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by beachy 5y ago
Atmospheric CO2 has increased by almost a third since I was born. I can't imagine what my children and grandchildren will experience at this rate of destruction. "Agent Smith: Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a n
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by beachy 5y ago
> All you have to do is say no once in a while... > Just insist... Some companies work like this, but many don't. Such utterances could be charting a course to the door for you.
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by beachy 5y ago
I have happy memories of printing lines of HHHHHH characters and tweaking hammer timings to get each character to print on both sides. Not to mention getting squirted from hot hydraulic fluid. Well, not really happy come to think of it :) I
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by beachy 5y ago
These animated cases are an incredible learning resource. A picture is worth a thousand words but a cool animation is worth a thousand pictures. I spent years repairing IBM rotating chain mainframe printers (1403) in the field in the 80s, a
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by beachy 5y ago
We used to call it discovery agreement when I was at IBM. Summarizing what they said (show you understand it) but like you're just now discovering the truth behind it - together with them. The only sales technique that's really st
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by beachy 5y ago
I have trouble with procrastination, but since watching Arnie's take on this I cannot get it out of my head and I have actually found it helpful (yet here I am on HN again :() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_ktRTWMX3M
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by beachy 5y ago
Not just assemble but actually bend/form the corners yourself. Without the benefit of seeing it in the flesh, I fear either I would struggle to get accurate bends (which would annoy me for the rest of it's life) or the case has be
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by beachy 5y ago
"Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds." ― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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by beachy 5y ago
A "squid game"-style kids game. Kids must tiptoe across in front of the camera. If they make any noise, the camera uses a powered gimbal to aim a hose at them and squirt them with water. And a terrifying siren goes off.
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by beachy 5y ago
Probably not clear but I was talking about a situation where an API client (e.g a web application server) needs to manipulate customers (managed in one microservice) and also their orders (managed in another). Not the two microservices talk
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by beachy 5y ago
I completely agree it is in part a service discovery problem - my original point is that HATEOAS is not a workable service discovery mechanism in a microservices environment. Instead, use some service discovery technology. Not hypermedia. I
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by beachy 5y ago
Respectfully I believe you have constructed a straw man. In this contrived example, assume there is no need for the customers microservice to even know about the existence of orders to do it's job. So forcing it to understand all the v
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by beachy 5y ago
The alternative may not be palatable to you but IMO if two microservices have an encyclopedic knowledge of each other's url structures, then they aren't really separate microservices at all.
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by beachy 5y ago
(the example I used is so simple it didn't really highlight the difficulty) My point is that one microservice cannot easily generate links for another. How does the customer microservice (that wants to be hypermediaful), generate a dee
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by beachy 5y ago
Not familiar with Django sadly but it sounds like it would act as something of a proxy that sits in front of your microservices. My point is that if you are starting with just e.g 2 microservices, one for customers, one for orders, then hyp
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by beachy 5y ago
I was referring to something like this. Here's a hypermedia API entry point I googled up. GET / { "version": "1.2.3", "description": "Example API to manage orders", "links&q
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by beachy 5y ago
HATEOAS has never really grabbed me. Not least because, despite HN now swung hard against microservices, they exist often for a reason, and it's difficult for one service to emit hypermedia for another. The inspiration was humans surfi
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by beachy 5y ago
Or it might be OK. After all, loosening and unloosening your shoe laces is the same thing.
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by beachy 5y ago
Things are never that black and white. Knowing you have a 100k order gives you more confidence to increase production for the medium term, even if it's not that useful in the short term.
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by beachy 5y ago
That's a little extreme. Maybe instead you could probe at interview time whether they are happy with their microservices, how many do they have, do they feel happy that the service boundaries they finished up with are the best possible
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by beachy 5y ago
No cost was give, but paying an idp anything > $0 would be difficult to stomach when Google, LinedkIn, Facebook and many others provide the same service for free.
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by beachy 5y ago
Realme also suffers from typical government thinking though. We wanted to add it to our platform as an authentication mechanism. That would be good for individuals, and good for realme, as it would increase adoption. However this is not all
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by beachy 5y ago
> Why ask/force people not to have a family where we could have happy family living responsibly? You can't guarantee the lifestyles of your children. For all you know, your family of 6 kids will rebel against your (extremely wo
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by beachy 5y ago
British Conservatism != American Conservatism. Not even close.
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by beachy 5y ago
That will work well .... for a month.
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by beachy 5y ago
As it happens we have an onboarding platform which certainly emits quite a few emails. We use online forms for data capture, but funnily enough things sometimes pan out like you say. It seems that if you send someone an email saying "Y
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by beachy 5y ago
I can't help feeling we'll find new ways to soak up that energy. Ad tech will start segmenting right down to the individual customer, burning thousands of watts to work out how to entice then to spend $20. Perhaps raw heat, rather
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by beachy 5y ago
> If Fisherman A overcatches and splits with Fisherman B who undercatches, that is the same as if they both caught the correct amount. Most likely the quotas were set on the basis that they wouldn't always be filled. If lots of fish
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by beachy 5y ago
I have found I am terrible at understanding what new technologies are "for". I didn't really get the iphone when it first came out. And I didn't get Facebook. Then my "aha" moment was that Facebook was like ema
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by beachy 5y ago
> to make sure random base64 didn't contain profanity I would have said "why bother" until this happened to us. A customer rang us up in a fury because some demo/ random data that we generated happened to have the wor

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