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xir78 commented on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/miguelrochefort
lkrubner · 8 years ago
I'm worried. Consider what happened to Skype. Consider what happened to LinkedIn. I worry something similar will happen to Github. And I love Github.

At some point Microsoft told me I had to change my password for Skype. The "Reset your password" process failed 6 times in a row. I eventually had to create a new, Microsoft ID, to use Skype. I lost all of my old contacts and had to slowly recreate my address book. This is really one of the worst transitions I can recall.

Meanwhile, I act as adviser to a number of entrepreneurs, and the biggest trend of the last year has been "I want to do _______ for professionals, since LinkedIn isn't doing it." The lost opportunities for LinkedIn are very sad.

xir78 · 8 years ago
GitHub is also used for recruiting and many other data mining purposes, so seems obvious they’d find ways to restrict the data just enough or require you pay based on how you use the data somehow.

And combining that data with LinkedIn’s data would be valuable indeed.

xir78 commented on A coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (2016)   askamanager.org/2016/07/a... · Posted by u/ColinWright
jobowoo · 8 years ago
There's an update to the original post. What a lovely ending to the story.

http://www.askamanager.org/2016/10/update-a-coworker-stole-m...

xir78 · 8 years ago
It’s so far over the top, it’s hard to see returning rather than thanking them for the mela cupola and moving on.
xir78 commented on GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP   github.com/ValveSoftware/... · Posted by u/ivanfon
kabdib · 8 years ago
If you changed TCP sufficiently to make it a real-time protocol suitable for gaming, it wouldn't be TCP any more. Reliable streaming and real-time packet delivery are two completely different animals.

I would argue that bandwidth-sharing fairness with stuff going over UDP is easy: Just start dropping packets when pipes get full.

Most updates are going to be pretty small. It's not like game developers want the user experience of their titles to be bad, after all.

xir78 · 8 years ago
It’s not easy to share the bandwidth fairly, it’s taken decades of research and it continues to be improved in TCP.

You’re not consindering a server, the bandwidth is very high on the backend and does saturate links. You run many servers per physical or virtual machine due to cost, so you can have 1000s if players connected over a single network path.

xir78 commented on GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP   github.com/ValveSoftware/... · Posted by u/ivanfon
thezilch · 8 years ago
Your assuming the usage of such a library is sending, let's say, a network crushing amount of data. But, this is really intended for games that try to fit under 512Kb/s (or even less). We're not trying to jam down 20MB/s of JS, 5 MB/s of CSS, and 100MB/s of PNGs. Reliable packets are sending you, at worst, "the state of the world" in a few KB.
xir78 · 8 years ago
You’re just thinking of a single game client, if you have a server running 100 matches then it’s real bandwidth and will saturate network links.
xir78 commented on GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP   github.com/ValveSoftware/... · Posted by u/ivanfon
xir78 · 8 years ago
Would be great for TCP to better address the reliable transmission of messages for games, these “reliable UDP” code bases in game engines don’t address all of the other issues such as bandwidth sharing fairness and avoiding saturation of networking links, which ultimately will just make networks slower than faster and more reliable for everyone.
xir78 commented on Ask HN: Would you prefer paying $1 per 1000 API calls or $30 fixed monthly?    · Posted by u/jonathan-kosgei
xir78 · 8 years ago
$1 per 1000 easily, because your cost is upfront, a quota means your wasting people’s time by trying to game the cost of each call.

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xir78 commented on China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/vincvinc
rainygold · 8 years ago
If anything, investors will be encouraged to invest in China due to this news. Xi has been a stable leader for the country. This news simply means more of the same.
xir78 · 8 years ago
More of the same would be keeping the term limit, this signals a regression to the worst tendencies in humanity, eroding the laws that are designed to prevent them. Even if Xi is a stable leader for the next 30 years, will the next leader to take advantage of the removal of term limits be the same?
xir78 commented on Rainbow Deployments with Kubernetes   brandon.dimcheff.com/2018... · Posted by u/bdimcheff
xir78 · 8 years ago
TL;DR

You can drain stuff by changing a Service's selector but leaving the Deployment alone. Instead of changing a Deployment and doing a rolling update, create a new deployment and repoint the Service. Existing connections will remain until you delete the underlying Deployment.

xir78 commented on Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/uptown
xir78 · 8 years ago
Since this a free market heath care, clearly it should have full bipartisan support in Washington.

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KarmaCake day159March 25, 2016View Original