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by jrbancel 6y ago
> hence you need to query _all_ the nodes or can end up in a split-brain situation and lose consistency I am not sure this is true. It is prohibitively expensive to read from all replicas. All you need to ensure is that any replica has t
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by jrbancel 6y ago
Absolutely, the vast majority (95%+) of logs are never read by a human. Therefore, processing it is enormously wasteful. A good architecture will write once and not touch anything until it is needed. I spent years working on system handling
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by jrbancel 6y ago
> Expect at minimum 2 Medium difficulty questions in a phone interview that need to be able to be solved in optimal space time complexity in under 45 mins I see this being repeated on Leetcode and Blind, but it is not my experience at al
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by jrbancel 8y ago
> Standing is denser than walking, so the throughput is greater Doesn't this depend on the walking/standing density ratio and walking speed/escalator speed ratio? Let say the walking density is 1/2 of the standing den
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by jrbancel 8y ago
Plenty of cars cheaper than a Porsche have a DCT. Golf R, many Kia: e.g. a brand new Kia Soul for $22k.
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by jrbancel 8y ago
"Automatic" is way to broad to be correct. A DCT (Dual Clutch Transmission) like the Porsche PDK is not remotely comparable to a torque converter based transmission. Yet, both are categorized as "automatic".
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by jrbancel 8y ago
In France, anyone can show up and participate to the manual counting. It is done onsite so there is no risk of tempering. If you wanted, you could stand next to the transparent ballot box the entire day and then count yourself. The results
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by jrbancel 8y ago
It is Toulouse[0], not Tolouse. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse
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by jrbancel 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, not on Service Fabric but I have built complex stateful services on top of Service Fabric. As zapita said, Service Fabric now handles containers but I think it is just because containers became trendy and FO
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by jrbancel 8y ago
I have had the exact opposite experience. The first thing I was asked when I interviewed with Microsoft was what I wanted to do and what I wanted to avoid. I said, no frontend, something related to distributed systems and they put me up for
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by jrbancel 9y ago
No, but they are constrained to be less than or equal to 999,999. See http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/586c43085f...
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by jrbancel 9y ago
> I see no mechanism for expediting immigration/customs inbound to the US Global Entry [0], if you are a US citizen or permanent resident. It is life changing. Immigration takes under a minute at a kiosk and there is a priority lane
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by jrbancel 10y ago
> But regular expression, to be honest, is usually something I hardly think about performance. This is actually not an uncommon problem. I recently experienced a backend system going down because of catastrophic backtracking. There is a
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by jrbancel 11y ago
To be considered as unemployed, one needs to be actively looking for a job [0]. Also, don't forget about students and retired individuals. They are part of the labor force, but not part of the unemployed. [0] https://en.wiki
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by jrbancel 11y ago
The most enlightening introduction to git internal model (graph of commits) and how the main commands alter it I have read so far: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ I think it is slightly more relevan
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by jrbancel 11y ago
Try to find out if your employer or your university has a partnership with a local bank. I was able to open an account and get a credit card with a $10k spending limit with only my passport, less than 24h after landing in the U.S. for the f
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by jrbancel 11y ago
Is 100 Billion (order of a few TB) Big Data? In my experience, CPU is rarely the big issue when dealing with a lot of data (I am talking about tens of PB per day). IO is the main problem and designing systems that move the least amount of d
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by jrbancel 11y ago
The problem with roundabouts is starvation. I grew up in France, which has more than 50% of the world's roundabouts. They are everywhere. Where I am from, there is a roundabout at the intersection of a major road and a small road with
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by jrbancel 11y ago
The fact that most of Europe is in the same timezone is disturbing. I remember visiting Budapest (East of the timezone), coming from Bordeaux (West of the timezone), and noticing how much earlier (1h30) dusk was. I wonder if it has an impac
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by jrbancel 11y ago
Absolutely. "Stack" in "Full-stack" always seems to refer to a Web stack where the back-end is a database, a framework and maybe a service such as ElasticSearch or Redis. I might be biased but to me, this is web developm
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by jrbancel 11y ago
There is no concept of transit/international zone in the U.S.A.. This means passengers, even the ones on transit, must have legal right to enter the U.S.. Going through a U.S. airport just for transit is always a bad idea, as it takes
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by jrbancel 11y ago
1) Taxes For example, an average software engineer making $150,000, contributing 10% to her 401k will reduce her taxable income to $135,000. At a 28% marginal tax rate, she will save $4,200 on taxes. 2) Free money If the employer matches 50
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by jrbancel 11y ago
What is the ideal ratio of rent/net income? Personally, I don't want to spend more than 20% of my net income on rent + utilities. That way, I can save 50% and use the remaining 30% for food and entertainment. I am currently at 16%
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by jrbancel 11y ago
How is it different from using a credit card and paying the balance once the paycheck arrives? There is no fee if the balance is paid on time.
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by jrbancel 11y ago
Bordeaux faced a similar problem with a submarine base. It is much bigger though: 450,000 sq ft. It is now a cultural center. According to my dad, who was involved in the conversion, working with 22 feet thick walls was very challenging. h
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by jrbancel 11y ago
> Is it an investment or is it a basic human right to have a house over your head? Muammar al-Gaddafi had an interesting take on this particular issue: page 51 of The Green Book ( http://openanthropology.org/libya/gad
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by jrbancel 11y ago
I agree that requiring deep code reviews on every code change is ridiculous. Unfortunately, I have never seen a team that doesn't have at least a developer that is much worse than the average member of the team. He can be bad at abstra
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by jrbancel 11y ago
Absolutely, at Harvard (and other Ivy league schools) there are so many brilliant students that are going to end up with miserable salaries because they are studying art, literature, etc... and not the majors that are currently leading to t
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by jrbancel 11y ago
It is ridiculous, especially considering how well SPD officers are being paid... http://www.seattle.gov/policejobs/benefits-and-salary/salary
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by jrbancel 11y ago
> In fact, most people think it's weird that I live downtown. It's definitely not a common choice around here. That's a good thing, it keeps prices down. I live on 1st & Union. Everything is next door: - the market

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