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by msy 3y ago
I could count the number of startups I’m aware of building on Java on one hand, after a wood chipper accident. For perf it’s rust, for web it’s Go or node/deno/bun for single front/back language.
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by msy 3y ago
The problem with this business model is it creates a tension between the OSS version and the paid versions - you want the OSS version to be good, but not such a good solution that nobody feels the need to pay for your SaaS/consulting&#
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by msy 3y ago
One weird quirk I've discovered is 2-pin Swiss plugs appear to have smaller diamater pins than EU ones, which means some EU-compatiable plugs will not fit in CH sockets. Apple's BRA adaptors work in CH sockets, KOR ones do not.
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by msy 3y ago
Wording and structure of this article is a bizarre mess, I’m guessing it’s the result of some kind of LLM expansion/template application from some bullet points?
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by msy 3y ago
While IT depts might be keen to put the genie back in the bottle they may find their ‘clients’ are less keen on waiting months to years for their needs to be met. AWS sold as an insurgent into many organisations precisely because it meant y
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by msy 3y ago
I can think of plenty of companies that are or have tried this. However I can’t think of many that have done so with notable future success. It mostly seems to be a defensive/reactive move by players having their work more effectively
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by msy 3y ago
The UK has a long intellectual tradition which creates a steady stream of creative and capable engineers. Capital however is predominately held via inherited wealth and its controllers want rentier incomes with low risk. As a consequence th
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by msy 3y ago
Freedom to live your life on your own terms and as evidenced by this thread, providing a beacon on the path others can choose to follow.
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by msy 3y ago
I have absolutely no idea what this self-involved waffly collection of buzzwords is trying to say and I'm upset I won't get back the time I wasted trying to read it.
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by msy 3y ago
The evidence of anything other than simple CICO is marginal in both quality and impact. Sure, all sorts of things might make you feel hungrier or make you want to eat more or less but whether you actually gain weight or not is a product of
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by msy 3y ago
Vercel raised $300m+ at the top of the market and paid over the odds to hire a ton of JS ecosystem luminaries. Those investors are going want to see a return, not just an eyewatering wage bill. Anyone building on top of their ecosystem is g
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by msy 4y ago
It also articulates the limitations - how successful are software outsourcing projects by companies/teams that don't understand software development?
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by msy 4y ago
And yet so often UX Writing is distained as an unecessary job that can be handled by designers or PMs instead of recognising the verbs and nouns of your product are its fundamental architecture to users. And that's before you get to vo
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by msy 4y ago
Part of this is a second order effect of supression of public sector wages. For a lot of highly paid specialities it's become impossible to recruit to retain real talent in the public sector when they're going to be paid a multipl
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by msy 4y ago
Which is why you likely won't be a senior VP. Sales are demanding the fringe feature to meet a RFP requirement & the flakiness in the main software isn't meaningfully impacting renewals. These things are not (always) accidents
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by msy 5y ago
Betting on the difference between is done by buying and selling them. I'm no defender of cryptocurrencies but speculation and trading have been a major feature modern forex markets since their inception.
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by msy 5y ago
The primary purpose of the web is now an app delivery platform & VM execution environment, not text delivery.
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by msy 5y ago
Yes, but what on earth is so compelling about a quasi pokémon clone that anyone is paying the price of 5-6 AAA games to play it as a game for fun? And who is buying all the SLPs ‘players’ farming this for $?
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by msy 5y ago
What continues to confuse me about this game is what is the source of money into the ecosystem? If the vast majority of players are doing this for the income, who is the buyer? Are there a small number of 'whale' players who are e
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by msy 6y ago
So, it says they're not selling data. It also has no pricing page. There's no way I'd consider handing over that kind of data and access without a clear understanding of their business model.
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by msy 6y ago
A chromium wrapper that inserts affiliate links? This doesn't seem a compelling argument based on available evidence.
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by msy 6y ago
The purpose of a system is what it does - Stafford Beer
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by msy 6y ago
Given the demographic Signal attracts that seems like an unsafe assumption.
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by msy 6y ago
Beyond the privacy concerns I wouldn't want my front door to disable itself because my Google Account was suspended because YouTube's content-identification algorithm picked up a snippet of a song in the background of a video upl
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by msy 6y ago
It's the seventh largest economy in the world with a per-capita GDP of $42k.
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by msy 7y ago
CrowdStrike | UX Designers, UI Engineers, Technical Writers | | Remote USA, UK | Full-time CrowdStrike is one of the world's leading cybersecurity companies, using cutting edge technology to protect our customers from the most sophisti
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by msy 7y ago
That this data ended up with aggregators doesn't seem too surprising but I'd be genuinely shocked if the source was Apple selling it vs some kind of 3rd party analytics leakage + correlation with other data sources for demographic
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by msy 9y ago
Crowdstrike UI Team | London or US (various or remote) | Full Time Help detect and prevent the most sophisticated hackers at massive scale. We're a rapidly growing company that just raised another $100M from Google Capital and Warburg
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by msy 10y ago
I cannot read the logo, it would be more appropriate for a sci-fi game.
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by msy 10y ago
The adoption of the approach ember-cli took over a year ago by both React & Angular (angular-cli) is to me the strongest validation of the relative architectural maturity of Ember over its competitors. Ember has demonstrated singular or

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