vchynarov

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by vchynarov 6mo ago
I agree the economics here don’t make sense, but leave where? The rest of the world has increasingly strange, or at least unattractive, economics too. The US is a difficult and long process to get a green card. Other English-speaking countr
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by vchynarov 2y ago
Apart from network latency, one of the behaviours I've seen with Redis is that reads/write latencies are fairly linearly proportional to the amount of keys queried - which seems to be shown in your chart as well. We had a differen
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by vchynarov 4y ago
+1 on Jon Bernthal. I was very skeptical at first but he gets very unique guests such ex-gang members and policemen. Many popular podcasts just have guests who are obviously trying to promote a new Netflix special or book. He stutters and t
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by vchynarov 4y ago
I’m constantly astonished “Thinking Fast and Slow” is so highly recommended - I question if the advocates actually read the book in depth. I remember reading most of the book and skipping a couple of chapters. While the results and ideas ar
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by vchynarov 4y ago
Despite your name referencing insanity I love your comment and it's a beacon of rationality in the current tech interview bubble. So generally I agree, but unfortunately sometimes the format and expectations of the coding interviews re
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by vchynarov 5y ago
If people would like to support for this further, please spread this on other platforms. I made a dedicated Twitter account to track the progress of this petition: https://twitter.com/norussiancloud
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by vchynarov 5y ago
I have started a petition to restrict Russia's access to American cloud infrastructure. Existing sanctions against Russia don't go far enough symbolically, nor economically, to account for the massive devastation they have inflict
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by vchynarov 5y ago
I work there currently and I agree - I can imagine frustration for a while after leaving and not having a good place to make a bunch of posts. Posts and work groups are actually a generally good way for scalable work communication - and le
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by vchynarov 5y ago
I have seen no indication of system design documents falling out fashion. If anything, the problem is the initial, pure document is used as a reference for too long instead of proper up-to-date documentation. I'm currently putting toge
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by vchynarov 5y ago
@ryanar - Good to hear but disappointing. I was planning to start the second book next year.
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by vchynarov 5y ago
Fiction: "The Lies of Locke Lamora" I found this book because I just finished playing Dishonored 2 and I wanted to read a book with a dystopian steampunk alternative-Victorian vibe. The events take place in a gritty, corrupt city
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by vchynarov 5y ago
Yes, autopilot interrupt, and initially as a shame factor - shaming myself not to go through with it and stick out the rest of the day phone-free. However, now this is more of a mental block since once I decide to have a phone-free day the
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by vchynarov 5y ago
~The Triple Ziploc Bag method.~ I dedicate a few days a month to being absolutely phone-free. The key point is I'm allowed to use Reddit/IG but I have to use a laptop/desktop to access them. This method requires a key ingredi
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by vchynarov 6y ago
I have ranted about the terrible quality of consumer telecommunications in Canada for years - I am terribly excited. I have lived in both the US and Canada, moving between both for the past 6 years, and I am always thrilled to use American
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by vchynarov 10y ago
How is this borderline racist? If you can't defend that accusation you should not add it. The point in question here was the choice of which countries to compare US to, and the other comment about the ranking has no links to race that
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by vchynarov 10y ago
I am a student of the university of Waterloo and I have lived in San Francisco on two separate occasions in both San Francisco / Mountain View. Are you seriously comparing SF living to Waterloo living? There's a reason it's 1
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by vchynarov 10y ago
TN-1 is because of NAFTA. (Source: http://www.canadiansinusa.com/Working-in-the-US/tn-visa.html ). Trump is well-known for being extremely against NAFTA.
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by vchynarov 10y ago
I view this post as being a rant against this particular shop with potentially subpar management practices which is frustrating, and I sympathesize. However, if you intend this as an argument against general software project management, I m
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by vchynarov 10y ago
Generally I agree with you. However I can provide a personal counter-example. I am a student with a modest sum saved away (with great help from my parents) in an index tracking mutual fund. Due to the way my bank offers investment packages,
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by vchynarov 11y ago
I am hesitant to start the whole typed vs untyped debate here, but this is exactly what your comment is highlighting. Where does all this evidence come from? I have recently started using Scala and while initially the learning curve was qui
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by vchynarov 11y ago
This is such a nice explanation I've never heard before and I too have been guilty of thinking like this.
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by vchynarov 11y ago
This is a slipper slope if I've ever seen one. Aid to Syrian rebels is already known, one of the parties to which a proxy war might be a somewhat reasonable assumption. However, given the long involvement of the US in Iraq, this is a v
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by vchynarov 11y ago
What? "America plays the proxy war game too. How much of ISIS armament is of American origin?". America's proxy war involvement is well known, but you picked the most ridiculous conflict that has nothing to do with this. Your
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by vchynarov 11y ago
That may be true statistically, but is that survey based on a nation-wide basis? I am asking because the culture between provinces and regions can vary extremely widely. I have lived in Canada for 17 yeara and no one I know has a firearm. M
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by vchynarov 11y ago
It's interesting how a search for "metaclasses" in the given link doesn't yield any results.
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by vchynarov 12y ago
I too am a CS student attending a university that particularly flaunts their levels of startup incubator availability. Ignore them, do your own thing is what I found works for me.