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by icedchai 1y ago
I remember the plethora of Unix workstations and servers in the 90's: Sun, HP, SGI, DEC, IBM. I'm skeptical Itanium killed them. It was software: plain old x86 and Linux killed them.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Apple was, though. They went public in 1980. The IPO price, adjusted for splits, was a little under $0.10 per share. Ignoring any dividends, etc. your $1000 today is the equivalent of over 10,000 shares of Apple, worth almost $2 million tod
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by icedchai 1y ago
I had a UUCP email and news feed back in the early 90's, when I was a teenager. I'd get several emails a week from other nerds. I imagine someone at an actual tech company got many more!
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by icedchai 1y ago
I've been using Zed a bunch lately, mostly with Python, also some Terraform. It feels super snappy. I don't use its AI features though!
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by icedchai 1y ago
Haha. Thanks. I enjoyed both those movies
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by icedchai 1y ago
Hackers had more of a cheesy feel to it, for sure. Sneakers felt more serious and believable.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I enjoyed both of them. Also, War Games... That was the reason I wanted a modem in the first place.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I've noticed that etcd seems to do an awful lot of disk writes, even on an "idle" cluster. Nothing is changing. What is it actually doing with all those writes?
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by icedchai 1y ago
yes! The best PMs I've worked with have been founders.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Communicates well, focuses on the people, problems and solutions, not tools and processes. Example: good PM will build a mock up of a UI, go over it in detail with engineers, then let them break up their own work. They are focused on the ac
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by icedchai 1y ago
Good PMs are worth their weight in gold and actually make engineers' jobs easier. Bad PMs create a useless "translation" layer that doesn't help anyone (except, perhaps, themselves.)
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by icedchai 1y ago
People generally need jobs, and some of these jobs aren't so good. Not everyone is talented enough to work at the next hot startup building a frontend to ChatGPT.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Relying on graceful exit and supporting it are two different things. You want to support it so you can stop serving clients without giving them nasty 5xx errors.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I've worked with both AWS and GCP off and on for 15 years. In general, I find GCP easier to work with: better developer experience, services that are simpler to configure (Cloud Run vs ECS/Fargate), etc. However, AWS is like the n
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by icedchai 2y ago
Yes, they could’ve done better. Mistakes were made, as they say.
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by icedchai 2y ago
The CPU couldn't directly manipulate that 9th bit, though.
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by icedchai 2y ago
No, you're right. And don't forget about the vendor lock in. Once you're dependent on proprietary managed services, it will become increasingly more difficult (and expensive) to migrate out. My advice is unless it's base
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by icedchai 2y ago
Maybe those other people should've voted? We all knew what was at stake. It's not like he hadn't been president before!
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by icedchai 2y ago
I was referring to Bush H, not W. I agree W was terrible.
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by icedchai 2y ago
I won't disagree. Still, I'd gladly take the Reagan/Bush era Republicans of the 80's over what we see today...
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by icedchai 2y ago
About 20 years ago, I worked at a startup where one of the guys had built his own ORM. It was never clear why. Internally, it didn't use prepared statements, and instead used some custom escaping logic that was full of bugs. We'd
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by icedchai 2y ago
Possibly. Most of my career has been at startups or smaller companies where database fundamentals were severely lacking.
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by icedchai 2y ago
In over 25+ years at various companies, I only recall one interview where isolation levels were even discussed. Almost nobody cares until it's a problem.
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by icedchai 2y ago
Yes, Alpha was incredible for the time. Sparc was a dog in comparison. Software wise, Solaris felt more standard though. I remember having to tweak open source stuff to compile on Digital Unix. Solaris almost always just worked.
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by icedchai 2y ago
DEC Alpha was another big one. Digital Unix (AKA: Tru64, OSF/1) / Alpha
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by icedchai 2y ago
Totally true. If you can't supervise the work, at least minimally, you're going to be taken advantage of.
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by icedchai 2y ago
You can get decent startup times if you have fewer dependencies. The JVM itself starts fairly quickly (<200 ms), the problem is all the class loading. If your "app" is a bloated multi gigabyte monstrosity... good luck!
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by icedchai 2y ago
This attitude is also very common. When I see a small company with lots of "leaders" and far fewer doers, it's a huge red flag.
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by icedchai 2y ago
This is very common. Lofty idea folks often see developers as a commodity, so why not just outsource to the cheapest bidder? You might luck out and get a smart person who doesn't know what they're worth yet... but, 9 out of 10 tim
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by icedchai 2y ago
I've also really enjoyed my experienced with Cloud Run. It makes it super simple to deploy and scale containers.

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