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by ajsharp 6y ago
I see quite a few people defending microservices; the org is the problem, they must not have written the software correctly, etc. Most org structures are not great. Most software is not great. If you expect the exception to be the rule you&
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by ajsharp 6y ago
It's almost never, ever rank and file. Like, never.
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by ajsharp 6y ago
Thanks for this context. Here's the statement on McLaren's website: https://www.mclaren.com/group/news/articles/ventilatorchalle... . It seems consistent with what you're saying. There's so
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My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?(nytimes.com)
6 points by ajsharp 6y ago|0 comments
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by ajsharp 6y ago
Yes, effective processing fees are consistently around 2.9%. The previous comment was basically saying, "hey! whaddya expect! credit card companies do it, so why not!?" My point is that, actually, no, they don't really. The v
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by ajsharp 6y ago
1. No it isn't. Credit card fees are far lower than this. https://www08.wellsfargomedia.com/assets/pdf/small-business/... 2. The "don't like it / go vote" argument is lazy, and again,
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by ajsharp 6y ago
"Banks earned origination fees of 5% on loans of up to $350,000; 3% on loans between $350,000 and $2 million; and 1% on loans between $2 million and $10 million. That means they earned $17,500 for processing a $350,000 loan, compared w
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by ajsharp 6y ago
Well thanks for this. This was wildly good.
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by ajsharp 6y ago
How would a dev vm prevent this? Vms can still call out to the internet.
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Bill Gross: How Technology Can Solve the Climate Crisis(ajsharp.com)
1 points by ajsharp 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajsharp 7y ago
Regardless of the specifics of her contract, it's a really, really bad look for a well-funded startup to sue a former employee for $36k. Good luck hiring from here on out.
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by ajsharp 7y ago
Wait, what?? There's an invisible DNS server running inside your VPC? I get what you're saying wrt cached DNS lookups but this seems wild.
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Figma for X Is Overblown(ajsharp.com)
2 points by ajsharp 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajsharp 7y ago
I snapped some photos of a pair of bald eagles sunning their wings on a lake in Wisconsin last summer. Absolutely stunning.
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by ajsharp 7y ago
WINDOW is incredible. Probably among the most useful yet least understood areas of SQL.
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Someone Used Neural Networks to Upscale an 1895 Film(digg.com)
7 points by ajsharp 7y ago|1 comments
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by ajsharp 7y ago
This is incredibly cool. Cheers.
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by ajsharp 7y ago
This is such a great idea. Praise fucking be.
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by ajsharp 7y ago
Related: Mazda is removing screen from future vehicles due to the clear safety issues. https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-pur...
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by ajsharp 7y ago
blinks eyes Wow Hasura + react admin look incredible. Thanks for this.
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by ajsharp 7y ago
> While consumer privacy might be overrated, enterprise ephemerality is underrated. Yep, this is the core assumption underlying Sharesecret - https://sharesecret.co .
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by ajsharp 7y ago
> unicorn-level grocery delivery company At this point you can just say Instacart :)
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by ajsharp 7y ago
Congrats to dev.to on the fundraise. This feels like a positive and exciting development for open-source companies built in the open. dev.to is a unique and interesting service -- a company built in the open on open source technology, and h
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by ajsharp 7y ago
netlify.com appears to be affected as well. Curious if this is a software issue or a host issue. I believe netlify rents a lot of its infrastructure from other providers, such as Digital Ocean.
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Netlify CDN Outage(netlifystatus.com)
70 points by ajsharp 7y ago|24 comments
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by ajsharp 7y ago
This reminds me of the fascinating NYT story about the lead up to the original iPhone announcement event: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-s... . A choice excerpt: > The iPhon
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by ajsharp 7y ago
Google wants you to go through them, not direct to the source. The more you go through them the more data they can track and ads they can sell you.
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by ajsharp 7y ago
This is cool. For dev, the docker runtime consumes an enormous amount of host system resources. Even with a 16gb RAM host machine, docker is really resource heavy for a development environment. If this can cut down on host system resource u
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by ajsharp 8y ago
Static typing is nice, but the tradeoff of all the wonderful ruby library support far outweighs the node ecosystem. I found myself fighting with so many poorly-executed, half-abandoned, relatively popular (mongoose). Stuff in ruby land Just
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by ajsharp 8y ago
Yep, 100%. In the process of converting a node/typescript API to rails. I'll never make this mistake again.

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