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by kennu 5y ago
I have four theories about it: 1. People are afraid of their current skills and knowledge becoming obsolete. This is similar to people being hostile to the cloud 10 years ago and serverless 5 years ago. 2. People are bitter because they see
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by kennu 5y ago
It's not too important for me what the name is, but I think the boat already sailed and the name Web3 will stick. When Web 2.0 was being born, the name wasn't that important either. It's just a social phenomenon that we need
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by kennu 5y ago
Web3 will go through its current hype cycle peak (with lots of people both hyping and hating it), and in a few years we will see what actually comes of it. I predict we will find some interesting unforeseeable use cases for decentralized co
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by kennu 5y ago
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you." Recently it feels like the general sentiment toward Web3 has been moving from the ridicule phase to the attack phase. Then finally comes the acceptance. In
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by kennu 5y ago
In my opinion it's like human languages. You can never apply the idioms and structures in quite the same way. But you can still be fluent in several languages without unlearning previous languages first.
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by kennu 5y ago
Kind of yes, but I wouldn't say so about all of the Python's standard libraries. Some of the old 2.x ones were pretty weird. Same thing with e.g. PHP, standard library was quite a mess of different styles and philosophies.
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by kennu 5y ago
I always get frustrated when I see Python code written by Java programmers. It's full of unnecessary classes and complicated abstractions, and doesn't make use of Pythonic features that might keep the overall design much more simp
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by kennu 5y ago
Reading this conceptual overview was what made me excited today. I knew all the basics but it was nice that someone put them all together. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-web3/
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by kennu 5y ago
I had a similar feeling for a long time. Today I realized that the whole Web3 movement makes much more sense than I previously thought. All the NFT and cryptocurrency stuff is just the tip of an iceberg that might result in a truly decentra
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by kennu 5y ago
I'd like to add a small point not mentioned in many other comments. The rational, conscious part of the human experience is actually pretty small. Jonathan Haidt calls it the "rider that tries to control the elephant". It is
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What I learned reading 550 books for work and life(reaktor.com)
3 points by kennu 5y ago|0 comments
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by kennu 5y ago
I think that the --hotswap option does what you are hoping for speedier updates. It allows CDK to update some cloud resources directly (e.g. Lambda function code) so that they "drift" away from the CloudFormation template definiti
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by kennu 5y ago
Ok thanks for clarifying. I guess we already have Node.js everywhere where CDK is used, so never noticed it. I can see it's uncomfortable when that is not the case.
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by kennu 5y ago
AWS CDK also works with Python. However, in my experience, TypeScript-based CDK projects are more productive to develop, due to all the built-in error checking and autocompletion features in Visual Studio Code. Node.js also provides a more
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by kennu 5y ago
It sounds like your development is focused on containers, and perhaps Copilot is best for that. AWS CDK works very well when your application is based on many different kinds of cloud resources that need to be connected together, utilizing
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by kennu 5y ago
The purpose of CDK is exactly to reduce the complexity of your IaC. It automatically sets up all kinds of defaults, such as required permissions between different cloud resources that need to talk to each other. The underlying complex thing
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by kennu 5y ago
That's very true. :-( I really don't understand why AWS doesn't optimize the CloudFormation backend. I don't see any reason why it couldn't update resources basically as fast as the APIs allow.
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by kennu 5y ago
That's right - use AWS CDK instead. You don't have to worry about the low-level CloudFormation syntax and details. I switched a few years ago and haven't looked back. CDK keeps getting better and better, also handling things
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by kennu 5y ago
Do you have examples of which AWS "Lego blocks" are not convenient and reusable? For me, the convenient "Lego blocks" that I use a lot include CloudFront (web server/CDN), S3 (file/web server), ACM (certificate
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by kennu 5y ago
You must have run some really heavy stuff on AWS for it to cost that much, if you are taking advantage of serverless services (not just running idle containers or servers that cost by the hour).
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by kennu 5y ago
I remember debating this when async/await support was first coming out. My opinion was (and still is) that it would have been better to make "await" the default behavior and have a separate "noawait" keyword for tho
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by kennu 5y ago
On the other hand, it doesn't make much sense to keep reinventing the same things that AWS has already packaged into convenient and reusable little Lego blocks. I guess the excitement of inventing new stuff needs to be related to new t
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by kennu 5y ago
I think that is a bit like saying that the Google/Apple App Stores are too fragmented because they have so many different kinds of apps. Or that the web is too fragmented. The Metaverse is supposed to be a huge bazaar of different kind
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by kennu 5y ago
A multiverse of interlinked metaverses would be more interesting. The dystopian Metaverse, OASIS, etc have been single corporation controlled services. It would be nicer to have a standard set of protocols and APIs for anyone to create and
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Let's Encrypt Is Down(letsencrypt.status.io)
24 points by kennu 5y ago|10 comments
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How the Next Layer of the Internet Is Going to Be Standardised(mnot.net)
70 points by kennu 5y ago|14 comments
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by kennu 5y ago
I don't know about bulldozing stadiums, but I agree about moving on from old-fashioned binary thinking. People are just people and the labels and categories that we assign to them are changing. Sports should reflect this too.
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by kennu 5y ago
I'm not sure what the point is, since this solution doesn't give you an IMAP server to connect to with your email client. Also the solution seems a bit complex with all those CodePipelines and CodeBuilds. I think all you really ne
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by kennu 5y ago
I'm hoping WebAssembly and its APIs will rid of us the regular platform version updates and deprecations that we now face, having to move from Node.js 6 to 8 to 10 to 12 to 14 etc. If there is a stable, evergreen platform similar to we
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by kennu 5y ago
A big part of this is the switch from traditional programming (just write code) to cloud based programming (combine cloud resources together like "lego blocks"; code is just one block among many others). This reduces the importanc

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