danjac

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by danjac 5y ago
It wasn't. Marx talked of "alienation" over 150 years ago.
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by danjac 5y ago
Yes I also used to believe in the Tooth Fairy and Father Christmas.
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by danjac 5y ago
What's the Big Dream at FAANG these days? What "greater goal" is there at Facebook in 2021? Or Amazon? I mean sure, if you want to switch off your moral compass and make lots of money, go you, I guess, but it sounds almost cu
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by danjac 5y ago
The UK cabinet, comprised of former journalists, media "personalities" and PR industry hacks, only thinks in terms of the 24 hour news cycle: how to deflect blame, rile up their base, or throw dead cats. What they are fundamentall
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by danjac 5y ago
They shouldn't have to, true. But enough companies have bought the Coolaid that it's a job requirement and you'll have to learn it anyway, which means developers will try and shoehorn it into their projects whether it makes s
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by danjac 5y ago
> and at an individual level it’s very manageable And yet, we have horror stories of students and even experts being hit by surprise AWS bills. Although I agree about usage - I never go anywhere near AWS unless someone else is paying for
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by danjac 5y ago
Yeah how terrible. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/01/27/instagram...
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by danjac 5y ago
I guess the difference between running an online store and running a hate machine. Bezos' main concern (as with any run-of-the-mill billionaire) is kidnapping. On the other hand, if your business model has driven people to literally co
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by danjac 5y ago
The individual services maybe are built by people who know what they're doing, sure. But the aggregate is a mess because Amazon ships its org chart.
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by danjac 5y ago
There are consultancies whose entire expertise and premise are advising on AWS billing to companies who already know AWS, so the idea that a newbie should be aware of whatever magical incantation to limit their spend is ludicrous.
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by danjac 5y ago
My rule of thumb is to avoid the cloud entirely unless my employer is paying for it. Otherwise, like you said, I'll stick with a fixed amount a month.
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by danjac 5y ago
> That system, by design, has conquered the boom/bust cycle Gordon Brown made this claim about the UK back in 1997. 10 years later he became Prime Minister just in time to see this claim put to the test.
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by danjac 5y ago
I've used a similar technique with HTMX[1]. General navigation just patches the main "content" section, but actions where it's necessary to replace the entire page (e.g. login/logout) just do a full page "dumb&
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by danjac 5y ago
I'm not arguing that German society or politics are unstable, rather that there is a justifiable deep-rooted fear of instability at an individual level - which doesn't have to be rational.
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by danjac 5y ago
Given all that Germany went through the past century (albeit if much of that was self-inflicted), it's hardly surprising that "prepper culture" will find fertile ground.
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by danjac 5y ago
tbf nor can Uber.
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by danjac 5y ago
It wouldn't take much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83#False_alarm_fro... " false alarms were caused by a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds underneath the satellites' orbits
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by danjac 5y ago
AWS' byzantine billing is also good grounds for reasonable caution, especially for a new startup.
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by danjac 5y ago
You're not going to mine the ocean from a garage or spare bedroom though.
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by danjac 5y ago
Of extended family and friends, the ones with the most personal wealth by retirement got there not by being more creative, or inventive, or productive, or by studying and acquiring skills and knowledge, or starting and growing a business, b
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by danjac 5y ago
Common advice here is that companies should focus on their core competencies and customers. in this case Mexican drug cartels.
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by danjac 5y ago
Agreed, it's difficult to make the call when to make your move, and staying too long can be harmful. Generally I'd say it's better to move around more earlier in your career when you're figuring out what kind of company
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by danjac 5y ago
Moving jobs entails significant risk, which is one reason why offers are high. Maybe you won't get on with your new manager or team-mates. Maybe the codebase is a tech-debt spaghetti nightmare. You can't carry over the reputation
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by danjac 5y ago
I don't think it's so much a money-grabbing strategy as the problem that AWS is less a suite of unified services and more a litter of puppies fighting in a sack. With that kind of org chart it's difficult to have a unified, s
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by danjac 5y ago
I'd be happy to never touch AWS unless a) I'm not the one paying for it and b) there is a genuine need. Unfortunately it's increasingly a job requirement.
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by danjac 5y ago
That's the point though. A beginner is going to make mistakes and should be able to learn in a safe environment. Think of a student on a tight budget at college or in a bootcamp, who has to learn AWS because it's on the curriculum
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by danjac 5y ago
> once you've worked a bit seriously with AWS Kind of a chicken-and-egg situation, no? Unless you're on the company dime, learning to work with AWS entails that risk. A beginner simply won't know how to configure all of th
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by danjac 5y ago
I've made it a habit to absolutely avoid any and all AWS services for any side projects, unless it's on the employer's dime. I'd rather pay a bit more per month for a flat-fee Digital Ocean droplet. Maybe I'll end u
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by danjac 5y ago
There's a bit more to frontend than knowledge of a framework. I can find my way around a Vue or React codebase, and I'm reasonably competent with CSS and associated frameworks, but there's a deep knowledge of the DOM and vani
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by danjac 5y ago
As a long-time Dokku user, have you done any multi-server deployments or just stayed to a single server? I'm happy with Dokku for side projects but would be interested in what Dokku users use when they need to move up to a multi-server

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