elvinyung

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by elvinyung 3y ago
How was the beef stew?
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by elvinyung 4y ago
https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html > One of things that tends to boggle programmer brains is while most software dealing with money uses multiple-precision numbers to make sure the pennies are accurate, financial m
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by elvinyung 4y ago
That doesn't seem mutually exclusive with the fact that the oldest service is written in the oldest-used language.
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by elvinyung 5y ago
I learned about Paolo Soleri from William Gibson's Count Zero (sequel to the much more well-known Neuromancer ). Gibson always had a knack for foreseeing not just the automobile, but also the traffic jam: > But today’s episode ke
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by elvinyung 5y ago
Would you say the same about a house? A car? You might say that buying a house on credit isn't frivolous but a pair of shoes on credit is, but where do you draw the line in the middle? (Disclaimer: I work at Square, but I am otherwise
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Square Banking(squareup.com)
321 points by elvinyung 5y ago|168 comments
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by elvinyung 6y ago
Maybe "he" is short for "Helios" :-)
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by elvinyung 7y ago
I guess the word "magic" is cursed. General Magic, GetMagic.com, and now this (not that we didn't see it coming)...
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Needs a (2015).
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SB 50 (California denser-housing bill) did not pass Senate(twitter.com)
1 points by elvinyung 7y ago|0 comments
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Note that as you mentioned since most shops in Japan specialize in a specific type of soup (i.e. the only differentiator is the tare and the toppings), it might be more useful to familiarize oneself with the characteristics some of the more
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Remember all that stuff about the Cayce Pollard Units :P
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by elvinyung 7y ago
I also like this analysis of general high infrastructure costs in America: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c... This tidbit is particularly infuriating: > In California, the prob
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Yes -- in fact, the original Spark implementation ran on Mesos only, as per the original RDD paper by Zaharia et al.: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi12/nsdi12...
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by elvinyung 7y ago
I mean, don't you think it's kind of a strawman to assume anyone thinks machines are explicitly sexist? It seems much more likely that whatever method they use to do feature selection on this obviously high-dimensional data just h
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by elvinyung 7y ago
In case anyone missed the context, this is probably related to https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-ho...
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Yep :P For a fun fact, CockroachDB was actually started by ex-Squares, so we're definitely very familiar with this exact same argument internally, back in the day when neither CockroachDB nor Spanner existed as a viable option :)
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Right -- that's why I said most RDBMS. To get ACID and CAP-consistent (which, as an aside, are not the same thing) cross-shard transactions requires some form of migrating your production system onto such a distributed-capable RDBMS
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by elvinyung 7y ago
(Disclaimer: I work at Square, but not on Books.) >Preventing inconsistencies by enforcing constraints is a key point of an RDBMS. This is literally why people use SQL DBs. This comment is not specific or related to the work at hand, but
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Just curious, do you have a good idea of how many of these are still being actively developed? I remember seeing stuff like Ringpop and Hyperbahn get moved to the uber-archive github account. I'm especially curious about Schemaless, si
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Foucault doesn't use the word "power" the way you think he does.
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by elvinyung 7y ago
> "Tasting Menu in Zero G" Meh. The Media Lab is (or was) doing some of the best work in the field in food and flavor science. Arielle Johnson [1] in particular is known for her work and expertise on flavor and fermentation, an
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Just curious, have you looked into Redis streams?
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Yeah, I'm currently getting bitten by various workloads that query by `created_at` instead of a canonical timestamp :) Thanks, I'll take a look! For the "valid time" primitive I was thinking of implementing something lik
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Here's a dumb question about log-structured systems like this: does this system work nicely with backfills? Suppose you start logging events with Waltz and you want to migrate an existing system's data into the same log. Or someth
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Right, but I'm assuming that with immutable data writes aren't a problem?
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Naive question: if time-series data is presumably immutable, shouldn't it be easy to just arbitrarily replicate chunks proportionate to load?
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by elvinyung 7y ago
I once read that King Arthur is one of the crowning (pun probably intended) counterexamples of "history is written by the victors": if the Anglo-Saxons really did write the history of the Sub-Roman Britain period, we would have he
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Matter of Britain/Arthurian mythos nerd here. It's amazing how much of the Arthurian mythologies have been derived from varius vague allusions in this book. Probably lots of people know about the theory of Ambrosius Aurelianus as
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by elvinyung 7y ago
Why not? Isn't public/social housing basically that?

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