mimir

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   by mimir 10mo ago

   100%, This is the uncomfortable fact of taxes in the US right now. If you are a high earning W2 worker, you are likely paying close to if not above 50% income tax rate. Pretty much on par with all the "high tax" European socialis
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   by mimir 1y ago

   My startup switched from python to Java and saw our productivity explode. Using modern Java versions in a non enterprise way (no frameworks, minimal oop, minimal DI, functional features like immutable objects, optional, etc) is quite nice.
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   by mimir 5y ago

   It sort of baffles me how much engineer time is seemingly spent here designing and running these "gamedays" vs just improving and automating the underlying systems. Don't glorify getting paged, glorify systems that can automa
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   by mimir 5y ago

   Database optimization posts are always interesting, but it's really hard to do any apples to apples comparison. Your performance is going to depend mostly on your hardware, internal database settings and tunings, and OS level tunings.
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   by mimir 5y ago

   This seems like another odd definition of "exactly once". The underlying assumption appears to be that all you work is happening insides the sql transaction, so all the work the consumer does is safe and can be rolled back if a fa