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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Isn't it potentially the opposite? If an independent, volunteer mapper contributes a poor edit, someone from the community has to reach out to them individually. This is hard since there's no prior relationship, and no expectation
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
That was a great Kubecon. I remember a couple of the sponsor swag items were beanie hats, which ended up being a big help, but was (hopefully) completely unplanned. I am one of the people from small companies that Dan spent so much time tal
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
One of the hard things about computers is that things often work perfectly right up until they don't. If you're driving a car a little bit too far between maintenance checkups, it might start making some concerning noises, feel of
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
The answer probably depends on if it's a big or small meeting. For a 1-on-1, you absolutely want to know if the other person on the call is going to be distracted, or you're wasting your time. For a 40 person all hands, the meetin
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
First of all I'll admit I was trying to err on the side of generosity when describing Rocket. Maybe that's a mistake. They definitely seemed to have a culture of well...internal chaos. But that jives with their "copy fast&quo
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
I moved to Berlin for a while in 2014, and so I ended up interviewing at a couple Rocket Internet companies. I'm by no means an expert in any of this but the impression I took away was that while they did some really impressive things,
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
I never realized how low that comment's ID was until now. We've all said a lot since then :)
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Problem exists between keyboard^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H yoke and chair
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Yeah, definitely. And thinking about it more I'm sure there are some air traffic controllers that manage 10+ airplanes fine (although they aren't as involved as the pilots, so a remote operator would have a higher workload). I bet
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
[pilot here] There's a lot more to managing planes in bad weather than landing them: you can't exactly fly through a thunderstorm. Furthermore, sometimes go/no-go decisions have to be made a long way out. If it looks like the
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Yeah, as a former powerlifter I would really be missing my gym buddies if I was really into it now. For now it seems like indoor gyms as we know them today are probably a bad idea. Hopefully due to a combination of better mitigations in the
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
I wouldn't take the 1/1000 chance, but even then. It's not an all or nothing choice. It's more like: - X/1000 chance for people who go to the gym, get sick, lose health permanently, probably infect others - 0/1
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
You know what would really cause you to lose muscle? Getting a bad (or even mild) case of COVID. I'm an athlete myself so I get it. Working out is important. But people are reporting that they are not back to 100% even _months_ after t
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by juliansimioni 6y ago
Because it took me a minute to find the tweet text on that page: > Apple doesn’t let employees contribute to unapproved OSS projects (even in their personal time). So some of my projects could use a maintainer to manage PRs: - https:&#x
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
Here's a hypothetical, but extremely plausible scenario. Lets say tomorrow a major security vulnerability is discovered in CoreJS. Full root access because I'm making this all up. NPM says core-js has 19k dependents, so it would b
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
Sure, if you want to go around the internet complaining that people didn't explicitly say they were aware of something they didn't happen to mention, go for it. I think you'll find that unfulfilling. If you want to help remin
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
There's nothing in that tweet or the thread its a part of that suggests the authors don't understand the seriousness of asking for a shut down. It also doesn't suggest they wouldn't support exceptions for all the hardwor
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
There are only 676 3 letter acronyms starting with 'A'. We've got to be getting close to that at this point, right?
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
On the one hand, building fault tolerant infrastructure that can, as a side effect, work painlessly on spot instances is great. On the other hand, you can purchase reserved instances and get ~60% cost savings with zero engineering work. Its
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
Interesting. What words do they suggest instead?
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
This is a good list of ways to reduce outgoing bandwidth costs, but as someone who has switched from backend developer to running a small business, I can't help but notice that they don't talk at all about whether any of their cos
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
It's difficult because almost every word in your answer is a minefield that cannot be handled simply: measure: how does one truly measure anything related to a team or individual? Just as lines of code is a bad measure of a developer,
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
We might add a smaller plan it someday, but you're right. There are enough businesses that need that much geocoding, and it's much less work to support 1 $200/mo customer than 10 $20/mo. Setting our lowest plan to $200&#
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
This is really great, and gives me something to look forward to. Two years ago I started a company with a friend, and we are _nearly_ at the point where our SaaS covers all our expenses. We do consulting to make up the rest, which is not ba
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
I would have believed that. I was told by someone that "Amazon has a practice of launching early [with bugs] and then iterating" But all the things in this article were true when I tried the Amazon Elasticsearch Service in 2016, s
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
I'm not sure if you're referring to it, but Google actually DID throw out something very similar for free: Plus Codes ( https://plus.codes/ ) There are still problems with the idea of large tech companies deciding o
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by juliansimioni 7y ago
I'm glad the people at Blackblaze really look like (from this writing and others) good people who want to run a successful business while doing right by their customers. But... Jeez, clearly they did not hire patio11 While they technic
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by juliansimioni 8y ago
> California wisely keeps its snow in one place: Tahoe Just wanted to say I love this line. I've always said that in California winter is opt-in, but that's even better :)
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by juliansimioni 8y ago
I'm sure there's a lot of legitimate reasons to criticize Al Gore. The problem with the South Park episodes is that: 1. They did not talk about any of those valid criticisms 2. FAR more people saw those South Park episodes and, at
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by juliansimioni 12y ago
I suspect the delay in sudo is configurable: it's not there because sudo is actually doing any work checking your password, it's there to prevent attackers from trying many many combinations of passwords quickly. If you care about

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