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We built Multiplayer because we kept running into the same problem: coding agents connected to existing observability stacks inherit all the limitations those stacks were built wit…

Hi HN, I’m Tom, the CTO and cofounder of Multiplayer. We built this because we were tired of incomplete bug reports, hard-to-reproduce failures, and stale docs. Where traditional r…

Thank you everyone for reading my article! I’m the author, Thomas Johnson. This article stems from my frustration with the typical approach of asking, “What diagramming tool should…

I would be willing to bet that assembly wasn’t the first language you learned. The first programming I did was as a kid when I taught myself basic on an apple II+ after I saw a joy…

Yes. ...that was very annoying. How did they do that, exactly?

excellent post. can i make a (hopefully useful) comment about programming style - something that someone shared with me a long time ago when reading my code that i have found to be…

My daughter (now 4) loves: Poor Louie; Rosie Revere Engineer; Ada Twist Scientist; Iggy Peck Architect; Elephant & Piggie books; Llama Llama books; Rory the dinosaur books; ...and …

yep - this would throw an exception. ...and it's missing other things too. ;-)

ironic that his reverse function is incorrect.

hmmm...i watched the video of kyle pitching and i understood what was talking about. i don't see what was so bad about it. to me, given the interruption-laden flow of the dialog, i…

WebThriftStore / NYC - remote / Devops Engineer WebThriftStore is looking for an operations engineer to join our team on a part-time basis. We are open to remote work but have a pr…

i've been following kyle's jepsen project for a few months (check out his other posts) - and it seems (thankfully) to be nudging the focus of discussion away from only "performance…

this is perhaps the most honest and accurate description of what you will likely find in raising money - couple with fantastic advice. in fact, it accurately reflects my first expe…

i don't think this is the case. here is a link to a video by one of the authors about log repair during leader election: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Yb…

one other thing to keep in mind is that the underlying algorithms (zab and raft) provide different guarantees. for example, zookeeper/zab allows reading directly from followers wit…

one of the most important things - something that is difficult to suss out in an interview - is how well you (or your team) would work with a person. (i think this is perhaps the m…

Translation: joke -> threat. Sounds like bullying to me. No place for that. No exceptions.

interesting FAQ...i like the idea of bringing this info together. i've found there are lots of more-common things that cause partitions in practice than equipment-in-the-middle fai…

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For those who think a flat tax is fair to all, I'm curious if they would still feel that way after playing this game: www.playspent.org A progressive tax system seems more fair to …

> The theory in taxing capital gains at a lower rate than ordinary income is that the wealth that was invested that produced the capital gains has already been taxed once when it w…

good points...i definitely get chills (in a good way) going down 101 or walking around soma, etc., feeling the energy of the tech companies all around me. it was definitely a motiv…

i'll throw down a few off the top of my head: foursquare, 10gen, etsy, a cool one called makerbot, stackoverflow, etc, etc., etc. ...but there are lots of little guys you probably …

honestly, do these people look like they want to screw you out of your first million? http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/NYC_Resistor ;-) look at all those happy/helpful people, ready to…