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A concern with using LRU eviction is that the behavior is sensitive to how accesses are distributed over time. The useful property of random eviction versus LRU eviction is that performance falls within a narrow bound: best case scenario is worse, but worst case scenario is better. I think this use case is valuing predictability.

The main reason most databases use one of the myriad clock sweep eviction variants instead of true LRU eviction is that they ensure more uniform performance over all possible sequences of a given non-uniform distribution of accesses -- most of the upside of an LRU while (especially in clever variants) avoiding most of the downside as well.
> I think the biggest issue with GCP is they still don't have the "DNA" to do enterprise support at the level large companies expect, while AWS does.

You nailed it. Coming from 8-years of AWS and working on GCP for the last 4, enterprise support is the BIGGEST differentiator IMO between AWS and GCP. GCP's services are usually technical advanced sooner (encryption architecture, various of compliances certification, etc.) and more developer friendlier, their support is absolutely the worst in the industry, opaque, slow and hard to reach, just like the support from any other Google consumer facing products. Google has never been a consumer friendly technology company, probably never will. This is in dire contrast with Amazon, which Bezos claim it always has been a customer focused business.
Native UI frameworks don't have a 1:1 match on features and UI components, and a cross-platform library would have to compromise on the lowest common denominator or use so many conditionals that you would be maintaining three different codebases anyway.
Except it's not if they refuse to listen when you tell them that you won't be taking the last leg.
Does that mean that failure to take down an article is criminal if posting that article would now be criminal?
The SAG's own history page is pretty vague about why big stars signed on: "Protests against provisions in FDR’s National Recovery Administration's proposed Motion Picture Code of Fair Competition result in mass exodus of stars from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in early October. Major stars like Robert Montgomery, Fredric March, James Cagney, Ann Harding, Eddie Cantor and Groucho Marx join SAG." [1]

I think the amount of control studios exerted over even big names was a factor. Stars did well financially but were still treated as disposable and second-class. They were signed to multi-year, exclusive contracts that had onerous restrictions.

1. https://www.sagaftra.org/about/our-history/1930s
Sorry, my pronouns were unclear. In the first sentence, "it" refers to the document. In the second sentence, "it" referred to the comment to which you replied. Very little that's in the document is relevant to this conversation, and the comment itself was attempting to discredit a particular thesis (HSR is a good idea for the US) by discrediting other theses held or allegedly held by the same people (providing for people unwilling to work is good, bovicide is good, etc.).

(I don't think it's unusual for politicians to, in the course of their legitimate work, produce internal documents that when brought to a technical discussion forum can be used to produce political flamebait. It's certainly not unusual for technical people to do the same - a Google internal strategy memo on some recent W3C discussion, with no context, can easily turn into flamebait if posted to HN.)

Edit: to clarify my pronouns further, in my first sentence I meant "I did not downvote the comment (I don't find the document embarrassing)", and in (a) I meant that the comment is not factually correct in identifying the document with the Green New Deal. In (b), (c), and (d) I mean the document.

... Also, I think it's incorrect that the DNC produced it. AOC's staff produced it, did they not? And it starts off with a sentence about how they want to make sure other Democrats don't claim credit for it. (Remember, again, that we are talking about the document entitled "Green New Deal FAQ" that was briefly posted to AOC's website, not about the Green New Deal legislation.)
Front end developers and graphic designers.
Hate crime laws exist because hate crimes have a worse effect on society. Someone being killed because they were (say) black makes other black people afraid of being killed for the same reason. Hate spreads and can motivate other aggressors.

Non-hate crimes don't have this effect. They don't make a group feel afraid, singled out, and specifically targetted.
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My description of how the Daily Mail appears to operate is not intended to imply that other news sites couldn't (or don't) also operate in the same way. It does after all appear to be quite effective.
I wrote a whole thing making that very argument: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/02/i-kind-of-hate-twitter/
It’s mostly solved.

pip install numpy

should work on most platforms.

Nevertheless, there’re problems (that might be confusing to non-Python authors since they are not viewed as problems) like pip not installing system dependencies (e.g. matplotlib doesn’t install freetype).
You seem to suggest that unionized industries all have lower pay. How does movie industry, professional sports industry etc have unions and still have their principals paid at the high end of the wage spectrum?
This is capitalism. Anyone surprised?

"Let money talk, nobody cares about the ethics" - Facebook employee on blind
Am I the only one like dense information? There is judicious use of whitespace (Swiss layout, Brockmann et. al) and then there is the whole material UX enchilada.

