JonasJSchreiber

That was beautiful. Thank you for posting that link. I will synthesize all of it into something cohesive as I sleep, but all I know is it was powerful.

I worked there for two years. It's quite beautiful now, a bunch of companies, and has a Montessori, an escape room, golf simulator, and a food court.

There's a book by Neal Stephenson about this, called Seveneves.

Well done Datadog! Couldn't be happier for them—great product, great company!

> So that’s what you need to know about money, right? If that is your primary measure of success or value in life, then good luck with that, because it will never feel good.

This has the sound of a subject matter expert speaking with authority. And it makes me feel like my adult life so far has been a waste

This is why I come to Hacker News. Thank you

I love the subheader: "The greatest of all novels". It's true

This is really beautiful and expressive.

I love the author's humorous descriptions

> Metalization, he explained, is the process by which aluminum is deposited on both sides of the film. This made sense in theory, but how could aluminum go from being not on the film to being on the film without at least some Scotch tape? “They evaporate aluminum and deposit it on it,” said Mr. Shetty. This made sense in theory, but how could aluminum be evaporated? “It’s a very, very thin layer. They put it in a vacuum chamber, then evaporate the aluminum,” said Mr. Shetty. “With heat,” his son added. “What are they evaporating out of it?” I asked. “Aluminum,” said Mr. Shetty. I have no idea how humans figured out how to do that, or why it occurred to them to even try, but it sounds expensive.

It's been widely reported [0]. And as I said I feel like it's still a fair deal. Some HFT's get my orders and they know I purchased 2 AMZN yesterday a few seconds before it executed. In return I get to trade for free on their platform.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-15/robinhood...

And by selling info about customer orders to front runners. IIUC, these are high frequency traders who may place similar orders milliseconds in advance of yours then profit from the fact that you have to pay a bit more to fill your order. Full disclosure, I continue to use Robinhood despite this.

Thank you!

Wow. This is awesome, great submission!

This is great. I just quoted from this during a meeting. Thanks!

Yep, that's what I'm seeing. I also came directly to HN to see if others were, and this is the top thread. Well done HN!

What you've written is incredibly mature, well-articulated, and insightful. I hope you succeed in your solo endeavors!

After a few months of "running the gauntlet" myself, I found this to be an extremely enlightened and reflective article on the interviewing process. It's valuable advice that hiring managers would be wise to consider. Once I am in position to make the recommendation at my next job, I will do so whole-heartedly

This is fantastic. I created something like this for internal development [0], but this looks like an actual product! Great work.

[0]https://jonasjschreiber.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/creating-an...

Currently on this path almost exactly. Problem description and steps all the way up to limitations of swarm. Our swarm currently handles 1M/requests per day we haven't really hit any limitations yet. Good advice though, really

Does anyone see the downside that a little bug gets introduced, the concrete chips, the barrel dents, a cyber attack takes place, and suddenly your 120 meter tall stack of 35 ton blocks becomes a Jenga tower raining death into the Swiss countryside?

I am seriously going to start doing this. Great suggestion and the authority and insight with which it was presented gives me a lot of confidence it'll work out. Thanks

Highly recommend James Clavell's Asian Saga starting with Shogun. Also Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson might be one of my favorites

Both are great. I was hoping for another sprawling historical fiction by Tolstoy with Anna Karenina but was treated to a sort of Russian psychological drama in the same vein as Dostoyevsky.

I agree with this but feel the need to add that the Stormlight Archives is his best work yet

Yes, couldn't agree more. The O in SOLID should be adhered to in this case. Open for extension, closed for modification

Not sure I agree with this argument. If Facebook's appeal dips for prospective users, they'll just buy whatever services those users are using instead. Their revenue comes from ads anyway.

I really wish that Docker could natively run in WSL. It's a really aspirational project for Microsoft, but it's not doing anything that Cygwin doesn't at this time.

I respect the author's argument, and I am persuaded a bit, but my team is already using Swarm in production and it's stable. Would the author, or proponents of the author's argument, suggest we backtrack and if so, how? What's the migration path?

The Times has some great multimedia/hypermedia designers on their staff and their reporting is incredible

Extremely redundant and reductive