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by eric4smith 4y ago
This is nice. But the real problem is Kubernetes. What do I mean by that? I mean the setup, care and feeding of K8s. It's nice to have a tool that you can quickly push stuff to K8s. There are other tools out there that do that too. The
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Yes. Duh. That's why I even mentioned my grandma.
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Manual transmissions are dead. I grew up learning to drive a manual transmission car. Awesome. I loved the feeling of driving and shifting gears up the hilly, mountainous, twisty horrible roads in Jamaica. Exhilarating! But cars got better.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
My first kid just reached 18. Now I'm seriously thinking of having another one. Remember when we were younger and the world's population hit 7 billion, everyone was really, really concerned about overpopulation??? I even did not w
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by eric4smith 4y ago
I love and use JSON every day. I just don't philosophically believe that it's the right thing for configuration. Too much scope for making errors if done by hand. And also if not doing it by hand, it means additional tooling to cr
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Https://www.travelagencytribes.com
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Nginx is missing automated TLS services. That’s the main reason we no longer use it for our multi-tenant SaaS systems. Caddy powers our thousands of domains - although I will never be a fan of its JSON config file option, it works very very
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Nginx is missing automated TLS services. That’s the main reason we no longer use it for our multi-tenant SaaS systems. Otherwise… it’s great.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Love Stripe. But their record on de-platforming people for dubious reasons is not great.
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Quick question... Why would we really want to prevent a war between these two giant companies?
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Because the old way of teaching has been broken for decades now - by broken I mean not applicable to todays world. One good thing about C19 is that it forced us to re-examine how we taught and what we taught. And I think we clearly see that
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Busy really means "I have no time for you." Period. Don't try to read more into what I just wrote. Just think about it for a second. If you put someone or something on top of your priority list, then you are not busy for that
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One reason is that it’s a part time job to manage one and a full time job to manage 4. Generally people put a part time job on the back burner and focus on the main full time job. Just speaking from experience.
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Sometimes I wonder if it’s better to subscribe to a queue. As a person who uses webhooks from a variety of api’s there are upsides and downsides to them. I suppose the same could be said for queues - but it strikes me there is a certain amo
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by eric4smith 4y ago
More and More above the fold content is coming from google sites. That’s not gonna change. Especially if you’re searching for local services above the fold will be ads then maps listings. I get it. But that blog post is some 1984 shit. Haha
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Yes. It's one of the best things. The first time you are sitting with your friend and you want to transfer some money to them - and they get it as soon as you tap the button in your bank app -- you will get it. It's normal to peop
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by eric4smith 4y ago
NFC is also used in south east Asia. Not just QR code.
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This is one of the best things about living in Southeast Asia. Instant bank transfers. Because of this you csn just scan the QR code of your taxi, the fruit seller on the street, transfer to your friends. Everyone gets it instantly. Now thi
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Reminds me of a passage from the great Jack Vance. Paraphrasing: "To construct a society based on caste distinctions, a minimum of two persons is both necessary and sufficient." - Baron Bodissey
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I made my team fully 100% remote in September 2019. Hah! Then covid hit. The entire team was safely at home since then. BUT. I have to say while its a nice perk for the job (typing this from South East Asia), productivity is less than what
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by eric4smith 4y ago
It’s not such an easy thing to describe. Yes we join on indexed integers too. The thing is, we believe as the amount of data changes the planner will give different instructions. Even after lots of analyzing and vacuuming. It’s happened so
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No spaces in Thai also. Difficult to discern word boundaries.
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Yeah we use it. It’s however a database within a database. PostgreSQL does not natively text search on these kinds of languages.
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PostgreSQL text search is awesome - for English and Roman type languages. But Asian languages such as Thai, Japanese, Korean, etc are not going to work at all. PostgreSQL is weird about joins. Joining on certain columns could be super fast
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That's implied.
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Writing a note every day is just pedestalizing your partner unless it’s bidirectional. Also, “absence makes the heart grow fonder” is a real thing. So very bad advice if it’s just one way. That’s actually si*p behavior. Very good advice if
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These days your tribe will be online. Any big city will have tech people since so many companies have some kind of tech department.
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I don’t think accents are a problem per-se. The thing is to speak clearly and don’t rush the words. Try to enunciate each word slowly and carefully and first and you will not have a problem. I love hearing accents. The diversity and genuine
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No doubt that human activity changes things like the climate and the sea. But life finds a way. (Always).
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Back in the day, I remember doing tech work for the central bank in my country (Jamaica, circa 1991) and these English dudes were writing code in Quickbasic to help with some Foreign Exchange stuff for the bank. We sat down together for a s

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