I prefer Foobar2000 over Apple Music. Give me dense, logical and flat layout over 50 page long hierarchical layout full of whitespace. Whitespace is tiring when used extensively.
I think he references the fact that in the US you get official forms from the gov that asks (as far as I remember):

Race:

- white

- black

- hispanic

- other

Like when you get your driver license or open a bank account. Coming from Europe I was surprised by such a question. Racial issues run very deep in the US.
If you're trying to recover damages for a $162 purchase, wouldn't you either be in small claims court or part of a class action suit?
Second that. If you have RedHat in presence in your country, it is usually fairly easy, unless you would be hired for junior position/internship.

I have worked with remote-developers based in Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France and Ireland, when working at RedHat.
When Microsoft switched Skype to Microsoft accounts I've lost 2/3 of my contacts list. I had valuable contacts in it that were just gone.

Afterwards I contacted their support twice and both times I ended up talking with somebody that tried to convince me that it was my fault ("you must have created a second account"). I understand that this actually happens in the real world but after talking with support the second time with no result, I just gave up.

And then I stopped using Skype, convinced my colleagues too, we switched to Slack, Hangouts, Zoom, whatever.

Interestingly Microsoft has good support for other products. E.g. I contacted them twice about bugs in OneDrive and in both cases I received a prompt acknowledgement that the issue exists and then afterwards acknowledgement that it was fixed.

But the experience with Skype was just terrible. When people accuse them of running Skype into the ground, I tend to agree.
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There really needs to be a different term for 'visual' white space and \s+. I can't be the only one who was expecting a tale of python/makefile woes.
Why would an electric pickup truck sell well? Needing to use a pickup truck isn't correlated with caring about electric cars. No one wants to try to find a gas station with an electric car charger in the middle of the countryside, where most people who actually need a pickup truck live. This doesn't pass my sanity check.
Also consider the source.

They are a libertarian think-tank.
Hallelujah. It's not just enterprise apps, either. I've seen more than a few consumer app redesigns that just seemed to tack on the "clean", "minimalist", "whitespace" ethos, without really having a clue of an understanding of how users actually used the product.

I think this is a big factor in what killed slashdot. They did a big redesign years back that added a lot of whitespace but actually made it incredibly difficult to easily browse comment threads and see quality comments. Similarly, despite the old Reddit interface having a reputation as being "ugly", I hate the new interface and always browse on old.reddit.com, mainly because of the higher density of information that makes it easier for me to scan for posts I want to read.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Nearly all VCs and Accelerators are on our list of partners at cloud.google.com/startups where that up to $100k in credits offer lives. You would not believe how contentious it was in the early days of GCP to fund this...

Unicorns take a while to grow, but I still think Snap was one of the most fascinating stories, as they were entirely on App Engine and Datastore well into their unicorn days. Is Niantic interesting? Shopify? Presumably Spotify stopped being a unicorn startup and is now just a successful company.

To your other point, lots of ex-Googlers choose GCP, which I mostly put down to "I don't worry the way others do". If you've been at Google, you already know and trust a lot of the underlying systems and people. Adopting BigTable, Spanner or Dataflow doesn't sound scary to you, or make you worried that you won't be able to hire people that "know GCP" the way that "everyone knows AWS". Similarly, you "know" that Google isn't going to shut it down. Others don't necessarily feel that way, and frankly we just don't even get considered.

I personally think that's an interesting signal for a startup: if they do a technical evaluation and choose GCP, rather than sticking with AWS as the default. The ex-Googlers choosing it because they still have friends at Google isn't a particularly great business plan for us, but they do provide great feedback! (Particularly people who say "Umm, I used to work on < X >, can't you just enable that for the public version? I've got money").
Good point. Do note I was speaking about reading books for pleasure. I definitely need peace and quiet. However, this doesn't apply for articles or blog posts, I can read those anywhere, on any format. I can definitely see myself listening to a podcast (though in that case, my problem is that I'm impatient and want to fast forward it). I guess my imagination is not as engaged for them!

I would never, ever, enjoy listening to a novel in audio format.
This is a legitimate question. I've always heard them called Hindu/Indian-Arab Numerals, and I've never heard of complaints about this before this thread.

I'm just trying to find out who this is offending or why it's problematic phrasing.
> Swisher’s questions about Twitter’s complex abuse policies, and Dorsey’s subsequent responses, were floating around my timeline along with the regular tech news and opinions I always look at.

Ha! I need to see this episode of Silicon Valley
> But then why even try to have this conversation on Twitter?

Many people are knowingly doing a kabuki theatre version of a conversation where they are specifically trying to get attention and grab more followers and retweets. You can see it in how responses are framed. There's a lot of attempted "mic drop" moments.

Real people don't have conversations like that, because they're not playing to an audience. In real conversations, people also don't just walk away from each other at the first jab, but that happens on Twitter constantly.

