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by ctvo 6y ago
Unfortunately that company will double down even if there's a hint of traction, and in 3 years it'll finally be decent and TimescaleDB's cloud offering will be in trouble. They have a lot of money and a bit of time. It is ver
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by ctvo 6y ago
I disagree that video games are frowned upon. For certain demographics (young men, 12-35), it's expected behavior. We actually celebrate women getting into video games (iOS / Android "casual" friendly games).
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by ctvo 6y ago
I hope the author does video games next. The nerve of people spending their time how they want vs. being constantly productive. It's simply unacceptable.
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by ctvo 6y ago
Last I looked Cloudflare Workers had different limits and constraints: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits It's a quick Google. 128MB max memory, 6 concurrent out going connections max,
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by ctvo 6y ago
I agree that Amazon isn't good for competition, and some of their business practices are troubling. I'm just tired of seeing some of the points you made pop up in every Amazon topic. > I haven't had a prime subscription fo
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by ctvo 6y ago
Amazon has kicked Microsoft off the throne of the worst decisions in typography and website design. It's just so low quality and ugly.
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by ctvo 6y ago
The aesthetics mainly. HomePods, for all their flaws, are very decent speakers in a small footprint. They blend in and are very minimalist, in my opinion, and that's important to me.
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by ctvo 6y ago
I don't see the same broad amount of services launched out of Azure as I do from AWS, and definitely not from GCP. I don't know if this is a strategic difference or an execution / cultural difference (AWS ships products fast
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by ctvo 6y ago
The thing folks don't mention regarding AWS is the inherent competitive advantage their micro-startups have. We focus on AWS launching managed ElasticSearch or managed Kafka, and talk about them (legally) using open source contribution
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by ctvo 6y ago
It is for sale. 2,300 euros for a 32" eInk display. Did you read the link?
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by ctvo 6y ago
Why is this a mystery or rhetorical question? Look on the website? It's public: M1 > Apple M1 chip > 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores > 8-core GPU > 16-core Neural Engine Intel > 1.7GHz quad-cor
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by ctvo 6y ago
Some feedback: Respect your potential user's time. Speed up the animations across the board. There's no way to disable it, and I have to sit there and wait continuously for content to fade in as I scroll. This applies to your abst
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by ctvo 6y ago
Firecracker has 13K stars on Github [1]. I'm not in this space. Why does a toy have so much activity (issues, pull requests) and stars? 1 - https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
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by ctvo 6y ago
> That said, we aren't what you'd call an uber sophisticated upstart using cutting edge tech. Right now, whatever systems we have are all mostly boringly simple and probably won't scale. You acknowledge here that the syste
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by ctvo 6y ago
> It was amazing how much secret information people were willing to share. Was it secret information or did they spell things out much more clearly for you because there was no assumption that you had prior knowledge? This tends to happe
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by ctvo 6y ago
> I don't have time for distracting meta-work with questionable efficacy. My prime requisite is to deliver actual value, not dubious internal metrics. What items mentioned in the linked post do you consider meta-work? Unit tests (TD
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by ctvo 6y ago
Another thing worth noting is the push back against the inequality and corruption of the Gilded Age. This time period is when we had our anti-trust laws and improvements to them [1]. The narrative that the government was always broken or in
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by ctvo 6y ago
There are a lot of things the US should do. Our government is down at the moment, and on-call has no idea how to resolve the issue.
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by ctvo 6y ago
Those that assume this is satire, if it is, it's bad satire. The author tosses in references and citations that if this were satire, are affirmations of how much smarter the author is than their audience, since they know the absurdity
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by ctvo 6y ago
You managed to toss out more strawmen while not addressing the content of what you're replying to. Can you answer why it's OK for earlier generations of (now) Americans to leave their origins in search of a better life, but modern
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by ctvo 6y ago
This is a continuation of Amazon's remove all inconvenience strategy. And it'll work. You're waving your hand and walking through now, no more scanning, no more opening up an app, no more tinkering with your phone. By chippin
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by ctvo 6y ago
Do you really think this is a photo of your palm they're storing? No doubt there are 3D scanners (to map the elevation of your palms, the depth of the lines, etc.), infrared imaging and a slew of other minor sensors. To make this fast,
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by ctvo 6y ago
> I doubt they were "getting around" anything. The customer being responsible for it is likely the entire point, because the customer who asked for this to be created probably specifically requested that (based on my experience
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by ctvo 6y ago
The decentralized nature of Amazon / AWS rears its head again. It's much harder, I assume, to get security / teams to allow another team to crawl through its customer data (the Lambda team owns which customers have how many L
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by ctvo 6y ago
I gave the total compensation ~average for FANGs / large US tech companies as a mid-senior role, which I assumed is what the OP was going for from the tone of their comment. If you're in a position in life where you need a stable
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by ctvo 6y ago
> I can't believe this is how interviewing works in this field. Everyone in every other respectable field (and ones that pay as well or better, and have worse consequences for hiring a "bad fit") seems entitled to some bas
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by ctvo 6y ago
There's no doubt an HR and finance department. Why do you need a "boss" to hand you your bonus / raise? The handbook offers a hint: > Once the intra-group ranking is done, the information gets pooled to be company-wid
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by ctvo 6y ago
Apple is a giant corporation with varied interests. In some areas they align with consumers (they’re not heavily in advertising... yet) while in others their anti-competitive behavior is harmful. Writing these impassioned posts like you’re
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by ctvo 6y ago
The parent comment stated the best solution was to allow both an app store and consumers the choice on how / where they get their apps. If the default app stores provides as much value as you claim, developers would continue to distrib
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by ctvo 6y ago
This would be Google creating a static page of results and pretending they had crawled the data when they demo’d submitting a query. Uber manually arranging a driver / passenger pick up and animating a vehicle on the map along a predef

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