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by tlug 3y ago
It's unbelievable. I used too work for Google back in 2005 and they had a custom to welcome all Nooglers (new Googlers) on Friday general meeting, where Larry/Sergey were present an people could ask them any questions. So one guy
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by tlug 3y ago
Great stuff. I always admire efforts like archive.org, textfiles.com and yours just fits well into that theme. The nature of today's Internet is that things disappear all too easy due to a simple redesign decision, people no longer car
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by tlug 3y ago
Just in case someone stumbles upon this via Google and wondering what was the outcome. After almost a month of complaining via online chat and over the phone, asking for escalation, Booking.com finally issued a refund. The offered to book a
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by tlug 3y ago
I have not yet had to try Airbnb's support for host scam, but unfortunately I am now in a situation with a scam host on Booking.com. Some time after booking and paying for the apartment in NYC, the host disappeared, they removed the li
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by tlug 5y ago
If anyone has tried digging a deeper hole in the ground, they'll understand that this hand-operated screw-like coffin can't work at all, due to the forces involved. You need to displace a huge amount of dirt, I don't see that
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by tlug 6y ago
Call me old-fashioned, but when I look at the source code of a web page designed using the "modern" frameworks, it looks like a horrible mess of JS/CSS with very little actual content. E.g. take a look at this guy's code
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by tlug 8y ago
OK, if you define the availability of writes in this way, that they must complete immediately, then indeed the availability part of CAP is not met. However his definition reads: "every request received by a non-failing node in the syst
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by tlug 8y ago
Is it just me, or the proof appears to be incorrect? In the last example, the write operation should simply block before returning "done" to the client, before it's able to replicate the state to the other server. In fact, in
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by tlug 8y ago
I find it awkward how Apple is now bravely fighting problems that it has (co-)created in the first place. They invent all the clever ways how to limit the number of notifications and disturbances on the phone. But that's just attacking
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by tlug 11y ago
That is a very old article, I wonder if there are any new approaches to this issue.