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by bborud 4y ago
If Google hadn’t been so obsessed with making messaging special (one way or another) they might have managed to make it good.
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by bborud 4y ago
I’m surprised Clubhouse is still around. I gave it a try as a way to have informal discussion with friends, former colleagues etc. I also tried to listen to a few events, but as other people have pointed out, one could be forgiven for think
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by bborud 4y ago
The thing about Linux in the early 00s was that to a significant portion of developers, it was already obvious where things were headed. Anyone not seeing the potential wasn't really paying attention. And one shouldn't care what
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by bborud 4y ago
My thoughts on Meta and the whole Zuckerverse thing is still "yeah, I think I'll sit this one out". I really don't want one of those Facehuggers strapped to my face.
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by bborud 4y ago
There is a lot of ground between "runs on a single VM" to "runs on thousands of instances". In fact I would think most companies that deliver some online service fit into that category. For instance, I don't regar
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by bborud 4y ago
Thanks, I will have a look!
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by bborud 4y ago
Actually, I don't see it as being that much about scale, but more about moving complexity out of applications and about solving robustness challenges. Kubernetes offers a lot of things that are useful even at smaller scales. Which is
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by bborud 4y ago
It could have been designed better to be easier to set up and use. Especially for ad-hoc or more casual use. If it is easy to use casually, people will use it more and they will learn how to use it faster. It is also easier to see why yo
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by bborud 4y ago
You are probably right, but there are differences. Languages like Go and Rust are much easier to get started with since they have better tooling, and more importantly, the tooling has a smaller and more regular surface. This is immensely
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by bborud 4y ago
I think the most valuable thing to come of this debacle is the firm understanding that Heroku is on its deathbed and shouldn't be used.
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by bborud 4y ago
Now, if only we could become better at securely managing keys.
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by bborud 4y ago
That track was almost impossible to get hold of back in the day. I had heard of it, but never heard it. After years of asking around in record stores I finally found a really scratchy sounding cassette tape (no doubt a pirated copy) in a
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by bborud 4y ago
For me it depends and I am not entirely sure I understand why. I use a relatively dark blue/green background in VS Code, with light, low saturation yellowish base color for the code. Before VS Code I used the same dark color scheme for
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by bborud 4y ago
> "The user (me) has no way of controlling that." That's rich: he lambasts people for poor typography and then blames the poor typography of his own blog on someone else. As if he had no choice in the matter. Like using a
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by bborud 4y ago
And then he goes ahead and uses purple on purple. sigh I absolutely hate light text on dark background. There are a few sites I'd really like to follow (hello hackaday), but their insistence on light text on dark background makes the
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by bborud 4y ago
I would guess that the cost of not having enums in Go by now is far higher than any cost of adding them. It is one of those things that annoys Go developers on a nearly daily basis.
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by bborud 4y ago
I have been using SQLite in Go projects for a few years now. During early stages of development I always start with SQLite as the main database, then when the project matures, I usually add support for PostgreSQL. (I usually make a Store i
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by bborud 4y ago
This brings back memories. Regina was written by a friend of mine at a university computer club in the 90s. I learned a lot from hanging out there.
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by bborud 4y ago
I remember when this was happening and I was surprised to learn that not only were there no good standards in automotive, reputable manufacturers like toyota didn’t even follow their own internal standards when developing software for criti
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by bborud 4y ago
We can speculate why he left. But I think a lot of people agree on the observation that he had probably been irrelevant for a good while by the time they parted ways.
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by bborud 5y ago
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/new/frekvens-limited-collection-p...
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by bborud 5y ago
IKEA actually sold a bluetooth speaker for a while designed by TE. I got two of them. They are excellent. PS: anyone want a used Sonos?
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by bborud 5y ago
"Switch to Excel for a week/month" Right.
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by bborud 5y ago
Think of SLAs as "this is how hard we'll scramble when shit hits the fan". Except...I don't even believe that.
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by bborud 5y ago
Well, there are degrees. All the software I've written within recent memory (last 5-6 years or so) has software that was written by some commercial entity in its dependency graph. Usually as a direct dependency. Of course it varies ho
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by bborud 5y ago
You act like it is some grave faux pas when developers show us software they are charging money for without labeling it with warnings that it isn't free. I'm sorry, but that's terribly bad form when you are on a forum that l
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by bborud 5y ago
The average income here is several sigmas right of what most people make. Mostly from writing software that isn't being given away for free. It isn't like this is some hippie commune. The vast majority of people here are in softw
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by bborud 5y ago
I think it is okay to assume that people who frequent a forum mostly inhabited by people who create software for a living would be okay with software that you would have to pay for.
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by bborud 5y ago
...hence "at least for another decade" :-)
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by bborud 5y ago
There is actually another way: become more. Google and Amazon are companies who kept growing because the scope of what they did kept growing. And they kept getting better at what made them big in the first place at least for another decad

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