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by dadkins 3mo ago
Jim Roskind had a really nice talk [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uaaCiyJCFA ] at AWS Reinvent 2022 which highlighted the fence post problem. Basically, AWS was targeting P50 and P90 latencies in many services, and sure e
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by dadkins 3mo ago
That makes sense, and is a fine approach.
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by dadkins 3mo ago
I'm of two minds about this. Facebook and Instagram keep me connected with friends, new and old. True, they're filled with algorithmic crap now, but when I tried ditching them for a while, it didn't improve my connections wit
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by dadkins 6mo ago
Semi-serious answer: No, the company only gave themselves the right to unilaterally amend the terms, not you.
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by dadkins 6mo ago
https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-bill/3010 Sadly, this bill has been around since 2007, introduced by the very same Hank Johnson! I would love if Congress would put an end to the forced-arbi
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by dadkins 11mo ago
The big two, x86_64 and arm64, have 64-byte cache lines, so that's a reasonable assumption in practice. But I was surprised to discover that Apple's M-series laptops have 128-byte cache lines, and that's something a lot of pe
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by dadkins 1y ago
Yup, this is how stuff ends up getting lost and delayed, even if the crews on either side are competent and efficient. Most people can't fill up an 18-wheeler, so some bin packing has to take place for the long haul. I've done a c
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by dadkins 1y ago
I just want to point out that the answer is shift work. Here's an example of an SRE job at a national lab: https://lbl.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/site-reliability-... "Work 5 shifts per week to monitor th
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by dadkins 4y ago
"This was the first leadership interview loop in the past 12 months (20+ companies) in which anyone had asked me to write code." Interesting data point for the question: at what point in your career will you stop being asked to wr
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by dadkins 4y ago
> It's essentially saying, we don't believe your degree says anything about your ability to perform the job. That says more to me about the companies practicing this style of interview than it does your degree or the institutio
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by dadkins 5y ago
You got 21 recruiter messages _with salary_?? Amazing. I have had almost no luck getting that information from recruiters without hopping on a call. None have ever provided that information upfront. I only managed to get that info from an A
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by dadkins 5y ago
How can it simultaneously be the hottest job market in anyone's memory, and yet the process still looks like this? These don't look like companies struggling to hire; these look like companies being exceedingly picky and not suffe
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by dadkins 5y ago
Yeah, the expectation that _everyone_ excels in leadership and influence leads to some absurd situations, like everyone on a team being "tech lead" for some part of the project. Or the all-"senior" team. Presumably they&
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by dadkins 5y ago
Thank you for calling out on-call responsibilities in your job listing. Too many job listings today fail to mention that _very significant_ responsibility. I enjoy working with distributed storage systems, but I don't think I will ever
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by dadkins 5y ago
Also, Craig Silverstein, 1993 ICPC winner and Google employee number one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Silverstein
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by dadkins 5y ago
Definitely not graphd. Maybe Livegraph? I forget what the project was called, but it was the first realtime query engine built for the Knowledge Graph and it used PathQuery as the query language.
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by dadkins 5y ago
Mainly after. Metaweb brought MQL with them, which ran on their own single server graphd, which was eventually shutdown. Warren started working on PathQuery as a replacement for MQL. PathQuery was originally executed on Pregel and was far f
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by dadkins 9y ago
I disagree with you premise. People are spending time in jail for not showing up to court, not because of their debts. And even jail time is pretty rare for a bench warrant. Of the situations you listed, the only valid reason for not showin
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by dadkins 9y ago
Both this article and the ACLU report it's based upon are ridiculously misleading. You don't get arrested for owing a debt. You get a bench warrant issued for not showing up to court when you've been ordered to do so. Debt co
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Spectacular Bay Area Tech Startup Failures, from Juicero to Plastc(sfgate.com)
2 points by dadkins 9y ago|0 comments
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Corporations band together to stop consumers from banding together(theintercept.com)
5 points by dadkins 9y ago|0 comments
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by dadkins 9y ago
What will likely happen, at least in California, is that the clerk will schedule all of the Equifax cases for the same day and the judge will hear them all at once, like a little miniature class action.
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by dadkins 9y ago
In California small claims court, you can sue an out-of-state corporation in the county where you reside. It's one of the options on the form: where the plaintiff was injured. You don't have to go to Sacramento yourself, just serv
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by dadkins 10y ago
The assignment of invention disclaimer is straight out of Washington state law [ http://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=49.44.140 ]. They're required to put it in their employee agreement, but basically anythin
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by dadkins 10y ago
Having looked at a lot of overpriced "fixer-uppers" lately, believe me, owners aren't taking care of their places either!
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by dadkins 10y ago
I'm afraid I don't follow your math. The cash to exercise the options goes immediately back into the company's bank account. It's as if they were handing out shares instead of options. The only expense should be the tax
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by dadkins 10y ago
There's a much simpler solution: early exercise. It's already possible and good companies offer it as an option. You exercise all of your options immediately upon joining. The difference between the fair market value and strike pr
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by dadkins 10y ago
Don't forget natural growth, i.e. birth. According to census estimates, California had a natural population increase of 1,332,394 (births - deaths) from April 2010 -- August 2015. In that same period it had a net immigration of 568,88
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by dadkins 10y ago
Interestingly, papers by US government employees are already in the public domain. Journals have no problem publishing those. I think one direction this could go is that public universities could insist that their researchers put their work
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Google shutters My Tracks outdoor activity-logging app(engadget.com)
1 points by dadkins 11y ago|0 comments

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