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by icedchai 1y ago
I actually do agree. I've setup MetalLB in my home lab and it was super simple. I've doing networking since the 90's though, both professionally and as a hobby where I operate my own AS for fun, so I can see how someone else
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by icedchai 1y ago
To be fair, BGP is definitely beyond "basic" networking. There is a learning curve.
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by icedchai 1y ago
You could always run a VM / VPS against a managed DB. Many small cloud / VPS providers, like Digital Ocean or Vultr, also offer managed DB services that are cheaper than AWS RDS.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I wonder how many people will miss the sarcasm. ;) Cloud means you don't need any ops people, right?
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by icedchai 1y ago
Back in the 90's, "pico" was always the go-to editor for those who didn't want to mess around with emacs or vi.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Much slower. Most campuses in the US were connected with 56K dedicated lines. The NSF backbone had just upgraded to T1.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Barely. In my area around that time, teenagers were causing havoc by breaking into local colleges just so they could get onto IRC and access FTP sites. "Network security" was a pretty new concept.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Are you on your work laptop? Your corporate IT "security theater" department may not recognize .xyz as a valid TLD.
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by icedchai 1y ago
You captured the fundamental issues. There were mountains of technical debt. I recall encountering a dependency that had not been updated in over 10 years.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I worked at a mid-size startup that was still running on Python 2.7 and Django for their REST APIs, as late as 2022. It was pretty meh and felt like traveling back in time 10 years.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I remember those days. It was simpler to use tables for layout than to use early CSS for quite a while.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I had a UUCP feed, by either late 1992 or early '93. Several other local BBSes had one, as well.
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by icedchai 1y ago
There were some early ISPs, like The World (Boston), that had IP access around 1991 or so. I believe they were connected through UUNet. I don't know if they were routeable on the NSFNet? "Commercial" traffic was supposedly pr
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by icedchai 1y ago
Sure. I do a lot of retrocomputing and that's fine. I have OSes from the 80's running in emulators. But when you're developing software, you want the newer stuff. Would you use MySQL 5.0 from 2005? No, you'd be out of yo
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by icedchai 1y ago
Some organizations force you to use their internal dependency repos because the "IT department" or similar has blessed only certain versions in the name of "security" (or at least security theater.) Inevitably, these ve
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by icedchai 1y ago
That works for simple cases. Now, update a transitive dependency used by more than one dependency. You might get lucky and it'll just work.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I've occasionally run into performance issues and bugs with dependency resolution / updates. Not so much recently, but at a previous company we had a huge monorepo and I've seen it take forever.
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by icedchai 1y ago
poetry gave us lock files and consistent installs for years. uv is much, much faster however.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Summer time definitely "feels" better to me. The early sunsets in winter are super depressing.
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by icedchai 1y ago
"CTO" is defined by whoever confers the title and accepts the role. Titles are often vague and amorphous.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Title inflation has been going on forever. For early stage companies, titles are mostly about perception and presentation, mostly for people outside the company.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yes, I was one of the first hires. My role was closer to VP/E and "CTO" was mostly vanity, a reward for being early and getting a new company through the first couple years.
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by icedchai 1y ago
On my resume, I usually list it as “Lead Engineer” since it fits the roles I’m applying to better.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I've experienced small companies that "scaled" their org and added unnecessary layers of management "because we're going to need it sooner than later." They never needed it. The leaders were out of touch with w
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by icedchai 1y ago
As a former "CTO" at a small company and an early stage employee at several others, hiring was a ton of work for everyone. It was honestly the hardest thing I had to do. However, it was by no means a constant, day-to-day thing.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I was CTO of a <20 person startup. I recruited the entire tech team, collaborated with the CEO to build the product backlog and spec things out, presented to investors, but also had at least 50% time to code. Not all “CTO” roles are the
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by icedchai 1y ago
At a previous company, we had a custom "database" (I use that term very loosely) built on memory mapped files. All startup, all pages were read to ensure the data was hot, unlikely to be any page faults. It worked well for the app
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by icedchai 1y ago
I find the keyboards terrible, even the modern ones. I much preferred the 2006-2007 MacBook Pro keyboards.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Some US sites may bother, many won't. At a small startup, whenever this was discussed, it was decided we had better things to focus on since we had no paying EU customers.
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by icedchai 1y ago
You should ask if true privacy is really possible. Cookies are just the tip of the iceberg. Between IP addresses, browser fingerprinting, unique URLs, and the existence of third parties that correlate information across web sites (mainly ad

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