Readit Newsfiniteloop commented on Ask HN: Can Salesforce be a long term career? · Posted by u/akudha
Off topic, but really excited to intern with you this summer :)
Excited to work with you!
I am the COO of Salesforce. Two of the top ten jobs on Indeed are Salesforce Admin and Salesforce Developer, and the jobs are distributed around the world. We have a ton of stories of folks transitioning into the ecosystem and developing an extremely successful career.
Notably, our certifications are freely available at https://www.trailhead.com/. You can get started, learn, and get credentials for free. It is a great place to start, and we purposely made our learning and credentialing free so we could make it as easy as possible for folks pivoting mid-career into Salesforce.
I would be happy to point you in the right direction. My email is bret.taylor@salesforce.com.
I still remember Craig Silverstein being asked what his biggest mistake at Google was and him answering "Not pushing for ECC memory."
Google's initial strategy (c. 2000) around this was to save a few bucks on hardware, get non-ECC memory, and then compensate for it in software. It turns out this is a terrible idea, because if you can't count on memory being robust against cosmic rays, you also can't count on the software being stored in that memory being robust against cosmic rays. And when you have thousands of machines with petabytes of RAM, those bitflips do happen. Google wasted many man-years tracking down corrupted GFS files and index shards before they finally bit the bullet and just paid for ECC.
One of the best quotes in the Google quotes file an early Googler maintained (I am sure I am screwing it up):
“I’ve heard of defensive programming, but never adversarial memory.” — Ben Gomes
finiteloop commented on A Complete Guide to LLVM for Programming Language Creators mukulrathi.co.uk/create-y... · Posted by u/mseri
Doesn’t the LLVM API go through breaking changes fairly often? How do you track all that and keep your sanity?
Everyone says that but I have not experienced it. In practice, I think this impacts backend extension developers more than people targeting LLVM IR. My experience covers version 7-11, but perhaps it used to be worse?
finiteloop commented on A Complete Guide to LLVM for Programming Language Creators mukulrathi.co.uk/create-y... · Posted by u/mseri
As someone who writes a lot of toy languages, I made this scaffolding for a LLVM-based compiler: https://github.com/finiteloop/compiler
It uses Bison and Flex for parsing and lexing unlike this post, but may be a useful starting point for those building their own toy languages.
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finiteloop commented on Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS underjord.io/live-server-... · Posted by u/lawik
He mentioned chunk streaming text in an iframe I think as a joke, but I remember actually implementing a decent chat web app exactly like that years ago in the IE5 days or so.
At FriendFeed, when we first introduced real-time comments and likes (pretty sure we were the first social network to do this), we did it with long-polling via an iFrame because web sockets did not exist. It actually worked pretty well!
https://www.ft.com/content/87b8107e-9c6d-3d3f-a60d-3e4f6315d...