dreyfan

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by dreyfan 5y ago
Sure, but we're addressing people who are so far on the other end of the spectrum they're using a "serverless" database where they pay for the number of rows scanned per query. I think a managed DB is a better middle-gro
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Don’t use DB providers that charge for rows/data scanned. Use Amazon RDS or Google Cloud SQL or just install it yourself on a VM. Pay for CPU, memory, and storage instead.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Sure, but there are <1% of the games being produced that need to tackle those problems. Look at the most of 10,000+ games released on Steam or the endless mobile games released over the past year. For every Naughty Dog, Riot, Take-Two, C
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Right. I think it's mostly subconscious. If you crank out CRUD app or some basic FPS in Unity, you're left wanting more and turn to the toolchain to find that complexity. 25 years ago, devs had no unmet craving after optimizing n
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Broadly speaking, modern developers don’t have to deal with resource limitations (neither computing nor financial) so they instead devote that extra energy on completely unnecessary orchestration systems and build toolchains to feel like th
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> Complexity == popularity == profit Entire node/js/ts ecosystem resonates strongly here. They reinvent the wheel, assign it a new name, thought-leaders market those inventions to every corner of the tech ecosystem, and then th
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Bootstrap and numerous other popular CSS frameworks, notably any with grid layout and/or utility classes, have done that for the past decade+. So Tailwind is the modern/popular CSS framework?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> The biggest one being that you have to jump between files when modifying a single UI Can you expand on why you were doing that in the first place? Your comment reads like CSS just finally clicked for you (e.g. reusing classes instead o
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> Was major Roblox outage Nomad-related They haven't posted a detailed post-mortem yet but it's more likely consul related that in-turn brought down vault and nomad.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
That's a really helpful post, thank you
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by dreyfan 5y ago
I honestly don't know what time-series databases do that's particularly unique. I've worked databases for 20+ years and a date or datetime has always been an integral part of the dataset and thus everything to me is time-seri
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Alternate opinion: Trackpads are the annoying thing you deal with when an external mouse isn’t viable.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
With the complete rout today of -11.5% and the additional -11.0% aftermarket on Zillow's stock, it's still up +95% from when Chanos made that comment. Calling bullshit simply isn't worth the hassle these days (e.g. see Tesla
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by dreyfan 5y ago
You lose the usefulness of IDE argument typehints (now you just get a [Object] requirement) and still need to look somewhere to know which parameters are required and which are optional in your object. And if you mistype the key/tag, n
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by dreyfan 5y ago
That means literally zero.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
You mean it wasn't an arbitrary edge case in a database the company doesn't even use?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Was it because your primary key was an unsigned 32-bit integer and that’s not an “issue”.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
I understand that, I'm not suggesting it's a scam or anything (though typically in the US a home seller pays 3% to the buyers agent and 3% to the sellers agent). I'm saying when Bloomberg exclaims "Zillow is selling home
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Zillow is the brokerage and they take fees when they buy the home from their users and depending on how they sell it they often take fees on that side of the transaction too. So when you see that Zillow "bought" a home at $500,000
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by dreyfan 5y ago
They weren’t scammed anymore than roulette “scams” many of its players. NFTs are pure speculation and gambling.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
It’s a dream come true for the script kiddies.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Low population density, a largely outdoor existence, and a very low rate of testing and reporting.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Low interest rates -> cheap capital -> lots of tech funding -> lots of jobs.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> Don't waste time reading a book I’m guessing you have little experience with books but the general approach is you read something and then practice what you just learned.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
The people downvoting you did so while waiting on npm install to run.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> Isn't that just fancy phrasing for a username/password? Not quite. username/password authenticate who or what something is; bearer tokens permit what actions can be taken by the holder of that token, and tend to be short
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by dreyfan 5y ago
https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-analytics-for-6m-requests-p... has some good thoughts. The main thing you'll likely need is some sort of a buffer layer so you can do bulk inserts. Do not write a high-volume of single-
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by dreyfan 5y ago
The US is so completely and utterly fucked I think it's beyond redemption at this point.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
There’s far more venture capital than innovative ideas and the business problems are rarely hard to solve. Engineers get bored so we have a constant flow of new languages, frameworks, and lately, an overwhelming focus on tooling and infrast
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by dreyfan 5y ago
tldr: OOP sucks.

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