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>Are there any major ones I'm missing, or even better, any lesser known ones I should be aware of? MinHash. I also highly recommend this blog:
https://research.neustar.biz/ta…
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Not quite. What you calculated is the probability that visitors will not hit the p99 case on all their requests. In other words, the chance of getting a p99 response on all 100 requests is infinit…
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There are more people alive who know this in the year 2016 than at any prior point in history.
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He showed it off during a live coding session last year: https://youtu.be/ydyztGZnbNs
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Japan has something similar for earthquakes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_Early_Warning_(Japa... …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL2D3qzHtqY
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Follow-up: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV... …
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How much of the overhead is actual overhead though? Operating systems know better than to store multiple identical copies of the same shared library in memory, for example. And it's not like the …
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I see your point, but I don't find the state of things incredibly surprising anymore. Consider how huge modern web pages have grown, with a ton of poorly compressible media attachments, an embedd…
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RAM is meant to be consumed. If your browser is using 50MB of RAM and has to swap every background tab to disk then you're not utilizing the resources of your computer, and getting a crappy user …
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Also a factor is that there are very useful libraries that either can only be used in nightly, or are more ergonomic to use in nightly. Usually because they rely on compiler internals or unstable lang…
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A subset of the Java standard library will be reimplemented, so most Scala code that only relies on that subset will just work. Java libraries and Scala code relying on Java dependencies will not work…
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Here are some software engineering blogs from my RSS reader in addition to the ones listed in TFA. I honestly don't know how over or underrated they are, but I guess that varies depending on whic…