Mahh
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At Dropbox, I manage the Block Storage Site Reliability Engineering team.
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/tag/magic-pocket/
Mah@dropbox.com
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/tag/magic-pocket/
Mah@dropbox.com
The fact here isn't quite right. (I'm an employee at Dropbox) Primarily, until 2 years ago we did lean on S3 for all block storage, but most of the rest of the infrastructure (metadata storage, etc) ran in our own…
I think a few visits to a therapist may help you discover more about yourself. (Though I do think some people associate 'going to therapy' as 'having problems', I see it also just as a resource for guiding…
That's only in regard to a phishing attack, but two factor authentication protects you in the case that you lose your password to an adversary who tries to log in themselves. If said adversary can steal your password…
Hashing passwords for storage is standard practice in all systems that involve password based authentication. Even then, the password must reside in memory at some point in order to compute the hash of your password…
If you're interested becoming afraid around your cars, some of my security friends at the University of Washington have been busting up cars for research: http://www.autosec.org/faq.html This paper is particularly in…
An additional thought on this is that not only my own time went into games, but my competitive spirit did too. After dropping games, my hunger for being competitive and becoming more skilled did go into computer…
Most of the mainstream tech companies that the other students are going after don't ask for GPA. The only company who did go out of their way to ask for it is Google. I don't list my GPA on my resume at all, and it's…
Do you have any resources for studying up on design concerns? It's easy to find software examples and instructions online, but I really have no idea where to start with building my eye for design. Thanks.
You might consider looking for companies that really interest you, and you can directly email their recruiters. As a student who has had my fair share of internship hunting, I find it more reliable to go hunting for…
His discussion pertains to actual sources of randomness(not just the notion of randomness). Even randomness in our technology is generated from deterministic models. It's sort of strange -- Physics seems like it should…
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/multitask.html Really liked this one since we all try to multitask all the time(and fail context switching)
I wouldn't worry about it since you have so much time. Seems like you're in a pretty good spot. I'd consider getting into internships while you're in University(If you go to Waterloo, I think that they pretty much force…
I'd say that the point is more on the company's perspective. Even if some people realize <what you said> and know to just go for it, the job description scares away some people who could otherwise be qualified.…
He's only saying that a copy of a brain would create a separate entity, and that separate entities won't share experiences. Like how identical twins have different experiences. There were no claims about morality of…
This reminds me of that 'troll math' post some time back. There was a square of edge length 1, but the corners were bent such that the total length(4) around the shape would stay the same. And then to infinity the…
This reminds me of when Heroku was acquired... I call it Cloud 2
It's not
The families of many of those students you refer to are just as shattered as their neighborhoods and that may be what makes it easy for them to be susceptible to influence from the neighborhoods. They wouldn't…
I kinda think back to how PG says that the founders are more important than the idea -- That if the idea was worth starting at all, then it could always be pivoted as long as the founders are fearless and excited enough…
It would be pretty powerful if online textbooks linked together like wikipedia. It wouldn't be too hard for a online textbook company to create a script to find instances of words from their index and link them…
Problems like these are good for new programmers to think while keeping abstract thought farther away. Using cats rather than eggs or dogs paints a story that's fun to imagine. I could also ask the question by saying:…
The point of the article was to dismiss precautionary worry as a reason to believe in the effect. Unless there is anything pointing towards the phones causing cancer, we shouldn't worry about it. Consider how afraid we…
Consider who the 'consumers of java are. In particular, I'm thinking of a ton of college students taking computer science are introduced to programming through java. If college's CS departments start hating on java…