It's similar to how 95% of Reddit's content is posted by 1% of its user base. Most Twitter users aren't tweeting, they're voyeurs to online meltdowns (real or orchestrated), celebrity gossip and slapfights between political commentators/media/trolls.

I have never understood how MySpace became unfashionable because it was "too gaudy/immature" while Twitter has been a wildfire of horrible UX, hate speech, bullying and user surveillance for over a decade now.
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Alibaba is well positioned to capture a large share of the small but growing African market.
Is the "zero woo" disclaimer really necessary?
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I would like for a more decentralized scenario to win, but it seems to me that people tend to gravitate towards centralization. It happened so many times already that it would be surprising if it doesn't happen again.
Maybe I'm just heartless, but "I have to either move cities or switch to another field that I'm also qualified for" does not really sound like too bad of a deal to me. I mean yeah, it's a pain not to be able to keep on doing what you've been doing, but neither of those options sounds life-shattering to me.
No. openrsync implements the rsync protocol. It doesn't have all of its options, but the protocol is what it is. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
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This whole conversation was the result of a cop out by Jack to avoid being interviewed by Kara on air. I'm a bit surprised because he's gone on her show / platforms before and even Zuckerberg interviewed with her after the 2016 and Cambridge scandals.
This is where user research would have saved time and money. Rework is expensive so is slowing down staff. Usability testing would have determined this prior to launch.
That depends entirely on the union.

There are a multitude of ways to organise and run a union.
AWS also won't hesitate to help on bare "free tier" accounts if the issue is billing related, which is awesome. I accidentally ran up $400 by setting up the managed private Certificate Authority and forgetting about it, and AWS billing was quick to give me a $400 credit since the private CA went virtually unused.
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Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

The main challenge with "remote origins" is ensuring that it's legitimate to do so (so that we don't allow folks to use our network as a weapon), and that most of our load balancing / GFE-based systems have historically only known how to point at Borg jobs (this is why it took so long to add the GCS bucket support!).

We hear you.
It's for this reason I've been considering making a game (2d) in my spare time, probably something done using the game maker studio or if I'm feeling a bit more adventurous, unity. Just to get the itch I have to make something in the form of entertainment that I've spent days of my life playing in total.
I can't agree more with this. As with anything we use in our applications, understanding and leveraging the strengths of our different tools is vitally important. If, for example, I needed a cartesian product of two datasets, SQL is the first thing that comes to mind due to how simple it is to write and the speed with which it will be processed in the database. On the flip side, I would never want to intermix frontend code in SQL, which crazy as that sounds, I have seen before. Everything has its place in a logical development flow.
Here's an HN-clone's whole repo: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
You also need a CRT or at least some sort of strobing refresh display to eliminate smearing from persistence of vision.
in the EU and the rest of the world, coders don't get rock star salaries.

Isn't it a part of the reason why Google (Amazon, Netflix, Apple) has emerged in the US and not in the rest of the world?
Yep, Americans don't understand basic geometry any more.
It's mostly bots insulting each other, while we humans seat aside and laugh.
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A valid point, but that's not what he literally said. We're all being pedantic here (nothing wrong with that, we're discussing linguistics after all).

I was just pointing out that he's literally wrong, and if that's what he meant he should be more clear in his phrasing.
For me, the latest example is Youtube Music versus Spotify. When I subscribe to channels in Youtube Music, it kills the performance of my Youtube iOS app thumbnail downloads.

So, I used a nifty service (http://soundiiz.com) to sync my artists across multiple services. I hate the idea of paying for Yet Another Service, especially because I'm paying for one (Youtube Premium) that's useless for music because Google won't respond to bug reports, but I started to spend some time in Spotify.

Spotify is uglier than Youtube Music, but a thousand times more useful. Part of that is the more active community (artists that I like which have 0 followers on Youtube Music will have hundreds or thousands of followers on Spotify) and more engaging playlists, and part of it is that I was able to "get" Spotify features and navigation quicker than Youtube Music... which is still feature poor as they migrate from Play Music to Youtube Music.

So, to me.. Spotify is uglier and far more useful.
I feel like there's a conflation of density with bad design.

A lot of good design is minimalist. I don't know if it has to be. Sometimes it makes sense to present a lot of information in a dense block
So, basically it's exactly like IRC! Only instead of your client sending PRIVMSG #channel-name :YOUR MESSAGE HERE, you have to type the channel name yourself every time... and there's only one server that doesn't federate... and there's an absurdly short message limit...

...this is better somehow?
One point:

>Are there things my users really don’t need to see right now? If you don’t know, ask!

ASK! ASK! ASK!

For the love of god please ask your users. I worked for a company with a big clunky enterprise app. It got redesigned numerous times and rolled out with big fanfare.

