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Thanks for having another round?

In your view, who are the winners and losers of the recent H1B changes? And any changes on your perspective for YC harboring international talent in SF Bay Area?

Curious to know about your background (:wink:)!

What led you guys to work on this problem? What inspired you guys?

Re:Moderen Transactional Stack on Sunday April 23, 2023 @09:25PM (#35682651)
As always thanks for being generous with your time. Always learn a lot from you!
Re:Moderen Transactional Stack on Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:10AM (#35676900)
Thanks swyx again for sharing your insight in this space.

I closely followed your work while you were at Temporal. "React for Backend" resonated with what I experienced while building couple of systems in the backend!

It's been a year or two since then, and I'm frankly surprised that Temoporal-like services don't appear that mainstream. At least in my small circle friends, orchestration framework is still in the "early adopter" stage of innovation.

Any recent take on the adoption of Temporal-like frameworks? Do you still believe it will have a React like moment in the future?

Re:We need internet that isn't owned by big telecom on Sunday December 17, 2017 @07:02PM (#15948416)
Was interested in learning more, I think the correct website is https://muninetworks.org/content/fiber-optic-network

Ask HN: How should I use my employer-provided annual growth fund?

People in my company usually use the growth fund to attend conferences - I didn't and am looking for ways to use them. The expense must be _very_ relevant for my job as a software engineer and my growth in that position (e.g. conferences, technical books, online courses) (non e.g. electronic gadgets, cooking classes, expensive mechanical keyboards, 4K monitors).I've got ~$1000 left on my growth...

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Re:Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS on Saturday November 18, 2017 @05:40PM (#15731058)
Agree with your points, but I really thought joda-time’s documentation was decent! Cheatsheet had plenty of examples: https://js-joda.github.io/js-joda/cheat-sheet.html
Re:The cargo cult of versioning on Monday November 13, 2017 @10:45AM (#15687236)
I thought the author did a decent job - he had two examples (Rails-5 and Leftpad-17) that made the point pretty clearly.
Re:Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C on Monday September 04, 2017 @07:12PM (#15171412)
> The amalgamation file is more than 180,000 lines long and over 6 megabytes in size.
Oregon University has precip/temperature data for CONUS freely available!

http://prism.oregonstate.edu/

Could you include the link to the talk?
Fascinating - I am the exact opposite! I've found that for reading fictions - a narrative that mostly move forward - the limition of eink displays in freely flipping between pages to be less annoying.
What makes you say this? Are all positive reviews a corporate sponsored promotion in your view?
Re:South Korean President Impeached on Thursday March 09, 2017 @11:06PM (#13836291)
What is surprisingly here is that the reality conformed to reasonable expectations. For a country that has witness too many violations of the democratic process, this is huge.
Re:A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' into the Go Toolchain on Thursday March 09, 2017 @06:56PM (#13835037)
The `dep` repository: https://github.com/golang/dep
Re:Million requests per second with Python on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:00AM (#13541677)
The article mentions that the framework avoids creating python datastructure (e.g. A dictionary to read HTTP headers) to improve benchmark performance. It's a clever trick, but I am unconvinced that A less-than-simple application will demonstrate performance anywhere close to what was claimed in the article.
Re:mJS – A new approach to embedded scripting on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:50PM (#13484583)
I'm wondering the same thing. What does having a JS syntax bring to embedded programming?
Re:Save the Date by Google on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:28PM (#13475684)
it could be your adblock whatever plugin you use to disable trackers
Good point. I often heard that it makes no sense to NOT deal with network partitions and CAP as an "illusion of choice"[1]

[1] http://bravenewgeek.com/cap-and-the-illusion-of-choice/

Re:Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:18PM (#13428728)
Relational databases are not simple systems as you say, but they do seem to me simpler to use - especially in the 95% case where a single, large enough machine hosting postgresql/mysql is entirely sufficient.

Key-value stores are "easy", but what I think isn't easy is to reduce your business domain to a simple key-value model without sacrificing promises and gaurantees offered by a good relational database system.

There is a hint of irony to this. Many Koreans (especially the younger crowd) views Samsung-like chaebols with disdain not unlike many have towards Wall Street, and yet getting an offer from one of these companies is a dream come true.
Re:Flickr – A Year Without a Byte on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:04PM (#13387613)
Is there a name for an exploit where a malicious client requests rarely-accessed contents that has been tucked/compressed away in order to overwork their server?
Re:Flickr – A Year Without a Byte on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:00PM (#13387592)
The article suggested that they had to carefully balance the processing cost of compressing and decompressing data and the storage cost.

Did the use of ZFS in your system incur noticeable processing cost in your system? Any noticeable increase in latency on your system?

I'm not the author of the above comment, but here is my take..

I think one benefit of a curated course is that it includes materials you didn't even know exists. We can easily improve on our known unknowns - just pick up a book or google it - but unknowns unknowns are... well difficult to learn. I think going through a graduate program helps you get a better grasp of what you don't know AND what you didn't know you didn't know.

Re:Blockchains for Artificial Intelligence on Monday January 09, 2017 @05:16PM (#13360314)
cool. thanks for your explanation

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