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> hence you need to query _all_ the nodes or can end up in a split-brain situation and lose consistency I am not sure this is true. It is prohibitively expensive to read from all r…

Absolutely, the vast majority (95%+) of logs are never read by a human. Therefore, processing it is enormously wasteful. A good architecture will write once and not touch anything …

> Expect at minimum 2 Medium difficulty questions in a phone interview that need to be able to be solved in optimal space time complexity in under 45 mins I see this being repeated…

> Standing is denser than walking, so the throughput is greater Doesn't this depend on the walking/standing density ratio and walking speed/escalator speed ratio? Let say the walki…

Plenty of cars cheaper than a Porsche have a DCT. Golf R, many Kia: e.g. a brand new Kia Soul for $22k.

"Automatic" is way to broad to be correct. A DCT (Dual Clutch Transmission) like the Porsche PDK is not remotely comparable to a torque converter based transmission. Yet, both are …

In France, anyone can show up and participate to the manual counting. It is done onsite so there is no risk of tempering. If you wanted, you could stand next to the transparent bal…

It is Toulouse[0], not Tolouse. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, not on Service Fabric but I have built complex stateful services on top of Service Fabric. As zapita said, Service Fabric now handles containers bu…

I have had the exact opposite experience. The first thing I was asked when I interviewed with Microsoft was what I wanted to do and what I wanted to avoid. I said, no frontend, som…

No, but they are constrained to be less than or equal to 999,999. See http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/586c43085f...

> I see no mechanism for expediting immigration/customs inbound to the US Global Entry [0], if you are a US citizen or permanent resident. It is life changing. Immigration takes un…

> But regular expression, to be honest, is usually something I hardly think about performance. This is actually not an uncommon problem. I recently experienced a backend system goi…

To be considered as unemployed, one needs to be actively looking for a job [0]. Also, don't forget about students and retired individuals. They are part of the labor force, but not…

The most enlightening introduction to git internal model (graph of commits) and how the main commands alter it I have read so far: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up…

Try to find out if your employer or your university has a partnership with a local bank. I was able to open an account and get a credit card with a $10k spending limit with only my…

Is 100 Billion (order of a few TB) Big Data? In my experience, CPU is rarely the big issue when dealing with a lot of data (I am talking about tens of PB per day). IO is the main p…

The problem with roundabouts is starvation. I grew up in France, which has more than 50% of the world's roundabouts. They are everywhere. Where I am from, there is a roundabout at …

The fact that most of Europe is in the same timezone is disturbing. I remember visiting Budapest (East of the timezone), coming from Bordeaux (West of the timezone), and noticing h…

Absolutely. "Stack" in "Full-stack" always seems to refer to a Web stack where the back-end is a database, a framework and maybe a service such as ElasticSearch or Redis. I might b…

There is no concept of transit/international zone in the U.S.A.. This means passengers, even the ones on transit, must have legal right to enter the U.S.. Going through a U.S. airp…

1) Taxes For example, an average software engineer making $150,000, contributing 10% to her 401k will reduce her taxable income to $135,000. At a 28% marginal tax rate, she will sa…

What is the ideal ratio of rent/net income? Personally, I don't want to spend more than 20% of my net income on rent + utilities. That way, I can save 50% and use the remaining 30%…

How is it different from using a credit card and paying the balance once the paycheck arrives? There is no fee if the balance is paid on time.

Bordeaux faced a similar problem with a submarine base. It is much bigger though: 450,000 sq ft. It is now a cultural center. According to my dad, who was involved in the conversio…