mckilljoy

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Inside the secret lab where Facebook tries to save your battery life(theverge.com)
4 points by mckilljoy 10y ago|0 comments
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How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics(hbr.org)
9 points by mckilljoy 10y ago|0 comments
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A guy just transcribed 30 years of for-rent ads in SF(medium.com)
2 points by mckilljoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by mckilljoy 10y ago
I just started reading this book, maybe half way through, it's very interesting! Some of the technical analogies are a little weak, but all the quotes and anecdotes are great.
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by mckilljoy 10y ago
Redex runs at compile time, not at install time.
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by mckilljoy 10y ago
25-30% is a pretty solid improvement.
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by mckilljoy 10y ago
I just skimmed through some of those Glassdoor reviews. They were all quite positive, but I find it interesting that the vast majority were posted Feb-Mar 2016.
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
Yea that's fair. I was actually thinking of timer coalescing on the server OS for improved power efficiency/performance -- I'm sure IIS, MSSQL, etc. all opt-in to coalescing responsibly. It sounds like the OSX version is more
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
As others are saying, Microsoft is a very large company with a great deal of variance in the quality and maturity of teams. I wouldn't consider this description representative. Azure is still a comparably new team, so I'm not surp
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
That was my first thought too -- Windows has had timer coalescing since at least 2008, if not longer.
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
This looks like the kind of product that will do well in San Francisco -- SF is where the venn diagram of "dog owners" and "gadget owners" overlap.
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
At first I thought was going in a bad direction, but it actually ended up pretty cute. Basically they asked women if they thought they were beautiful, and if they said "Yes!" they got their meal for free -- it was actually rewarding self-co
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
I like reading these analyses, although I'm afraid headlines like this oversimplify things and give off the wrong impression. There isn't anything inherently wrong with NUMA, it just isn't useful in this situation. No technology is a 'silve
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
I agree for this one integer, they obviously should have been using 64-bit. I just take issue with the implication that Blizzard is somehow at fault or unusual for (presumably) not running a 64-bit stack. They made a mistake for sure, but 3
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
At the time the original code was written, it wasn't possible for a 32-bit integer to overflow, which is presumably why they didn't use 64-bit. That possibility was only introduced in the patch, and no one caught the bug that came with it.
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
A x64 CPU will take a single instruction to operate on a both a 64-bit and 32-bit integer, and the CPU registers are all 64-bit, so in that context you are right that it doesn't matter that much between the datatypes. However, the physical
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
Depends on the situation. I assume this was probably a server side bug, since all the accounting would never be trusted to the client side. If you are writing highly-performant server code, the actually memory size is extremely important. Y
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
I don't find it that odd. 32-bit applications are still very common, if not the standard. Most processes don't need more than 4GB. More importantly, blindly increasing all of your 32-bit integers to 64-bit is going to double your memory usa
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
I can say from personal experience that the customers are probably a bit of both. Engineers walk through looking for parts for their prototypes, and then once the prototypes are complete, come back and set up a contract for 1,000's more of
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
Selling debt to buy back their stock looks like a pretty safe bet. Most of the debt is starting off below ~2.5% interest -- using that to buyback the stock paying ~3% dividends is immediately saving themselves money, in addition to reducing
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
I'd agree, most of these numbers are "fuzzy" and based on analyst estimates; I'd almost be more surprised if they DID perfectly add up to 100%. :-)
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
It seems pretty reasonable to me. If Msft makes $1 billion on 20% of the market, and Amzn makes $3.8 billion (high-end analyst estimate) with 71% of the market, the math roughly matches.
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
That looks pretty significant. Amazon Web Services are somewhere between $2 and $3.8 billion (depending on which analyst you believe), so Microsoft is potentially within striking distance of taking the crown.
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
Weird, I always thought they were one of the popular sites.
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Pricing Strategies(marketing-samurai.com)
1 points by mckilljoy 13y ago|0 comments
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by mckilljoy 13y ago
Obviously everyone's health situation differs, but my health insurance experiences have been similar to MMM's. For an 'average' person/family, health insurance shouldn't be breaking the bank (e.g. $200-300 per month). I've heard of some rea
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First Hands-On With The Incident Tech gTar(techcrunch.com)
2 points by mckilljoy 13y ago|0 comments
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Pebble Watch Unboxing(youtube.com)
3 points by mckilljoy 14y ago|0 comments
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Misfit Shine communicates via "surface of your iPhone"(medgadget.com)
2 points by mckilljoy 14y ago|1 comments
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by mckilljoy 14y ago
'In my opinion, the most important question on the Y Combinator application, is this one: “Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.”' Not a criticism per se, but pg recently sa

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