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Google Acquires Diane Greene's Startup Bebop

Posted by void_star on Thursday November 19, 2015 @04:11PM
from the googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com dept.

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/11/investing-in-our-business-for-the-future.html

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Re:Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @02:15PM (#8625706)

This is really cool. Does anyone have pointers to relevant papers that inspired/influenced their type system?

Re:Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases Distributed on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:27PM (#8553971)

Except no mention of vector clocks, so it's unclear how one would detect or repair a conflict. Maybe that is an implementation detail that is intended to be ironed out later...

Re:Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases Distributed on Monday November 03, 2014 @04:57PM (#8553816)

It's a little unfortunate that consistency is only mentioned as a footnote. If this is being used internally at Netflix, how are they dealing with consistency issues in the face of failed or conflicting writes?

Re:Career planning: Where do old devs go to? on Monday October 20, 2014 @12:19PM (#8482923)

I'm reminded of a blogpost from 2012: http://medriscoll.com/post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-v...

Re:Redis or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the unstable version on Sunday June 19, 2011 @07:25PM (#2672276)

This should be titled "how I learned to stop worrying about memory fragmentation and love jemalloc."

On a slightly more serious note, jemalloc is a pretty incredible piece of systems software. If you're experiencing issues with memory fragmentation or lock contention in malloc(3) it's definitely worth looking at.

Ask HN: Screencast software for demos?

Posted by void_star on Monday November 09, 2009 @01:49AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Looking for screencast software for PC. What do people recommend?

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Re:Ask YC: Best computer components shop around Palo Alto? on Saturday January 26, 2008 @06:03AM (#104602)

This might be slightly off topic but for harder to find parts you should check out Weird Stuff Warehouse in Sunnyvale (it's close to Yahoo). The people are pretty friendly and it's generally just a fun place to go poke around.

Re:Ask YC: Searchable, obfuscated location-based data? on Thursday November 29, 2007 @04:55AM (#84605)

You might want to look into secure indices. It's still very new but seems to solve your problem.

Re:Definr: Incredibly fast dictionary on Monday November 26, 2007 @02:02AM (#83506)

How is this a startup? Auto-complete is NOT hard: it's a trie.