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by ctvo 3y ago
What an industry we're fortunate to work in. > 9+ hours of interview process for a salary of $201,227 USD. Isn't this bit too much?¹
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by ctvo 3y ago
The world doesn’t work this way. Not because it’s just or that there’s no corruption: it’s because there’s little benefit to Joe Biden. This is a high profile case. It’ll only trigger more scrutiny into everything. And Sam is an isolated, b
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by ctvo 3y ago
What's weird is it's an untyped string embedded in an HTML template that does things . The API signature is string in magic out. How do I unit test this? How do we know when someone fat fingered something?
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by ctvo 3y ago
Oh my example wasn't a working one. I was just picking all the weird syntax I saw. What's gross about it is learning things like: ...hx-vals='{"target_stewards": "1"}' ...hx-target="clo
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by ctvo 3y ago
> You literally do though, if you want to keep user experience on par. On par with what? Use any of your existing UI frameworks and instead of keeping state client side, let the server tell you. Instead of doing things like eagerly updat
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by ctvo 3y ago
It's so gross: ... <tag hx-target="closest tr" hx-swap="outerHTML swap:1s" /> ... <button onclick="htmx.trigger('#request-button', 'htmx:abort')">
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by ctvo 3y ago
Pay for Kagi. It's worth it.
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by ctvo 3y ago
It's a state issue. The flash of inconsistency you see is because the client eagerly modifies state before the server persists it (or some form of this problem). The routing issue is because the application (SPA) is using business logi
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by ctvo 3y ago
> It's not possible to flash misinformation with normal front ends before React jQuery, Backbone, Angular, etc.. You can / did do this in other frameworks prior to React. I think, from reading your comments, you think client si
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by ctvo 3y ago
Imagine being told you're very smart since a young age and internalizing it so heavily that you think you can talk your way out of everything. What you really end up internalizing is that other people are stupid. And this is why Sam is
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by ctvo 3y ago
There's a another reason to avoid fly.io outside of platform capabilities: their outages caused by growing pains. If it were me, I'd circle back in a year or two.
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by ctvo 3y ago
> Technology isn't a weakness with Google... never was. Most of their stuff is top-notch technology-wise. The problems are from a business-angle and being their customer. There's very little technologically impressive with GCP
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by ctvo 3y ago
I'll bite: what do you use instead?
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by ctvo 3y ago
From a user perspective: how is this different than what Temporal provides?
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by ctvo 3y ago
I never thought Jon Stewart was funny. I stomached the Daily Show because of his correspondents who were funny. He helped the careers of a lot of comedians. I thought Noah was a better interviewer, and more charismatic. Since the Daily Show
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by ctvo 3y ago
> The very nature of a startup, especially one funded like this, means that your whole existence is predicated on the hopes that you make it big. Convoy knows their situation very well, and it hasn't changed for 6 months. As invest
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by ctvo 3y ago
Shutting down 3 months earlier, but everyone getting severance is an option. Let's not pretend it had to happen this way because it's a startup. They made the decision, if true, to use up every cent clinging on trying to find an
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by ctvo 3y ago
> The workstation has fast 2TB NVMe and 64gb of ram, 16 cores and a RTX GPU. > $60/yr vs thousands of $ upfront for a comparable desktop or notebook machine. I don't think we're talking about the same things here.
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by ctvo 3y ago
Jetbrains Gateway is very poor compared to VS Code's remote development plugin. I can't use it without wanting to pull my hair out. It's laggy, installing plugins is painful (per project?!), etc.. Has it improved in the last
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by ctvo 3y ago
In the case of secrets, it can populate secrets automatically from SecretsManager into environment variables. See a CDK example: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/v2/docs/aws-cdk-lib.aws_... You can se
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by ctvo 3y ago
I use AWS ECS (sometimes with ECS Anywhere to use my own servers + ECS's control plane) for orchestration where I can. It's a little surprising how many folks are unaware of the non-Kubernetes orchestration options. Going full Kub
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by ctvo 3y ago
Infrastructure from code is the least exciting development in the evolution of ops I've seen. Helping manage complexity -- great. Pulumi, Terraform, the CDK, all of these infrastructure as code tools help manage complexity. Hiding comp
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by ctvo 3y ago
That it's for toy projects. Using annotations to provision infrastructure hides complexity from you, but that complexity is what's required to actually manage and resolve infrastructure issues in production. In a prototype or toy
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by ctvo 3y ago
> The Amazon products are (possibly) counterfeit. I think this is less likely at Target or WalMart (as long as you avoid the third-party sellers on WalMart's site -- not sure if Target has those). Do you have any data on the number
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by ctvo 3y ago
> you're missing that major markets within the US just started mandating salaries to be disclosed They post a range, not an exact salary. It's much less useful as it spans entry / mid all the way to staff+. > prior inf
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by ctvo 3y ago
If it's not happening to me, is it really happening?
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by ctvo 3y ago
So the goal is … create paperwork? Walmart internally bills itself the same price … and they pay themselves the money does what exactly?
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by ctvo 3y ago
Amazon has a “buy box” where users can see the default seller for an item and quickly add it to their cart or buy it now. This is prime real estate as most customers won’t think twice about adding the default, pre selected option. I believe
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by ctvo 3y ago
> Or, more likely, tech people pay attention to Amazon and not the myriad of suits occuring in the retail and grocery world. We're listening. Feel free to toss some examples of these myriad of law suits against brick and mortar stor
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by ctvo 3y ago
Amazon Prime Video spent 16 billion dollars on content last year and it's the worst of all the major streaming platform when it comes to original programming. In the last year, their big budget bombs: - Wheel of Time barely watchable C

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