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by dinvlad 4y ago
I would even say this goes down further - the motivation to even finish a PhD program may disappear entirely after hearing piles and piles of such stories in the first few years. The lack of sufficient funding from above combined with overs
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There's more nuance here. There're ways to "port" your H1B to another company (incl. while working part-time with one leg at a non-profit and another at a startup), but few want to go that route because of all the other
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Sadly so :-) I felt much more productive coding without all those bells and whistles than nowadays - I wonder why..
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This throws me back to the good ol' days of fitting all software in a few dozens/hundreds of KBs on Speccy and similar systems. Current software engineering practices are so wasteful on computer resources, and imho unnecessarily s
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I think this may also have to do with the indie community - SQLite seems to literally fit the bill much better than hosted DBs. A lot of what "the biggest companies" do doesn't go anywhere close to where most small (or even m
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by dinvlad 4y ago
Same here - and particularly one that could serve multiple hobby projects, while using both dev and prod envs (so minimal cost could already be 2-3x).
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There's also https://www.terraform.io/cdktf
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It would be amazing to figure out how to make a Web IDE with a local shell that's inexpensive to run. Something that uses Spot instances with seamless migration between hosts. No one has really addressed this problem so far - all of
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Very interesting, and using all of the latest tech. I was literally dreaming about combining Remix + Cloudflare Workers + Golang the other day. The only problem is Go would need to be compiled into WASM for that [0]. But this would provide
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by dinvlad 4y ago
Yep, I like serverless offerings too (although some services, like Firestore, still leave much to be desired). The problem is, big enterprise is "all in" on K8s and that becomes hard to reason about because when I tell them "
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Thanks for the insights :-) To put that in context, I've been a (mostly happy) architect on all three major clouds for several years. The thing that "triggered" me to explore alternative options is GCP's continuing prici
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And if we look at some European cloud providers' prices, it becomes painfully obvious that any such services (even incl. Render) built on top of major US cloud providers are excruciatingly overpriced - the markups can be as large as
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by dinvlad 4y ago
Thanks for your reply! I have since found partial solution to (1) in the docs ( https://supabase.com/docs/learn/auth-deep-dive/auth-deep-div... ) - i.e. it's possible do to a local verification of the toke
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Amazing product! Started to explore it just a few days ago, as it seems very popular among the Indiehackers community. Got a few nice-to-haves that I'm sure you're already working on :-) 1) Auth tokens currently use symmetric sign
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That's a good way to put it, thanks for sharing! Agreed that it may not be the same for extroverts vs introverts. I think it doesn't have to be "either-or" - both open-office and private-office plans need to co-exist, th
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On their front-page, they advertise "Private, move-in ready offices" for "1-20+" people as one of the options, which is why I mentioned them. Of course, that could just mean "open-office space private to a particula
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Depends on the company, I think. Some companies are geographically remote, so that's not quite possible. For others yes, things like WeWork exist although might be a little pricey (but probably worth it!). Or just a warehouse-type loca
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by dinvlad 4y ago
Exactly my thoughts, thanks for noting it! The only thing I don't agree on is that these dreams are somehow "capricious" (esp. given they were the norm just a little over 10 years ago or so; in that respect, "open office
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by dinvlad 4y ago
This seems a little too idealistic, I'm afraid. It'd be amazing to have friends from work with whom one could start companies outside etc. But most folks perceive a job as just "a source of income", nothing more. And tha
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by dinvlad 4y ago
For another interesting take on this: https://levels.io/async/
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Who said that browsing HN or other tech sources on-your-own is less productive than regular "work"? :P
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I think even that is probably an over-estimation. I suspect most folks can work productively (as in, being intensely focused on an activity) only for 2-4 hours a day, and the rest of the time is just "fluff" (which may or may not
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by dinvlad 4y ago
For sure - although it's always interesting to hear what people like or not about it, and how they work around issues like distractions/attention scatter and the pure "don't watch over my shoulder when I need to check HN
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Can't agree more. Privacy of a small room but having people around when you _need_ them is the best of both worlds.
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Composing music is also a good workout for creativity
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Ways to improve Twitter: - Delete it
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OK, that makes sense, thanks for the insight! I do still think it would be "helpful" to apply formal methods, even if they don't solve the problem 100%, just like some testing is better than no testing. Better than the curren
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I'm not sure I agree with these points (although these are good insights). There are regulations that apply to code in other domains, like HIPAA/FedRAMP/banking compliance etc, so why cannot they be applied to blockchain prov
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It seems like these systems ought to be developed with independent formal verification as a legal requirement. Or maybe that's too naive to dream about?
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by dinvlad 5y ago
Worth adding AI to this list :-)

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