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by xb95 6y ago
Yeah, that's fair. We did follow up and I'm told we're unblocked now.
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by xb95 6y ago
There are a couple of discoverability mechanisms, but it really depends on what you're looking for. Usually people follow the network -- find one person that's interesting, see who they talk to, and go from there. Another approach
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by xb95 6y ago
Hi all! Co-owner of Dreamwidth here. Pretty cool to see my project hit the front page of HN, but definitely a bit of a /shrug moment on the subject itself. "Facebook gonna Facebook" I think is approximately how we feel about
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by xb95 7y ago
(Discord infra person here.) Actually we didn't update the reference to Cassandra in the article -- the read states workload is now on Scylla too, as of last week. ;) We'll be writing up a blog post on our migration with Scylla at
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by xb95 7y ago
I work on infrastructure at Discord. Our voice and video infrastructure gets attacked quite frequently and we have pretty good tracking about which ASNs the traffic is coming from as part of our mitigation processes. Anyway, Choopa is a com
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by xb95 7y ago
It looks like this web site is unmaintained and incorrect in at least the Discord case. I see a PR open since 2017, and a comment on it saying 'this site is unmaintained.'
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by xb95 8y ago
Discord infra engineer here -- this blog post needs an update! Since then we've scaled this system much more. :) The Fortnite Official server has exceeded 100,000 concurrent users, Discord itself is way past that 5M concurrent number,
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by xb95 8y ago
Yes, yes we are.
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by xb95 10y ago
I respectfully disagree with the other comment who said he'd rather take a helicopter. (I'm a private pilot of fixed-wing aircraft.) For General Aviation safety, read the Joseph T. Nall report: https://www.aopa.org&#x2F
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by xb95 10y ago
Caveat lector: I'm one of the two founders of Dreamwidth. Yes! Dreamwidth is a fork of the old LiveJournal code that is still being developed by a small team of folks who would rather see a small site run in an open, transparent fashio
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by xb95 10y ago
Another Delphi person!! Yay! I spent so much of my life writing Delphi code. As a teenager. Basically from 12-18 I wrote Delphi/Pascal. Hundreds of stupid little Windows apps (and some stupid big ones). I ran into the same sort of thin
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by xb95 11y ago
I worked at CCP and was on the same team as t20 for a while. He definitely wasn't the reason BoB succeeded for as long as they did. In random point, I (while a dev) was a member of ASCN. I was there the day Steve was unveiled and the d
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by xb95 12y ago
Only slightly less euphemistic than flying's CFIT - Controlled Flight Into Terrain. AKA "whoops, the ground".
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by xb95 12y ago
Woah, typing code at speed is incredibly difficult. I don't know if it picks languages randomly but it gave me Lisp just now, and... ack! Unrelated, TypeRacer is amazing. We had a bunch of contests at my last job and they ended up maki
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by xb95 13y ago
What's the source on your third paragraph? I want to read the backstory there. Edit: Bias alert; I work for Dropbox on our infrastructure team. I'm just curious about that particular incident, since it predates me and I'm alw
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by xb95 13y ago
Yup. It's called 'fields': http://perldoc.perl.org/fields.html I echo what they said in that post, though: don't prematurely optimize. If you find you have tons of objects and need the RAM or you're
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by xb95 13y ago
Yes, thank you! That's exactly it.
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by xb95 13y ago
This would help with the times I've just wanted to ask someone "so, does this shirt actually go with these pants, or am I totally crazy?" All joking aside, this could be interesting. It makes me think of that service that exi
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by xb95 13y ago
Re: the remedy for introverts, yes. I'm a strong introvert and I find that a few drinks makes me feel like what I suspect an extrovert feels like. Personally, I'd much rather socialize with a few drinks in me; and if there's
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by xb95 13y ago
I saw this post and came to write a comment about "save yourself some trouble, make it random or positional and just have a functional inventory system which you'll need anyway" but hey, look, it's gmjosack beating me to
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by xb95 13y ago
Yup. Matt's Script Archive was a long time ago. Modern Perl is about a million times better and easier to use than it used to be. Dancer, Moose, DBIx::Class (a bit more advanced), Plack/PSGI, etc etc. Not to mention the language c
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by xb95 13y ago
Wal-Mart has listed key executive compensation of around $63m USD this past year [ http://insiders.morningstar.com/trading/executive-compensati... ] and reported yearly revenue of $473,000m USD [ http://finance
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by xb95 13y ago
This is what I do/have done and it has worked well for me. I always bring my laptop and if they ask me to write code (as they invariably do) I pull it out and use it. That said, whiteboards are still usually better for conveying ideas.
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by xb95 13y ago
In amateur radio, the characteristics of someone's CW (morse code) is called their "fist". I used to be able to do 5 WPM and one year I participated in field day (the annual ham competition to contact as many people as you ca
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by xb95 13y ago
Fair point, joke removed.
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by xb95 13y ago
In your .vimrc, insert at the top: set shell=/bin/sh No more problems with plugins in fish.
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by xb95 13y ago
Agreed. I was pretty excited to see what this project was about -- then I saw they were asking for $30,000 in funding to build this and wandered off to make a snarky comment on HackerNews. I don't really want to see this kind of stuff
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by xb95 13y ago
Control over network configuration and hardware is one of the big reasons. I hate getting bitten because my three new servers are halfway across the facility and stuck with somebody else who is maxing out the uplink between our shared top o
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by xb95 13y ago
They use a managed hosting provider, which means that there is no guarantee that the disks are new. When one customer finishes with disks, they get wiped (hopefully) and passed on to the next customer. Even if they are new, though, you neve
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by xb95 13y ago
"we obviously store data in mirrored mode on several servers" They then asked the provider to swap the disk. They had a RAID1; it's a common enough setup. SSDs fail in many of the the same ways as spinning disks, they just ad

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