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by sybhn 8y ago
totally anecdotal, but we have seen a fair number of not so great engineers leave our company for google in the last 2 years. these engineers were great prepping interviews (leet code, system design white birding etc), but in terms of contr
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by sybhn 8y ago
As someone once said very eloquently on this forum: Apple is a consumer product company and makes money selling you products, while others (Google, Facebook, etc) are ad platforms companies making money selling you as a product. It's
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by sybhn 10y ago
"In the worst cases, you might even have to use JIRA." that's funny... but seriously, what's the big deal about Jira?
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by sybhn 10y ago
"At the end of February 2016, the total liquid ISK in the EVE Online economy was 948.043 trillion ISK (equivalent to $16.45 million using PLEX conversion)." find this fact mind boggling!
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Eve Evolved: Analysing Eve's New Economic Reports(massivelyop.com)
56 points by sybhn 10y ago|45 comments
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by sybhn 10y ago
This is a great precedent to why folks don't want to register their firearms.
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by sybhn 10y ago
I too, like the author, often was more interested in the topography and maps of fantasy stories. This is awesome!
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Yahoo, from dot com hero to zero(economist.com)
2 points by sybhn 10y ago|0 comments
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by sybhn 10y ago
>He avoids paying taxes on the sale of stocks to finance the home. Can you elaborate on that?
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by sybhn 11y ago
The ones having monopoly on violence are a much stronger force. There is indeed a constant balancing act between them and the masses, but at the end the sooner you accept that that is the real and ultimate power, the world and its inner wor
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The transformation of economics(wsj.com)
2 points by sybhn 11y ago|0 comments
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by sybhn 11y ago
They're building a nice little ecosystem...
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by sybhn 11y ago
> Operational Complexity: You need a mature operations team to manage lots of services, which are being redeployed regularly. IMO you need first and foremost a mature development team that releases operable, diagnosable and fixable (micr
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by sybhn 12y ago
TL;DR >In summary, Microsoft Azure had clear operating guidelines but there was a gap in the deployment tooling that relied on human decisions and protocol.
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by sybhn 12y ago
idem
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by sybhn 12y ago
Nor it should? I wouldn't want policemen to have the same death on the job as say loggers, if only because you don't want policemen to be reckless/desperate by nature. Anyway, my observation was that ratio it isn't usual
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by sybhn 12y ago
some interesting numbers... > This year 46 policemen were shot dead and > the police shot and killed at least 458 people last year 10% or so of death involving police is a policemen. Not that it justify the police force level, but an
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by sybhn 12y ago
I guess you mean winning at a startup you confounded, haven't been kicked out of, and haven't had to dilute yourself to sub million. Because if you have had to do any of these, your win might turn out to be a decent house downpaym
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by sybhn 12y ago
entertaining read! and learn 2 important things: 1) don't ever go to collection, your personal data will circulate across the globe for many years, 2) look at statute of limitations before taking any collection call seriously.
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by sybhn 12y ago
One has to wonder if this is a repeat of history in the U.S. or if this has really no precedent. Either way, the future of this nation looks bleak.
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by sybhn 13y ago
I hope you haven't chose the name based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Revolution . A wonderful revolution that left Quebec in its current advanced state ;-) PS: not all of it was bad.
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DigitalOcean grew faster on a month-to-month basis than AWS(recode.net)
1 points by sybhn 13y ago|1 comments
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by sybhn 13y ago
Echoing some of the other comments... the place i worked at was one of the 5 biggest Rackspace customer, and that didn't stop them from regularly cutting traffic or bringing down servers for hours in some case. You might get better u
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by sybhn 13y ago
Not to argue about its target audience, but the Economist is a multi platform publication at this point. Not only that but and audio version also comes default with the IOS app (i listen to it everyday on way to work).
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by sybhn 13y ago
Although I don't always agree with the Economist's position, e.g. right to bear arms, it's always refreshing to read a media that is not pigeon holed into the traditional left / right that we today are accustomed to. Lib
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by sybhn 13y ago
doh!! Signed up for a trial just to realize yesgraph's a linkedin message cannon >:(
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by sybhn 13y ago
Don't services come naturally in SaaS? Because of its subscriptions model nature, you usually want to make sure your customer are successful and grow with you. I've seen entire groups within SaaS organization dedicated to customer
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Experts question architecture of Obamacare website(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by sybhn 13y ago|0 comments
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by sybhn 13y ago
Doesn't look like a very ethical/professional presentation. But then again, who said everyone's professional in all agencies. Its a conjecture to think our laws are systematically enforced by ethical folks.
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by sybhn 13y ago
That was my conclusion too ;-) Why do we try so hard right?

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