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by dzonga 4mo ago
majority of software engineers are not employed at those companies but rather at banks, small / medium startups etc. we need to start using that median instead of using salaries from the Magnificent 7.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
are there US based providers i.e data centers in the US you recommend for cheap VPS like the one the $7/11 year VPS options you mention since most of those are European based ?
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by dzonga 4mo ago
seems both Bunny & Cloudflare - both have a SQLite product - has anyone used the sqlite products ? & what are your thoughts & opinions
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by dzonga 4mo ago
banning big SUVs & Trucks is insurmountable not impossible - since you're trying to have people/organizations act against their own interests. it's one of those cases of stated preference vs observed preference: for indiv
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by dzonga 4mo ago
does your anecdote comprise of the various instances when CVs were discriminated against cz people's names sounded black ? but you want to spew nonsense. every racial group includes its own under-qualified people ! there's no soci
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by dzonga 4mo ago
so what's the cause ? maybe there's a cultural failure - where if we consider a 'generation' of devs to be in cohorts of 10years. they have failed to pass knowledge down. hence why the wheel keeps getting reinvented. eve
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by dzonga 4mo ago
Yeah noticed the same thing too - Ruby/Rails background, though I have done distributed systems in java (too many unnecessary abstractions in that ecosystem) then you add the simplicity / lessons of clojure of using simple datastr
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by dzonga 4mo ago
people like to complain about strip malls or those little office parks. this is why those win - it's cheaper to build & maintain them & easier to turn a profit on them. the fancy big glass downtown skyscrapers are mostly for eg
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by dzonga 4mo ago
people in tech i.e engineers discount sales - but damn the book by Caldini - Influence & Jim Rohn In terms of sales training - help a lot.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
envy is very destructive feeling. the vc & tech bros while rich, felt envious of the power & respect the academics had. they backed the anti-science candidate, then got involved in useless schemes such as 'government efficiency
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by dzonga 4mo ago
support contracts ? if your spring-boot version is 2 releases behind etc. You use extensions that are [VMWare Tanzu Spring Enterprise Extensions]
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by dzonga 4mo ago
so what have consumers gained from the 'A.I' boom ? kids missing out on games - cz Switch prices went up. regular joes - consumer hardware went up at least 50% from RAM, SSDs & other components I guess regular joes gained the
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by dzonga 4mo ago
using the audio recorder works as well. wish I had discovered that trick sooner.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
this is probably another big risk with enterprises going all in on using spring-boot. migrating to quarkus won't save you either - since it's IBM on the other hand. if only other ecosystems could catch up to Java/JVM solution
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Private Plane Crush on Texas Highway(abcnews.com)
1 points by dzonga 4mo ago|0 comments
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by dzonga 4mo ago
> Facebook and Instagram are such strong businesses that they could completely stop development work and the businesses would still be unbeatable monopolies for years to come. maybe, but I disagree. a lot of businesses - keep sinking mon
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by dzonga 4mo ago
every engineer is hands-on with 'A.I' - yet we are not seeing quality software out in the wild. no are there bootstrapped / funded startups by Meta alumni hitting the shelve every week.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
as someone who runs a small competitor to ga4 - yeah a lot of traffic shows up as direct cz sometimes utm params get stripped out by the OS / browser. if people copy link - they also try manually remove the extra fluff.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
Brandur - good luck - you've a viable market. tools like Sidekiq, Karafka, JobRunr are taking care of their maintainers.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
Either go the serverless way or buy own hardware & use colocation. this thing of renting compute - prices will continue to increase till maybe demand goes down, or supply for components catches up.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
Software orgs got bloated during the Covid era. Sadly real people will pay with their livelihoods for decisions made by execs. most org's will continue to cut till at least 2028. 'A.I /LLMs' will be cited as the reason b
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Stop Using JWTs(gist.github.com)
492 points by dzonga 4mo ago|323 comments
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by dzonga 4mo ago
due to the recent FIFA hack - just a reminder - stop using JWTs
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by dzonga 4mo ago
JWTs strike again. encrypted cookies still work & they're stateless. & yeah you can pass cookies between servers & also server - S.P.A. to BoBDaHacker - great research but slow down on the a.i writing.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
ovh ?
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by dzonga 4mo ago
in the U.S & other regions it sucks cz you can hardly ever get static ip addresses at residential addresses to host things & expose to the internet
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by dzonga 4mo ago
another Ruby on Rails app gets a billion.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
for smaller b2b startups - serverless is still a win.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
Firefox leadership had a recovery the time when Brendan Eich was CEO, then he was kicked out. since then it has been downhill since.
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by dzonga 4mo ago
yeah, thanks for pointing out Instagram & I had forgot FB Messenger too.

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