Also this fails HN’s guidelines of title editorializing, by including the author’s name.
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Hi shadowsun7!
A Scotsman who spells
Whisky with an ‘e’,
should be hand cuffed
and thrown head first in the Dee.
In the USA and Ireland,
it’s spelt with an ‘e’
but in Scotland
it’s real ‘Whisky’.
So if you see Whisky
and it has an ‘e’,
only take it,
if you get it for free!
For the name is not the same
and it never will be,
a dram is only a real dram,
from a bottle of ‘Scotch Whisky’.
~ Stanley Bruce.
[1] On Archive.org - https://web.archive.org/web/20190220071550/https://thisairbn...
Can’t think of a better match - the company that pioneered the App Store for servers joining the company that pioneered/commercialized virtualization.
https://causal.app => might be interesting too
There was a great quote from an interview of Peter Scholze (one of last year's Fields' Medallists), which has really changed how I view learning:
At 16, Scholze learned that a decade earlier Andrew Wiles had proved the famous 17th-century problem known as Fermat’s Last Theorem, which says that the equation xn + yn = zn has no nonzero whole-number solutions if n is greater than two. Scholze was eager to study the proof, but quickly discovered that despite the problem’s simplicity, its solution uses some of the most cutting-edge mathematics around. “I understood nothing, but it was really fascinating,” he said.
So Scholze worked backward, figuring out what he needed to learn to make sense of the proof. “To this day, that’s to a large extent how I learn,” he said. “I never really learned the basic things like linear algebra, actually — I only assimilated it through learning some other stuff.”
[1]https://www.quantamagazine.org/peter-scholze-and-the-future-...
Repeatedly pointing out, hmm, their 'flaws', just detracts from the actual subject matter. And btw, I did enjoy this talk and likewise most of Stephen's blog posts/writings. [Only exception when such a comment would be warranted is when Stephen talks about humility ;)]
I would call him a good, hardworking student. (At least that's what we'd call it in Singapore ;) Coincidentally me and Xu went to high school at the same time in Singapore)
If we labelled everyone who did well in the undergraduate curriculum as prodigal - the word itself starts loses its meaning.
Let's take the top 20 universities across the world (harvards,mits, tsinghuas, iits etc.) and take the top 10 graduating students from each class (math, physics, etc.) => are we saying that the world is producing 500-1000 prodigies every year?
He ain’t no Ramanujan, or a Terrence Tao or any of the recent Fields’ medalists who have poured their heart and soul into their craft with no expected financial return.
I was somewhat involved in the programming Olympiads in high school and to a lesser degree icpc style programming in college.
And later when I founded my own startup - I thought these competitive programmer types would be great hires. But in reality it’s been a bit of a mixed bag. Real world software engineering is about readabiliy, maintenance, extensibility, etc - the actual data structure and algorithm work is typically minimal (which these competitive programmers relish on) and even then you’d probably want to delegate to some battle tested open source library.
Of course I don’t want to hold having a competitive programming background against the candidate but no longer prioritize that skill set.
"DevOps ... brings a lot of challenges: the efficiency of image distribution, especially when you have a lot of applications and require image distribution at the same time. Dragonfly works extremely well with both Docker and Pouch, and actually we are compatible with any other container technologies without any modifications of container engine."
FWIW, this was a similar problem that I tackled for Golang gopher gala hackathon 2015 - a custom bittorrent based docker image registry POC.
https://github.com/netvarun/docket
Interestingly my problem statement was somewhat similar:
"Large scale deploys are going to choke your docker registry. Imagine pulling/deploying a 800mb base image (for example the official perl image) across 200 machines in one go. That's 800*200 = 160GB [EDIT: Correction thanks to kingbirdy] of data that's going to be deployed and it'll definitely choke your private docker registry (and will take a while pulling in from the public image)."
In a 2007 interview [2] he says that, based on Josh Waitzkin's appraisal, his (unofficial) ELO rating would be around ~1400 ELO
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/arts/music/07clan.html [2] http://www.uschess.org/content/view/7924/349/
Edit: Updated with source