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by 1dom 1y ago
> With some services I'd agree with you, but DynamoDB and Lambda are easily two of their 'simplest' to configure and understand services, and two of the ones that scale the easiest. IAM roles can be decently complicated, b
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by 1dom 1y ago
Page doesn't load for me. I'm in the UK, not sure if geoblocked. But a response to the title: "_buzzword tech_ is making us work more" - it's rarely the tech making us work more, it's normally the behaviour and
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We all watched this happen across FAANG, right? In the early/mid 2010s working at Amazon meant you were cream of the crop. By 2020, no engineer in their right mind wanted to work there because it was an infamously bad employer for peop
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by 1dom 1y ago
> but don't pretend that Herzner let's you click your way into a highly-availale nosql data store. The idea you can click your way to a highly available, production configured anything in AWS - especially involving Dynamo, IAM
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by 1dom 1y ago
The morning national TV news (BBC) was interrupted with this as breaking news, and about how many services (specifically snapchat for some reason) are down because of problems with "Amazon's Web Services, reported on DownDetector&
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> This is what government is for, and not to stifle innovation by banning AI but by preparing society to move forward. What if the issue isn't government failing to prepare society to move forward, but instead, AI businesses moving
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by 1dom 1y ago
This might have been the case where you were, but it wasn't everywhere. I was about 15 at the time, I'd had multiple digital cameras and had a phone with a crappy camera on it. All of my friends had digital cameras. Myspace had al
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by 1dom 1y ago
I think it depends on the context. If I've been writing the same language and frameworks and code solidly for a few months, then autocomplete gets in the way. But that rarely happens, I like to keep trying and learning new things. If I
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by 1dom 1y ago
I get your points. Nobody owes anyone anything, life is hard, we should be grateful Meta gifted us React in the first place, licenses are a thing etc. Let me try again to explain the view that you 2 are saying you can't see: I don&#x27
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> That would depend on your definition of liability I suppose. I mean it in the sense of burdening others. Sure we all have to burden others to some extent, but I mean specifically the unique burdens that come with age, like requiring ot
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by 1dom 1y ago
> Everyone becomes a liability at some point. By that logic we should just go full Logan’s run and kill people as soon as they stop being productive. That's ridiculous. People can be unproductive, but not a liability. > But I don
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by 1dom 1y ago
> If you’ve already made it to 90 with no major issues, you’re expected to make it to 95 and you could make easily live to 100. My wife’s grandad is 90 and he still lives alone, drives, plays golf nearly everyday, and regularly sees his
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by 1dom 1y ago
> Er… is that really a bad thing and is it as big a problem as you’re making it to be? What were you trying to convey by starting with "Er...", and all the other rhetorical and dismissive tone and techniques? Your entire post r
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by 1dom 1y ago
Warning for others: it's not signposted anywhere apart from half way through the article that the end of the article is paywalled.
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by 1dom 1y ago
I can't imagine that works very well for relatively small, simple, functional or intuitive projects though. Incentives wise, is it possible to sell reverse support: extracting payment for all the times the product works so well that su
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by 1dom 1y ago
You're right, $3million is a lot for an open source project, with no other context. But in the context of who that $3million is coming from, how much they have available, how much responsibility they have for the state of it, and how m
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by 1dom 1y ago
I agree with this. Those tech giants got to where they are by recognising specifically that they don't have "no downtime" requirements. "Move fast and break things" isn't the mantra of companies with zero downt
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by 1dom 1y ago
I'm arguing for appropriate, practical levels of testing, which could sometimes mean not all code has both unit and integration tests. I think that's the point the article is making: you don't always need both, focus on real
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by 1dom 1y ago
Interesting post! > Sure, you might still be able to access the internet, but is that relevant? I think that's the core point being made: if transaction are built into the infrastructure, then all the financial controls inevitably g
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by 1dom 1y ago
> Yes, these are good. But they're a different kind of test. There are tests for correctness, and tests that the program runs. You need both. Why do you need both? Some software is so small and simple that it's possible to writ
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by 1dom 1y ago
I came to the comments to try find a similar sentiment. I agree wholeheartedly with the author on everything apart from the bit about OO, where I feel the same as you. What's the deal with this? I'm not an OO evangelist at all, bu
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by 1dom 1y ago
Interesting, thanks! I feel like that kind of confirms my position: you're not someone who has the same passion for coding, you have a stronger passion for building, leading and selling tech companies, which is why you've done tha
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by 1dom 1y ago
There are native, easily accessible ublock variations for Firefox for Windows, Linux and Android. A lot of nerds also have some form of private overlay network with default DNS to adguard or pihole or similar, again, making for identical ad
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by 1dom 1y ago
I have the same fascination. You might find https://github.com/dmotz/trystero quite interesting - it's fun to play around with, also can use torrent DHT for discovery.
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by 1dom 1y ago
> In contrast, email has been more successful thus far at resisting being walled off. The point of e-mail was electronic mail: instantly sending text multimedia digitally. It's not necessarily been "walled off", but I thin
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by 1dom 1y ago
There were quite a few, I think. It depends who you ask as to which was the leading one. There was also Microcosm, HyperG and others. The Web was notable amongst them in avoiding money and licensing sort of stuff altogether (e.g. Xanadu mad
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by 1dom 1y ago
There's a whole categories of skills, abilities and problems that are never confronted if a person changes job every <2 years. Hot take: what if the rise in enshittification and crap tech is because good tech can only be produced wi
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by 1dom 1y ago
No you're not questioning it, you're making statements against it, without evidence, which is just as useless as the statement without evidence. Like I suggested, like the person you responded to suggested: when science tries to p
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May I ask approximately how old you are and what field you're working in? (Or, being passionate in?) I feel like this is not a realistic view to sustain in most modern tech environments, unless you love inefficiently producing ineffect
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by 1dom 1y ago
> Here I am, having to defend my claim that they are not intelligent. It's because all you've done is made a claim without any evidence. Someone pointed out a challenge that most claims about them not being intelligent can&#x27

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