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Job Description: Chief Technology Officer Location: Singapore or Dubai We’re looking for an energetic CTO who’s not afraid to roll up their sleeves As CTO for our Security and Priv…

Netflix serves all of this data from their caches, very close to end users, paying probably nothing for said bandwidth.

Just for the sake of enlightening some people. Roughly $1000 per month buys you unlimited/unmetered 10GBe (10GBps) connectivity to your server/rack (do you know what this is?), fro…

Completely agreed about data gravity, but it's not just that, it's also customer opted-in vendor-lockin. The customer (because they are lazy, don't know better, aren't capable of, …

Remote, full time, performance and scale Asking for a friend: their company needs an architect an engineer in one who is capable of understanding an overly-complex system that is l…

It's such a brief amount of time, it's impractical for it to do something useful during that time, like sync a file.

As per the mobius sync FAQ: "No iOS app can run continuously in the background. This means that Möbius Sync can only connect to other devices whilst the app is open, for a short ti…

I for one don't understand why HN people are interested in this? I guess I don't understand HN, this is just so random. But the points speak for themselves. Weird.

This is so amazing! Exactly 36 years ago, I was 7 years old and I remember going into an electronics shop that caught my eye. I was literally always interested in electronics. I fi…

tl;dr it's a scam. Austria, is a zone of experimentation for large German companies like T-Mobile, REWE and friends. Longer explanation, the bottom line is that they can do it and …

It's really evil and indeed against the customer, and it applies to pretty much any real product out there nowadays from cars to washing machines to water boilers. It's all designe…

I totally agree, there's no economic incentive, and sadly the "industry" will make sure complexity/size/scale will keep on growing. How much more performance and quantity do we nee…

That's also what I'm afraid of...

I didnt mean to compare it with calculators that are entirely powered by light. More to modern watches, smartwatches and whatever modern devices we have.

oh well

You should be reaching the charge decay of that cell more or less now. :) But yes, incredible. These are products made with a lot of care, unlike modern counterparts that are just …

There's a staggering, mind blowing, astronomical levels of bloat and complexity in modern systems, be it SoCs, Operating systems or apps. Many mobile apps nowadays are larger in bi…

There is another absolute classic from the same era: http://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/ It holds an amazing array of DOS era PC utilities. There was also ftp.uu.net which among other things,…

Is it sane to use ChatGPT for drafting a privacy policy and TOS for a tech/app startup? Lawyers are probably absurdly expensive for this type of stuff. Any other reasonable methods…

I don't disagree, but there are always multiple solutions to problems we face, and the solution is not always simply to move on to the next product. No product would ever cater to …

nginx has been a fantastic project ever since its launch with little real competition out there. That said, I've been running it since the early days, on super heavy production loa…