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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Why are there no open source NVMe-native key value stores in 2023?

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josephg.com 6y ago

War over Being Nice

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mediamath.github.io 11y ago

Strand: an open source UI library based on Web Components and Polymer

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devblog.mediamath.com 11y ago

Raise your Bus Factor

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aws.typepad.com 12y ago

Amazon Kinesis

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opennvm.github.io 13y ago

OpenNVM: new interfaces for non-volatile memory

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nodejs.org 13y ago

Node.JS benchmarks: 0.10 vs 0.8

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twitter.com 13y ago

Tweetbot publically shames users of pirated copies

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www.nanex.net 13y ago

Theory: Knight Trading's $461mm loss caused by a test package

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techblog.netflix.com 13y ago

Netflix Ribbon: tying mid-tier services together

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seldo.tumblr.com 13y ago

Another awesome US immigration experience

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www.ietf.org 13y ago

30th Anniversary of Transition to TCP/IP

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monkey.org 13y ago

Slides: Systems Programming at Twitter

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zachholman.com 13y ago

The Product is the Byproduct

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www.marco.org 14y ago

PHP Addiction

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whoshere.zendesk.com 14y ago

WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me

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blog.serverdensity.com 14y ago

Server Density removes Memcached because it's "too slow"

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github.com 14y ago

Twitter Ambrose: Real-time viz of Hadoop workflows

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engineering.twitter.com 14y ago

Twitter incubating Apache Mesos

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www.bbc.co.uk 14y ago

Ship's anchor slows down East African web connection

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github.com 14y ago

Priam: Netflix' open sourced cassandra management tool

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www.joyent.com 14y ago

Joyent whitepaper on File System Latency

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aws.amazon.com 14y ago

Amazon launches DynamoDB

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grove.io 14y ago

Grove.io (Hosted IRC) Pricing

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Suggested reading for fostering engineering culture?

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allthingsd.com 14y ago

Groupon amends its S-1 Filing again

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www.olympum.com 14y ago

Ahead with node and V8

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www.hilarymason.com 14y ago

What do you read that changes the way you think?

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www.slideshare.net 15y ago

Zawodny: Lessons Learned Migrating 2+ Billion Documents at Craigslist

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www.slideshare.net 15y ago

Scaling Twitter

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A friend with specific knowledge about these suits just informed me that these lawsuits are in fact incredibly common. Many large companies have multiple open audits with the feds at any given time over alleged discriminatory practices - in fact so many of them occur that there is a cap set for how many of them can be open at any given time. This is less political or specific than it appears at face value.

Conversely, there is the XY fallacy: when one [frequently condescendingly] assumes they know better than the person asking, errantly classifies it as an XY problem, and fails to answer the original question.

These are all over the place in Frankfurt. They are unmanned and nondescript, it's literally just the door you exit through. There are no lights or anything, but somehow they make it seem pretty clear that it's just to keep people from slipping through in the unintended direction.

Interesting concept.. might want to highlight the destination a bit more prominently. When carrying multiple boarding passes, prominently displaying departure point and destination will make it easier to make sure you have the wrong one out at time of boarding..

> If you’re using JSON and your JSON is a mix of types, goooooood luck. You’ll have to create a custom struct that matches the format of your JSON blob, and then Unmarshall the raw json into an instance of your custom struct. Much more work than just obj = json.loads(json_blob) like we’re used to in Python land.

I believe you can use json.NewEncoder().Encode() to arbitrarily deal with interface{}'s

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We take a lot of pride in our culture and are proud of making it onto a few of those "Top companies to work for" lists (including Inc 5000's "top 24 in NYC", Crunched, Forreseter, among others).

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A fair comparison for what exactly? Many EC2 users optimize price for their usage characteristics heavily with spot instances. Sure, a c1.xlarge costs me $0.64 per hour, but I probably only need a few of those (at potentially a reserved price point) as a baseline. Instead of scaling those up and down, we choose to scale up and down with the c1.xlarge spot instances at a magical $0.052 per hour price point and only switch to normal on-demand instances when spot aren't available or the prices spike out of our target range (which, historically, is rare).

Bottom line, comparing $0.64 vs $0.64 is fine for per-unit usage but doesn't paint the full picture when it comes to actually building scalable systems on EC2. Spot instances play a large role in that strategy.

Running then with the library example, who then would be inclined to fund and run libraries in local communities across the nation (where companies may not be heavily invested or even able to afford such efforts)? In the libertarian stance, what would the alternative here be?

Don't get me wrong - I generally find the libertarian mindset quite agreeable but there are certain examples where I'm unable to reach the conclusions truer libertarians do, and this would be one of them.