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by whorleater 5mo ago
unserious article written by inane consultancies feeding at the trough of linkedin. The diagram itself is hideous. Software consultant, solution architect, solutions eng, all do what an "FDE" does without having the weirdly cringe
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by whorleater 6mo ago
Honestly I'm kinda down on most of FB's tech, but them pioneering Scuba was pretty sick. It has all the wide logging/apm/tracing/etc, and it's hard to describe how useful it is if you haven't seen it in ac
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by whorleater 1y ago
A fork of a fork I guess, Organic Maps was originally `maps.me`, and I suppose we're forking it again
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by whorleater 1y ago
One thing I haven't seen being discussed is the BEAM internals becoming a little long in the tooth. We still have static reductions before the scheduler switches to another task, the priority system in scheduling is a bit dodgy, flippi
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by whorleater 1y ago
Yeah, I don't know why this falsehood continues to persist. WhatsApp and Ericsson engineers continue to work together to evolve Erlang, alongside a bunch of other people across the industry. Source: I work at WhatsApp
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by whorleater 2y ago
WhatsApp very long ago used to hot reload across all nodes with a ssh script to incrementally deploy during the day
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by whorleater 2y ago
Huh, kinda funny, I feel the exact same way. Few people IRL know about my website, 2-3 people occasionally write in a year about something, but weirdly it feels like the idea of a personal, non commoditized internet space has become so rare
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by whorleater 3y ago
I have consulted for UNDP and DPPA during my time in Iraq, although that left me with complicated feelings about that industry.
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by whorleater 3y ago
I went and did a masters on Middle East studies, focusing on Shia rituals in Iraq. I moved to Baghdad (and south Iraq) for a year, wrote up my research here: http://malloc.dog/karbala/ , http://malloc.dog&#x2
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by whorleater 3y ago
I would be curious why kube cron jobs didn't seem to fit the bill, my favorite part of these posts are when they have a section hinting that they explored other options picked specific tradeoffs
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by whorleater 3y ago
Physical notebook and data entry later.
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by whorleater 3y ago
I keep all my zettles at https://wiki.malloc.dog/ . When I was doing my masters in anthropology at the same time as my SWE job, I ran into this issue of having too many notes and not enough organization. Random other tools n
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by whorleater 3y ago
Why is this news? Iraq does this, Jordan does this, it's common throughout the region to block internet. It's not effective, and usually there are carveouts (office internet still works, usually it's only cellular and public
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by whorleater 3y ago
http://malloc.dog/ - anthropology of Islam stuff and distributed systems
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by whorleater 3y ago
If we buy into the fact that we can account for "culture" onto this distribution, this article assumes that the distribution has remained the safe size and shape, and so he draws the conclusion that the long tail is declining or d
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by whorleater 4y ago
it's fine, there's hordes of youtubers roaming through. I'm a foreigner living in Karbala that's fluent in Iraqi Arabic, so I'm typically not in those circles. Visa on arrival for p9 + eu countries though.
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by whorleater 4y ago
I actually live close to here, and trek out occasionally to show friends the ziggurat. There's some live excavation going on sponsored by the UN, but what's wild is that every random rock in the area that you kick over has Sumeria
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by whorleater 4y ago
come on dude are we really equating LGBT rights with "will answer tickets for Bitcoin users"
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by whorleater 6y ago
seems like he's arguing that the pinnacle of communication is the API spec
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by whorleater 6y ago
interesting how different this is from the salaries at large companies on levels.fyi. annoyingly, the dice URL is broken currently, so I can't verify the underlying dataset.
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by whorleater 6y ago
Man even though the third party Fever apps were mostly terrible they had such a scrappy vibe to them. Really liked Fever, back in the days when you could sell a self-hosted thing for 30 bucks.
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by whorleater 6y ago
pulsar was seeing quite a bit of hype back in ApacheCon 2019 already
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by whorleater 6y ago
This truly feels like https://www.aleksandra.codes/tech-content-consumer/ , where every blog post rehashes the well tread territory of Hugo/Jenkins/Netlify/GH Pages or Wordpress/Blogger/Ghost&#x
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by whorleater 6y ago
If ZK wasn't such a pain in the ass to manage I'd agree with you.
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by whorleater 6y ago
The typical response to these types of posts is "oh your /toy/ server doesn't account for x, y, z in my use case, like ddos, network issues, etc. But how many people actually handle those cases in your production appli
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by whorleater 6y ago
Yes, but we work in financial information so very weird requirements.
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by whorleater 6y ago
Wait I'm confused, are they not sending around a pdf file for their resume??
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by whorleater 6y ago
IMO mental models are relatively useless for what they're supposed to do on the tin, but they're useful for illuminating aspects of the world that would've been left otherwise undiscovered, like a unknown-unknowns thing. Like
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by whorleater 7y ago
This is modern minimalism to its peak: getting rid of your stuff by relying on others
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by whorleater 7y ago
Zotero with Zotfile to extract highlights, highlights get sent to Devonthink

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