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by dalyons 4y ago
I mean that’s not really an argument. That’s just saying “I feel like there will be a collapse because it happened before in unrelated circumstances. No I can’t tell you why it will happen “
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by dalyons 4y ago
Looking worse than 2008? What are you looking at? Doesn’t seem like that at all from what I’ve seen.
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by dalyons 4y ago
Twilio has never made a cent of profit and is losing ~1billion per QUARTER. Not comparable to salesforce in any way.
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by dalyons 4y ago
it worked on me! i was super impressed. and then you leave the oval office and it turns out it was floating in a much larger room. Cool effect, best office i've ever been to. I think they got rid of the desk (or made it not the entran
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by dalyons 4y ago
really? a high chance for ALL companies that they are 50% overhired? based on what do you make this call? apart from doom pessimism.
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by dalyons 4y ago
I think it’s mostly this! And it’s not necessarily malicious - the exec folk have lost sight of the way most people work. To them it’s “obvious” that the office is better, because it IS better for their type of work. Managers schedule VS ma
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by dalyons 4y ago
Thank you! Hyperbolic writing style but well sourced and very interesting. Seems grim indeed.
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by dalyons 4y ago
And what is that narrative? What are the two prongs?
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by dalyons 4y ago
Can we stop using the household budget analogy for megacorps, governments and economies? It’s overly simplistic and wrong. (For just one example, a household has a single non-varying income stream and everything else is expense. Large compa
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by dalyons 4y ago
Do you actually use it at scale in a large complicated system? IMHO it’s the opposite - datadog is consistently the most innovative and fastest iterating observability platform out there. Nothing comes close. It’s expensive yes, and there’
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by dalyons 4y ago
Maybe! I’m no expert. But it was a really quick situation - lid popped, I looked in , there was boiling chloroform when there was supposed to be a different reagent (due to a software bug in the machine). Down I went. So probably not time f
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by dalyons 4y ago
Fortunately it was in a busy lab so I was noticed! The boiling retort/bath was only a bit larger than head size, so technically possible to fall in but thankfully not :)
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by dalyons 4y ago
Pro tip: make it boiling hot. I knocked myself out instantly (but briefly) by accidentally breathing in over a boiling chloroform vat at a biotech internship. Came to a few seconds later on the floor. (Don’t actually recommend)
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by dalyons 4y ago
And yet it’s by far the most popular, easiest to use, and solves the most number of problems for the most number of people. Millions of hours of saved dev time over the years. That’s well engineered to me - engineered for users, not purity.
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by dalyons 4y ago
If it was around now I still wouldn’t use it. It is the problem, it’s just not good as a data exchange format.
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by dalyons 4y ago
In healthy orgs you are collecting such metrics to help advocate for investing in tooling, automation, infrastructure, process improvements etc. It can give the business case for building/expanding dev tooling and cloud teams. I’ve fou
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by dalyons 4y ago
They’re pretty great. Eg the michellean crossclimate 2. Unless you live somewhere with months and months of ice, they’re probably the way to go these days. Most of the performance, much less wear/noise/warm temp problems
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by dalyons 4y ago
my experience is the opposite. i want to book direct, but OTAs are 70% of the time cheaper. Its "technically possible" because the OTAs in most cases have contract terms that prevent the hotel from undercutting their negotiated r
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by dalyons 4y ago
i mean you're just proving my point. They all involve onerous claim forms, or having to call... and just read and try and navigate all the conditions and caveats on those links. No thanks, i never want to navigate that mess, who has ti
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by dalyons 4y ago
I think you missed the word “similarity”. You can’t check similarity with hashes, only exact matches
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by dalyons 4y ago
It pretty much always costs more going direct though, which is counterintuitive and annoying. Unless you call and negotiate which I ain’t doing.
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by dalyons 4y ago
I’ve worked small and midsize startups for a decade+ and the ratio has always been 1/infinity, ie there are zero dedicated writers :/. How common is what you are advocating for? I guess I find it hard to believe 1/5 or even
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by dalyons 4y ago
Why though? Not a loaded question genuinely curious. More smoking up north?
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by dalyons 4y ago
If you think that redis and Cassandra are in the “dustbin” then I don’t know what to tell you, except that you’re possibly very out of touch. Especially redis, it seems to be used everywhere
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by dalyons 4y ago
You had some reasonable points but then you segued into name calling and baseless negativity. Both redis and Cassandra are well built, well understood common industry tools that have been use at scale for many years now. With their own tra
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by dalyons 4y ago
Yeah they suck at it. There are so many good queuing systems, and if you’re on any cloud there’s gunna be a cheap managed queue that is super reliable and near zero effort. If you get beyond trivial scale just use a managed queue.
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by dalyons 4y ago
In actuality I think the number of people I have worked with in ~20 years that I would trust to set up a production database to the same level to which I trust RDS… is maybe like 2 people. Those skills are RARE and hilariously underestimate
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by dalyons 4y ago
Try twirp! Same protos for contracts, but everything is much simpler , saner and slimmer , and just uses standard http. It’s great.
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by dalyons 4y ago
Until you get in an accident, and then you’ll care (or be dead so you won’t). Safety has come an awful long way in 35 years. And I actually think “most people” do give a shit about their families not dying preventably
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by dalyons 4y ago
(I know you’re a contractor so you don’t get to choose but:) stop working in artificial sprints. In some cases they’re useful(external client stuff) but mostly they can be replaced with just working down a continuous backlog. Then you don’t

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