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by danjac 4y ago
I'm deeply crypto-skeptic but that seems grossly unfair. I've worked for a number of startups that, in retrospect, had terrible business models. Does that make me a "true believer" in their viability? Maybe, but then I l
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Is gaming not part of the software industry? What aspects of Japanese game development made it hugely successful compared to business and other software development?
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And when production moved to Vancouver in the 90s, you had shows like the X-Files which often seemed to take place in a vague Pacific Northwest location.
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Universities are institutions made of people. If SF becomes to expensive for those people to work and study in, they'll face the same problem of housing costs. And universities rise and fall over time: a great CS department one decade
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Maybe San Francisco is just not suitable any more? There's nothing magic about SF's geography that makes it a tech hub. It's not a mining town that needs to be next to coal or minerals, or a ski resort town that needs some mo
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There's literally a web site of Kubernetes failure stories: https://k8s.af/ where people experienced in Kubernetes have shot themselves in the foot. To be fair, it's over a year old, and probably the state of th
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"Gross mismanagement" and "D&D" are kind of synonyms: from Gygax' losing control to the incompetent Blume brothers (whose genius business decisions included trying to raise a 19th century shipwreck), to the take
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by danjac 4y ago
Or use a PAAS (Fly.io, Render, maybe even Heroku I guess) if you just want to get your MVP out there while you focus on your product and business.
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Getting something up and running and managing something long-term are two different things. I'm sure - even though I'm not particularly smart - I could get a simple k8s solution up and running in a week with the help of a YouTube
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As with developers doing resume-driven development, designers need to build a strong portfolio to land their next gig. So aesthetics comes into building their own distinctive "brand" (as opposed to the brand of the client/com
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a.k.a. resume-driven development
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The thing is that "feature creep" is a symptom rather than cause. "Feature creep" in a small company is a sign of flailing around trying to capture a market. Sometimes a whole new feature is developed under pressure from
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My favourite tin-foil hat conspiracy theory is that Kubernetes, microservices etc are promoted by big tech to lure potentially disruptive small teams into adopting momentum-killing rabbit-hole solutions because they are "best practice&
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Just as with scientific research, asteroid mining will be the domain of robots. There's no economic case for sending humans for that job, and AI is improving year on year. So sadly no Belters, whatever the value of mining space rocks.
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Or they are lucky to be born into a wealthy family with connections and safety net (Musk, Gates etc)
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Whatever Ballmer's faults, lack of passion wasn't one of them, and he was a founding member of MSFT (probably the first founder after Gates, going back to their salad days as roommates at Harvard), not a parachuted-in hedge-fund M
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Old Russian proverb: "when fish begins to rot, it starts from the head". Yes these crypto bros are young grifters out for the big score with zero integrity or morals and hopefully they will look forward to spending their best year
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Hetzner (or Digital Ocean) + Dokku is cheap & easy to run for small side projects.
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Constitutions, at the end of the day, are just pieces of paper that can be ignored entirely. The 1977 Soviet Constitution was a landmark in human rights and freedom of expression, but nobody was kidding themselves that this was the reality
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It's a scam. If just a fraction pay up they will have made money.
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There's also the Byzantine Empire, which referred to itself as Roman ("Byzantine" being an early modern name for the eastern Empire).
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Finnish does not have grammatical gender.
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Chapter 11?
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I have yet to get a moderately-complex Django project working with django-stubs. It seems to break with basic idioms like custom QuerySets, and I immediately run into new bugs every time I try it. Usually I give up and use dialled-down mypy
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I felt completely left out, because although I had seen the last Spiderman movie, I hadn't watched Wandavision or half of the TV shows. It was like trying to follow a game in a sport you only have a casual interest in: you kind of know
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At this point the emergence (or re-emergence) of the instant grocery startup in is like the apocryphal story of Joseph Kennedy getting stock tips from his shoe-shine boy - a sign that the market is about to crash.
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There's no "Rails for Go" either, so not sure why that is brought up as a comparison. I suspect (from dabbling in Clojure some years ago) that the Clojure community has more enthusiasts than practical users, who enjoy buildin
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There is a trade-off. Starting a new job is a roll of the dice. You might not get along with your new team, their codebase could be a mess, your manager an asshole, their business model a disaster. You might not spot red flags during the in
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You know whenever there's some TV history show about the early days of air flight, they show some old footage of a bicycle-powered helicopter or a ten-winged contraption crashing into the ground? That was pretty much early 2000s web de
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Is this an example of the Market for Lemons? If I hire a developer I have a pretty good idea what to look for (and to a lesser degree, a designer, as I have worked with enough designers to know how the good ones work). But I would have no i

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