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by floating-io 2y ago
S3 is not a CDN. Check CloudFlare, Akamai, ...
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by floating-io 2y ago
> Chunked encoding is used by video players - so you can request X bytes of a video file. That means you don't have to download the whole file, and if the user closes the video you didn't waste bandwidth. There are likely more
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by floating-io 2y ago
Why not? Every CDN I've ever worked with preserves custom headers.
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by floating-io 2y ago
I wonder what would happen if WP Engine suddenly decided "Hey, we're going to rename the business, stop using the trademarks, fork WordPress, and start a new thing with our existing customers." Would it take off? Would it ta
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by floating-io 2y ago
It's worth noting that the astronauts in question have little to no control over the schedule, so "perfectly capable of coming back early" isn't a fair assessment in this context. Coming back "early" would also
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by floating-io 2y ago
> Maybe there's something to having nudes of that dev. Most users of these sorts of app don't pay enough attention to security to care. Do you really think that most developers are any better? Most developers are just normal p
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by floating-io 2y ago
I remember that too; I was very, very interested, but it never materialized. Very disappointing. That said, I think this is something a bit different, or at least a different application. If my translation of the summary is correct (I&#x2
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by floating-io 2y ago
In my case, pg_partman is actually more than enough. It's just a situation where the data isn't useful after a certain point. Timescale as I understand it would be massive overkill for my situation.
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by floating-io 2y ago
> Maria supports partitioning, Postgres (as of my last knowledge) does not. PostgreSQL's manual indicates that partitioning is a thing[1]. Is the something different than what you're thinking of? One of my projects has the nee
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by floating-io 2y ago
My reason has been relative simplicity. PostgreSQL comes off as much more complex (though whether that is actually true is probably dependent on what you're doing with it). I'm also not working with super-high-performance produ
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by floating-io 2y ago
For those who are using MariaDB in a business context: does this make you more or less likely to choose it for your next project? I don't know anything about K1, so all I have is confusion (and a sudden urge to switch entirely to post
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by floating-io 2y ago
I wonder how much burnout is exacerbated by the fact that projects never actually end in this business? You never truly finish something. If you think you did, you are quickly disabused of that notion. You are lucky to ever feel that se
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by floating-io 2y ago
Okay, I misunderstood what you meant. That said, I feel like you're asking for something that is fairly non-standard in the industry in general, though I could be wrong; I've never tried to do things that way myself. If I were fas
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by floating-io 2y ago
> quiet removal of any option to pre-pay for Fastmail Eh? I just purchased a new 12 month Fastmail plan for my business with no issue a few weeks ago. Up to 36 months is still listed on their pricing page...
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by floating-io 2y ago
IMO, it's also because vertical orientation is effectively the default on a phone. Nobody expects to have to turn their video camera sideways to capture in the "correct" orientation... but you must on a phone.
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by floating-io 2y ago
I literally dealt with this just a few hours ago. I need a new HVAC system. I wanted the high-end model, but it will only work with their fancy cloud-connected thermostat. You cannot replace it with an off-the-shelf thermostat. Have home
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by floating-io 2y ago
This is not news. If you are loyal to your employer and do not own a significant part of the organization, then you should take a good hard look at why you're loyal -- and whether or not your employer is loyal to you in return. Hint:
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by floating-io 2y ago
> I don't think you are wrong; it's just that a lot of people here on this thread are current or former Googlers. Compared to them, you don't know Piper so your argument is at a disadvantage. Bah. Text boxes in browsers s
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by floating-io 2y ago
I haven't used piper, so I can't comment on that. But people seem to have focused on git. Remind me not to actually use product names as examples; it inevitably triggers people into holy wars and prevents them from actually seei
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by floating-io 2y ago
There is validity to that, it just seems to be a very odd decision to me. If I was going to do custom infrastructure, Source control is not where I would be looking. I'd rather put up with a few warts there and focus the time and res
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by floating-io 2y ago
I never argued that I thought multirepo would be cheaper than monorepo. Or vice versa, for that matter. I wondered if it would have been cheaper overall to use pre-existing tools and adjust things than to build a whole new product that has
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by floating-io 2y ago
I see a lot of saying that, but no evidence. A single senior developer full time @ Google is probably a half million dollar a year investment, give or take. How many do they have maintaining it? How long before that yearly cost exceeds bo
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by floating-io 2y ago
See my response to bananapub below.
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by floating-io 2y ago
It's interesting how people treat the monorepo as some kind of religion that MUST be kept in this discussion. How repos are organized is a choice . Google could just as easily (financially speaking) have chosen to break up that rep
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by floating-io 2y ago
Yeah, that's moving the goalposts. The point is that either product should theoretically have the ability to handle Google's load. They were both built for scale. If I have the timeline correct, they existed at that point. I wo
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by floating-io 2y ago
That... is probably true. =)
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by floating-io 2y ago
Are you saying that GitHub and GitLab.com don't have that kind of volume? (edit: the point being that at least one of those tools existed when they started Piper if I have the timeline correct).
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by floating-io 2y ago
The more interesting story here IMO is the seemingly extreme prevalence of NIH syndrome at Google, and whether or not that was a smart investment for Google compared to, say, contributing to GitLab or something. I would love to hear the rea
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by floating-io 2y ago
I never said it was, but in the context of this issue's specific impact, it seems pretty straightforward to me. None of the things you mentioned have been even hinted at to my knowledge beyond mere speculation. They also probably won&
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by floating-io 2y ago
I'm hardly an investment expert, but I wouldn't expect anything to change on the market unless people are actually cancelling orders en masse. If I'm recalling correctly, they're basically already booked solid for the ne

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