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by figassis 1y ago
I think you mean "We can drive the cost of a service towards zero and create additional value at the same time," was the thinking here. Don't think they realized they'd also be driving the value to zero.
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by figassis 1y ago
The difference is friction
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by figassis 1y ago
I think it's not just about proving a claim. The same argument that in a democracy, you should build checks and balances to avoid sleepwalking into a dictatorship, is valid for companies, especially internet companies. Look at Google,
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by figassis 1y ago
wrt App Store security, Apple could publish the minimum security and privacy guidelines that app stores needed to implement to participate. This is how security works. This is how companies get to process credit cards, how businesses get ce
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by figassis 1y ago
Yes, that is weird and makes the chart lose credibility. So this likely should bump C++ a bit.
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by figassis 1y ago
Almost every average to high performance employee captures less than the value they bring. Companies are not going to pay you 100% of your value as that is always seen as bad deal by the company. They want to feel like they're saving.
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by figassis 1y ago
You’re probably worth a lot of money rn. I would start an entire business just selling people Google’s number. Heck, I would start an entire Google support company rn, publish a phone number and proxy calls to Google. I’d screen calls then
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by figassis 1y ago
Can we agree that in the age of LLMs, their client value content is a good indicator of under performance, at least from their content team? I mean, this entire doc can just be prompted into existence in 30 seconds, has no substance whatsoe
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by figassis 1y ago
This is quite a departure from the company the pioneered UX obsession and attention to the smallest detail. What's happening here?
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by figassis 1y ago
I mean exactly what you experienced. They did not go the enterprise way bc they did not want to become Box. They didn't think they could provide a good UX if they focused on enterprise.
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by figassis 1y ago
Dropbox saw that the only B2C path for a company like them was to become Box, and they did not like it. Also, we kept criticizing Dropbox for moving away from a "folder that syncs". I agree with a folder that syncs. Today I use dr
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by figassis 1y ago
They refund those that know how to demand it, and that notice. If you have complex infra and not a lot of observability, you'll just assume the costs are legitimate. Imagine how much they're making off of those oops moments. Proba
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by figassis 1y ago
Behavioral and pattern analysis is always in full overdrive when I drive. I drive in Africa, people never follow rules, red lights at crossings mean go for bikers, when there are no lights you can't just give right of way, or you'
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by figassis 1y ago
Dear Lord in Heaven. is-odd -> is-number?
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by figassis 1y ago
No. Just…no. Replace WP with any other hosted or self hosted solution. Been there. The plugin hell, the security hell, the performance hell…WP has many levels of hell.
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by figassis 1y ago
Wow, I think maybe the author was joking, or pulling a prank on vibe coders. Bc AI will definitely pull that.
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by figassis 1y ago
I see, that's interesting that there is not a budget allocated for, say, X aides per senator, that they can hire and dismiss based on their current needs. I also see how "industry" takes advantage, because their expert advice
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by figassis 1y ago
You can get aides so I’m not worried about their ages. Problem is how do you convince a competent tech aide to work for them at crap salary vs a tech company? Maybe get part time aides? Or just pay for some consulting hours?
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by figassis 1y ago
He probably doesn’t know how. This message is em from Wordpress. There are many WP providers where you just signup and start writing. They don’t tell you that if you get to HN front page, your db will die. I don’t know any static blog prov
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by figassis 1y ago
Abstractions are ok, SomethingFactories are stupid. If your code is more abstractions than actual logic and you need logic to manage the abstractions (eg. FactoryFactories, 2+ inheritance levels), you should rethink your strategy.
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by figassis 1y ago
The thing about fighting against vpn blocks is that if you win, the govt can just turn off the internet. Something like starlink would be ideal in these circumstances, but you'd have to have the receivers in the country before lockdown
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by figassis 1y ago
When a vendor tells you to delete your account in order to create a compliant account, they really just want to offboard you without actually going through the steps. After you off board yourself they will quietly ignore you. Otherwise they
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by figassis 1y ago
This, Go came and I just have no desire to go back to those languages spawned from hell that force fed me horrible patterns and called it best practices. Go is amazing in that it lets you tell the machine what you want, simply and you can e
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by figassis 1y ago
Basically yes, vscode was free, almost as fast and had more features, like out of the box intellisense.
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by figassis 1y ago
Was just about to say this. There are many local first, open source CMSs and so the cost to customize them (or just build a plugin) to edit locally and publish remotely would be way less that this infra. What am I missing?
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by figassis 1y ago
True, but it shows their intent was to distance themselves from any ownership or responsibility, so they should not be allowed to claim ad blockers infringe you your right to block those ads.
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by figassis 1y ago
YANAL In that case we should also outlaw anti malware. I think Adblock plus has a bad defense because they themselves benefit from ads, so it can be argued that they are just stealing revenue. uBlock origin might have had a better case, be
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by figassis 1y ago
I have yet to see a guide to automate k8s on Hetzner's beefy bare metal instances. True, you want cattle, but being able to include some bare metal instance with amazing CPUs and memory would be great, and I do just that. My clusters i
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by figassis 1y ago
I usually can't build something I don't understand. So no matter how loudly you explain it to me, if it does not make sense, senior or not, I will either ask you to explain it better, or we will have to reach an understanding that
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by figassis 1y ago
This CEO, even if he were an engineer, would probably not hire himself even though he thinks he’s the ideal specimen. He’s likely a max cash, 30u30 sort of person. But he’s not wrong if you optimize for max speed and minimum cost of hiring.

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