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I've been blogging for about 16 years. Writing is an underrated way to cement what you learn any given day or year, and over time has made it possible to reach into any part of the…

In my role as unofficial, self-appointed late-stage Digg historian [0], it's my belief that Digg ultimately had to change as the Google SEO changes had fatally wounded its near-pro…

Sorry, I think that sentence was a bit unclear. What it meant to convey is that we had 200 daily active Facebook uniques, essentially that very few folks used FB to connect to Digg…

Thanks for the suggestion, we’re adding a clarifying note to the report’s timeline.

(Stripe infra lead here) This was a focus in our after-action review. The nodes responded as healthy to active checks, while silently dropping updates on their replication lag, tog…

It's fun to see that deck since my first (software) job out college was working with that team (about a year after this slide), when only two of those four mentioned individuals re…

As a hiring manager in SF, my anecdotal experience is that most large companies are still hiring at the same pace they were a year ago, but that capital and subsequently hiring has…

I think many and perhaps most poor estimates are caused by initial estimates being viewed as too high for the project, and instead of deciding the project isn't worth doing at its …

Generally the advice is to breakout GPA by major courses and overall (e.g. 4.0 GPA in major, 3.43 overall).

I'm occasionally a hiring manager for engineers, and yes, it's very possible to get a job without a tech degree. Tech interviewing usually has four major steps: 1) sourcing candida…

For a bit more context behind what we've done here, we also have a blog post at http://about.digg.com/blog/sifting-for-diamonds-with-the-dig... . I know a few of us read HN as well…

Starting up can be remarkably hard. As training for that process, I'd look at your current work situation as a test. There isn't an easy way to move up and the work is dull, but if…

Regarding the hard-coded IP piece, I've run into a similar scenario wherein the early versions of the distributed counters patch for Cassandra relied on vector-clocks which used IP…

I think there may be a bit of confusion here, as the recent post about the increased number of daily stories on Digg's frontpage was written by a Digg user and posted to their blog…

The later being the "lone wolfram" approach.

Digg is hiring on-site in San Francisco (Potrero hill) for frontend and backend developers, with a preference for people who work all the way up and down the stack. We're willing t…

Seeing that Redis is a datastructure storage mechanism, I guess it shouldn't shock anyone that it maps well to existing datastructure interfaces. Maybe the more interesting aspect …

A couple years ago a friend of mine and I wrote http://ptdef.com/ which is canvas/js as well but with randomized maps and pathfinding creeps.

I'm not sure if this quite answers the question. Although Japan certainly doesn't allow bringing in content which violates their definition of pornography, it is not clear to me th…