Yue Dai
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highlights · 16
the more I learn about computers the more I learn to be skeptical of services other people are selling you
CDNs aren't just for cachingif your site is up 99.9% of the time and the CDN is up 99.9% of the time, suddenly now your site + the CDN is only up 99.8% of the time
CDNs aren't just for cachingBasically CDNs have a bunch of routing tricks that they can use to make your packets go faster.
CDNs aren't just for cachingIf you’re ramping up on a new project, answering questions from people who are learning the stuff you just learned can be a really awesome way to solidify your knowledge.
How to ask good questionsasking questions to reveal hidden assumptions or knowledge
How to ask good questionshow they work, why they work that way, and how they were built. Ask yourself questions like “How would I have built this library?,”
Computers can be understoodI don’t think it’s the only valid or useful approach
Computers can be understoodWillingness and skill for reading source reduces your reliance on documentation. If the documentation is lacking in some way, you can always go to the source and look at the implementation for an authoritative answer.
Computers can be understoodsystems can still be reverse-engineered via experiment and inspection by a sufficiently-determined engineer
Computers can be understoodreading the implementation
Computers can be understoodyou can understand all of them to some level of abstraction
Computers can be understoodaccessible with determined exploration and learning
Computers can be understoodfastidiousness about truth, resistance to being told what to think, and curiosity.
How to Think for Yourself"If a business is built on misleading users on data exploitation, on choices that are no choices at all, then it does not deserve our praise. It deserves reform.
Tim Cook May Have Just Ended FacebookWhy Work on Retrieval Systems?
Slide 1These sources of artificial pleasure eventually will desensitize me,
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