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I mean... yeah MongoDB got a lot of hate, but I think the broader point is that it was one of the first technologies to popularize the domain of NoSQL. No one knew how to use it properly; so we adapted SQL-like schema design, and when it be
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Don't even get me started on iota. Ok I'm started. Iota is a solution in search of a problem; a solution which was designed to replace far better solutions (enums) worse, and ended up solving practically no problems. Its issue is
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Any advice/links on getting started lifting?
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I know this might not be a popular opinion, but: late-stage capitalism. Not (necessarily) from the /r/latestagecapitalism everything-sucks capitalism-sucks stance, but more fundamental than that. We're living in an era of hum
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Its EXTREMELY weird behavior. Like, in that example I linked in [4] above; just parsing over the code what you should expect to happen is nothing all that interesting; it should just run. Instead, what happens is, the error conditional on
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The Go vs Rust debate is really tiring. Beyond releasing around the same time, they're languages built for extremely different purposes. Instead, I'm going to lament about a few things I think would take Go from an extremely good
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> Bad management is irrespective of the MBA. It sure is, but just as "googling something" means searching it, the zeitgeist doesn't care. I think this should severely worry MBA programs, and those with the degree. People q
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Running a business is extremely hard; but no one is forcing these businesses to grow to be so fucking large that they are induced to justify all of their inhumanity on the impossible difficulty of operating at scale. THEIR EXECUTIVES CHOSE
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To be fair; given the evidence of that timeline are Fuchsia and Midori, I think the more accurate statement is that the timeline for developing an OS from scratch is not less than 7 years, with an infinite upper bound.
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I don't hold a strong opinion one way or the other, but let me make an argument for why it isn't necessarily all bad (which: is different from it being a "good thing", to be clear). Blur your eyes enough and any "th
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I've pondered this from the perspective of the Fermi Paradox; that Earth had a really fortuitous series of events where the planet went down one line of flora/fauna evolution that, despite millions of years of evolution didn'
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> The harsh reality is that for senior positions you're either going to spend a LOT of time smashing submit on hundreds and thousands of applications while hearing _nothing_ back, or you're going to tap your connections and hav
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And every time these posts come around, someone immediately jumps in and plays a character in Office Space, saying "oh the engineers don't like talking to people, that's why I'm valuable". Look at all the recent lay
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I think a critical reduction of your praise of good/effective non-technical people is: They made your life easier by triaging with all the other non-technical people. I wouldn't assert that this isn't valuable in most organiz
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That's fair criticism. I think my counterpoint is: Generally, if I'm playing the part of the owner of some system N layers deep in the rats nest of corporate systems; I don't even want to think specifically about what broke.
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Apologies; I mean to say Monorepo; and specifically the idea of having one repo with multiple services deployed independently.
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That's my mistake; I meant to say Monorepo there.
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I think we're just reducing down to "programming at scale" is hard, at some point. Sure; that is a really big problem, and it becomes a bigger problem the bigger you are. But, as you become bigger: the monorepo is constantly
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IMO the biggest drawback to a monolith, maybe beyond those listed, is losing the 1-1 mapping of changes to CI to releases. If you know "this thing is broken", the commit log is a fantastic resource to figure out what changed which
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I have had a really frustrating relationship with software maintenance in all of the companies I've worked for. I've always been a strong, strong believer in an analogy like: How much time would you estimate that nuclear engineers
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My biggest take-away from Ancient Apocalypse is: This is out there now. Its popular. Graham makes a really big stink about how monolithic and hostile the archaeological community is, and the archaeological community has done absolutely noth
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Idea: 1. Create a throwaway account. 2. Add a bunch of professional developers' at big companies email addresses to the account. Just shoot in the dark: johnanderson@google.com, mikejohnson@airbnb.com, wandamaximov@apple.com, throw in
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Rich people don't predominately buy art from artists (for $100,000). They spend $100,000 on art from some art dealer, or other rich people; who paid $80,000 for it from someone else; that someone else paid $60,000 for it; and twenty st
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I'll second this; Supabase obviously popularized this whole method of doing things, but once you've worked in it it genuinely feels like the first step forward this industry has had in five years. One of my related pocket theories
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Cloudflare's free tiers are hard-free; they stop working if you exceed the free tier usage (at least for compute; storage is different). Pages is essentially totally free. R2 is within the same pricing magnitude as S3. D1 is a very new
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Look past that person's specific title more at the general problem; the systemic bureaucracy. That's the problem the Fox News rightwingers have with the Federal Government; they may not be sophisticated enough to voice it like tha
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I'll take the opposite stance of most of the people in this thread and say: I love this. To me, this feels like an echo of the Apple that I miss. The Mac didn't just become the creative powerhouse it is today because of the killer
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I'm getting sick of news sites feeling like they have to add their own color commentary to articles. The title: "American EVs reduced gasoline consumption by just 0.54% in 2021" What the title should have been: "American
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Oh, here we go again. The hazy macro-economic environment strains the capital efficiency of tech as they learn-anew why traditional businesses aren't quite as efficient as they are. The world is complex, and hard to navigate, and hard
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A problem is: this functionally isn't how HOAs end up working. The opposite is true: higher density living areas (in order of decreasing density: apartments, condos, suburban subdivisions/cul-de-sacs) generally have HOAs. Lower de

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