fsaintjacques

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by fsaintjacques 5mo ago
I recently toyed with a tiny VM for protobuf, you can use it in redpanda WASM streams, or in streaming pipeline (without having to use SAX parsers or IDL shenanigans with projected message compiled...) for filtering and projecting before de
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by fsaintjacques 3y ago
If only go had lambdas, functional interfaces and record classes...
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by fsaintjacques 3y ago
I highly recommend anyone to read Google's [AIP]( https://google.aip.dev/ ). There's even a grpc schema linter for it. Put more focus on the resource data design than nitpicking on transport details. I would conside
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by fsaintjacques 4y ago
JSON parsing is a minefield, especially in cross-platforms scenarios (language and/or library). You won't encounter those problems on toy project or simple CRUD applications. For example, as soon as you deal with (u)int64 where va
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by fsaintjacques 4y ago
If the application is in go, you can likely embed litestream.
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by fsaintjacques 5y ago
glibc already does dynamic dispatch for the memcpy family of functions.
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by fsaintjacques 5y ago
Optable | Montreal and Remote | Golang, React, Crypto | Full-Time | https://www.optable.co Optable is building a decentralized data management and connectivity platform designed for online advertising. Our goal is to enable adve
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by fsaintjacques 6y ago
It sure does.
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by fsaintjacques 6y ago
Let me introduce you to the underworld of affiliate marketing https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/affiliate-fraud.asp There's always money to be made if you can generate significant legitimate traffic to a g
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by fsaintjacques 6y ago
Not zero copy, requires deserialization.
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by fsaintjacques 6y ago
Because it would be a trivial indicator that you're in incognito mode.
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by fsaintjacques 6y ago
There's a very high chance this is monetization of botnets, which adds even more to the overall shadyness.
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by fsaintjacques 7y ago
Python is a portability minefield. I'll spend more time trying to get the script/package run than reading the bash script.
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by fsaintjacques 7y ago
See https://backtrace.io , disclaimer, previous employee.
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by fsaintjacques 7y ago
rtb bid request volume can easily go 1m/sec, this is not impressions, but offers to buy for an impression.
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by fsaintjacques 7y ago
Technical challenges and salary. In my local market, most jobs are web shops and/or CRUD business applications with low pay.
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by fsaintjacques 7y ago
Tables as queues is perfectly legit, one less component to worry about.
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by fsaintjacques 7y ago
I received my first paper nigerian scam last month!
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by fsaintjacques 7y ago
https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/
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by fsaintjacques 8y ago
They have a few people and a tiny office recruiting for developers. I work beside them. https://www.peersight.com/job/appnexus-senior-software-engin...
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by fsaintjacques 8y ago
As a software engineer in Montreal, you can get above market rate at these companies: - AdGear - AppNexus - Element.ai - Google - Hopper - Shopify
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by fsaintjacques 8y ago
This. Don't forget integer type defined by implementation. Very easy to shoot yourself in the foot in when consumers/producers are not written in the same language, even more if it's a mix of dynamic and static languages. Not
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by fsaintjacques 8y ago
I'm curious about this, could you point at the documentation?
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by fsaintjacques 8y ago
AFAIK, the Optane disks are _byte_ addressable.
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by fsaintjacques 9y ago
Coffee lake is not the same as cannon lake. This chart is from 2015 and suggests the cannon lake would be released in early 2017. I doubt we'll see cannon lake this year, since they released kaby lake early 2017... https://e
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by fsaintjacques 9y ago
It seems you know this subject very well :) https://github.com/etep/resume On an unrelated subject, do you know if the next desktop generation (coffeelake?) will support AVX512 or should I just buy a skylake-x?
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by fsaintjacques 10y ago
Ciro, your work is amazing.
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by fsaintjacques 10y ago
Does that means you can have fairly recent kernels with LTS releases? If so, amazing. That was my biggest complaint of Ubuntu on servers.
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by fsaintjacques 10y ago
I almost replied like you did; the joke is that there is no such list.
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by fsaintjacques 10y ago
You take a decision based on an offer called the bid request, domain/url/page is part of said metadata. The catch is that almost all fields in said offer can be faked by a malicious adversary due to lack of security/competenc

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