mrkurt

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by mrkurt 6y ago
That's kind of a weird take. The vast majority of startup funding happens in the SF bay area. It is true that YC wouldn't have worked in another city (they did move it from Boston after all), but that's unrelated to PG and Je
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Oh this is great. My kids _love_ educational videos. I've been looking for a way to get them more access minus all the garbage on Youtube.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
There are people who think "law and order" means controlling individuals, and there are people who think "law and order" means enforcing laws that apply to government (and sometimes business). They can all be correct, te
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by mrkurt 6y ago
We tried to build a JS runtime in Go and it was a disaster. .NET was actually a better choice, though we ultimately went with Rust (and ultimately, ultimately went with Deno ... which also started as Go).
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Oh wow, I've been waiting for a self hosted app like this (with chat!). It's one of the few things I've missed since swearing off third party javascript.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
There are tradeoffs. I work on Fly.io, so I can tell you why we chose to use anycast vs DNS for traffic direction. DNS for traffic direction actually starts with anycast. When you send a DNS lookup, it's typically to an IP announced fr
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I love this quote: > I worry a little bit about hiding the places where the networking happens, just like I worry about ORM hiding the SQL. Because you can’t ignore either networking or SQL. The irony (or not irony, who even knows?), tho
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by mrkurt 6y ago
We run a multi-geo service (Fly.io). Replicating user load on distributed apps is hard. Containers with env vars are easy though!
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Can you run tests from different geos?
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by mrkurt 6y ago
We've built a few multitenant products, and made friends with some other companies who've done the same. The tradeoff between "using an external FaaS system" and "just embedding v8" is pretty important. If your
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by mrkurt 6y ago
We've been playing a lot with OSv. But unikernels aren't strictly sandboxing or isolation. If you're deploying a unikernel to ec2, you're just using their underlying isolation. You can't safely deploy multiple unike
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Most antitrust laws are binary "is it or isn't it a monopoly". They're usually concerned with abuse of market power. In the US, we have much more stringent antitrust laws than actually get enforced by the DOJ. So the ans
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Crystal is amazing (we sponsor it at Fly.io), but the sheer amount of stuff that's already built for Ruby makes it hard to switch to another language. Node has had 10 years and its still not there.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
1. Cold start times are wildly variable. They can be <1s for optimized, fast booting docker images. We actually mask cold start time as much as possible, though, so you'll almost never see one. 2. There's no hard limit. We&#x27
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by mrkurt 6y ago
If you're selling hosting, you can either sell CPU at close to cost and make money on bandwidth, or make your margins on CPU. If people are building things that don't stress the CPUs at all, you can load up servers and make ~$60-7
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Oh hello! (disclosure, I work on Fly.io). We're more like Fargate than Lambda, but Fly apps scale and balance across regions. I wouldn't really call it "more edgy", it's just built specifically for running app serve
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by mrkurt 6y ago
This comment and what you're doing brings me joy.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
They're right, though. Some companies are large enough to give you credibility cover during an outage. It's the same as the old phrase about no one ever getting fired for buying IBM.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Depression isn't "sad". Depression _can_ be a function of the environment, but it's still not "sad". Sad is a healthy, appropriate emotion. Depression is a numbness that makes it difficult to even feel sadness.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I mean, when someone asked for proof, that seems like a reasonable way to "prove" it. There are vastly easier ways to find his last name, and even work address, than to (presumably) stumble across a Hacker News comment and then fo
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by mrkurt 6y ago
Haha. I just mean it wouldn't have been as immediately interesting. No one would know who "Scott Alexander _______" was. I could be wrong, but knowing the rest of a sequence is more interesting than the name behind a code nam
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I think you're right about the amount of scrutiny. I think he's pretty firmly a "public figure" now (more deliberately than most), his name is obfuscated at best, and I don't have a problem with the NYT publishing h
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I think, like most philosophies, "rationality" is a framework that works introspectively and not useful for applying to other people. As soon as an argument becomes "you're not sticking to the of X" it's become
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by mrkurt 6y ago
That's fair. The only real reason I disagree with you (and probably him) is he _did_ continue to publish personal information. Enough to identify him, even without the last name. If someone repeatedly reveals their own first/middl
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I'm cool with saying "revealed". I don't want to link directly to it because I think it's kind of an asshole thing to do, but you can find a last name on a bunch of posts on Raikoth.net in archive.org. He reposted m
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It shouldn't. It's so weird that the outrage just ... glosses over that.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
It's been that way, this isn't much of a change for the tribes. Effectively, the tribes have a different system of governance that falls under federal jurisdiction. They're "outside" the state government. It's
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by mrkurt 6y ago
> more like subjects of an Empire than as coequals in a Republic This is a great way to frame it.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
I like emotion, thanks. The church of rationality is not my bag.
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by mrkurt 6y ago
He's not an anonymous blogger. He's forthcoming with personal information. He's published his full name multiple times (even on his own blog). It's not doxing.

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