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gesticulator | 6 years ago | on: Who’s Buying Property in San Francisco?

Really great dive into the various workers buying real estate in SF. I did wish they at least quantified how much data is missing due to the LLC purchases excluded from the analysis, but it's a great breakdown of both which company's employees are purchasing houses in SF and where.

gesticulator | 7 years ago | on: In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills

This is about caviar prices.

gesticulator | 7 years ago | on: Seven Commandments for Event-Driven Architectures

Neat! Thanks for the info.

Edit: to add on about Kafka, it guarantees a serializable ordering on the incoming messages and is driven internally by a vector clock. This may not be suitable for applications, but the throughput is high and allows multiple subscribers to get a consistent ordering.

gesticulator | 7 years ago | on: Seven Commandments for Event-Driven Architectures

Does using Kafka help mitigate this? Or should it be producer-driven vector clock? I imagine the latter is the event-driven equivalent of a optimistic locking.

gesticulator | 7 years ago | on: Uber Drivers discuss giving 1-star ratings to passengers who don't tip

Really? I think you need to engage customer support to do that https://help.uber.com/partners/article/i-want-to-change-my-r...

gesticulator | 7 years ago | on: Uber Drivers discuss giving 1-star ratings to passengers who don't tip

That’s correct, the driver will rate the passenger before they can see any tips. This thread is nonsense. https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/can-my-uber-or-lyft-drive...

gesticulator | 7 years ago | on: Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’

The article lists several on the team. They’re mostly senior executives, data scientists and engineers. They’re definitely pulling strings from that room - in total, there’s a team of 300 specifically working on the issue, not to mention the dozens of teams that make this type of real time analysis and decision making possible.

gesticulator | 7 years ago | on: Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’

Tech companies are like glaciers, 20 people at the tip of this project will be leveraging all of FB’s internal tooling and might be able to get more done.

Also, it would be difficult and maybe a waste of effort to try to scale a team faster than that, with midterms so close. For sure they can increase headcount if it’s successful.

gesticulator | 7 years ago | on: Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost

Do you have examples of a low-tech gravity train? From what I know there's serious limitations to this tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_train#Objections

gesticulator | 12 years ago | on: The Skip

One possible explanation for why user's skip behavior varies by time of day/week is that they're more likely to be playing songs around friends. A lot of times you'll want to show just one part of a song to someone, or you want to manage several requests for songs when you're out.