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by bpicolo 7y ago
Optimizing your local workflows is worth the effort at every team size. I think the attempts to make local workflows mirror production 1:1 (local k8s, for example) are misguided. They miss too hard on the productivity story. Especially once
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by bpicolo 7y ago
e.g. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ikea-place/id1279244498
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Yeah, it's definitely an uncreative way for SaaS products to charge you more money that many take advantage of.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
> manage access to probably ~100 services our employees use everyday Is single sign-on an option, instead? Something like Okta is a much better experience for less technical users (and, well, engineers too) where possible, and also lets
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Still fine to deploy your frontend there, if it's a SPA.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Two VMs in two separate availability zones is pretty ridiculously available. Certainly more so than other least-common-denominators in your stack. There are a ton of successful startups who made it a long way with less than 2 VMs.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Xpack's basic features come builtin in latest Elasticsearch - trial is for a separate set of features.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Parinfer + Cursive is my strategy too, and I describe it the same way (Pythonish). This is definitely the least intimidating strategy for ecosystem newcomers.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
> In worst case when our service goes down for a while The worst case is still the same, no? API tracker goes down, GitHub has no redelivery, same deal. More a matter of whose uptime you trust more in this regard. (That's not to say
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by bpicolo 7y ago
> For deeper inspiration on how to draft crisp and actionable strategies, I recommend the book “Good Strategy, Bad Strategy.” This piece of advice is good, but I don't see it applied. If you take the book's advice as useful (an
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by bpicolo 7y ago
> The difference is that back then, it was to transport the animal from one side of the country to the other safely, so the animal stayed in its container under the sea Many, if not most, of these folk just have larger dogs that don&#x27
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by bpicolo 7y ago
I believe https://monzo.com/ is aiming for this Developer docs: https://docs.monzo.com/ I'm not currently aware of a US bank equivalent
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by bpicolo 7y ago
I'm in a similar boat. I use an e-reader for reading on the train when I have one hand available, but it doesn't at all replace physical books. Physical books are a more delightful product.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Depends on the type of software. If you're building transactional software where your business is doing a few bucks cut per user transaction, the software can be tremendously bad before it hits into revenue, as long as you’re not total
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Monitoring and metrics don't matter at launch when your scale is at most a handful of b2b clients. For an API-as-a-service? Maybe. But humans will be quick to let you know if they hit issues. More importantly, if you're fulfilling
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by bpicolo 7y ago
I'm partially unclear on how this affects either party. Recipes are explicitly not copyrightable. "Ideas" also seem like an unprotected asset outside of specific NDAs.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
That's darn cheap in modern systems, and most are doing a plethora of network calls per request either way. .5% overhead won't matter for a long time.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
KV lookups with no dependent data are pretty much infinitely scalable with modern systems.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
I primarily get ads for my employer on Facebook properties, always first / second on the feed. I imagine I'm a tremendously bad target for those.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
They cook a whole lot, for a variety of reasons. Many of these countries are less wealthy (can't speak to some of the wealthier countries like Singapore), and many have multigenerational households, where other generations help with ho
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by bpicolo 7y ago
NYT has a lot of beginner friendly recipes. Most of them, even.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Swift playgrounds seem very much aligned with notebook style ML development. They're in many ways a much more powerful version of notebooks. https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/
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by bpicolo 7y ago
I've hit some degenerate cases on gRPC serialization. The golang grpc/proto library accounted for something like 40% of cpu time doing serialization on mapping types for an API I developed under load test. Changing that to a list
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by bpicolo 7y ago
> changing public perception around an "ugly" address is very much a social challenge rather than technical Memorability matters regardless of the public perception
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Over 30%, thanks to Wordpress.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Coinbase is a massive fraud target.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Best way is to not write forwards / backwards incompatible database changes.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
Programming and open source is a massive ecosystem of making use of prior art and incorporating diverse ideas to make alternative, better, or more robust abstractions. That's the whole beauty of it. Very few things are entirely new.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
...This blog post explains an issue I have been experiencing that I didn't realize I had. iOS has always had some very explicit misses on affordances. Force touch led to a lot of them.
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by bpicolo 7y ago
This video was extremely cool. Thanks for sharing! Legged robots are so endearing.

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