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kchoudhu

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About kchoudhu

w: anserinae.net | t: @kchoudhu | l: linkedin.com/in/kchoudhu

i build data systems for financial firms.

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    Comment #46971148

    What valuation is this at?

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    Comment #46786149

    What will they be reinventing from scratch for no reason?

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    Comment #45897260

    It's the only book they've read, most likely.

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    Comment #45873209

    I cannot believe it can be too hard to write something that takes the output of dtrace and shoves it into a span collector.

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    Comment #45847286

    We should be using USDTs to emit trace ids that can be consumed by dtrace and shoved into whatever backend we want for tracing.

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    Comment #45845902

    There is very much an alternative. Looking at the execution of your code should never alter its fundamental performance the way otel is built to do. This was a solved problem at le…

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    Comment #45845889

    OpenTelemetry won observability mindshare, but it is entirely the wrong architectural choice: by buying into its ethos your code is held hostage by the least stable otel monitoring…

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    Comment #45839005

    I'm not complaining, but also why?

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    Comment #45779629

    Businesses

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    Comment #45415440

    It's still a leveraged buyout.

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    Comment #45395738

    Given how awful performance on my Windows desktop is, I am shocked that Microsoft is still investing in performance.

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    Comment #45167512

    Can someone please write a '"considered harmful" considered harmful' piece.

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    Comment #44633427

    Personally naturalized via marriage a long time ago but the birthplace/nationality arb is super interesting!

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    Comment #44608449

    Wait -- is it country of birth or country of citizenship? If I was born in Switzerland but held a Bangladeshi passport could I possibly use the former's priority queue?

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    Comment #44512073

    The hedge fund effect.

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    Comment #44113357

    Well, that explains why I couldn't diff across forks.

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    Comment #43866552

    After hours market prices aren't indicative. I'd wait until tomorrow mroning to see what happens.

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    Comment #43847572

    I've suspected that there are consistency issues on RDS for a while now: if you push large quantities of data (e.g. 1MM+ rows) into a database quickly and then try to read the same…

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    Comment #43782117

    As good as the DailyWTF story is, it's not real. Coal is unfortunately cash settled. Even oil, which is physically delivered settles physically in discrete locations. It would be p…

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    Comment #41767659

    Japan has (within reason) concerns other than the total cost of electricity: having to haul in coal, oil and LNG over an ocean contested by an increasingly hostile neighbor must be…

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    Comment #41139782

    OpenRelay | Anywhere | Looking for: cofounder In the early stages of conceptualizing an eurodollar savings and payment platform for the expatriate world that is centered on the Mid…

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    Comment #39958561

    > supply chain disruption, labor increases All of these things have either reduced or stabilized over the last two years, but prices seem to keep going up. Strange!

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    Comment #38359179

    Just look at this text attempting to pass itself off as serious analysis of SpaceX. > Since its heady days during the Apollo program, NASA has steadily become an agency filled with…