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Show HN: Monitor your webapp with minimal setup
5 points by billllll 3y ago|11 comments
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by billllll 3y ago
I think it really depends on the leadership. The worse case scenario is when the scenario you given: the "pet project," where a team goes nuts on a codebase they aren't maintaining, in which case it's effectively out-sou
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by billllll 3y ago
This passage: > ...it should not be the first option for developing necessary changes to a system dependency. Away team work is complex and inefficient. Is very telling. I've worked in a similar model, and I'd say this is basic
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by billllll 3y ago
> It's as if I asked "do you want company growth, or customer happiness?" Try both! Obviously, both are "good," but again, what's the end goal? To truly be the problem solver, you must make the hard decision
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by billllll 3y ago
Apologies in advance for being a bit negative. I feel like this sentence is just so revealing: > That said, he and I will likely never see eye-to-eye on this because he more-or-less invented Choose Boring Technology, and most of what I a
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by billllll 3y ago
Author here. They had 17.11 million worldwide MAU, and said about 50% were from the US. I just did 17 / 2 to get 8.5 million. Probably should've just used the world-wide numbers tbh.
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by billllll 3y ago
I'd love to get some correlation with rank, or even filtering of lower scoring posts. From what I know, HN posts are often used as a signal for viability of a project. In that case, you can't make a conclusion on the effectiveness
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by billllll 3y ago
Building a KV store into the language is kind of nuts. I love how it abstracts away the local SQLite and deployed FoundationDB behind one interface. Testing would be super easy, as there is no question of "do I spin up an entire db ins
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by billllll 3y ago
> Thanks, but no thanks > With experience, you should know the difference between shoddy, slapdash or tortuous code and well-written code You've just successfully proven my point. By refusing to clearly define what "quality&
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by billllll 3y ago
I think there's a massive difference between when you're Linus Torvalds and you' gatekeeping Linux from the interests of billion dollar companies, versus you're a tech lead at said billion dollar companies. I think being
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by billllll 3y ago
> when I talk about iterating on quality What does iterating on quality even mean? I challenge you to define this term in a way that is clear and objective. I guess the whole point that I'm trying to make is that "quality"
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by billllll 3y ago
Don't you know, code quality is judged on how many blog posts you write and how difficult you are to work with, and not on the code itself. /s
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by billllll 3y ago
Reads like one of those "what happened to GOOD code" articles, except this time the author plays the victim and pretends like there's a conspiracy among employers against good code. What strikes me with all these articles is
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by billllll 4y ago
My theory is that there is so much money on the table, that every single possible permutation of software is being tried no matter how nonsensical. It's like everybody is simultaneously brute-forcing a combination lock. To me, I would
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by billllll 4y ago
IMO if you need a long doc like this pointing out the sharp edges, then I think you've done a poor job in designing the framework. I love the terseness, reusability, and typing of React hooks, but hooks have too many weird edge cases (
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by billllll 4y ago
It's very clear the numbers do not support the idea that tech has "gone woke." Even the large orgs with strong DEI initiatives have a long way to go to achieve a diverse workplace. I personally don't see the reason for f
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by billllll 4y ago
You're statement sounds like co-opting the term "diversity" to mean something else, then patting yourself on the back that you reached "diversity." I really don't see what is being achieved here.
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by billllll 4y ago
I'm curious, how did you get disqualified? I've been using the platform and wasn't even aware it was possible to get disqualified. The questions seemed very fair, though I know they've been iterating on them so it may be
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by billllll 4y ago
There's some cool ideas here. From what I understand, you basically implement a few endpoints in a serverless-esque fashion, which have access to methods to store data, and the engine will keep the client updated and handle consistency
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by billllll 4y ago
> The goal of the Restaurant Edge Compute platform was to create a robust platform in each restaurant where our DevOps Product teams could deploy and manage applications to help Operators and Team Members keep pace with ever-growing busi
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by billllll 4y ago
I don't have personal experience with this, but React Native Web claims to solve this issue: https://necolas.github.io/react-native-web/ , not sure if anyone has had experience with this. Of course, you will have i
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by billllll 4y ago
Unless you're putting the entire executable on the Blockchain (gigs and gigs of data), then you still need servers to host the game. I don't see how hosting the entire game is feasible, since games can be hundreds of gigs. Day one
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by billllll 4y ago
From an outsider's perspective (I never got into Clubhouse), it really seemed like its success was getting the right people on the platform (like you mentioned), plus the fact that the pandemic put a temporary stop on in-person meetups
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by billllll 4y ago
Attributing most success to luck also doesn't seem to be very productive. What's the end goal? If your end goal is to put down the success of others and make yourself feel better for not achieving the same level of success, then I
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by billllll 4y ago
I agree with Tom: a well functioning eng org allows engineers to fix critical bugs without going through a bureaucracy. This empowers the engineers and makes them a product owner as well, though you need good engineers who care. If you forc
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by billllll 4y ago
I sympathize and did the same thing earlier this year: I quit my job to try and strike out on my own. For most tech companies, they sell you on this "mission" and tell you how valuable your work is. Then, you realize all you do is
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by billllll 4y ago
I don't think my experiences follow this, I've had very cushy well-paying jobs both in VC-funded startups and FAANG. I think there is this romantic notion that the software industry is this cut-throat free market utopia where the
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by billllll 4y ago
I'm a child of Chinese immigrants, and I don't agree that most Chinese children have similar experiences. Yes, Chinese parents will often push their kids into doing things. I myself was pushed to learn an instrument, do after scho
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by billllll 4y ago
I'm a bit lost as to how learning a new infrastructure-as-code tool makes AWS easier and more "fun." At best, you're still exposed to all the same complexities of the different AWS services, but now you gotta learn this
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by billllll 4y ago
How do you understand maintainability and architectural concerns without understanding algorithmic underpinnings? At the base level, leetcode problems and maintaining a complex system in practice requires key understandings: what your probl

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