gmmeyer

Well, either that or DNS

This article seems to mix up AMD and ARM

I've never had slack lose a message when it's up

Slack and the others have different contractual guarantees and different regulatory environments. Comparing them is not really fair because the reality is that these other services probably just lose tons of messages and slack/teams can't do that! They have to have better guarantees.

There's no need to rewrite a system that works and that you're not gonna change. While programming languages go out of fashion there will always be people who are capable of writing them. The median age of a cobol programmer has not changed in 20 years because more people keep learning the language.

Demand in this case, will likely create its own supply.

This looks so good, especially the fake monitor effects

Busses are great in NYC. I take them regularly. They are nice and clean and fairly quick. They're not always as fast as Uber but they're much cheaper, so you have a tradeoff. And, sometimes they are faster than Uber, since they have their own lane in some places!

same I have never had an issue

I'm sure shareholders will sue, because they try to turn everything into a violation of securities law. But securities law shouldn't be the only way to regulate companies imo

Integrating through a database or other data source is a time tested method of linking together services. For some services in critical paths that might not be the best way to do it but the pattern you've described here sounds pretty normal and standard. What exactly do you want to do to solve this problem? What's a "proper service integration?"

It's a bit hagiographic, but it's overall a very good book.

what's your favorite standard that you've read?

It's what Spotify did, I think it's a decent question but it also allows for liquidity, especially since it's such a big part of comp it's not unreasonable to list

This is gonna be some racist bs

yea this is just standard

What's wrong with RPMs?

It was a study that was retracted: https://qz.com/1222744/mits-uber-study-couldnt-possibly-have...

She probably never heard about the retraction, it got a lot less press than the original study

Oh yea they're evil. I have no compunction about saying that

Message queues (or similar things like Kafka, which isn't quite a proper "message queue") are used for basically everything at this scale. Messages are being passed indirectly. An event happens, it gets popped on a queue, and then the recipients do something with it.

Last time Tumblr broke out the numbers porn was 11% of the biggest blogs. More than 1 out of 10 blogs is a porn blog. That's a huge portion of their user base and will likely cause it to totally crash.

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook

I really couldn't roll my eyes harder at this. Yes, they're not building a distributed system. But they can do things that make them feel like they're solving problems.

Yea that's a part of the string theoretic calculation, that some of these higher dimensions are different than the three we're accustomed to. They're curved and swirled and weird. It's pretty unclear that they're real, but it's an interesting idea

Don't forget about race.

Whose life has been endangered by this? Art heists are many things, but they rarely seem to be very dangerous except in movies

that is terrifying!

They went up on the app stores over the last week

this is one of the greatest articles I've ever read on the internet

Craigslist has an amazing interface. It's so easy to use. It's ugly, but who cares! I don't care if it's pretty. It does exactly what I want. There was a great article on this a few years ago that I think is perfect: https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-the-drudge-report-is-one-of-t...

you misspelled best, though it needs to have flaming skulls follow your mouse pointer around to be really great