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by audleman 10y ago
I've been wondering this same thing. We use gunicorn to handle our web requests and it pre-loads our code so it's ready at the drop of a hat to serve a request. It takes a few seconds to load up our site, so wouldn't Lambda h
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by audleman 10y ago
As a DevOps guy the definition makes sense to me. I've got several parts of my operation that require me to spin up 3 - 30 instances to handle parallel load. I'm always monitoring queues to see if I'm scaling correctly. If I
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by audleman 10y ago
Sure. Spend a focused 10 minutes to really try and understand them and you'll realize that a cron line is a perfectly concise and flexible syntax for creating scheduled time events. It even handles that crazy case where you want to run
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by audleman 10y ago
Still seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of what a terminal is for. I SSH into any number of boxes every day, be it on my RaspberryPi, client machines in AWS, crappy hosting providers, etc. The standard bash terminal is there on all
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by audleman 10y ago
I had a friend who was looking for Administrative Assistant roles with a 2 year gap on her resume and it was a problem. The companies could always find a younger person to sit in the chair and do the menial tasks, and somebody with no gaps
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by audleman 10y ago
I think this type of thing will end up being useful for special cases, but in general we'll still want to run our own servers. Their use case of creating a public API is a great one: it's a simple interface and having Lambda handl
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by audleman 10y ago
Hopefully the Flask team will whip something like that up. I also want to see this for Django.
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by audleman 10y ago
> I mean, the article could have been called "Amazon Turns Blighted Blocks Into Shining Urbanity." Fair point
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by audleman 10y ago
Interesting that this article has a clear bias that Amazon is making Seattle better, starting from > Inevitably, the company's growing presence is making it a scapegoat for common urban woes such as traffic jams and rising rents &gt
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by audleman 10y ago
Or for folks like me: I just want to play my video files no fuss, no muss. Something other major media players seem to have more trouble with than they should. But not VLC! 100% of the time it works every time!
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by audleman 10y ago
You're forgetting that Dropbox came into existence when all of those competing products already existed. They got turned down by a lot of VCs because the feel was that the space was already too crowded. But the founder had a vision and
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by audleman 10y ago
This is a brilliant answer! Responses like this are exactly why I come to Hacker News comments when I really want to understand an issue. Follow up questions: 1. Why is Wells Fargo doing this if it poses such a threat to their penalty-based
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by audleman 10y ago
> Interestingly (for me), when I leased my leaf the sales guy was talking about how Nissan could make a car with a much better range, but chose not to Wait, what? How did he justify that? That sounds like saying Apple could easily make a
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by audleman 10y ago
Lol, you nut!
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by audleman 10y ago
> Almost all of the _basic_ needs of a human, i.e. those that we received 50,000 years ago, could be provided for $1-$2k a year Can you explain this? Basic needs include shelter, clothing, and food, which together cost much more than $1-
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by audleman 10y ago
My 2 cents: you're promising a lot more for the same price which seems dubious. How are you going to beat the wholesaler? Even if you did I probably wouldn't use it. I don't want a 3rd party dependency on the most critical pa
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by audleman 10y ago
They weren't really making a claim about programming practices, more trying to pump up the idea that you need a lot of repos. I don't agree with their stance on microservices, but do find that I need a lot of private repos. In my
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by audleman 10y ago
It looks very cool; what does it do? All I'm seeing in the photos is a cluster of 4 PI's that report their statistics to a dashboard.
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by audleman 11y ago
I was gifted Prime and it surprised me how awesome it was. Say I want to buy a few pairs of SmartWool Socks, but since I'm buying them over the internet don't get a chance to try them on. Do I buy 7 pairs and risk it? No, I just b
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by audleman 11y ago
The author states that he won't be able to retire. I find that hard to believe; programming is fairly lucrative.
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by audleman 11y ago
> I think the sentiment the author is sharing is that a lot of women feel social pressures to appear outwardly successful, popular, etc, and this creates a very difficult situation where its perceived that asking a question that might ma
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by audleman 11y ago
I'm dying over here! These are legitimate stories about being treated poorly.
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by audleman 11y ago
Hi author, I think you need toughen up. The real world does not need to coddle your feelings and won't. Some of your fellow devs are going to be rude, but surprise! that's not going to get them fired. What counts is job performanc
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by audleman 11y ago
I'll highlight just one aspect I've been thinking about: Imagine your company has a programming problems that is a shaped like a vague cloud. With a junior developer, you need to do the work to dig into the cloud, define its bound
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by audleman 11y ago
I took a look and it is very nice, but $1500 for a toaster oven? Holy shit no.
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by audleman 11y ago
This gave me a chuckle.
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by audleman 11y ago
I agree that the internal costs are a factor, but I also agree with the original point. I'll share an anecdote of the CEO of my company. We're a 2-year-old startup that hasn't reached profitability yet. We asked when that mig
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by audleman 11y ago
You should be seriously concerned. I couldn't find the article, but I remember reading a story about an IBM developer who did something as little as running a proof of concept of his side project on one of their servers. He eventually
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by audleman 11y ago
No surprise here
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by audleman 11y ago
Something to look for: what gives you that feeling of total bliss? I know I am a good programmer because when I finally solve the problem it feels good! My brain just releases all these bliss feelings and I go "oh my God, I nailed it!&

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