chrisdinn

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by chrisdinn 4mo ago
When other website owners realize how much traffic you send them that is good for you. Maybe they want to sponsor that newsletter if it’s driving a lot of business.
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by chrisdinn 2y ago
Is ”advancing our amazing bet” a nod to the Google Fiber turndown?
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by chrisdinn 2y ago
My advice is to check LinkedIn for listings but don’t apply that way. “Easy Apply” lowers application friction so effectively that every posting gets ~1000 applicants of which few are actually qualified. I don’t think I ever heard back on a
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by chrisdinn 2y ago
In Canada, it seems like there’s a large and growing number of remote jobs available at US software firms through employer-of-record startups like Deel and Remote. Canadian software engineers are surprisingly cheap, relatively speaking, esp
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by chrisdinn 3y ago
I’ve used Placemark for well over a year to build custom map-based graphics for torontoverse.com. There are a lot of web apps in this space now, and always QGIS, but I personally felt Placemark struck the right balance between simplicity an
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by chrisdinn 3y ago
I’d love to see you elaborate on this. Anecdotally, my experience was the exact opposite. Is there some documentation making this point? In the course of optimizing I came to know the various JVM GC algos (concurrent mark/sweep, parall
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by chrisdinn 3y ago
Teasing this apart I see a few things: a) logging, b) modules rollout and c) missing frameworks. I’ve never had a logging issue in large systems. Explicit error return (as you know, on every function) allows you to log in your code, not le
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by chrisdinn 3y ago
Curious to understand what you are suggesting here. What’s a better story for polymorphism than duck typing? What would (better?) null-safety look like in Go?
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by chrisdinn 3y ago
I’ve got to disagree with this strongly. I built and operated the same large system in both languages (acquisition forced me to rewrite) and both the dev and operating cost of the JVM was much higher. Go is a high velocity language. Code re
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by chrisdinn 3y ago
I write a lot of Go and I can’t tell you how much this warms my heart. Compatibility probably isn’t much fun for the language team, always having to keep one foot firmly in the “distant” past. But for those of us that have to maintain large
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by chrisdinn 4y ago
He usually goes by JM Fortier on YouTube and I think he’s great. He’s a real inspiration to me, for sure. He’s very open and has a lot of stuff up there on various channels about the development of his market garden.
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A Kernel Hacker Meets Fuchsia OS(a13xp0p0v.github.io)
349 points by chrisdinn 4y ago|280 comments
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
Just to be pedantic, I’ll point out that’s literally “transparent” matter and we use the term “dark” which is really more appropriate for something that absorbs EM radiation because it also implies the mystery of the holes in our knowledge.
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
Hiawatha is more than just a leader he’s essentially a religious figure to the Haudenosaunee who historically reside in roughly the area around Lake Ontario. It is definitely in bad taste to take a meaningful symbol from an existing margina
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
He’s describing a graph data structure using a tree metaphor but definitely not describing the “tree” subset of graph data structures.
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
There are two new trackball models released this year, the nano and mini.
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
This is the article that the study authors linked to in their other writing: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2010...
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
I mean, Google was built on protos in a “NoSQL” database (BigTable). I think maybe you are overindexing on personal experience.
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
If you store protos in your Redis keys (like most people using “NoSQL” for data storage), this comment doesn’t have much punch. Pretty sure we all can think of some pretty high profile examples of NoSQL + structured data working very very w
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
The Timeless Way of Building describes a philosophy, not just of building practice but really of how to live a good, fulfilling life. A Pattern Language is an set of examples of how to shape specific parts of your community and home to impl
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
Reading A Pattern Language without reading The Timeless Way of Building makes no sense at all. We do it, I think, because many technologists stumble on A Pattern Language through its relationship to Gang of Four and other “pattern” approach
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
To piggyback on this solid comment, a lot of times it’s us engineers who can fix this. I sat on L5 hiring committee at Google for a while and I really believe what diverse-background candidates need is more support at HC. I could sell these
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
You want to flip this. Google/Facebook operate the ad tech and own the site (or, more accurately the audience) so they don’t need to deal with third-party publishers on a per-request basis at all.
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
I don’t think this is a convincing argument. I don’t believe it’s good to allow third party tracking pixels on youtube.com (for instance) and the alternative way for buyside to get that data is ADH. It sucks compared to prior state for peop
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
OA is just open auction which is what most people think of when they think of AdX, ie. more or less anyone can bids on your inventory. O&O is owned and operated, where you actually own the audience. In the simplest case this is like YT
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
After years at Google on DFP/Ad Manager these quotes read kinda sad to me because this is a lot conspiracy sounding stuff and in reality it’s just not that kind of operation. Sell-side ad tech (ie. DRX) doesn’t make much money for Goo
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
Canadian parents do this too, I’ve known several students whose parents bought homes to live in while they study. It’s not necessarily a naked investment ploy, it’s simply very difficult to maintain a certain quality of life for your childr
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
Why is everyone so eager to blame this on China? Of course there are some Chinese buyers here in Canada but if you’ve actually been in the market or know any builders you know that explanation doesn’t add up.
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
Think about how desperate you have to be to buy in Woodbridge if you’re studying in Waterloo? I think they were more likely victims of the situation not perpetrators, c’mon. Waterloo is a legit school, not unexpected for it to draw internat
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by chrisdinn 5y ago
Ontario isn’t building nearly enough housing for the rate of flux in the economy. We’re 10x behind. KW is a great example, we’re still building too many cul-de-sac subdivisions with 3000sqft houses on 3000sqft lots. We can’t build enough su

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