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by dijit 6mo ago
I'm reaching out here. This is a surprisingly sparse posting. "somewhere in Europe" means there's a 2.2%~ chance I can hire you without needing to involve a third party like Deel.
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by dijit 6mo ago
> HN is filled with people who think engineering productivity is simple to measure. I think the prevailing (correct) consensus is that developer productivity is actually very hard to measure, and every time it is attempted the measure
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by dijit 6mo ago
Hostile forges will help though, unless the forge gets big enough. Scrapers (SEO bots included) tend to only have a handful of "corner cases" built for navigating sites - if your code forge is actively trying to prevent scraping
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by dijit 6mo ago
cPanel is just about as far away from “unproven” as possible.
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by dijit 6mo ago
This is a moral psychological quandary: quit and hope everyone shares your moral compass. (hint: they don’t). Or work to pressure change internally, and occupy space that might have gone to a more morally flexible person if it was made vaca
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by dijit 6mo ago
Honestly only 100 servers are multiple of orders of magnitude louder than this. I can't even hear myself think in a normal datacenter with 20 racks; if a bunch of them are starting up or are fully loaded then: no chance. I don't t
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by dijit 6mo ago
I think the surprising thing to me here is that there is a generation of children afraid of a clear blue sky because it means drones can see them.. ... and it only cost $225M. (source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics&
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by dijit 6mo ago
We used TCP for The Division, this was a major mistake and I don't think it was something people should repeat. For example, if you have TCP_NODELAY and a few thousand players, you'll be swimming in about 1.2M packets per second
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by dijit 6mo ago
> I feel like MS went out of its way to make a point that GitHub and NPM would be independent orgs that no longer had to worry about making keep-the-lights-on money. It was positioned as a benevolent acquisition for the good of the devel
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by dijit 6mo ago
The root comment asked if I'd been part of an org scaling orders of magnitude quickly, so I'll actually answer it: Venda at Christmas peak (pre-cloud, hardware on 4 month lead times, ~1% of global web traffic at peak) and The Divi
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by dijit 6mo ago
Yes I did, sorry! You are right. :)
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by dijit 6mo ago
> Serious question, have you been part of an org that had to scale orders of magnitude very quickly? I have, but it depends what you mean. Scenario 1: e-commerce SaaS (think: Amazon but whitelabel, and before CPUs even had AES instructio
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by dijit 6mo ago
Ah, super valid point. I use the command invocation to run python scripts. I tend to believe that CI is just a controlled way to do things you would do locally.
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by dijit 6mo ago
> Does throughput really matter more than latency in everyday application? In my experience latency and throughput are intrinsically linked unless you have the buffer-space to handle the throughput you want. Which you can't guaran
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by dijit 6mo ago
fossilised.dev .. maybe british spelling. palaeontology.dev ... too awkward. museum.dev has a sort of "this is dead" ring to it. Ironically what fossils are stored in within a museum is referred to as a "repository".. We
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by dijit 6mo ago
> I'm not sure I've ever had a non-frustrating experience when trying to set up a CI pipeline on any platform, so I guess Gitlab's CI isn't any better or worse than others in that regard. Honestly, Gitlab's CI is
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by dijit 6mo ago
Weirdly, I also have fond memories of Trac despite absolutely despising it at the time for “doing too much and excelling at nothing as a result”. I guess that award goes to Gitlab now, which I will probably also remember fondly.
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by dijit 6mo ago
"You can't possibly hope to have as many resources caring about uptime as $provider, you should outsource to them" "Give $provider a break, they have such crazy scale that they can't possibly hope to have great upti
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by dijit 6mo ago
I don't think that's as true as you think it is. I mean, "Copyright Infringement" famously does not translate to Mandarin; but we have Amazon ripping off best sellers in their marketplace pretty brazenly and Apple "
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by dijit 6mo ago
But the outages have been getting worse and worse even before anything related to AI took off. The issue is that they're not a scrappy startup anymore, they are defacto running the internets development infrastructure and are owned by
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by dijit 6mo ago
I suppose there's a reason that most Microsoft development shops tend to vendor their dependencies as a culture. Gamedev being the most prominent that I have personally witnessed. EDIT: Why are you booing me, I'm right.
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by dijit 6mo ago
i meant in terms of bubbling up hardware issues.
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by dijit 6mo ago
there's a lot that can go wrong with a hypervisor, even including hiding hardware issues from the guest OS. We don't think about it because we've been quite spoiled with excellent virtual machine platforms (KVM, Xen and even
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by dijit 6mo ago
Granted on the narrow point: inference itself runs at a positive margin. Where it falls apart is the implicit claim that the training spend is separable. It isn't. Frontier model training is the cost of having a product to sell inferen
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by dijit 6mo ago
Right. Going to take "inference is quite profitable" apart, because there's nothing else in your reply. OpenAI's adjusted gross margin: 40% in 2024, 33% in 2025. Reason cited: inference costs quadrupled in one year. htt
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by dijit 6mo ago
There's always gerrit. I mean, technically it's a code review platform, not a complete toolbox like Gitlab and co, but damn if it isn't the most professional feeling experience.
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by dijit 6mo ago
If I buy oranges for $1 and sell them for $0.50 and I sell a lot of oranges, can I reasonably say that I've found a market? Hrm..
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by dijit 6mo ago
> It’s not more hype than product, it has found a market (making many billions in revenue) Speculation based on selling at below cost. > it’s not valued at trillions Fair, it's only $852 billion. Nowhere near trillions.. you go
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by dijit 6mo ago
The short answer is: it's the secretary problem. The longer answer is; you never know whats coming next, bitcoin could have doubled the day after, and doubled the day after that, and so on, for weeks. And by selling half you've ef
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by dijit 6mo ago
Everything is personal preference, and perhaps I am more fiscally conservative because I grew up in poverty. But if I own 49% of a company and that company has more hype than product, hasn't found its market yet but is valued at trilli

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