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Yeah, that's fair. We did follow up and I'm told we're unblocked now.

There are a couple of discoverability mechanisms, but it really depends on what you're looking for. Usually people follow the network -- find one person that's interesting, see who…

You're definitely right -- this is an issue. I could very well believe that we tripped some FB spam measures. We have a very manual anti-spam process right now that relies on human…

Hi all! Co-owner of Dreamwidth here. Pretty cool to see my project hit the front page of HN, but definitely a bit of a /shrug moment on the subject itself. "Facebook gonna Facebook…

(Discord infra person here.) Actually we didn't update the reference to Cassandra in the article -- the read states workload is now on Scylla too, as of last week. ;) We'll be writ…

I work on infrastructure at Discord. Our voice and video infrastructure gets attacked quite frequently and we have pretty good tracking about which ASNs the traffic is coming from …

It looks like this web site is unmaintained and incorrect in at least the Discord case. I see a PR open since 2017, and a comment on it saying 'this site is unmaintained.'

Discord infra engineer here -- this blog post needs an update! Since then we've scaled this system much more. :) The Fortnite Official server has exceeded 100,000 concurrent users,…

Yes, yes we are.

I respectfully disagree with the other comment who said he'd rather take a helicopter. (I'm a private pilot of fixed-wing aircraft.) For General Aviation safety, read the Joseph T.…

Caveat lector: I'm one of the two founders of Dreamwidth. Yes! Dreamwidth is a fork of the old LiveJournal code that is still being developed by a small team of folks who would rat…

Another Delphi person!! Yay! I spent so much of my life writing Delphi code. As a teenager. Basically from 12-18 I wrote Delphi/Pascal. Hundreds of stupid little Windows apps (and …

I worked at CCP and was on the same team as t20 for a while. He definitely wasn't the reason BoB succeeded for as long as they did. In random point, I (while a dev) was a member of…

Only slightly less euphemistic than flying's CFIT - Controlled Flight Into Terrain. AKA "whoops, the ground".

Woah, typing code at speed is incredibly difficult. I don't know if it picks languages randomly but it gave me Lisp just now, and... ack! Unrelated, TypeRacer is amazing. We had a …

What's the source on your third paragraph? I want to read the backstory there. Edit: Bias alert; I work for Dropbox on our infrastructure team. I'm just curious about that particul…

Yup. It's called 'fields': http://perldoc.perl.org/fields.html I echo what they said in that post, though: don't prematurely optimize. If you find you have tons of objects and need…

Yes, thank you! That's exactly it.

This would help with the times I've just wanted to ask someone "so, does this shirt actually go with these pants, or am I totally crazy?" All joking aside, this could be interestin…

Re: the remedy for introverts, yes. I'm a strong introvert and I find that a few drinks makes me feel like what I suspect an extrovert feels like. Personally, I'd much rather socia…

I saw this post and came to write a comment about "save yourself some trouble, make it random or positional and just have a functional inventory system which you'll need anyway" bu…

Yup. Matt's Script Archive was a long time ago. Modern Perl is about a million times better and easier to use than it used to be. Dancer, Moose, DBIx::Class (a bit more advanced), …

Wal-Mart has listed key executive compensation of around $63m USD this past year [ http://insiders.morningstar.com/trading/executive-compensati... ] and reported yearly revenue of …

This is what I do/have done and it has worked well for me. I always bring my laptop and if they ask me to write code (as they invariably do) I pull it out and use it. That said, wh…