j_kao

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by j_kao 10d ago
Would be curious if this ends up incentivizing more littering.
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by j_kao 11mo ago
FYI the mooncake team was acquired by Databricks so it's basically vendors trying to compete on features now :)
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by j_kao 1y ago
1 - I think if we were sticking with the JVM, I do wonder if Lucene would be the right choice in that case 2 - It's a great tool with a lot of tuneability and support! 3 - We've been using it for K8s logs and OTEL (with Jaeger). S
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by j_kao 1y ago
These are great projects, we use DuckDB to inspect our data lake and for quick munging. We will have some more blog posts in the future describing different parts of the system in more detail. We were worried too much density in a single po
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by j_kao 1y ago
It's a bit difficult at the moment, given we have a lot of proprietary data at the moment and a lot of the logic follows it. I'm hoping we can get it to a state where it can be indexed and serving OSM data but that is going to tak
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by j_kao 1y ago
Author here! We were really motivated to turn a "distributed system" problem into a "monolithic system" from an operations perspective and felt this was achievable with current hardware, which is why we went with in-proc
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How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB(radar.com)
273 points by j_kao 1y ago|100 comments
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by j_kao 2y ago
Companies like Netflix with bigger market caps are still on AWS. I can imagine the productivity of spinning up elastic cloud resources vs fixed data center resourcing being more important, especially considering how frequently a company lik
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by j_kao 3y ago
Those are people who would probably steal software, anyways, so for most businesses I think worrying about those folks would be a waste of time
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by j_kao 3y ago
A bit of an aside, I'm a big fan of how Mike Perham managed to start a business around Sidekiq. I think it really gives us Hacker News folks that there's hope starting a viable bootstrapped business around open-source infrastructu
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by j_kao 3y ago
Perhaps if the fee was more expensive for a single person, but economical for >2 people then the math works out.
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by j_kao 3y ago
To be fair, there are a number of job openings where you can "Apply with LinkedIn", so it's structured data end-to-end.
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by j_kao 4y ago
One area which an external monitor (or high resolution) helps a lot with is UI or frontend programming. It's a huge pain to play with the chrome or Firefox debugger and have to jump between windows to get feedback. When it comes to bac
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by j_kao 4y ago
Testing in production will trend upwards among companies because everybody's workload is shifting towards the cloud and/or making use of external SaaS services. There are a number of cloud services that are not open source that ca
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CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI(circleci.com)
304 points by j_kao 4y ago|84 comments
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by j_kao 4y ago
I wonder if the ageing population combined with weakening currency are big factors here.
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by j_kao 4y ago
This is an even more effective strategy given the Japanese culture of constantly rebuilding housing [1]. It does beg the question of how sustainable that practice itself weighed against the benefits of solar installation. [1] https:/&
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How We Use Terraform with TypeScript at Radar(radar.com)
4 points by j_kao 4y ago|0 comments
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by j_kao 4y ago
This is a great release! Now we have a way to share code between our CI and Terraform (we use CDKTF). Imagine this scenario: 1. You onboard new developers and their on-boarding task is to add their name and public key to a DEVELOPERS.ts con
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by j_kao 4y ago
I hope my comment didn't come off as an attack and certainly admire what you've accomplished! So long as the medium of techno allows you to embed your own creative characteristics, then I think that's a great form of expressi
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by j_kao 4y ago
For fans of Dilla's music (you may not know the producer, but I'm sure you'll know some of his songs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Dilla_discography ), I'd highly recommend the book Dilla Time. The
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by j_kao 4y ago
I also wonder if writing music was chore-like due to the genre the author chose, specifically four-on-the-floor techno music that has largely fixed and repetitive structures? This music is meant to be mixed by DJs, after all, so consistency
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by j_kao 4y ago
I wonder if the 10% is purposely vague so that they can use a random 10 percent of content to A/B test platform engagement (maybe plan upgrades) and ad engagement.
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Netflix launches an ad-supported tier(about.netflix.com)
51 points by j_kao 4y ago|80 comments
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by j_kao 4y ago
That's true, there are definitely ways to make this work if we're confining these to very restricted spaces with active monitoring. I look forward to a future LA where car ownership is optional. There's a lot of aggressive ur
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by j_kao 4y ago
To be frank, especially for anyone who hasn't lived in LA, the LAPD doesn't do anything for the public unless it's something involving guns and/or gangs. It's not unlike how developers mark most bugs as "won&#x
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by j_kao 4y ago
This will be interesting to see if they can crack LA - drunk and overly aggressive drivers, crack addicts running around the streets, and vandalism. You can already see this "tragedy of the commons" type of behavior with the unusa
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by j_kao 4y ago
Thanks for the reply, I suspected that was the case. Was your payroll done in the US or Canada?
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by j_kao 4y ago
Hi proberts! Thanks for doing this. I'm a Canadian on a TN visa at a startup in the US. Would it be possible to continue to work for this company on this status but stay in Canada? Is there a minimum amount of time I need to spend in t
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by j_kao 4y ago
Yeah, I could see that even outside of the context of the Cassandra virtual nodes primitives. These could be K8s nodes for example, that don't make full utilization of the underlying VM, which would completely make sense at APPL scale.

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