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> The notion that changes in interest rates, which generally correlate with inflation, would alter the price of stocks is not obvious to me. Not sure what mechanism you would propo…

You could easily observe this with a cache-cold query performing lots of random IO. EBS latency is on the order of milliseconds, even cheap baremetal nowadays is microseconds

Clearly written by an applicant rather than employer. Your resume is your chance to shine, use the opportunity or pay a service to do it for you. The reason the author is trapped l…

If you think it's cheap now, wait til you see it after a 50bps rates move

CloudFlare's stock price changes are related to narratives from the past 2 years rapidly fading, like the retail investing world finally learning what a CDN did right at the start …

I built out my first ISP in 2001, worked in FAANG by 2006, haven't the slightest comprehension of what this is for. Is it some kind of certified partner directory?

Definitely concur. In a well designed language, I'd expect it to be possible to express something a bit closer to C++'s ios but without the crazy verbosity, and without switching m…

> Interesting how one might choose to their faith over their life. The belief in the right to a predictably long life is a new idea barely a few centuries old at most. Not that I'm…

Interacting with match.com still appears to be associated with picking up incurable ailments after all these years

That's only part of it, the major problem with classic UUIDs are that writes occur randomly across the entire keyspace. Whether it's represented as a string or in binary, ordering …

Totally meaningless numbers without at least some normalized performance/watt to compare against

The codebase is from at least 1996.

33 bits of entropy, not just 33 bits

Awesome career twist, potentialy more interesting than the article :) Did you go from professional -> professional, or not much past hobbyist tech?

Someone has pushed a button and it's run the equivalent of cookiecutter on the repo. Original author could send a DMCA, or they could simply enjoy Christmas and assume a ticket wil…

Such a number would be difficult to interpret, or entirely meaningless, without understanding the classification methods and policies of each constituent region. This also holds tr…

Thorough study from a year ago for interested folk: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/11/19/a-sober-look-at-s...

Be careful not to confuse average load with peak instantaneous load. Bursty workloads are the bane of capacity planners everywhere.

I'd suggest you are doing far more damage to the reputation of the board by conflating commentary with free marketing. The comment I replied to was the latter. If advertising is pe…

And yet I'm learning about this outage from HN. How did that happen?

I'm glad commenting on HN takes priority over notifying your enterprise customers.

Probably 10-40% of what your browser is served nowadays is brotli, it's in Chrome so all the major CDNs support it by default

It sounds like you deserve a new job with more challenging peers. Environments like that can suck the life out of a bright flame Reminds me of a younger self going to interview for…