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by ctvo 2y ago
> It takes money to make a robust solution, plus healthy profit, but that money is spread across every customer. The requirements of supporting the more demanding customers typically are amortized across all customers. Requirements re: s
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by ctvo 2y ago
> I realized is that when you buy something like AWS, you're often paying for the platinum version, with redundant power, networking, etc, and not the bronze version, which a lot of people would settle for. This is the difference in
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by ctvo 2y ago
There's this cycle of posts that are _When other people do things for you, it's expensive_ Look at these outrageous AWS prices. Look at these outrageous Datadog prices. Look at these outrageous Snowflake prices... And then of cour
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by ctvo 2y ago
I think you have some major bugs then. The account settings page is empty. I logged in via Google's OAuth provider. There's no option to change anything. I also can't make a company profile, but to save or upload a floor plan
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by ctvo 2y ago
Am I missing an option to swap from meters to feet for measurements? Seems low hanging.
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by ctvo 2y ago
The thing I like about AWS is they're very practical. Here's a project from AWS using the CDK to setup a CI/CD pipeline with Github actions: https://github.com/cdklabs/cdk-pipelines-github
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by ctvo 2y ago
Fuck you. What are you going to do? Go cry about it to moderators? Thought so you little bitch. Now fuck off. Yes, let's just keep taking that day in and day out in a professional setting.
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by ctvo 2y ago
At least there's a last ditch source of preserved protein available when the dark times hit.
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by ctvo 2y ago
> How do you remotely detect if car stinks or not? Why do you think they need to? These cars go to a centralize location every night, I would assume, and cleaning at scale can happen. How often do you think an Uber driver cleans their ca
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by ctvo 2y ago
> That's because the Korean and Japanese internets are far older than most of Americas giants. They also were made for locals. Google launched in 1998. Naver didn't launch search until 2000. Copying American tech companies but
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by ctvo 2y ago
You know you can just check before making these claims. It helps with credibility. > In fact, for years, react didn't even tell in the doc you could use it without a transpiler so people had to learn a whole build chain before even
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by ctvo 2y ago
> Probably because the "Sam Altman is an amoral, power hungry mastermind who was run out of all his previous gigs" is a more interesting narrative than whatever is actually happening. It's not either or. The above can be t
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by ctvo 2y ago
> React was a blessing for the few creating apps that needed more than jquery, and that AngularJS 1 couldn't handle for perfs reason. performance was the least attractive reason for adopting React. React introduced composition a
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by ctvo 2y ago
Can you toss a reference to modernc? I can't seem to find the project.
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by ctvo 2y ago
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by ctvo 2y ago
> Welcome to ballerina, the effortlessly elegant functional programming > Ballerina is an advanced professional tool for advanced professionals. > Ballerina integrates the state of the art in functional programming and even categor
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by ctvo 2y ago
You've already burned through 100K+ (at least[1]) in start-up credits? 1. https://aws.amazon.com/startups/credits?lang=en-US
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by ctvo 2y ago
Shit man, jeff@amazon.com and let him know. (Not private thank you very much)
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by ctvo 2y ago
> That these folks hit the jackpot is great for them but quite senseless from the perspective of "you get rewarded for your efforts" perspective. How is that senseless? Their efforts, in whatever way, contributed to the massive
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by ctvo 3y ago
> We're doing some somewhat fancy stuff to reliably replicate every record into a couple of stores, each of which is optimized for different access patterns (search, get latest by ID, etc.). The big central Postgres(TM) is mostly th
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by ctvo 3y ago
This is quite the backdoor to bring back stop and frisk[1]. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...
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by ctvo 3y ago
The handwaving is "lifestyle choices" make the gap closer than it's been documented elsewhere and is now "95-99%" vs. say 85%. Even at that rate it is not negligible. Does that clear it up for you or are you still b
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by ctvo 3y ago
> When adjusted for factors such as lifestyle choices, women's salaries are on average 95-99% of men's Ignoring what lifestyle choices means and taking this claim at face value: Can I have 5% of your lifetime earnings? Can I in
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by ctvo 3y ago
Completely different from my reality; the selective blurring when connected to a laptop hurts my eyes and forces me to refocus them constantly. The limited field of vision stops where I can place my windows and displays without moving my he
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by ctvo 3y ago
Gmail was the first single page application I remembered using. It was eye opening to many people what the web could be as an application platform. You could compose a message and have it follow you as you read other emails, for example. It
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by ctvo 3y ago
Is "step function" a term of art I'm just ignorant of in computer science? AWS Step Functions, sure. How it's used here? No idea. > It enables developers to write declarative step functions... > With thousands of
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by ctvo 3y ago
John Carmack can have all the soft skills in the world. If he wasn't technically credible, it does not matter. This topic is about how to get that level of technical proficiency, how to become a great programmer. Jumping in and telli
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by ctvo 3y ago
Because we’ve seen the technical artifacts? For example, they released their work open source and we saw the quality. What’s your point here? Redis, when released, was a single person effort, for example.
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by ctvo 3y ago
> IMO what makes a great programmer is leverage and leadership. It doesn't really matter if you're a rockstar "10x" etc., what matters is how your work empowers others. Nobody is programming in a vacuum. Nah. There ar
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by ctvo 3y ago
> It's completely out of the employee's control, so why would it change the employee's behavior? Employees don’t have visibility into their peers actual performance. They see a silver of it and infer. This makes layoffs

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