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by ctvo 5y ago
> And the crazy thing is you see people on HN demanding that some one person side project/SaaS has to be at 100% uptime with multiple failovers, automatic scaling, etc. etc. There is such an emphasis on scalability on HN and yet...
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by ctvo 5y ago
The original statement was that this person isn't likely to face legal recourse. The comment I was replying to was very lengthy, but never addressed that statement or made a LEGAL argument that this person would face legal recourse, he
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by ctvo 5y ago
This sword is excellent at killing rats. But wait. This new sword was forged at the lord's yearly reinvention festival, and can kill black rats better. If you use it on a brown rat though, it'll stab you in eye instead. It's
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by ctvo 5y ago
AWS is the last company I want making a video game. These people are not great at usability or thinking about the overall experience, and no one needs this video game to have 99.9999 uptime, which is what they're better at. I can'
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by ctvo 5y ago
It's OK to be frustrated since we rely on GitHub so much, but this is unkind. Software is complex. GitHub operates at a scale few of us work at. There are people at the other end doing their best traversing complex internal systems (or
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by ctvo 5y ago
Your original point that the West's influence, through geopolitics, mattered very little, and internal party power struggles determined Taiwan's fate is inaccurate. It doesn't matter if Xi is directly aware of geopolitics or
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by ctvo 5y ago
> If Xi wants to invade Taiwan, 90% is based on his power fight within the party, not the geopolitics. Citation? Which part of the communist party does NOT want Taiwan back if it could get it without massive geopolitical consequences?
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by ctvo 5y ago
There's two extremes of employee behavior I've seen, with most folks somewhere in the middle: - My co-workers are friends. We hang out, we go out drinking after work. We do activities on the weekend together outside of work. Early
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by ctvo 5y ago
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Hooks allow you to bundle code together by functionality, and consequently allow you to easily extract and share said functionality in a very composable way. You’re using React. The mechanism that enables code reusability is through co
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by ctvo 5y ago
Most of our jobs is determining the right trade offs. I don’t see the big deal here. Error boundaries, suspense, context, very popular routing libraries all have used components to encapsulate functionality. That’s to say first party and th
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by ctvo 5y ago
> That said, I think it's extremely unlikely this will escalate to a nuclear exchange. Tail risk is real. No one thought Trump would be president. No one saw the pandemic changing the world. No one thought there’d be conventional la
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by ctvo 5y ago
My biggest reservation with your service is I don't know if I can trust you to manage something as important to my business as a database. This is great for prototyping though. What if you roll out an update and bring us down? What are
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by ctvo 5y ago
> It would be good to split out the base costs from the elest.io cost in the pricing page. There's no point in forcing the user to calculate this. What makes you think these folks pay full price for a VM with their partners? What v
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by ctvo 5y ago
A link back to the post so folks who haven't read it thoroughly can follow along: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/sustainability-with-...
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by ctvo 5y ago
> There are people who actually replied with something worthwhile. And you dismissed it as still not being difficult. The Timescale folks did all the hard work of finding product / market fit for you. If this problem is so trivial,
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by ctvo 5y ago
> But how to you get that $1b valuation by making yet another client based on open standards? You have to corner the market, and 90% of HN readership want to create or work for a new unicorn, not just improve technology for the sake of i
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Temporal's initial demographic was entirely self sufficient in terms of devops knowledge to take the helm charts and docker stuff we have and translate it to their environment, and read source code/talk to us to fill in any g
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by ctvo 5y ago
Love Temporal. Hope you solve the infrastructure and cloud story with this. The biggest pain point is still deploying and configuring a production environment. I started suspecting it was so awful and poorly documented to push us to using t
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by ctvo 5y ago
Who is trying to switch to GraphQL? Especially for service to service, internal calls?
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by ctvo 5y ago
I would concede your point if these folks were trying to sell you a used car. You don't need to take their word or rely on their credibility for anything. There's a demo right there of the font for you to decide if it's for y
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by ctvo 5y ago
> There's something so insidiously, backhandedly condescending about tech workers pining for the simplicity of an honest day's job that drives me nuts. Agreed. SO recently left a career in academia to get a job in tech as an e
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by ctvo 5y ago
> Long story short, it turns out that Workers KV also works for storing static sites generated by Hugo, Gatsby, and other SSGs. This makes complete sense if you think about it. When you access a static site, you point your browser to a u
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by ctvo 5y ago
> ...Lichtenstein Email 2 was held at a U.S.-based provider that offered email as well as cloud storage services, among other products. Reads suspiciously like Gmail. Oh no. You stored your keys weakly encrypted on Google Drive?!
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by ctvo 5y ago
What are your big tech companies? Does it include Google? If so, your statement is incorrect. More correct: Of the big tech companies, only Amazon structures its RSU so it's heavily backloaded.
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by ctvo 5y ago
You're more lucky than at least 99% of the people on Earth. You're young, educated, presumably healthy, and skilled. You have enough savings to survive for years if you budget well. I share some of those privileges, and it fills m
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by ctvo 5y ago
Trying to roll back the clock to the golden age of Islam is not something you’d expect to find in HN’s comments section. Liquidity fits into your world view how? In its most simple form: A business or person needs money to buy resources to
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by ctvo 5y ago
I also used to worked at Amazon. There are elements of the culture I miss. The focus on writing was great. Shipping things quickly that impact a lot of people is nice . It made up for a lot of the deficiencies, and it isn't universal
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by ctvo 5y ago
> The whole performance review thing feels like a proxy for something else I can't quite put my finger on, but feels creepy nonetheless. Stack ranking is one thing, but you're against performance reviews? How do you know if you
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by ctvo 5y ago
Really what needs to happen is another New York Times story. The market for engineering talent is so tight right now that if this lands with new data points, Amazon will end this practice for another 3 years before quietly resuming it. I ha

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