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Re:Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @09:36AM (#41994589)
A fun read! My brother actually lives on Lord Howe Island along with his wife and 2 daughters. I’m visiting them in a few weeks too actually. I will share this tidbit with them haha.
Re:Show HN: I built my own Kafka for fun
on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:35PM (#23468788)
About 2 years ago I was intrigued by distributed systems, particularly distributed consensus algorithms. Going down the rabbit hole of replicated logs, I decided to build my own Kafka event streaming platform. Since then, Kerala has been my hobby side project.
There’s still so much left to do: - topic partitioning - file-based storage engine (currently in-memory) - finish client streaming apis - much more, checkout the roadmap on the Github.
Let me know what you think!
Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:22PM (#23318095)
Love it! Also, I think it'd be more impressive to be consistent with your units when comparing page sizes e.g:
4mb
1mb
4mb
3mb
0.005mb
Re:SDPaxos: Building efficient semi-decentralized geo-replicated state...
on Friday November 09, 2018 @01:34AM (#18412740)
Yes and we’re talking about distributed state machines, right? A raft append-only log usually contains state machine commands.
Re:SDPaxos: Building efficient semi-decentralized geo-replicated state...
on Friday November 09, 2018 @01:32AM (#18412726)
Considering we’re talking about distributed state-machines, I am curious why you would choose Paxos, a more complex algorithm over Raft. Raft, to my knowledge provides the same guarantees as Paxos, and is simpler to understand and implement.
I am no expert on Paxos - just hoping for an explanation.
Re:SDPaxos: Building efficient semi-decentralized geo-replicated state...
on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:24PM (#18409635)
Curious, why Paxos over Raft?
Re:How to create an OS from scratch – tutorial
on Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:54PM (#18036287)
These kinds of posts are the reason I come to HN hoping to find. Amazing work! I'm going to come back and read some chapters over the weekend.
Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
on Thursday January 18, 2018 @02:34AM (#16175374)
Has the help menu and all hahaha
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Re:Ask HN: Scaling a tech team
on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:27PM (#12410628)
Thanks so much!
Ask HN: Scaling a tech team
Hey HN.I need some help!I am tech lead for a small team consisting of 3 engineers. We've been bootstrapping everything for the past 2 years but the business is showing promising signs of growth and has secured a solid round of investment. Based on KPIs etc we expect to hire an additional 10-15 developers over the next 12 months. I have never led a team of 15.I have not scaled a team, been...
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Re:Ask HN: My employee equity?
on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @08:36PM (#11024160)
Absolutely aware of dilution and all - it's more a matter of principle. I've worked my ass off and surely should have some entitlement to the company of helped build.
I was originally offered stock options in a staff pool - but I'm not happy with that. That will dilute so much and be worth nothing eventually. They're aware of this which is why we're discussing equity.
So hard..
Re:Ask HN: My employee equity?
on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @08:33PM (#11024150)
I do have some upper-hand in that they simply cannot afford to replace me - they'd need to employ 2-3 new people plus all overheads of getting them up-to-speed with our process, adjusting to team dynamics etc..
Thanks for the advice.
Re:Ask HN: My employee equity?
on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @08:31PM (#11024143)
Ok cool, this is roughly what I had in mind. Yes, first employee.
Re:Ask HN: My employee equity?
on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @07:16PM (#11023819)
Just the 2 founders, no investors.
Ask HN: My employee equity?
Hey HN,I Have been working my butt off for a startup for approx 1 year and I have just recently brought up the discussion regarding my equity in the company.There were no formalities such as a contract in place, it was purely based on trust but with a promise of equity towards the end of the year. I agreed to by paid far less than normal.I wore a number of hats as you do in startup land,...
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Re:Ask HN: CTO wants me to leave
on Saturday April 12, 2014 @10:42PM (#7579973)
Stay for the 3-6 months, until you get your stake sorted, then get out in time before the shit hits the fan. Don't bother trying to reconcile relationships, don't get involved in the politics. It's a shame it's turned out this way, but by the sounds of it, it's not worth it. gone sour. There'll be another opportunity elsewhere for sure.
Re:Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany?
on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:43AM (#7545510)
Ye I doubt the greedy guy would settle for a quarter when the other is getting 3..