertising whereas the conservative side can be run at a loss while their backers recoup their investments through deregulation and tax cuts This is insane. Show me one conservative-leaning me
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by bkeroack 9y ago
It's not just battery manufacturing, it's everything manufacturing. It's clear that Musk (therefore Tesla) is addicted to the rush of developing and releasing new products but are loathe to dedicate time towards the boring, i
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by bkeroack 9y ago
When you have hundreds of thousands of customers with paid reservations waiting for Model 3s, why on Earth would you spend resources launching another product line? It’s madness.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
In NYC (Manhattan, specifically), the external costs associated with driving (bridge/tunnel fees, parking) are so expensive that it prices out a large fraction of the population. That doesn't mean that driving a car wouldn't
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Some people don't like hamburgers. That isn't a data point against McDonald's being successful.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
OP means "better" in the subjective sense. They're more comfortable, more convenient and faster. It takes a very large degree of external difficulty (traffic, parking) to tip the scales enough in favor of mass transit to make
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by bkeroack 9y ago
In my experience, Boston to Providence is pretty fast and pleasant. The issue is the rest of the way to NYC, which crawls through Connecticut at a snail's pace and takes something like 3.5 hours. It's a pretty brutal trip.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Google "elsagate" for the full backstory here. Most of these videos are essentially grooming tools for pedophiles, and the creators make substantial amounts of money on YouTube monetization. It's absolutely sickening.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
> I believe most Americans are opposed to a national ID, so SSNs have been used as a (utterly terrible) workaround. The federal government was never intended to administer services or benefits directly to all US citizens. The US Constitu
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by bkeroack 9y ago
So this is essentially the taxpayer paying to build out infrastructure that private enterprise then runs and collects profits on right? This is a good thing? Wasn't that always the argument why pharmaceutical companies are so evil, bec
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by bkeroack 9y ago
What are the odds that the city will run an ISP better than, say, the DMV?
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by bkeroack 9y ago
> It's reasonable to assume that someone could, 100 years from now, unzip an OpenDocument file. LOL said the thousands of people with old dusty Zip disks sitting in boxes in their attics. That was only 25 or so years ago.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Compare these financials to Uber, Snap or even Twitter. It's not even the same league of money loss. Furthermore, AMD actually was competitive with Intel for a period, and may do so again.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
"Up to". Also we don't know how many underlying SSD devices there are, which is my point. This is a single drive that supports radically more sustained random IOPS than we've ever seen, at a very low price point compar

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