Wintereise

8 ms·

31.
by Wintereise 6y ago
Aren't you getting killed on inter-AZ bandwidth costs with streaming replication? This was our experience when we tried it.
32.
by Wintereise 6y ago
Patroni is rather rough around the edges to get going, but works fairly well once you do. We manage a rather large cluster using it and for the most part, it works. Getting functional PITR that you can restore rapidly is honestly our bigges
33.
by Wintereise 6y ago
Mostly correct. You can get by quite easily on all fronts aside from housing. Good housing will cost you.
34.
by Wintereise 6y ago
Most maids in SG are live-in, so her food (typically quite shitty food, but food nonetheless) and accommodation are covered.
35.
by Wintereise 6y ago
Seeing posts like these, I feel incredibly grateful to have a personal network that I've never really had to go beyond in search of a job. Networking in the early years as a young founder paid off big time.
36.
by Wintereise 6y ago
You can get that filter to auto forward them to SpamCop ( https://www.spamcop.net/ ) too! More than likely will get their ESP's attention.
37.
by Wintereise 6y ago
I've been using https://internetbs.net/ for the better part of a decade now. They email me once a year that stuff is about to expire, I renew it. I've never had to interact with them otherwise about anything, whic
38.
by Wintereise 6y ago
But their hosted / proxy solution effectively makes them a gateway for you (albeit HTTP only)?
39.
by Wintereise 6y ago
Multiple tier1 networking "routes" are really, really easy to do these days. It's within the reach of pretty much anyone with a semi-sizable engineering budget. This includes carriers like CenturyLink/GTT/NTT and mo
40.
by Wintereise 6y ago
Yep. Got bitten HARD by this recently, $1.5k inter-az transfer charges that we never saw coming. Our fault, I suppose -- but multi-az is prohibitively expensive if you need to run anything data heavy distributed.
41.
by Wintereise 6y ago
In my experience, it can't even do it for TS either. WebStorm seems to understand Microsoft's TS better than the VS Code Plugin. Complex refactors actually work.
42.
by Wintereise 6y ago
There's also something else. The best and brightest from these countries are rarely (if ever) retained in their homelands and end up migrating to one of the western nations. Ultimately, regardless of how the high school education level
43.
by Wintereise 7y ago
My XPS13 9350 from 3 years ago fits comfortably on every airplane tray I've bothered to put it on as well. This is not a small or super light machine. That's not really saying much.
44.
by Wintereise 7y ago
For what it's worth, I agree with you. I associate installing node and installing LAMP/WAMP with similar levels of "difficulty." Sure, `http.createServer` is a few more lines of code compared to the equivalent PHP `hello
45.
by Wintereise 7y ago
Same. My experience mirrors yours and OP's. Socializing in your formative years is MASSIVE.
46.
by Wintereise 7y ago
Anecdotal, but I've never seen democracy work out well for architecture level decision making. If there's someone with a proven track record of making sound decisions at the required level, often the team benefits from just follow
47.
by Wintereise 7y ago
Commoditized cloud is basically paying a company to run your ops for you. Let's not forget that you'd also have to pay at least 3 (8 hours per shift, not accounting for weekends) people to ensure 24/7 service availability thr
48.
by Wintereise 7y ago
Unfortunately, it is true -- especially in Eastern Asia. I said that at the risk of being accused of having internalized racism as an Asian person, but the situation on the ground really does resemble what he said.
49.
by Wintereise 7y ago
I have a 9350 and have had to deal with a LOT of flaky wifi problems too. I wish they went with Intel chips too :(
50.
by Wintereise 7y ago
Presumably because they'll most likely provide additional login mechanisms that are at least just as convenient (Google / Facebook Sign-in to start?) User privacy is a great thing, and most of us smaller developers have nothing ag
51.
by Wintereise 7y ago
I agree, the move is user hostile and the bad PR wouldn't likely be worth it for Apple. Social media shaming is a real thing, and I'm glad for that. I'll even go one step further and say that I personally don't think App
52.
by Wintereise 7y ago
Whether Apple will exercise the power or not is another debate entirely. I agree with the group that's (rightfully, imo) concerned about handing over this amount of power over their business to any 3rd party. There's a real potent
53.
by Wintereise 7y ago
Not really a completely fair comparison. With FB / Google, most people at least have the hope of migrating away using setting the email / phone (Google provides this, FB doesn't) as username. If Apple tells you to take a hike
54.
by Wintereise 7y ago
> I doubt very seriously that they will cancel the email forwarding without the user specifically turning off the forwarding. Where's this confidence coming from? If Apple sees it fit to prevent you (the developer) from accessing yo
55.
by Wintereise 7y ago
Google/AS15169 has an open peering policy. From a network administrator's point of view, they're an absolute joy to work with too. If you're share any IXes with them at all, they'll peer with you. Private / app
56.
by Wintereise 7y ago
They can. It's a cost minimization thing, a LOT of people don't want to bother with requesting despite being eligible. This prevents people from pointing the finger at them for not providing SLA credits.
57.
by Wintereise 8y ago
There's AWS LightSail too.
58.
by Wintereise 8y ago
It's not shortcodes per se, those work fine for the most part. Twilio/Google Voice (more generally, VOIP numbers) are explicitly being blocked (because it's possible to find out what type of number it is) at a number of servi
59.
by Wintereise 8y ago
If you're willing to hustle/keep at it, yep, the name isn't much of a problem. Having the Americanized name instantly lowers the difficulty though. Anecdotal, but I've seen this myself as well.
60.
by Wintereise 8y ago
> It is thanks to racist attitudes like this that I changed my name from an Indian one to an American-sounding one. And whaddaya know, my callbacks shot way up. Ah, brings tears to my eyes :) It's amazing how true this is (applies t

More ›