nrh

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by nrh 2y ago
needs the ball sizes to represent the storage capacity!
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by nrh 2y ago
Listen to his charming and deeply entertaining story of his early years at SF Examiner, told at The Moth in 1999: https://themoth.org/stories/rookie-reporter 15 minutes you won't regret!
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by nrh 2y ago
I'd love to try this, but most of the places that I would want to use it are servers, and the rust requirements are way beyond where debian-stable lives. Too much hassle to muck with backports and package pinning for a QoL tool - my fe
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by nrh 4y ago
I'm pretty into this place's business philosophy: just ship us your stuff with a little bit of information and we'll repair it. don't call ahead, don't ask for a quote, don't send us garbage that's not wor
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by nrh 8y ago
ATE0! Once upon a time I worked for what was (once) the world's largest BBS. Remember the US Robotics Courier HST? 16.8kbps! Now imagine a room filled with shelf after shelf of Couriers, several hundred individual lines, at least a
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by nrh 10y ago
An article much more relevant to that question: https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/slowchat/ It took Instagram Stories two quarters to catch up to Snapchat's total MAU.
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by nrh 10y ago
it seems to come down to two main points, as far as consumer tech companies go: 1. GAAP says that revenue from a software service subscription (e.g. cloud service) can only be counted as revenue once the service has been delivered, not at t
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by nrh 11y ago
I'd say the data platform overall, bigquery is certainly great . So are some other bits.
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by nrh 11y ago
Spotifier here. For the record, I hate puppet with the fiery intensity of a thousand suns. It's also pretty hard to magically make go away. I could probably do a whole talk on why puppet is difficult to kill, it's the kudzu of con
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by nrh 11y ago
I would categorize data tooling as a moving target - we have some, it's never enough, it probably won't ever be enough. It's a moving target (p.s. obligatory we're hiring!). I think this Quora post does a good job of re
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by nrh 11y ago
Spotifier here. Frankly, price is not the biggest factor in a decision like this. If we were going for the lowest cost cloud option, it probably wouldn't be either AWS or Google - there are other providers who are hungrier for busi
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by nrh 11y ago
Spotifier here. This is an important point. I have nothing bad to say about Cloudera or HWX (disclaimer: we're an HWX customer - we've had a pretty good experience), but I don't really see a compelling reason at this stage to
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by nrh 11y ago
Spotifier here. One of the big risks that we identified with the Google partnership was exactly this: Google isn't exactly known for awesome customer service. We've been very pleasantly surprised. The cloud team has been pretty a
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by nrh 11y ago
To fix this problem, we introduced the simple rule that new stable releases of the software must (a) talk to old stable releases and (b) they must support existing apps, without changes. We more or less succeeded with that, so
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by nrh 11y ago
This. This is so often overlooked. Getting your architecture to roughly align with your team structure can do wonders, even if there's only a hallway dividing people. When a small team can iterate and evolve a chunk of code independent
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by nrh 12y ago
We use it pretty extensively at Spotify. Google will turn up a handful of public talks we've given about it.
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by nrh 14y ago
Spotify, NYC and Stockholm, for...lots of stuff! - Backend Engineers: Improve our ad systems and enable better, more relevant targeting. Build and scale our backends. - Frontend Web Developers: Mine, aggregate and visualize complex data.
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by nrh 14y ago
Spotify, NYC and Stockholm, for...lots of stuff! - SRE - Backend Infrastructure - Machine Learning - Mobile iOS and Android - Team lead positions for most of the above - Lots of things not-mentioned ( http://www.spotify.com/se/jobs/ ) On th
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by nrh 14y ago
NYC - Spotify - Full-time Backend: SRE, Software Engineer (Infrastructure), Software Engineer (Backend) Primarily Python & Java, also C/C++, deployed on Debian with Puppet. Looking for dev and ops (and devops?) with experience working