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by andrew_ 5y ago
I've been an active member of a particular, very popular, and long-running boating forum. It's been around years before facebook and twitter. FOMO, envy, and keeping-up are just as much a thing in the marine communities as they ar
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I don't count HN as modern social media. For me, it's more akin to older phpBB boards and the like. We have no avatars, we come and go on posting, reading. We have only usernames and karma, and no one cares how much karma someone
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by andrew_ 5y ago
What I didn't see in the docs that would be of great interest is benchmarks for Deno in Cloudflare workers versus vanilla Node.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I've ended up using last major versions as well. I plan to move to Deno anyhow, and authors like sindresorhus are at least applying security updates to the major version before the switch.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
You can tell TS to output ESM. Try using top-level await with TS and you'll run into that. The configuration options are vast.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Say what now? const batman = await import('batcave' + version);
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I really, really loathe how major packages in the ecosystem are "We're ESM now, deal with it, sorry about your luck," and forcing the issue. It's arrogant as hell. A hard fork of Node for ESM would have been a much bette
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by andrew_ 5y ago
> Yet here we have a case where a very real black life was severely harmed, with Wikipedia playing a secondary, but still highly significant part in the sorry tale. The Wikimedia blog post contains no acknowledgement of this fact. Instea
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by andrew_ 5y ago
The parallel between similarities of modern day stadiums and arenas in many major cities, and structures bearing similar size and shape to one another shared among major population centers in this part of the ancient world, is striking.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
We say this now, ignoring the hot messes that were SourceSafe, Pervasive, CVS, and SVN. Git is light years more elegant that predecessors, and its holding power is evidence of that. We're able to criticize now because we've had th
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Lambda + SNS + CloudWatch (with alarms) is a successful pattern for invoking other lambas very async and still being notified of problems. Swap in SQS if you're in need of message retry.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Is "Vendor lock-in" a good argument anymore? I've never been with a company that's moved cloud providers, and I'd bet it's a pretty rare case.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
why aren't you using a mechanism to timeout downstream dependencies?
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by andrew_ 5y ago
You might want to edit that comment and speak towards cold start times, dependency management, your deployment strategy (e.g. are you using a docker image lambda or zip, etc) and what you're paying for provisioned concurrency to keep t
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Hard disagree with the reasons given for "2. Orchestrator Lambda." While step functions are very useful and have a variety of uses, they're also VASTLY more expensive to run (the cost continues to go down but last I checked,
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I've never worked for a company that did (18 years in the industry this year). Of the 8 companies I've worked for, only one had interviewing figured out, and they didn't track or measure metrics on coding tests, challenges, e
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I've ended friendships with people that could not be civil over our idealogical differences, despite my indifference about the differences. Many get sucked up into what's online and let it lead them offline. It's sad.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
A few years back I met a woman at a bar, flirted, got a number, and went on a date. About 30 minutes into the date she brought up politics, and was on the opposite side of the spectrum from myself. That didn't change that I thought she
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by andrew_ 5y ago
social media is no longer sharing among peers. it's gaming for attention and numbers.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
check the username of the parent comment. safe to assume that was meant to enflame.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
the ultra-rich or campaign-talking-point-rich?
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by andrew_ 5y ago
While the first episode had me hooked, I've found it very hard to sit through the subsequent episodes. I find them dragging, future-past bouncing isn't congruent, and I'm often distracted while the show is running, coming bac
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by andrew_ 5y ago
What's the over/under on how many times this will be pushed to the front page? Was going to post some prior discussion links, but there are over two pages of Google results for unique HN links on the topic: https://www.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
> The endless parade of ad hominem attacks isn't helpful either. Read the site guidelines before you decide to keep digging that hole. My mistake was assuming good faith and a reasonable disposition, and not looking into your activi
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Elsewhere, via a Google search about the gel honeycomb material IIRC
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I've lived in Michigan, Georgia, Florida, and Texas and (again, as a minority) have never experienced any of these. I'll admit that confirmation bias is a real thing and may apply here, however these points smell of common media t
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by andrew_ 5y ago
MLive is considered a relatively unbiased production. To call what they've presented as "narrative" reveals your own bias. Perhaps you'd prefer a source closer to your own proclivities [1] which states: > Last week, t
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Sad to see this downvoted. Shows just how many have accepted the propaganda fed to them without doing any of their own diligence on the topic. This was an egregious abuse of power by federal law enforcement [1], regardless of the heinousnes
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Apologies for replying to your question with a question. What is hard and expensive about voting today? I'm interested in your experiences on the topic, as I've personally not had a voting experience that was hard or expensive. Fo
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I love the internet for all of the random stuff you see. It's wild to see this post surface on HN - three years ago I was researching Purple brand beds and stumbled across OP's blog post about their build. The content ended up bei

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