Hacker News: whakojacko

New comment by whakojacko in "Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce"

whakojacko — Tue, 05 May 2020 19:50:50 +0000

You don’t have nearly as much “optionality” when you have to come up with $X00,000 within 90 days of leaving your job or forfeit your equity

SIGSEGV as control flow – How the JVM optimizes your null checks

whakojacko — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:50:10 +0000

Article URL: http://jcdav.is/2015/10/06/SIGSEGV-as-control-flow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11910039

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by whakojacko in "A First Look at BankSimple"

whakojacko — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:21:19 +0000

> Bank Simple doesn't appear to bring a whole lot new to the table.

BankSimple, unlike Mint/Wesabe, is an actual bank* (*ok not techincally for regulatory reasons, but you will store money with them). You will keep/deposit your money there, and be able to spend it via BankSimple-branded debit cards. Its a whole additional level of integration over Mint/Wesabe, which are just web frontends to existing bank accounts

New comment by whakojacko in "Netflix stock plunges as subscribers quit"

whakojacko — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:39:22 +0000

Streaming doesn't come from AWS, they have agreements with CDNs for that

New comment by whakojacko in "I have Crohn's, an incurable digestive disease, and built Crohnology"

whakojacko — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:38:33 +0000

not working for me either (Also SF). From here, blog.crohnology.com CNAMEs to sfibd.posterous.com, but that doesn't work for reason's unknown to me (IP returned is 184.106.20.99)

New comment by whakojacko in "I have Crohn's, an incurable digestive disease, and built Crohnology"

whakojacko — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:30:41 +0000

Looks like a great site. I'm very fortunate that my Crohn's is doing well enough that I'm not particularly looking for more information, but I'm very happy to help others.

New comment by whakojacko in "GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy"

whakojacko — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:41:38 +0000

Care to explain in more detail? (I moved from GoDaddy to 1&1 a few months back)

Java can be significantly faster than C

whakojacko — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:28:42 +0000

Article URL: http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2011/08/java-can-be-significantly-faster-than-c.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2947630

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by whakojacko in "Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage"

whakojacko — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:04:42 +0000

Yep, the Fremont DC has been down at least 3 times in the past year. I still love Linode, but i'll probably move my (personal) VPS to another of their facilities.

New comment by whakojacko in "Airbnb launches new tools to strengthen communication & identity"

whakojacko — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:34:12 +0000

Complete guess: they paid her to shut up (with some sort of NDA)

New comment by whakojacko in "Rolling.fm: Yeah, We Copied Turntable.fm, But We’re Taking It to the Next Level"

whakojacko — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:47:31 +0000

Yes.

1) Its some extra work for what is likely a tiny portion of their target user demographic (note: this isn't the demographic that would use a normal signup if it was an option as supposed to facebook connect, just the ones that won't use it at all if it isn't)

2) They get nice benefits of forcing people to use facebook auth, eg friend lists within the app. Turntable knows all of my friends who use the service, and can show me rooms that they are using. If there was an alternate non-facebook signon that I had used instead, this wouldn't work out

3) The signup is probably more frictionless for users, many of whom are fickle and might not sign up if it seems like a lot of work. I say probably because I don't have experience with tracking conversion rates or anything here-this is just a guess

New comment by whakojacko in "Amazon EC2 EU-West is down"

whakojacko — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:18:58 +0000

This is what, the 3rd? 4th? power outage in that facility in the last year? I realize that it's not directly Linode's fault, since this is Hurricane Electric's facility that they lease from, but its still pretty frustrating. I have a personal VPS there which I use to do an hourly data grab, so I missed a few this morning. This is just a personal pet project so no huge deal, but if I was running some actual production-level stuff there I would be very wary of using that facility.

New comment by whakojacko in "135TB for $7,384 - Backblaze Pod 2.0"

whakojacko — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:24:38 +0000

While you are here....Why only a single boot drive? It seems like an obvious failure point, and at only $40 per drive I would think soft raid 1 would be no-brainer for reliability.

Regardless though, super impressed by the work into rolling your own hardware, hope you guys continue to do well.

New comment by whakojacko in "Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service"

whakojacko — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:19:57 +0000

You are also paying for 1) their software work involved and 2) running on multiple hosts, which is a must for any non-trivial environment

How Google+ Shows That Google Still Doesn't Understand Social

whakojacko — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:36:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.quora.com/Yishan-Wong/How-Google+-Shows-That-Google-Still-Doesnt-Understand-Social

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2723969

Points: 16

# Comments: 2

New comment by whakojacko in "Zynga Files to Raise $1 Billion via IPO"

whakojacko — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:44:57 +0000

yea, I deleted my parent comment for an obvious lack of math. you are absolutely correct

New comment by whakojacko in "RIM’s Response to 'Open Letter'"

whakojacko — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:48:01 +0000

Sounded like standard bland pr-speak to me. They didn't specifically address any of his points and it comes off as extremely impersonal. I hope for RIM's sake they are sending around a much more detailed memo internally. For instance, the second sentence:

"It is obviously difficult to address anonymous commentary and it is particularly difficult to believe that a 'high level employee' in good standing with the company would choose to anonymously publish a letter on the web rather than engage their fellow executives in a constructive manner"

seems to just strengthen the original author's point 8

New comment by whakojacko in "Show HN: TF-IDF search engine in 30 lines of Scala"

whakojacko — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:47:30 +0000

As someone who works on search and is a scala fan, I'm super impressed. Next obvious question: how many lines would it take to add some sort of stemming?

New comment by whakojacko in "Why moving to Scala - Part I - Writing less code"

whakojacko — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:33:29 +0000

Have you seen squeryl? Its not quite as nice as LINQ, but its definitely a useful DSL

New comment by whakojacko in "How to add a second layer of encryption to Dropbox"

whakojacko — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:28:06 +0000

The unmentioned big issue with truecrypt is that encryption messes up dropbox's ability to do just do diffs, so syncing is noticeably slower. I'm fine with that though, because the (important) data I keep there is only updated 1 or 2 times/year.