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I just don't see myself needing to do much differently than I did 10 years ago...heck 20 years ago. Sure some frameworks make things nicer but we had the ability to drag and drop labels on photos and create photo/video montages wi
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One big shell script has worked really well for me. One project on AWS ran the script when new EC2 instances with a particular tag/label were spun up and that's how we scaled horizontally. What's nice about is that it doesn&#
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Oh my. I never considered additional discoverability issues because of the word "router". face palm
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Yeah - I didn't think there would be confusion with the networking tool but based on feedback we're receiving...I was wrong. We're considering options including changing the name.
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Not only is it often better but it can literally enable you to get to market an order of magnitude faster (at with higher probability of success). I'm working on a tool that makes running wire inside residential homes easier. It requir
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If you have elasticity then make sure you understand the limits. Even Serverless has these knobs but for various reasons they default to high elasticity. But many folks don’t need the elasticity at all. So you should factor that into your a
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I was a PM in GCP and refund requests due to customer misconfigurations would make it to me for approval. Generally, I tried to make exceptions to grant the refund. It sucks to get these bills and they can be quite scary. Unless you have a
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Thank you. I had to do this for a difficult wiring project. I looked for YouTube videos on how to do it and no one seemed to have a tutorial. Once I did it, it was clear that it’s a better option than EVERY other option when possible. An ob
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This comment is probably right as much as I hate to admit it. Renaming at this stage wouldn’t be too hard - but I’ll give it serious thought ahead of the planned Kickstarter! Appreciate the feedback.
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That would be cool indeed. I haven’t thought about others creating Wireshark compatible baseboards but it’s an idea I can get behind! Thanks for your feedback.
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I am. I made the decision to go ahead with this name assuming most people don’t know that Wireshark. I also understood search queries would be impossible but didn’t think that would be a deal breaker. I’m considering this feedback I have
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Or solve a problem in this space and productize it. After 20+ years in software, that’s what I’m doing and it is so refreshing. https://trywireshark.com
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The article has more to do with the economy than DIY itself. But I’m working on a system which makes wiring projects a lot simpler. This includes both high voltage (install a new outlet) as well as low (run Ethernet or speaker cable). I thi
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It resonated with me so I’ll explain my take. The hustle culture the author mentions reminds me of my time in big tech. It was an endless search to unlock growth for the sake of career progression, monetary gain, corporate infighting, etc.
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If you are actually good at sales then you’ll have no problems getting a technical cofounder. The imbalance in my experience is that there are more technical cofounders out there than great sales people looking to start a business. A non-te
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Generally speaking, 3 years ago there wasn’t as much paranoia as there is now. The paranoia stems from 2 things. 1) layoffs resulting in uncertainty which in turn results in people being less civil while jockeying for position. 2) open AI b
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I think people realized, in part as a result of changes from Covid, that they don’t care about work as much as they thought. And when they evaluate what they are willing to give up moving forward, it looks a lot different than it did pre Co
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When we bought our home in the Bay Area in 2017, the San Jose offices Google planned on building were on all of the brochures. I was convinced that if the city is giving the incentives and Google is buying up so much property that it must b
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I’m based in the US but I can confirm that this is my experience. If you can figure out how to spend more time with your spouse without getting on each other’s nerves then I think it’s an overall win. There’s something to be said about dist
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This resonates with me - someone who left big tech 2 months ago. It is so refreshing talking with business owners and thinking of smaller scale ideas. In addition to being a lot more authentic, they seem to generate a lot of wealth.
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Similarly, Github Pages are great. You get rudimentary dynamic support by using a static site generator if you need it.
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This follows the same principles as Ruby on Rails. Super opinionated and batteries included. I'm sure many of these exist but DHH seems to have put a lot of thought and attention into his and it's worth checking out. I've bee
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I was one of the first fellows of their WebFWD program back in 2013 [1]. I'm sure a lot has changed in the last decade but it was refreshing to find partners who were not venture capitalists for our for-profit open source company. Sadl
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I thought this was going to be a post about New York Times deprecating use of the Movable Type blogging platform. I was wrong but it brought back some good memories!
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I am so surprised that many parents are supportive of their kids having phones in school with the sole reason being communication in case of an emergency. How do we expect kids to pay attention or be productive with a smartphone in their po
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It's a lot more than novelty. It's dedicating the attention span needed to listen to an album track by track without skipping to another song or another artist. If that sounds dumb, give it time and you'll get there also. It&
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I think the point OP was making that you can look at the economy over any 10 year period and it will have grown. That crashes are mere blips.
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If you follow some basic rules, you don’t have to worry about economic fluctuations or crashes. 1) Save diligently. 2) Think in terms of 5 or 10 years. 3) Have sufficient cash accessible for emergencies. 4) Do not over leverage yourself suc
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I don't see how downtowns without offices would thrive. The main attraction of downtowns where people live are that they don't need cars because work and social lives are within walking distance. The idea quickly falls apart once
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The problem with prioritizing security is that it is hard to measure preventing bad things which may happen in the future. For example, how do you reward employees for investing in security, besides punishing them for security breaches? I&#

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