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noponpop··on Ask HN: Any resources to learn the fundamentals of critical thinking?
It's a lack of critical thinking that requires a disclaimer about the PDFs world view.
noponpop··on Show HN: A program to email log files using Go
Have you considered syslog, which represents a standard for shipping logs?
noponpop··on Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed – Cards Against Humanity
What startup? What ad?
noponpop··on Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]
But that's google, I can tell you practically speaking many ISPs don't do this.

Client subnet extension would be very nice.

noponpop··on Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]
I saw ipvs was implemented in kernel but didn't realize it bypassed the stack. Thanks for clarifying.
noponpop··on Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]
That's not quite the answer he gave to this exact question in the video: geopolitics and cost were the major reasons, they want pops there.
noponpop··on Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]
Interesting that Linux kernel performance (ipvs) is acceptable at l4 vs something like dpdk. I guess you just overcome the limitation by increasing the number of l4 instances load balanced by ecmp.

Fun to see DSR in use.

Also interesting to see that all the inherent problems with geolocation via gslb (DNS client IP is not the same as the real client IP) don't wind up being a big problem apparently. This seems to be a growing concern in my experience: users aren't located where thier ISP DNS servers are located.

noponpop··on Top algorithms in interview questions
"The goal of an interview is to ascertain weather the candidate is capable of doing stuff and learning stuff, and if that's likely to carry over into the stuff you need done. It's not to see weather they can produce an answer to some specific problem on the spot. "

I have uttered these words breathlessly so many times and we continue to hire disappointnent after disappointment. These questions are so foolishly beat into silicon valley culture it's absurd. I have zero CS background and rise to the top of every team I've been on, why? Because I'll just grind as hard as it takes to learn the relevant things to solve the problem at hand.