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I was a hands-on engineering manager brought to lead a similar effort at an ad agency to build out their adtech stack inhouse. Worked out fine. I've also interviewed a number of pe…

I guess I know what's coming to every captcha tomorrow.

As an Engineering Manager, I find that solving this kind of problems really helps in my work, and it also helped to make our interview process more objective. When working with hig…

Very curious, what's opaque about a uniq developer id of an app you start? Sure looks like gaslighting. "You should be aware that macOS might transmit some opaque information..."

Looking at their highly optimized code on google.com, my guess is that they already use all the tricks that work on _every_ browser. And it might not make much sense for them to ha…

Yep, inlining only optimizes first page load.

HTTP/2 Push allows to _really_ optimize first page load, giving a wow effect. (Especially when you can use a single server w/o geodns to serve the whole world with a really low lat…

I had a similar experience which turned out to be an internet addiction. Compared to obsessively checking hn, fb, Twitter, CNN, ANY job is boring. What helped me: no screen time af…

I think it's about a product discovery. If we always sort this way, new products don't have a chance. And I don't think Amazon would sort like this, it would make more sense for th…

"I cannot help old programmers. They are all doomed." tad bit arrogant, I think.

I wonder if there is a release schedule? The last time I read about it, it was far from prototype.

If I remember correctly the details of why Nginx might be better at handling massive amount of clients is that it has event-driven architecture. If you consider a slow client that …

My Indian friend who spent ten years in US went to visit his parents, he said he was going to buy bottled water while there and boil it before drinking. He was genuinely anxious ab…

What is the survival rate in India after that procedure, comparing to the US? My colleague _visited_ India and returned with a stomach flu, spent a week in a hospital.

If you would consider using NoSQL, then MongoDB might be a good fit. It has a messaging queue. It's called capped collections with tailable cursors ( http://www.mongodb.org/display…