mattrjacobs
Re:The new boomtowns: Why more people are relocating to ‘secondary’ ci...
on Saturday November 10, 2018 @08:12PM (#18424465)
I completely agreed with you until I had kids and then the opposite was true. I don’t think either option is good or bad- just different trade offs.
Re:Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service Runtime
on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:27AM (#18325433)
Every single comment here is about the name “serverless”. Can’t actually think of a better bikeshed example than this.
Programmers who want to change how we code before catastrophe strikes
Re:S3 was down
on Thursday September 14, 2017 @03:47PM (#15251871)
If you want to understand the impact of an S3 outage (or many other kinds) ahead of time, Gremlin (http://gremlininc.com) has built a tool to run these scenarios on your infrastructure.
Happy to answer any questions about the tool, either here or over email.
(Disclaimer: I work for Gremlin)
How to Make Fossils Productive Again (Future of database research)
(Java) Serialization Must Die: Act 1: Kryo
Computational techniques in Knossos
Immutability, MVCC, and garbage collection
The Best-Case Scenario for Twitter
How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data
Is Big Data an Economic Dud?
Re:Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for..
on Saturday August 04, 2012 @01:00AM (#4337613)
I'm interested in the distinction you draw between shipping and finishing. Care to elaborate on what that meant in a Google context?
Embracing the Differences : Inside the Netflix API Redesign
Akka Future vs. Twitter-Util Future [Akka-User ML]
HOCON: Configuration library for JVM languages
Raising money in DC
Not So Anonymous: A Computational Approach to PRivacy
Google App Engine 1.5.0 released
The lure of the new
Breaking up with Hotmail
All the Lonely People (Roger Ebert)
Microsoft Agrees to Unbundle Software for NYC
Candidate's plan to charge for right to drive 90
NetFlix: America's Most Underestimated Company
Re:Non-transitive Dice
on Friday August 27, 2010 @05:48PM (#1640397)
For any poker players out there, this is analogous to the Texas holdem preflop matchups JTs, 22, AKo.
AKo > JTs : http://twodimes.net/poker/?g=h&b=&d=&h=Ah+Kd%0D%...
JTs > 22 : http://twodimes.net/poker/?g=h&b=&d=&h=2h+2d%0D%...
22 > AKo : http://twodimes.net/poker/?g=h&b=&d=&h=2d+2h%0D%...