Nobody who used for any significant amount of time was involved in any of the redesigns. It was horrible every time with numerous changes just to get it not to be a huge pain point.... and then a new overhaul would come again.

I changed jobs to web development recently and really the first questions are to define the problems we're solving, and find out from folks using it day to day what their pain points are and how they work. I'll make some mvp type stuff for say a given function and then show them and get more feedback, the important thing is to get it from the end user, not their boss, not their VP, but the end user (boss and VP have to be involved too of course, just in other ways, distract them with fun control panels and such....).

I ended up working for a very small company, handful of people, me and one senior programmer, the product doesn't dominate the market but time and again customers just love that we call, ask, and do stuff and don't dictate how they work (within reason).

You can still make things clean, but when removing things you have to ask, communicate, you'd be surprised how much you can change if it is part of a conversation, and how little you can change if you just force it on them.
> And yes, sequential Go _is_ memory safe, but concurrent Go is not.

You're agreeing with me, I was saying that Go isn't memory safe by Rusts definition. As you mentioned, it doesn't protect against data races, therefore, when Go claims memory safety they are using some different definition of memory safe.
It seems a lot of UIs these days are designed for beginners instead of people who know what they are doing. Someone’s this is OK but in a professional conetwxt it often isn’t. I can’t even imagine if IDEs like Visual Studio were designed “spacious” and “minimalistic”. It would look cute but you wouldn’t get anything done. Some things are just complex and there is no way to design that away without hurting productivity.
The immediate shutdown of FBI’s war crimes unit is easier to understand under the light of these type revelations.

Mercenaries, Saudis and others have incentive to lobby for shutdown because the unit is a threat to the individuals within the United State who may have committed these types of crimes.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

I don't think we ever offered $500k, but have consistently done $100k for up to a year. There were definitely lots of startups that would chase credits across us, AWS and Azure (who at least at one point would do $300k).

While I think it's great to ride free credits while you can, it's probably a mistake if your company is changing infrastructure each year in search of free dollars. And even worse if you do so at a huge hit to your productivity and ultimate product success.
It also sounds like they didnt understand the user's needs. A little user research at the beginning would have highlighted what information was needed, with the time constraints.
Are you actually saying that complicity in government censorship and oppression is morally equivalent to making a video game you didn't like?

This is peak gamer-entitlement.
This is a rather common tactic, they spam out automated security reports, and request a payment for their "services" from those who reply and engage further with them.

On a related note, I often feel uncomfortable reading about a responsible disclosure, and find coordinated disclosure to be a much more balanced term in the context of disclosing security vulnerabilities.
Yeah, I definitely consider my right to industrial tribunal, paid time off, sick days, safety regulations and guaranteed maternity/paternity leave as defeats.

Without all those things the unions fought for I might actually have a shot at being miserable!
Bring this down to el camino style (or ute if you prefer) and I'm game. I've long been after a "city" truck. This thing is still too big for me. However, give me a car frame with a bed so I can make runs to the hardware store and/or haul trash and yard waste and I'm in.
I think the effects of loss of biodiversity are often overstated. Humans mostly depend on a small set of domesticated animals; as far as I’m aware, no one is seriously suggesting that cows, pigs, sheep, or chickens are going to go extinct, or that farmers will be unable to feed them.
I've always meant to thank you for publishing jonesforth. I learned so much from it. (I can't believe it's been nearly ten years now!)

It's a beautiful example of literate programming. Knuth would be proud, I think!
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I just read the book not too long ago myself. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The book that got me going was Hackers by Steven Levy which I've ready easily 20x. This book is just as good. I also think reading this much later in life gave me a fine appreciation as someone in Management of developers, politics, dealing with teams, trusts, motivations, etc. It's actually stunning how relevant the story still applies even tho it was written before most of us were born.
Please explain your "wild goose" comment. The parent comment is unviewable now so I'm curious what you're talking about. As a guy near the author's age, I have had some interesting observations of my own about single women over the age of 35.
It’s the foundation of chr https://books.google.com/books?id=0CbvBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA18&dq=Ch...
I’ve worked for the same employer for almost 20 years now. Although I interview externally every few years, for the most part it’s been a great experience.

I average 5% compensation growth (higher if you factor benefits), and aren’t compelled to move to a saturated, expensive market. Same employer doesn’t mean same role. I usually stick around in a particular thing for 2-4 years until recently, but now my scope is very broad.

End of the day you need to decide if you want to do the same role forever or if you want to evolve. If you want to be a senior programmer forever, staying in the same gig is my vision of hell.

The risk is that if you are forced to change employers by circumstance, you’re less attractive to employers, especially when you hit senior roles that aren’t executive.
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