ehfeng

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by ehfeng 6d ago
have you tried simultaneously vertically and horizontally scaling?
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by ehfeng 1mo ago
(copy paste hedged definition of success)
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by ehfeng 1mo ago
i wonder if it's just an unappealing business to compete with. it's like walmart: no one likes walmart, but it's unappealing to compete with them in small-town america. plus, it's a huge headache to run and not very prof
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by ehfeng 5mo ago
Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong are simply in a class of their own. imo, Shanghai and Guangzhou have decent systems. Compare China's urban areas to Asia's other major developing nations: Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila. China can do much bet
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by ehfeng 8mo ago
Yeah, I also own a dumb Prius and love it nostalgically.
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by ehfeng 8mo ago
I've been using Autopilot for years, but recently subscribed to FSD for a long weekend roadtrip. It changed my mind on the value of FSD. While unfortunate for consumers, it cleans up the offerings. For four years, I didn't buy FSD
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by ehfeng 9mo ago
Emotionally, I agree that the current system sucks. But how exactly do you "[put] median housing titles in the hands of median people"? Government seizure and redistribution of property titles? That's where I always get stuck
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by ehfeng 9mo ago
I'd agree that China is preparing to be cut off, but it's not because of Taiwan. Dan specifically mentions this: "In vain do I protest that there are historical and geopolitical reasons motivating the desire, that chip fabs
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by ehfeng 1y ago
No, WhatsApp charged a $1 annual subscription fee prior to 2016.
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by ehfeng 1y ago
You should include state taxes, which in CA's case tops at 13.3% and 3.8% NII, bringing the total to 37.1%.
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by ehfeng 1y ago
He addressed this. Elon "doesn’t deliver everything he talks about". His point is that Elon may promise more than he delivers, but he has still delivered on quite a lot.
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by ehfeng 2y ago
Early Google search only provided web links. Google Images, News, Video, Shopping, Maps, Finance used to be their own search boxes. Only later did Google start unifying their search experiences. Yelp suffered greatly in the early 2010s when
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by ehfeng 2y ago
Got it thanks
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by ehfeng 2y ago
I disagree with your "natural" person qualification. "Non-natural persons" includes anyone with a work visa or green card. It's hard enough for most people to get these, much less become fully naturalized citizens.
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by ehfeng 4y ago
Hanlon's razor except s/stupidity/corporate policy/g.
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by ehfeng 5y ago
You misunderstand why I brought up him being from Xamarin. The initial conversation was about how Nat was likely leaving because his contract ran out. The counterpoint was that he was from the Microsoft side and therefore he didn't hav
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by ehfeng 5y ago
You are technically right, but Nat comes from Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin. He definitely is not a lifelong Microsoft employee.
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An Honest Review of Gatsby(cra.mr)
181 points by ehfeng 6y ago|118 comments
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by ehfeng 6y ago
Sure. I don't know if 'unstable' is the best name for everyone, but if the industry decides to spend the engineering time to rename default branches, we shouldn't be just be switching to the first synonym in the thesauru
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by ehfeng 6y ago
The name 'main' feels overloaded, just like naming the default branch 'default' or 'development', with the risk of "Who's on first?" confusion, especially when branching off branches. "What
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by ehfeng 7y ago
Spending engineering time to save sales time is only viable at very sales-oriented but lower ACV products and even in that case, onboarding is generally focused on very core product functionality. Because sales deals have to be >$10,000
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by ehfeng 7y ago
> These are good values. But the way progressive culture enforces those values socially is pretty intense. I hadn't drawn this delineation before, but I find it apt. I grew up Asian in the Midwest and while I like progressive values
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by ehfeng 7y ago
Assuming you pulled it straight from the sea, it'd probably be salty and slimy. The internals of cells are mostly water, protein, and DNA, which don't really taste like anything to our tongues. Most sugars are stored as glycogen,
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by ehfeng 8y ago
Hi author here. I actually just learned this from you. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/sql-prepare.html will be my lunchtime reading. Thanks!
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by ehfeng 8y ago
They actually link to another blog post ( https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/06/14/scalable-increment... ) that solves this with pg_sequence_last_value(). I personally couldn't find this function, bu
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by ehfeng 8y ago
Agreed. Short questionnaires are always a pleasant surprise.
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by ehfeng 8y ago
Hi Brett
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by ehfeng 8y ago
I wouldn't call Redshift "excellent", nor would I call ClickHouse "way behind". ClickHouse was the best choice for my last employer's use case ( https://twitter.com/zeeg/status/98700955
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by ehfeng 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Improvement_Company
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by ehfeng 9y ago
Testament to Google Finance's abandonment: still using Flash.

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