evanelias

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by evanelias 6mo ago
What part of the wording gives you that impression? On these topics, the post literally just says the following: "bottlenecks that appeared faster than expected from moving webhooks to a different backend (out of MySQL)" "Sim
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by evanelias 6mo ago
I'm skeptical about that page's accuracy. For example, if you go to the breakdown tab, it shows Actions having 100% availability when the graph starts (Apr 2016), yet Actions didn't even exist until late 2018, and wasn't
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by evanelias 6mo ago
> migrate their codebase to a new language[2], continue to drop their inhouse ops for Azure resources and get off MySQL The recent blog post you're linking to mentioned moving data only for webhooks off MySQL, not all relational d
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by evanelias 6mo ago
> it's a little hard to use their name but argue I'm not "one of them." That's fair, but personally I can't see any reasonable fault with using "open source" in a way that strictly follows the defi
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by evanelias 6mo ago
If a decent number of people migrate away, it would definitely show up in aggregate: Windows Update traffic, for example. Or sales of Windows-specific software/subscriptions. It doesn't require correlated tracking at an individual
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by evanelias 6mo ago
> open source should not imply open community, even if that's what the originators of the movement intended. I'd take this a step further and say the intention of the originators of the movement is somewhat irrelevant, because
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by evanelias 6mo ago
Considering that Free Software predates Open Source, and many popular OSI-approved licenses also predate Open Source, how can you justify your core claim upthread: > The people that see open source code and assume that it is being devel
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by evanelias 6mo ago
> the poster's lament that he's nostalgic for a time he never knew is one I've heard a _lot_ For sure; the 2011 film Midnight in Paris is a great comedic exploration of this feeling as its central theme. (well, if you can
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by evanelias 6mo ago
Literally the two sentences immediately following that quote are "For now. As we continue down this path, however, humans will not be able to stay in the loop and such guarantees will be intractable." Personally I find the entire
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by evanelias 6mo ago
I assume other processes running as the same user can still freely read the environment, for example using `ps -Eww` on Mac or inspecting /proc on Linux, right? If so, that's an easy way for a rogue process to bypass the local enc
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by evanelias 6mo ago
Yeah these are definitely some good examples of startups doing major abrupt pivots after a few years. But I was hoping to figure out if there were any successful examples of established, well-known brands doing it. (For comparison to the or
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by evanelias 6mo ago
> still supported RAW 5 years ago I seem to remember Oracle 10g was first released over 20 years ago? It has been EOL for much longer than 5 years...
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by evanelias 6mo ago
That makes me wonder, are there any major examples of this kind of abrupt pivot actually succeeding? Nintendo was a much more gradual product shift that makes sense in retrospect: playing cards -> tabletop games and toys -> video game
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by evanelias 6mo ago
It's SaaS though. You don't have access to the binary to decompile. There's only so much you can reverse-engineer through public URLs and APIs, especially if the SaaS uses any form of automatic detection of bot traffic.
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by evanelias 6mo ago
If I understand correctly, their primary product is SaaS, and their non-DIY self-host edition is an enterprise product. So your neighbor wouldn't have access to the binaries to begin with.
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by evanelias 6mo ago
It's not a "project" though; the business Cal.com Inc raised that VC money. Their open source repo did not raise the money. Did they ever promise to keep their codebase FOSS forever, in a way that differs from what they&#x2
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by evanelias 6mo ago
Your article completely ignores operational considerations: backups, schema changes, replication/HA. As well as security, i.e. your application has full permissions to completely destroy your data file. Regardless of whether most apps
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by evanelias 6mo ago
Oh how random, that's near where I grew up, and almost certainly in the school district I went to. As for why the sidewalk abruptly ends, normally it's due to a border between municipalities: some of the municipalities in the area
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by evanelias 6mo ago
> if one offers something for free under a GPL or MIT license, claiming to do so for the betterment of humanity, only to later retract it I would wager that an overwhelming majority of people who choose FOSS licenses do so without ev
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by evanelias 6mo ago
Yeah, I really don't understand why some developers have an extreme compulsion to constantly deprecate and rename things like this, causing massive upgrade headaches to users. In addition to Hugo, it happens constantly in GoReleaser. I
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by evanelias 6mo ago
I haven't kept up with it in recent years, but I know it remained popular in Japan for many years longer than elsewhere. AFAIK since 2011 it has been developed by a Japanese company, who acquired Six Apart's former subsidiary ther
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by evanelias 6mo ago
Ironically, one of the original major reasons WordPress became popular was its dynamic nature. It dethroned Movable Type, which was an extremely powerful and extensible static site generator. It's wild to me that this post's timel
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by evanelias 7mo ago
Sorry but I'm not spending an hour doing math on employee counts just to satisfy an HN commenter. There's no universe where it is sane and reasonable to have 4 separate highly-paid school superintendents in a 3-town area (towns fe
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by evanelias 7mo ago
My small NJ town has its own school district, containing a single K-8 school. Yet it has both a superintendent and a principal. Grades 9-12 feed into a regional high school, which also has its own school district containing just that school
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by evanelias 7mo ago
I don't understand your point or why you are sure of that? New Jersey consistently ranks as having the highest average property tax rate of any state, and it also has relatively high income tax rates. This is mainly caused by having
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by evanelias 8mo ago
> For anything meaningful — client conversations, community discussions like this one — it's always me. In a six-minute time period, you posted 10 different comments here, totaling nearly 800 words. I don't believe you are bein
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by evanelias 8mo ago
The comment you're replying to only asked a single question, which you actually failed to answer.
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by evanelias 8mo ago
Yeah, similar feelings here. I grew up in the BBS world in the 90s, and love a quality TUI experience, but something about this toolset just gives me the ick. I can't keep any of the naming straight; to me it all reads like "combi
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by evanelias 8mo ago
Wow, as a former MajorMUD addict (~30 years ago) that's extremely interesting to see. Especially since MajorMUD is rarely discussed on HN, even in MUD or BBS-related threads. Did you find it worked reasonably well on any portion of the
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by evanelias 8mo ago
> The UTF-8 standard was adopted really in 1998-ish and the standard was already variable using 1 to 4 bytes. No, it was 1 to 6 bytes until RFC 3629 (Nov 2003). AFAIK development of MySQL 4.1 began prior to that, despite the release not

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