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by gen220 6y ago
I agree with my sibling comment, and reiterate my cousin comment that you've replied to (commenting here to complete this sub-tree). Queuing technologies will come and go, IMO it's better to focus on the interface, and allow peopl
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by gen220 6y ago
I think the concerns raised in this thread are less regarding raw throughput, and more about (1) the complexity of the typical production Kafka deployment (2) the arguably unnecessary, highly complex ecosystem around Kafka that you have to
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by gen220 6y ago
I’d totally agree that the operating costs (speaking eng time, which is more expensive than machines) of Kafka+ZK alone is quite high. If a company is not already using Kafka, they wouldn’t want to maintain it “just” to have a self hosted A
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by gen220 6y ago
In response to your last statement, I found this Amazon review [1] (of all sources!) of Ellsberg's book fascinating. It's written by an older gentleman who was apparently involved in Nuclear policy in the late 70s and early 80s. H
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by gen220 6y ago
Thank you for the super detailed response! It's illuminating. For the product you're describing, it seems the division of labor is a no-brainer and highly-productive. It seems there is a spectrum of maturity/complexity (corre
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by gen220 6y ago
Not intended as a rhetorical question, can you describe the dynamics of a long-term successful team where the PM had more business expertise than the engineer? I agree with the division of labor you describe, in principle, but I've nev
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by gen220 6y ago
People use it as a (imo lazy) form of enforcing access control. If two services aren’t in the same VPC, they can’t talk to each other. It theoretically limits the damage of a rogue node. Of course, it also creates a ton of overhead and comp
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by gen220 6y ago
Some customers have a hard requirement that their slack instances be behind a unique VPC. Other customers are easier to sell to if you sprinkle some “you’ll get your own closed network” on top of the offer, if security is something they’ve
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by gen220 6y ago
They weren’t on a VPN, but my guess is that they got IP addresses from their DNS requests that were on our side of the partition. In any case, it looks like it’s ended for us. The window for gathering evidence slides closed... It’ll be inte
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by gen220 6y ago
Interestingly enough, they’re both deferring DNS to our router, and the router is configured to use DNS servers dynamically provided by the ISP.
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by gen220 6y ago
They’re not. I’m on a split VPN, for what it’s worth. Disconnecting even from the split VPN does not help my laptop.
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by gen220 6y ago
My corporate laptop is affected. My roommate’s corporate laptop is totally unaffected. We’re on the same router/gateway. Any theories out there to explain this phenomenon? Fascinating. (My theory is a network partition, where my roomma
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by gen220 6y ago
We have something very similar to differential dataflow implemented at my current place of work, with our own home-brewed libraries and patterns that leverage the relatively unique way we store our data (most similar to TimeScaleDB). Like m
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by gen220 6y ago
The link is actually referencing Germany in WWI, not WWII. For context on that, Bismarck's abdication in 1890 left a leadership vacuum that was was gradually filled-in by military elites, who were more interested in the mechanics of wa
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by gen220 6y ago
We've been using Hydra as part of our single-sign-on stack for almost 3 years now. It's something that most application developers have no idea exists. I'd say it's been very successful. We didn't use the other Ory
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by gen220 6y ago
Here's the pastebin for those interested. (it's three files). It probably would have been better done in python (I probably wouldn't have needed the zero-inserting hack), but it works pretty well. https://pastebin.
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by gen220 6y ago
I’d never used it before using it for ledger, either! It’s kind of tricky. I have an AWK script that reads a ledger report to compute the X and Y-value pairs. These are written to a temp file that is read by GNUPlot. It’s a bit of work to g
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by gen220 6y ago
Everything you described is a great gateway drug for GNUPlot :) Inspired by your example, here's our rolling monthly sums of food expenses, COVID marked [1]. You can see where we moved (temporarily) to a place with lower food costs, an
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by gen220 6y ago
This is a cool repository! fairly old, as others have noted. There's a directory [1] containing some "historical notes" written by the creators of llvm: Chris Lattner and Vikram Adve. One of them is the original clang readme
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by gen220 6y ago
The benefit is mostly for scenarios with a couple more degrees of freedom than what you describe. If you share your finances with N people (family) or N companies (free-lancer/consultant, etc), the path of least resistance to financial
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by gen220 6y ago
> modelling occasional expenses I would say it's very hard to budget for bursty things on a monthly cadence. You can have a "virtual account" for this stuff, that fills on months with little activity and drains on months w
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by gen220 6y ago
Big plus one. Especially if your software work is even remotely finance-adjacent. The moment I start talking in terms of liabilities, virtual accounts, etc. their eyes light up! Incidentally, Accounting and Software have a lot in common. Th
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by gen220 6y ago
In my experience (USA), most banks will give you the option of downloading a CSV for the last two years of transactions. Beyond that, it’s a challenge. Some investment brokers will only give you PDFs with tables in them. But there are some
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by gen220 6y ago
I think myself and many others could have written the same comment. I’ll add that it’s also delightfully easy to get started. As an application, Accounting is kind of like Vim or Excel or other tools with steep learning curves and nirvana a
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by gen220 6y ago
$100k household income puts you in the 9th decile in 2016 for NYC (about 85th percentile). One definition of the middle class is the 30 percentiles around the median (i.e. 20th to 80th percentile, or start-of-3rd to end-of-8th decile). In N
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by gen220 6y ago
Ideas are edifices, they have to be constructed on a foundation. And, once trusted, they becomem a platform, on top of which more ideas can be constructed. I think the main problem is that the lies people believe today (i.e. that the electi
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by gen220 6y ago
Yeah COVID has really tweaked the normal incentives. A lot of these big buildings are very new, and are sitting way below projected occupancy. They just need cash flow to pay their debts. In contrast, most brownstone owners have only mainte
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by gen220 6y ago
Yeah, but the data can be used for many purposes other than advertising.
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by gen220 6y ago
It depends on the building. What you're saying is true during non-COVID times, but things have shifted since April. City Tower, for example, has been listing several incentive-free rents in the $2000s. We were moving during this time a
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by gen220 6y ago
fwiw, I strongly recommend trying out a double-entry ledger tool for keeping track of your finances, if they are indeed this complicated. Don't do everything at once: start with something simple like your education savings account, and

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