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by arinlen 4y ago
I agree, but "loyalty" doesn't sound like the right word. If a company demands you run an arbitrarily long and unpleasant obstacle course without any goal or criteria just because they asked you, what they are looking for is
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> As something of a counterpoint, a literal 4-hour assignment isn't that bad--especially as an alternative to a day of interviews. No, it's really bad. It's half-day of useless, unpaid work which takes time other things
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by arinlen 4y ago
> If you've never worked with Kubernetes before then it's a lot of added complexity without clear benefits. Unless you're someone who only had to work on a monolith deployed to a single box somewhere, Kubernetes adds zer
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> The problem I keep seeing in startups is that a lot of startup tech founders and employees don't see a startup as an embryonic business that will grow over the long term into a money-making venture requiring calculated risks and
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by arinlen 4y ago
> You apparently learned all about microk8s and spent time configuring it. I assume you did not get it right at the first time. What? With Ubuntu, microk8s works pretty much right out of the box. The only thing you need to learn is ho
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> Curious question: why don’t companies consider an abstraction like EC2? That suggestion doesn't make any sense. It's like you want the price gouging of AWS but the problems of managing your own custom low-level infrastructu
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> Not using proportions is pure sensationalist nonsense. Why did you chose to ignore the reference to BTC being currently at 27% of its year peak in November? I mean, to ignore the reference to the percentage drop and cherry pick the a
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> Can small companies afford the complexities of k8s? Where exactly do you see this complexity in Kubernetes? I have a couple of Hetzner nodes running microk8s and I have a couple of web apps running in them. All it takes to deploy eac
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> This has happened so many times, that it's not really news. Did it, though? Coindesk shows BTC right now trading at 18100$, way down from it's 2-month peak of 32k and year-peak of 66k. This means that in less than a year BT
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> And of course by "All the Stops" Der Spiegel means many but not all. To me it seemed very clear and easy to understand. The article summary, right on the second sentence, says in no ambiguous terms "He wants to avoid a
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> What I think is something people easily overlook with Patreon and similar platforms is that it's quite hard to make a decent profit on $1 or $5 transactions that most of Patreon's income seems to come from. Nothing forces P
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> It really boils down on how many people need how much resources and how many people produce these resources. You can argue over who should be your bourgeoisie, should it be (...) How about we don't succumb to the desire to pull
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> I'm involved with NFTs as an artist, developer, and trader. Slip ups do happen and I just consider them the cost of doing business. Aren't buyers the ones holding the bag over those losses? Because that is one of the key tr
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> I'm sorry, what? Why would a build not work deterministically? Because they don't and never did? Do you understand build systems and individual tools were not designed to ensure deterministic behavior? https://re
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> I'm not saying don't have the translations at all. I'm saying: 1) caching things in git in general is a bad idea (...) You're missing the point. Storing translated files is caching things in git, and it is not a b
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by arinlen 4y ago
> The future of compute is fine-grained. Cloudflare Workers is all about fine-grained compute, that is, splitting compute into small chunks -- a single HTTP request, rather than a single server instance. This is what allows us to run ev
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> Didn't someone on the team say "hey, it takes 10 seconds to run git status, can we move this junk out and do this another way??" Why do you assume they didn't? Just because they arrived at a different conclusion t
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> It's still surprising to have any generated things there. E.g. you could make the same case for keeping built binaries in Git as well. This is not surprising at all. In fact, it's quite standard to commit string translation
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> Isn't this what many reasonably run companies do anyway? I love how the most basic of practices in any engineering field is depicted as a groundbreaking epiphany in the software industry.
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I use the address bar for search all the time, not only bookmarks but also assigned search shortcuts.
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> They are dirt cheap for many use-cases where you application only runs a few times a day/hour and you need ad-hoc scalable performance. If your app consists of running a quick cron job a couple of times per day, you do not have
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> Currently have a deployment in Oregon and cloudfront servicing most of the world. With localisation. So you're serving static assets through CloudFront with a single backing service. Congrats, you managed to have a service that
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> scale to zero whenever possible (lambda) AWS pricing is great because you aren't price-gouged if you don't use it? And your statement isn't really true. If you use AWS Lambdas do implement something like an HTTP endpoi
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> This can optionally combine with the Kubernetes scenario. Some people like to poke fun at the expense of kubernetes, but if they did any professional work, at the first failed deployment they would sell their firstborn to have someth
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> Why would you care about the redundancy on staging / dev? If you deploy to multiple regions then it wouldn't make no sense at all to have a single preprod stage, specially to run integration tests. Also, keep in mind that p
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> Not sure what are their IT needs, but I guess the larger SMEs are the target market for this service. I'd argue that SMEs are the ideal market for cloud services. Small shops with even smaller teams comprised of jack-of-all-trad
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> It's 2022 and any company still hiding behind "call for pricing" or "call for quote" that isn't servicing government agencies is going to be eaten alive by any other provider not making customer run thoug
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by arinlen 4y ago
> There's apparently a 'podman play kube' command that can take some k8s yaml like pod descriptions and instantiate them directly Wow that's a heck of a killer feature. Once Podmam implements a replacement for Docke
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> It's not just hermits that live far from urban centers in the US. The US is famous for sprawling contiguous suburbs. Sprawling suburbs can be, and often are, served by public transportation. The critical factor affecting the US
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> To be fair, twitter ownership is not required to use twitter for this purpose. I understood that remark as a reference to the way Musk's bid to buy Twitter with no intention to follow-through, in light of other shameless PR ploy

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