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# About Zelos Zelos is a rewards program where gamers earn points and redeem in-game prizes across multiple games. When you play your favorite game, simply finish a challenge (e.g.…

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I had the chance to work with Armon as a contractor at HashiCorp when I was in college. Armon was absolutely one of the most down-to-earth leaders I've ever seen. Even though he wa…

I think your advice is great for tech leads at big companies, but for tech leads at startups, I have to disagree with the point about "Work for your product - not your company." At…

Binary Mint | San Francisco, REMOTE/ONSITE Here at Binary Mint, we fundamentally believe in the value of blockchains, which enable the creation of “decentralized applications,” or …

That's a good point, and I've since updated the blog post and the code to use anonymous interfaces instead.

Check out Pachyderm [0]. It supports distributed, version-controlled data storage. The API is very Git-like: you modify data by making commits. [0] https://github.com/pachyderm/pac…

As noted in the parent comment, the Open Container Format will supersede appc. It will also adopt a lot of the ideas from appc, as noted in the CoreOS announcement [1]. [1] https:/…

If this was the case then any multiple of 8KB should also cause the bug to happen, but according to OP only exactly 8KB causes the bug.

For a more ambitious reading list, refer to CS6410 from Cornell [0]. The topics of the readings range from operating systems to distributed systems and networking. [0] http://www.c…

1 would like to recommend the lecture notes [1] used in CS3110 at Cornell to people who want to learn OCaml. They have been used and revised over the years and are of very high qua…

FYI, I have worked at several bay-area tech startups and none of them has meetings in the morning, probably because many engineers tend to work late at night.

That simply means if you are extremely unlucky (e.g. luck being 0, like being hit by a bus), then all the other factors don't matter. On the other extreme, extreme luck can turn yo…

Hi Brian, could you recommend some resources for learning to write high-performance code? And also, would you care to explain why O_SYNC is better than fsync? Thank you!

Wow, this is the exact idea I have been thinking about! For successful companies like Stripe, the cost of doing this program is negligible. And yet many open-source projects (OpenS…

Yes, lots of people have started using Rust for hobby projects [0] and their feedback has been invaluable to the development of the language. [0] http://rust-ci.org/projects/

The language will still change a lot before 1.0, so I don't recommend serious usage in production, unless you are prepared for updating your codebase every now and then. However, m…

Not sure why you seem to think researchers are flowing to Google. Microsoft Research is still the biggest name in distributed systems, if not CS in general. They have been consiste…

I think most US undergrads start applying for internships during the fall semester and many of them will have already accepted an offer by now. I strongly suggest YC to open up thi…

The post mentioned that all WhatsApp's early competitors benefited through advertising, while WhatsApp dedicated to keep the UI clean, and earn revenues by charging users one dolla…