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This feels more the fault of local government that just lets large tech companies have their way. If you read this: https://blogs.microsoft.com/?p=52550473 you'll see that their po…

It was for us. Things we use it for: - Using it as a timer for cooking in the kitchen. - For music at home. - Listening to weather reports and news in the morning before we head ou…

Happen to know that is the work of the eBay team in New York. Really great engineers in that lab.

He has some great points about SIGMOD/VLDB reviewing - they emphasize far too much on "algorithmic novelty", instead of impactful simple systems. However, in terms of graph process…

Seriously, using Google search trends isn't the best way to analyze usage or popularity. GitHub stats (assuming they are publicly available), would be much better.

Currently halfway through: Emperor of all Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Amazing portrait and biography of cancer. It outlines the history of cancer, chemotherapy, surgeries an…

Such bad journalism. Creating one's own language is not even trivial, and it seems Facebook did it in a flash. For more perspective on what the engineers intended: https://code.fac…

I would say don't be too hard on yourself. It's difficult to find something you're passionate about and have it practically used by many people. The best thing you could do is actu…

I share the author's frustration with wikipedia sometimes - people usually go to wikipedia for a distilled, comprehensible description of the subject matter. What he quoted was cer…

Yonatan Zunger posted a really awesome piece about the origins of insurance, that complements this nicely. https://healthcareinamerica.us/how-to-ask-good-questions-abo...

To be fair, they are upfront in the beginning about not being able to adhere to an exactly-once model. "In the past three months we’ve built an entirely new de-duplication system t…