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by abxyz 2y ago
Subdomains are archaic in the context of high availability. 15 years ago, it was impractical to expect a single system (google.com) to reliably handle hundreds of millions of requests per second and so distributing services across subdomain
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by abxyz 2y ago
Subdomains were chosen historically because it was the sane way to run different infrastructure for each service. Nowadays, with the globally distributed frontends that Google's Cloud offers, path routing and subdomain routing are most
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Setting aside the uncanny valley, my understanding is that people like seeing people not because they look like people but because it conveys effort and investment on the part of another human being. We want to feel like we're worth so
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by abxyz 2y ago
> Being a software engineer is tough. No, it isn't. Software engineering is one of the easiest careers. We are so coddled that we think what is described in this post is tough, that alone is evidence of how not tough our career is.
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There's an entire industry of "closers" (and the natural companion, people selling courses on how to build an agency of closers). Pitches like "we place closers into your business and guarantee they close business or you
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by abxyz 2y ago
You're misattributing: the U.S. has a perfect white teeth culture that doesn't exist elsewhere. Many people outside of the U.S. have healthier but uglier teeth. Fluoride isn't the reason for good/bad teeth inside/ou
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by abxyz 2y ago
Why did you choose to build it on top of X? X is no longer Twitter, it's Elon Musk's vehicle for his personal political agenda. Setting aside whether you are aligned with Musk's political views, it seems like a poor decision
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I like NextJS and actively choose it for many projects. However, there is a big caveat: self-hosting NextJS is not the "real" NextJS experience that most people have because most people are using Vercel's platform and that is
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Hosted, past tense. There won't be 35 million visitors this year.
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Not Peter but yes. The U.S. is pretty easy to incorporate in from overseas, many agents offer the service, such as Stripe Atlas and Firstbase. Keep in mind, the U.S. tax system is much more complicated than most other nations so unless you
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by abxyz 2y ago
Possibly too broad of a question but any insight you can provide on the definition of "work" in the context of being a digital nomad in the U.S. would be helpful. For example, if I am a European citizen who works for a European co
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this'll be inscrutable to any non-UK contractors. IR35 is regulation intended to prevent "disguised" employment which is an employer hiring a "contractor" to perform the role of an employee. Disguised employment mea
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The Cybertruck didn't do anything to the brand, the Cybertruck is a manifestation of the brand. Musk is a visionary who just happened to have a vision that had overlap with the zeitgeist (electric cars in the 2010s) but he is not a sav
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by abxyz 2y ago
My comment isn't intended to pit "programmers" against "coders" or suggest that one is better than the other. I think the distinction is useful to help people understand why LLMs can be game-changing for some, and u
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I think it's probably the difference between "code" and "programming". An LLM can produce code and if you're willing to surrender to the LLMs version of whatever it is you ask for, then you can have a great and
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A/B testing is also high risk: a good test produces valuable data, a bad test produces harmful data. A company that does no testing is better off than a company that does bad testing. Many people treat product decisions made based on t