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by erulabs 4y ago
This was my entire point - it's actually exceptionally easy to quantify, in an objective way. CRM stock price! If the distributed decision making system that is the market decides this was or was not worth it, based on all available
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by erulabs 4y ago
It's not possible to predict if this is a good call or not. At the end of the day, it will come out in the wash, and you can make a pretty penny betting correctly. I'm going to assume no one here thinks this decision is so foolis
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by erulabs 4y ago
But that's exactly the point - not everything ends up with a high rise on it. Clearly, not enough of a percent of "everything" has a high rise, or there would be no housing shortage! You feel there are too many, but if ther
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by erulabs 4y ago
> Why are we inventing 100 different models of cars every year? What a waste of human potential. Human efficiency and human potential are very different things. I don't want to be an efficient cog in a well designed efficient machin
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by erulabs 4y ago
Articles like this always sound the same: That standard tool is too complex - you should roll your own home-brewed solution with no docs instead! No thank you. Standardization brings its own simplification, even if the one standard is more
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by erulabs 4y ago
I notice a lot of the comments here conflate “creation” and “creative problem solving”, and I really think they’re different things. I’m an engineer - so I absolutely love sitting in a room of smart people and hashing out a solution to a ha
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by erulabs 4y ago
Image resizing is one of those things that most companies seem to build in-house over and over. There are several hosted services, but obviously sending your users photos to a 3rd party is pretty weak. For those of us looking for a middle-g
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by erulabs 4y ago
Well if you're talking about a single query, virtually no one hits that scale. But in terms of over-all QPS in quickly-scaled apps, 6 digit QPS is super common. All it takes is a poorly programmed notification or messaging feature to h
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by erulabs 4y ago
If you’re exceptionally careful and skilled about writing smart queries, SQLite can for sure scale to the point you can afford to resign anything you want. The idea behind vitess and sharded MySQL (and for that matter kubernetes too) is tha
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by erulabs 4y ago
See I’ve been using Vitess on Kubernetes for even personal projects and I gotta say I love that I can run, for 10 bucks a month on Linode, the same tools that I know by experience I can scale to a multi-billion dollar valuation worth of cus
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by erulabs 4y ago
Sure - I tell folks who work in IT or make iOS apps the exact same thing - specializing in someone else's technology is dangerous. "Computers are made by someone else" sidesteps the point. You can build your own computer at h
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by erulabs 4y ago
I'm not entirely sure that's as simple of a distinction as you might suppose. Language is more than grammar and vocabulary. Knowing and speaking truth have quite the overlap. More specifically, without language, can you know that
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by erulabs 4y ago
Past results are no indication of future performance... But I can't recommend enough against specializing in using someone else's product. Take AI classes, learn about neural networks, build something with AI - but don't sp
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by erulabs 4y ago
AWS has added hundreds of products - they even arguably have a better hosted Kubernetes than Google Cloud does. I suspect AWS Aurora alone makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year as well.
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by erulabs 4y ago
It's being downvoted because it's "old man yells at cloud" mixed with paranoia and hyperbole.
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by erulabs 4y ago
Eh, this comment itself is proof that cancel culture is a thing. You're hand wringing about someone, somewhere, who is probably upset. You're okay with something being removed that you don't personally find offensive , but
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by erulabs 4y ago
You sort of moved the goal posts here from "no crypto" to "doesn't need something other than bitcoin"...
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by erulabs 4y ago
This conversation is a problem of definition. Cancel culture is not the entire or even half the audience of a club complaining about the act. Cancel culture is 500 people out of 50M (0.0001%) complaining, which combined with the power of jo
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by erulabs 4y ago
Oh my god imagine a home assistant that could keep track of two kitchen timers simultaneously. Truly we live in the future.
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by erulabs 4y ago
But the entire audience didn't say "boo, your jokes are bad!", otherwise no one would have been viewing the Seinfeld stream in the first place. Instead, a tiny fraction of the viewers decided to shout that they were being
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by erulabs 4y ago
Somewhere in the vast distances between being heckled and being cancelled is a sturdy but forgotten old shack named constructive criticism. Inside, all the great things in this world were born.
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by erulabs 4y ago
Yeah to suggest nginx needs downtime to reload is a little bit of an instant disqualifier for the author… That said, config files are a thing of the past in the new Ingress controller dominated world!
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by erulabs 4y ago
I hate to knee jerk but this feels very much like US politics: “they lied to everyone but I’m smart enough to see through it”. Do you, even for a moment, believe the other side even has a point at all? You must realize the opposition says t
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by erulabs 4y ago
It is - but the mainstream “free as in beer” makes no sense. Who gives away free beer? Beer is free as in libre, not free as in gratis! But you’re correct - the mainstream meaning of that term is the opposite - which I find bizarre.
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by erulabs 4y ago
It was reported yesterday that intel is also, quote "undershipping massively". https://seekingalpha.com/article/4573788-intel-q4-earnings-b... If you dislike this behavior, start a chip company and undercut
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by erulabs 4y ago
Well it's hard to add a new word to mean either "gratis" or "libre" in english because free would still mean both things. But to be more clear: Free as in "gratis" is like "buy one get one free".
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by erulabs 4y ago
Cool, this was my uneducated assumption, thanks!
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by erulabs 4y ago
This is partly because in English we literally lack the word required. Free is both “gratis” and “libre”. Software should be free, but software does not need to be free. The lack of distinction on this term plagues the English speaking worl
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by erulabs 4y ago
What about the Michael Crichton "mosquito stuck in amber" idea? I've been curious about that for ages - assuming the amber is room temperature, would that even help preserve DNA for an extra day? I've been leaning toward
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by erulabs 4y ago
> billions of dollars have been poured into big pharma, instead of public health and policies My biggest pet peeve is this idea that the human race or even some large swath (“investors”) are doing one thing instead of another. How does o

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