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by lethain 4y ago
I've been blogging for about 16 years. Writing is an underrated way to cement what you learn any given day or year, and over time has made it possible to reach into any part of the industry and get an actual response. Writing is partic
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by lethain 7y ago
In my role as unofficial, self-appointed late-stage Digg historian [0], it's my belief that Digg ultimately had to change as the Google SEO changes had fatally wounded its near-profitability. Further, as a VC funded company it made the
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by lethain 7y ago
Sorry, I think that sentence was a bit unclear. What it meant to convey is that we had 200 daily active Facebook uniques, essentially that very few folks used FB to connect to Digg.
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by lethain 7y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, we’re adding a clarifying note to the report’s timeline.
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by lethain 7y ago
(Stripe infra lead here) This was a focus in our after-action review. The nodes responded as healthy to active checks, while silently dropping updates on their replication lag, together this created the impression of a healthy node. The mis
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Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity(lethain.com)
10 points by lethain 8y ago|0 comments
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The physics of Cloud expansion(lethain.com)
1 points by lethain 9y ago|0 comments
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Acing Your Architecture Interview(lethain.com)
2 points by lethain 10y ago|0 comments
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by lethain 10y ago
It's fun to see that deck since my first (software) job out college was working with that team (about a year after this slide), when only two of those four mentioned individuals remained on the team, but consequently I got the pretty r
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by lethain 10y ago
As a hiring manager in SF, my anecdotal experience is that most large companies are still hiring at the same pace they were a year ago, but that capital and subsequently hiring has dried up for smaller companies. For experienced developers&
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by lethain 12y ago
I think many and perhaps most poor estimates are caused by initial estimates being viewed as too high for the project, and instead of deciding the project isn't worth doing at its estimated cost, instead deciding the estimates must be
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by lethain 13y ago
Generally the advice is to breakout GPA by major courses and overall (e.g. 4.0 GPA in major, 3.43 overall).
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by lethain 13y ago
I'm occasionally a hiring manager for engineers, and yes, it's very possible to get a job without a tech degree. Tech interviewing usually has four major steps: 1) sourcing candidates, 2) filtering resume candidates, 3) technical
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by lethain 15y ago
For a bit more context behind what we've done here, we also have a blog post at http://about.digg.com/blog/sifting-for-diamonds-with-the-dig... . I know a few of us read HN as well, and would be glad to answer any questions on the Newswir
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by lethain 15y ago
Starting up can be remarkably hard. As training for that process, I'd look at your current work situation as a test. There isn't an easy way to move up and the work is dull, but if you're looking to lead a new company or join a foundling co
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by lethain 15y ago
Regarding the hard-coded IP piece, I've run into a similar scenario wherein the early versions of the distributed counters patch for Cassandra relied on vector-clocks which used IPs as part of those clocks. Certainly not a robust design in
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by lethain 16y ago
I think there may be a bit of confusion here, as the recent post about the increased number of daily stories on Digg's frontpage was written by a Digg user and posted to their blog, not written by Digg staff or otherwise endorsed by us. (I
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Using Redis to track story views on Digg(about.digg.com)
2 points by lethain 16y ago|0 comments
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Modules, Comments, Views and RSS on Digg(about.digg.com)
1 points by lethain 16y ago|0 comments
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by lethain 16y ago
The later being the "lone wolfram" approach.
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by lethain 16y ago
Digg is hiring on-site in San Francisco (Potrero hill) for frontend and backend developers, with a preference for people who work all the way up and down the stack. We're willing to take chances on newer developers who seem like a good fit,
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by lethain 16y ago
Seeing that Redis is a datastructure storage mechanism, I guess it shouldn't shock anyone that it maps well to existing datastructure interfaces. Maybe the more interesting aspect here is the power of having datastructure-aware datastores a
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by lethain 16y ago
A couple years ago a friend of mine and I wrote http://ptdef.com/ which is canvas/js as well but with randomized maps and pathfinding creeps.
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Hands on Review of the Dynamo Paper(lethain.com)
8 points by lethain 17y ago|0 comments
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by lethain 17y ago
I'm not sure if this quite answers the question. Although Japan certainly doesn't allow bringing in content which violates their definition of pornography, it is not clear to me that these manga would fall under that definition. This articl
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by lethain 17y ago
I think your key point is and doing so publicly . Many people use similar arguments against copyright laws to explain their illegal downloading of licensed material, but do it in secrecy. Violating potentially unjust laws in secret and for
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by lethain 17y ago
Although I understand the appeal of your argument, using a 3rd party workaround to provide support for performing javascript interpretation outside of the browser--whether or not they happen to be hijacking the system's underlying javascrip
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by lethain 17y ago
I think the developers of phone gap are at fault here for suggesting that their platform/toolkit is usable on the iPhone. Whether or not developers agree with the restriction against interpreted code, it has been very clear since long befor
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by lethain 17y ago
What that reports shows is that historically college has paid off, but even with adjustment for inflation the cost of college has increased by 2.5 times over the past 70 years ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_tuition has a great cha
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by lethain 17y ago
I lived in rural Japan last year, and had similar experiences with stores being open or lack thereof. There were three restaurants and two bars. One restaurant never opened for dinner, another was run by a family, was closed at 8PM and was

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