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by foodie_ 9y ago
In the U.S., near AWS East, and 1.1.1.1 times out.
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by foodie_ 9y ago
Does Amazon use basecamp internally?
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by foodie_ 9y ago
This question has come up a few times, so you can search to get other opinions. My own is rust can be conquered with enough patience and time, but because of the high entry costs it will always remain a niche language. I've written C a
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by foodie_ 9y ago
Interesting. I worked on a larger project that used Oracle and a similar approach. The maintainers of PG actually advocate for this abstraction as well (maybe not the multiple responses, not familiar with that aspect) but most developers an
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by foodie_ 9y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention developer skill yet. We tried microservices where I work, but the developers skill in debugging async code proved to be problematic.
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by foodie_ 9y ago
My feelings are similar. Current AI seems to be the infinite monkey theorem put into practice. I'm not saying it doesn't work, it obviously is, but I wonder what the limitations of it are. When do we start running out of monkeys
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by foodie_ 9y ago
Curious why have postgres and SQL server?
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by foodie_ 9y ago
I'm honestly surprised no one has said it yet, but you shouldn't be thinking about tools at this stage. You should start on Monday and see what they are using, identify where it's not working and propose a solution. It's
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by foodie_ 9y ago
Without miners wouldn't the problem just be no more new bitcoins, so while the total would never grow we could still trade them?
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by foodie_ 9y ago
I believe it was Andy Grove who suggest no more than 6-8 direct reports for this reason.
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by foodie_ 9y ago
Hurray! Now they just need to make it part of an analytics program so we can let the users tell us what code is never running!
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by foodie_ 9y ago
Why would one want to though? (edit) as in why choose this and invest hundreds (thousands?) of development hours doing so. What ROI would support this?
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by foodie_ 9y ago
I'm not sure the primary value was due diligence. I think the value was more socially driven. You could ask anyone "did you see the front page story yesterday?" Much like you can talk about the weather and movies, newspapers
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by foodie_ 9y ago
I hate to pile on, but we introduced react and redux at my startup and it (the project, not the company) largely failed due to the increased complexity of redux itself, and a coding style of hyper abstraction. Maybe it works on large teams
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by foodie_ 9y ago
They are in somewhat related business, but not that comparable. Blue Apron is more akin to peapod without a delivery fleet and less choice.