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by ericb 5y ago
So, latency is certainly one locus of optimization. Another locus of optimization might be development speed and cost. An SPA is really two apps, a front-end, and a back end. It costs 2x to do an SPA, and all things being equal, features co
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Rails dev. Did a long pair-coding interview at a company that had all JS for their backend. Tried out the JS ORM. Most of the day was me: let's do < this easy, normal thing in the ORM.> Them: well, this is more like a half-bake
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by ericb 5y ago
No, but they are the only ones with high hospital demand currently being driven by an explosive contagious vector.
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by ericb 5y ago
1-You have to put it in their self-interest, and explain it to them that way. What else can you do to make it in their own interest? 2-You have to demonstrate social proof of your momentum. Show who has recently joined, and use that to show
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by ericb 5y ago
Right, but this is saying trigger warnings re-victimize the party by placing the event on a pedestal and assuming fragility. My daughter got stung by a bee on her eye. For quite a while, she didn't want to go outside if there was any b
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by ericb 5y ago
Ruby should be up there. Github, Shopify, Airbnb, Twitch and tons others are using it, but also growing incredibly. Growth of the Ruby talent pool slowed down while the JS SPA fad went nuts, but growth of companies using it didn't ! S
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by ericb 5y ago
At my work, when one of us gets too into the details of pointing, estimation, or process we usually realize, stop, and say "sorry--I was being a Scrumbag"
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by ericb 5y ago
> Why Such framework doesn’t get as much love as full front end framework ? Mainly because the paradigm shift away from SPA's is just beginning. Whoever convinced everyone that maintaining two applications (one front-end, and one ba
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by ericb 5y ago
I think the multiplier is a good point and adds an interesting dimension to this question. For example, a SaaS app with mainly one running instance has a really low multiplier vs. a popular open source project.
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by ericb 5y ago
I wonder if this might be penny wise and pound foolish. Hypothetically, if it takes even a single week longer to make code much more efficient and only 20% of that workforce is driving to work, making coffee, running their laptops, etc, do
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by ericb 5y ago
Right, and we're subject to what's in his mind, which we can't know, and what's in his acquirer's mind, which even he can't know!
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by ericb 5y ago
Oh sorry, said Prometheus above, meant TimeScale is impressive! Understood. If you see the other thread regarding the "such as" language, there is a serious edit that you can batch-up and repair to reflect your intentions with t
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by ericb 5y ago
Not the parent, but great to hear that clarification! By the way, doubt I would complain if Prometheus didn't look impressive. :-) One other bug report on the license language front, this language could be construed to prohibit uses l
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by ericb 5y ago
Right, I'm onboard with your stated intent, and the lovely database, and even sympathetic on the cloud provider threat. My interpretation doesn't hinge on the DDL/DML question. If what you said is your intent, the legal langu
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by ericb 5y ago
Are you sure? The phrasing "such as" in " such as through use of the Timescale Data Definition Interfaces" looks to me like it can be interpreted as saying "Including but not limited to"
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by ericb 5y ago
ClickHouse wins on licensing--Apache. The TimeScale licensing approach, the way it is written, perhaps accidentally, has lots of hidden landmines. The TimeScale license slants toward cloud giant defense to the extent that normal use is peri
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by ericb 5y ago
Having experimented with something that wasn't GraphQl, but used similar concepts (let the front-end fish out whatever it wants from the back-end), it seemed like paradise at first, but then: 1-We wanted to make schema changes on the b
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by ericb 5y ago
Changing your mind isn't lying. And to be honest, the owners decisions about a company you don't own are not really your business .
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by ericb 5y ago
The supply dictates the price. Thought experiment: Imagine any item with a certain amount of demand. Now cut the supply of that good in half. What happens to the price? If the supply gets cut in half, then cut in half again, and again, what
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by ericb 5y ago
Except exponential scarcity is built in, we're not near the end yet, and the scarcity is causing exponential growth in energy expenditure, carbon release, and heat. Bitcoin would be the perfect scheme to destroy the world.
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by ericb 5y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the intent of the parent post. They are saying letting vaccines go to the rest of the world is still the right course of action even if your motives were purely selfish. By reducing the number of infecti
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by ericb 5y ago
The difference is the carbon costs of the dollar are not following an exponential growth curve.
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Ask HN: Anyone attend “Paid Focus Group on [x technology]” what happened?
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by ericb 5y ago
Does anyone else wonder if HN is being subjected to an anti-vax disinformation campaign?
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by ericb 5y ago
> They will always find new "variants of interest." Right, they've found variants. It seems like you're implying that they are "chicken little" and the variants are some sort of "ploy." Except that
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If the new strain is more deadly, or more contagious, it is better to delay the arrival and have the explosion of cases come later--science will typically have more information and better treatments.
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by ericb 5y ago
Your source is a sole paper with one author, the guy who "estimated that the coronavirus could cause 10,000 U.S. deaths if it infected 1%" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis#cite_note-wp-28 Pardon t
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Self-report is a notoriously bad way to "study" almost anything.
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by ericb 5y ago
In the US, more people died than US soldiers in WWII, which in any common parlance was "dangerous." Rationalize harder. Ready, Go!
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by ericb 5y ago
I wonder if a V2 of the vaccine with multiple independent targets is where we'll end up? Right now, covid is winning the math-war, with more mutation at-bats on average than it needs to hit a home run with its batting average. Say the

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