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- $100 billion: projected 2021 combined app store spend; 11 TB: SSD; 16: billion dollar disasters in the US this year; 8: meter long 3D printed bridge; 43%: employees who worry about losing their job due to their age; 125 TFLOPS: new AWS EC2 P3 instances; 7%: global Internet traffic flowing over QUIC; 50%: improvement in new in-package DRAM cache-management scheme; 43%: CockroachDB speed improvement executing parallel SQL statements; 325 billion: hours spent in Android apps in Q3; 4.5 million: C++ programmers; 3 trillion: ops per second in Pixel's Image Processing Unit; 80%: drop in Facebook referrals; 1,300 years: longest running business in the world; 40: age when tech workers start worrying about age discrimination; 400GE: first test by China Telecom Guangzhou and Huawei;
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@DynamicWebPaige: "One of our customers has 1 billion invocations daily; they told us their [Azure] bill was only $72 due to serverless computing." #RedShirtDevTour
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Tim O'Reilly: “He realized then that history is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.” If we are honest with ourselves, each of us has many such moments, when we realize that the world has moved on and we are stuck in the past.
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@ehashdn: A primer: Site Reliability Engineers = sysadmins with Go / DevOps Engineers = sysadmins with Ruby / Systems Administrators = sysadmins with Perl
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@ramez: Exponential gains in compute power produces only linear gains in AI accuracy. --> No runaway intelligence explosion
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@abnerg: $AMZN AWS reports YoY growth of 41.9% to $4.58B for the Q. $MSFT says Azure was up 90%. The ☁️ is on 🔥
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@ryan_sb: Programming training doesn't need to start at birth. It's like plumbing: it's a skill, anyone can start anytime, it has hard and easy parts
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Chuck Hollis: [Oracle] has re-implemented its entire business on a modern cloud platform – SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Remember we’re talking a ~$200bn market cap company here – no easy trick. The fun thing is that I’m part of a project to document the before and after around a whole raft of internal business metrics. The comparison is stunning, to say the least.
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psyc: I can't be sure yet, but I'm starting to be concerned. I turned 40 recently. My current job search has lasted about 5x longer than any previous job search. I've been turned down for nonsensical reasons, such as not having enough experience in a specific language that I have a lot of experience in. (That was an assertion by the interviewer, not the result of technical questioning.) I've been interviewed several times by managers and directors 10 years younger than myself. I've noticed a distinct pattern where they'll ask very basic questions, I'll give a detailed answer than I know to be correct and insightful, and they'll say it's wrong - and I'm just dumbfounded, like what can I say? I'm not going to argue with them.
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jquery: So even if there’s not explicit bias against older devs there is implicit bias by favoring quick whiteboard speed (memorization/practice) over the practiced thoughtfulness of older devs. And a one-off interview focused heavily on algos can sink anyone. It only takes one.
This isn’t limited to FB. The $Elite companies I got offers from are the ones where I lucked through that one tricky interview by knowing it offhand. I worry as I get older, even as I become a stronger developer, I will become less and less able to marathon through these interviews. No wonder so many older devs switch to management.
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Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton: “You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F***ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.”
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Franz Faerber: Hekaton achieves a roughly 15.7X performance improvement at 12 cores, while the scalability of the traditional engine is limited due to the overheads inherent in a disk-based architecture running a memory-bound workload.
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@mhall119: I'm convinced that 90% of good software development in knowing what code not to write
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Mohit Kumar: Coinhive has been hacked — a popular browser-based service that offers website owners to embed a JavaScript to utilise their site visitors' CPUs power to mine the Monero cryptocurrency for monetisation.
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@timallenwagner: Couple updates: local execution is available via SAM Local. Lambda is also HIPAA eligible and PCI compliant.
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@erictartanson: Amazon has 540K employees, nearly 7x that of Google and 4x that of Microsoft, 2nd largest US employer
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@NetflixUIE: Removing client-side React.js (but keeping it on the server) resulted in a 50% performance improvement on our landing page
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Jonathan Lin Ern Sheong: Stack Overflow takes a hybrid approach, where links to questions are of the form https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42764046/ses-port-is-blocked-in-gcp with a perma ID and a vanity portion. It is friendly to both humans and computers. The URL remains valid even if the vanity portion changes when the Question is edited.
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Vincent Lanaria: Alphabet says that deploying Project Loon in Puerto Rico is the first time it has used "machine learning powered algorithms" to ensure the balloons are over Puerto Rico. In other words, it hasn't found the optimal way of going at it just yet.
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