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by alberth 3y ago
I imagine your laptop had an SSD. People who weren’t developing around this time can’t appreciate how game changing SSDs were then spinning rust. I/O was no longer the bottleneck post SSD’s. Even today, people way underestimate the pow
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by alberth 3y ago
No Mainly because: > The globalization ecosystem for software companies. Plug inlang's products together for market expansion and a broader customer reach. I have no idea what that means and who it’s for. I don’t know if this is exa
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by alberth 3y ago
https://owenhatherley.co.uk/journalism/ Here's more of what he's written, in case you're curious like me.
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by alberth 3y ago
> the Copilot integration) relies purely on Microsoft's goodwill Given that the founders and several employees are former GitHub employees, I have to imagine they know how to do this integration in a proper & officially allowed
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by alberth 3y ago
India is about 1/3 the size of the US but with 4x the population. So India is effectively 12x more dense/person/sq.km. than the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States https://en.m.w
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by alberth 3y ago
Dropbox I wish I could just use Dropbox as it existed 10-years ago. "Just a folder that syncs". I don't need Paper and all the other features that have come since then. Note: I'm not knocking Dropbox, there's just s
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by alberth 3y ago
That's a bit deceiving because a good portion of AT&T valuation came from them acquiring DirectTV and TimeWarner to create a unified TV streaming experience, but they have since divested those assets. Said differently, AT&T is
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by alberth 3y ago
This an incorrect title. Per this comment: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/b6f940e87dd28cf8 > Fix your code with CASTs instead of complaining about it. You didn't follow the documentation Essentially, t
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by alberth 3y ago
Their website has some odd price comparisons. Wise claims a debit transaction on a $1000 to $1000USD would cost $15. That’s an incredibly high rate for a debit txn.
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by alberth 3y ago
TIL - who Wise is.
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by alberth 3y ago
Ceph has an interesting history. It was created at Dreamhost (DH), for their internal needs by the founders. DH was doing effectively IaaS & PaaS before those were industry coined words (VPS, managed OS/database/app-servers).
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by alberth 3y ago
SQLite & HCTree Given that FoundationDB is built on top of SQLite, I wonder if that team is eyeing the HCTree engine for it. It's still in experimental mode but provides literally 10x improvement on read/writes to SQLite. Give
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by alberth 3y ago
Honest question, how much of this is simply due to Google slowing showing more & more ads on Page 1 of search results? There use to be a time when paid placement was only 1-2 results. It’s frequent now that the top 5-6 results are paid
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by alberth 3y ago
The older I get the more I too realize that “the best time to start anything is yesterday”
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by alberth 3y ago
Interesting. I wonder why Apple didn’t pick Delaware or another business friendly state.
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by alberth 3y ago
Unsolicited suggestion. Don’t host your status page (status.kagi.com), as a subdomain of your main site (DNS issues can cause both your main site and status site to go offline - so use something like kagistatus.com). And host it with a webh
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by alberth 3y ago
> "But, due to California law, Apple cannot prevent developers from informing consumers that lower prices are available outside of the app." Is this CA law enforceable because Apple is HQ in CA, or simply because they do busine
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by alberth 3y ago
> “by 2047”. That’s the key line. Not dismissing the massive (promised) investment. But when you break it down per year to be $20B, it begins to make more sense.
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by alberth 3y ago
> “I need to go back and address some more of the issues I noticed but didn't get around to fixing.” I wonder if this is related to what Netflix found as a regression. Starting at slide #18 below https://people.freebsd.or
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by alberth 3y ago
How does this compare to other BSDs? Wasn't there recently a lot of work to reduce the time on FreeBSD (and it's 20ms) https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/freebsd-fire... .
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by alberth 3y ago
Regression testing. It'd be a nice regression test to have: - Rails pegged at a particular version number and test the runtimes. - Ruby runtime pegged at a particular version and test Rails versions
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by alberth 3y ago
IBM CUA I’ve always wondered how different Unix/Linux would be today if decades ago a Common User Access (standardized menu system like FILE | EDIT | etc) had been defined for TUI apps (like how it was for Windows & Mac OS). Imagin
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by alberth 3y ago
While HC-tree looks promising, keep in mind the very first sentence of your link This project contains no code stable enough to deploy. The database backend works well enough to run some test cases, but is still quite incomplete. Lin
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by alberth 3y ago
I’d still say “client/server” because: a. SQLite, by default, doesn’t allow multiple writers. b. There’s also real challenges to writing to a non-local (network) filesystems https://www.sqlite.org/useovernet.html
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by alberth 3y ago
> estimated impact of +$100M ARR Revenue impact can be tricky, because more times than not - it’s a function of the size of the company you work for more than anything else. Relative impact (%), along with absolutely impact ($) - is the
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by alberth 3y ago
Here's another comparison: # of Amazon employees: 1.7M # of working people in France: 30M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company) https://tradingeconomics.com/france&#x2F
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by alberth 3y ago
It's no surprise, Amazon market cap is > 50% of the entire country of France GDP. Amazon market cap: $1.6T France GDP: $2.9T These numbers would be skewed even more if Apple ($3T) or Microsoft ($3T) were used inst
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by alberth 3y ago
Here’s Mitchell Hashimoto (founder of HashiCorp) setup config. https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config
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by alberth 3y ago
Public Domain Does this effectively make htmx public domain?
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by alberth 3y ago
37signals / Shape Up? For anyone who's read 37signals development methodology (in Shape Up), how does it compare to other common dev methods? https://basecamp.com/shapeup

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