avrionov

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avrionov··on Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

I had the same question as you so I checked. C++ 11 standard was released in 2011 of course. Rust development started in 2006 and Mozilla announced it officially in 2010.

avrionov··on Crypto Crash Drags Lender Celsius Network into Bankruptcy

Apple didn't file for bankruptcy. We really don't know how much money are left in Celsius.

avrionov··on TikTok confirms it is using Oracle infrastructure in the US

One thing that is not discussed here is that Oracle offers much cheaper bandwidth compared to all other big cloud providers. Bandwidth is one area of the cloud offerings where the prices hasn't changed much. Oracle was able to attract Zoom also for potion of their backed. Getting more competition here will enable smaller players to create apps which rely more on video.

Disclaimer: I haven't use Oracle cloud, just researched it.

avrionov··on Scaling our spreadsheet engine from thousands to billions of cells

Check FunCalc [1]. Spreadsheet implementation in C# + corresponding book.

[1] https://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/funcalc/

avrionov··on Scaling our spreadsheet engine from thousands to billions of cells

This is one of the best sources [1]. Spreadsheet implementation in C# + corresponding book.

[1] https://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/funcalc/

avrionov··on El Salvador’s Experiment with Bitcoin as Legal Tender

The supply is mathematically guaranteed, but the price fluctuates more than the dollar.

avrionov··on Crypto firm Bitpanda lays off around 20% of its people

You seems to know a lot about the exchanges. D you think coinmarketcap numbers are real [1]?

The parent comment was about FTX and Binance compared to the other crypto exchanges not to the exchanges in general.

FTX claims to be way more efficient than Coinbase - having only 25 engineers compared to thousands for coinbase. This could be secret of the surviving exchanges - efficiency.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/

avrionov··on The end of the world is just beginning for shipping

It added about 1.5M since 1990 which is a huge number.

avrionov··on The end of the world is just beginning for shipping

USA also has the Green Card Lottery which provides 50k visas per year.

avrionov··on Memory Safety in a Modern System Programming Language Pt. 1

What do you think prevents D to become more popular? It seems Rust and Go captured some of the mind share of D.

avrionov··on Zoom.us is down

Unfortunately WebRTC provides only part of the features needed to build Web Conferencing app. The main issue is that p2p connections don't work for more 5 attendees in the same session. After that is better to have MCU or SFU.

Other features like recording a much more reliable if they are implemented server side.

avrionov··on Bitcoin slumps below key $20k threshold

We still don't know how big is the problem. Here is what happened this week:

- Celsius Network suspended withdrawals. The money in the accounts might be gone or they are going to get a significant haircut[1]

- Babel Finance suspended withdrawals.

- Three Arrows Capital is having troubles.

- Finblox limited the withdrawals

$40B - 50B are locked in this companies (or more likely gone).

avrionov··on Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency

Crypto companies put their names on stadiums. If they go bankrupt the names will have to change.

avrionov··on Despite crypto layoffs, Kraken continues to hire

Here is the Vice article about Kraken.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zwb7/crypto-exchange-ceo-c...

avrionov··on Despite crypto layoffs, Kraken continues to hire

The interest rates were low during the entire existence of bitcoin + QE for the same period.

We don't know bitcoin and the rest of the crypto currencies will react to higher interest rates.

avrionov··on You vs. A Billionaire: compare your income

Elon was born is South Africa, right? He can't run for president.

avrionov··on Houston moved 25k people from the streets into homes of their own

Stanford SIEPR did a seminar and published most of the discussion online about homelessness in California [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmPYI8jT328&list=PLs-p47Tpkz...

avrionov··on The End of the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy

I'm not sure if this is the right conclusion. All companies on the list went on a hiring sprees with the VC money. It is still not clear if they are not profitable because of the business model or the because of the hiring practices and the extra projects which they tried (Uber's self driving cars is one example).

avrionov··on Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

4 months is the payed portion of COBRA. After that the former employees pay themselves.

avrionov··on Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs

This is very typical. He is talking about cutting now former employees access to email, source code repositories, internal systems. It is done all the time. It looks very harsh.

avrionov··on AWS costs every programmer should know (2019)

It seems that the article is almost 2 years old and the script is missing from github.

Here is the original website where the information is taken from [1]. Provides the latest data with every possible instance price.

[1] https://instances.vantage.sh/

avrionov··on Sunsetting Atom

The first thing which Visual Studio Code did right was the better performance. The initial reaction to Atom was that it was very promising, but very slow.

The second big innovation was the language server protocol.This allowed any language to be supported by VS Code.

avrionov··on iPadOS 16

MKBD asked Craig Federighi in 2020 [1].

Federighi said it would be very easy for Apple to just scale the iPhone Weather app to the iPad, but that's not something the company wants to do, instead looking to create an app that makes use of the larger screen of the iPad in every possible way

[1] https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/apple-exec-explain...

avrionov··on iPadOS 16

The Weather App Comes to iPad

Finally! 12 years after the first iPad, Apple released a native Weather app which doesn't point to a website with ads.

Next year they should release a calculator.

avrionov··on Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

I wonder if him coming out as a Republic was a similar tactic as the "return to office" memo?

He came as Republican not as a Republic. Give it a few more years.

avrionov··on Could the greatest works of literature be undiscovered?

The value created fame, which increased the value.

avrionov··on One-Third of Americans Making $250k Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck

Usually these numbers are given before tax. The sum after taxes will vary depending on the state and the family size. You can check here [1] for various options.

[1] https://www.paycheckcity.com/calculator/salary

avrionov··on Elon Musk Tesla email: Remote work is no longer acceptable

Not having an office makes the company much more flexible. - They can hire anywhere. - Adding / removing employees is much cheaper - Most business are already prepared for their employees to work from everywhere.

avrionov··on Show HN: WebRTC Nuts and Bolts, A holistic way of understanding how WebRTC runs

Zoom uses Media over DataChannels only for the browser version of their product. For the desktop and mobile clients they use their own implementation.

avrionov··on What One-person SaaS Healthchecks.io uses for hosting, hardware and software

I don't think that this will work differently than you manually updating your databases. GCP claims that maintenance downtime is less than 60 seconds.

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