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by timf 2y ago
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is likely to file suit: https://www.uschamber.com/finance/antitrust/chamber-comments...
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FTC votes to ban non-compete agreements(thehill.com)
76 points by timf 2y ago|16 comments
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Ripgrep 14 Released(github.com)
297 points by timf 3y ago|71 comments
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Apollo's last update(old.reddit.com)
54 points by timf 3y ago|8 comments
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by timf 3y ago
I do a similar thing [1]. One of the great advantages to formally namespaced IDs is including a systematic conversion into strong types in your code. It's harder to accidentally mix things up when coding; function parameters and return
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by timf 3y ago
I don't see how it isn't based on time. They use GPS and atomic clocks to establish the time, establish an uncertainty window, and in Spanner's case will have transactions wait out that uncertainty to guarantee an ordering (g
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by timf 3y ago
Agree, and the timestamp comparisons you can make when the windows do not overlap are the basis of the ordering guarantees (across machines, even globally).
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by timf 3y ago
Could be an alias, I have a limited set of aliases for each type of system. But I keep a repository of hundreds of personal shell scripts and it fit better there.
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by timf 3y ago
> The main reason we can not use system clocks is that system clocks across servers are not guaranteed to be synchronized. Data center/cloud system clocks can be tightly synchronized now in practice. Still never perfect and race con
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by timf 3y ago
Since I'm bouncing between OSX and Linux a lot, I have a shell script with the same name on each that boils down to: if [ `uname` == "Darwin" ]; then pbcopy else xsel --clipboard fi
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Strongly Typed IDs(peakscale.com)
2 points by timf 3y ago|0 comments
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Avoiding the Ordering Trap in Systems Performance Measurement(flux.utah.edu)
1 points by timf 3y ago|0 comments
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by timf 3y ago
I want to make a FOSS reader that we can run on our own machines. It would poll on demand and be really good at archiving sites/posts. A combination of feed reader and scraping/archiving from residential IPs (at a low rate) where
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What Is a Container?(brooker.co.za)
1 points by timf 3y ago|0 comments
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by timf 3y ago
The author is pointing out that someone who clicks an RSS/Atom link and gets a page of gibberish is not going to understand all that XML, and they will likely just go back to the site confused. Instead, you can have a readable page wit
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by timf 3y ago
There are a lot of feeds now with titles and maybe a short paragraph of text, like the beginning of the article or a summary. There is a world of difference between sites maintaining those feeds vs. nothing at all. Having a signal that an a
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The Next Chapter: Bitdrift(mattklein123.dev)
4 points by timf 3y ago|0 comments
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Apollo will close down on June 30th(old.reddit.com)
3421 points by timf 3y ago|1609 comments
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Single-Query Challenges in DynamoDB(peakscale.com)
2 points by timf 3y ago|0 comments
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by timf 3y ago
Related: Reddit is creating an exemption to its unpopular new API pricing terms for makers of accessibility apps, which could come as a big relief for some developers worried about how to afford the potentially expensive fees and the users
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Serverless Throttling: Denial of Wallet(peakscale.com)
2 points by timf 3y ago|0 comments
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Tech Debt Metaphor Maximalism(apenwarr.ca)
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My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects(mitchellh.com)
7 points by timf 3y ago|0 comments
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by timf 3y ago
I don't have that mentality that this must be the case, for what it's worth. It's just what is most attractive to the end-users usually. And it's what many products do to attract them.
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Twitter and Reddit, you have better options(peakscale.com)
3 points by timf 3y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Yupdates, fast feeds with custom GitHub and Pinboard integrations(yupdates.com)
2 points by timf 3y ago|0 comments
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Rust Magazine(rustmagazine.github.io)
2 points by timf 4y ago|0 comments
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Leaving the Basement(community.hachyderm.io)
80 points by timf 4y ago|50 comments
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Yes, It’s Censorship(doctorow.medium.com)
77 points by timf 4y ago|43 comments
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Amazon EventBridge Pipes(aws.amazon.com)
9 points by timf 4y ago|2 comments

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