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by noogle 5y ago
No, I do not. However, I've heard (too) many stories like "our payments/ads/infra vendor banned us out of the blue for suspicion/politics/obscure-AI-decision" to ignore this. It could be fine for a start-u
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by noogle 5y ago
Based on my limited experience, VCs could be dissuaded from investing in co-ops by: 1. No prospects of a big payout (IPO, acquisition). 2. VCs like to have a single point-of-contact (the CEO) and few other owners. In a start-up, the CEO is
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by noogle 5y ago
What's wrong with paid hosting? For the people who do pay for software (essentially commercial entities), the management and support are as important (if not more) than the software itself. The code being open-source is actually a grea
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by noogle 5y ago
The median salary for software engineers is not that high. Still ~double the median household salary, but it's not the only profession that yields that. So you were not completely wrong.
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by noogle 5y ago
The efficiency of our bodies (or the amount of calories in food) is astounding. Makes one think whether there is any acceptable use case for serving snacks and other high-calorie-density food.
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by noogle 5y ago
> It's solvable with appropriate tooling. I.e. you can store API definitions in a separate repository and make the services or CI/CD check API usage is valid at build time. Makes sense, though it feels somewhat like re-inventin
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by noogle 5y ago
That's what makes the whole idea of microservices seems weird to me. If a functionality has merit on its own (e.g. an authentication service), then it will naturally fall outside of the main application. If a service is tightly coupled
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by noogle 5y ago
How can accumulation of versions be prevented? Now the same team has to maintain two products, and the underlying mechanism is still limited by the older version. Anecdotally, a robust backward-compatibility has been seen as a hinderance to
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by noogle 5y ago
But you also need to hire someone to manage the AWS infrastructure. And the need to use-only-as-needed creates additional burden that doesn't exist with cheaper monthly-paid hardware. The answer might very well be "it will take le
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by noogle 5y ago
But moving off of the cloud is not always realistic. If the start-up leveraged cloud-specific services, they are now locked in. If they remained cloud-agnostic, they were under-utilizing the cloud. How many companies actually shift their in
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by noogle 5y ago
> so you don't need to spend months working up a contract with a new vendor and doing the security audit dance. That's a very big moat. Many decision makers are risk-averse w.r.t to infrastructure vendors and don't mind pa
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by noogle 5y ago
COVID has a strong absolute-calendar trends (variants, waves), so removing the absolute dates might harm the analysis.
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by noogle 5y ago
From another comment: > Seems to be worth the inflation IMO. Some things will become expensive. Some might be balanced. Construction cost will increase, but land value may decrease (since there is no necessity to crowd in job hubs). Taxi
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by noogle 5y ago
Yet that did not deter us from creating trillions of dollars and giving them to financial institutes. What if we printed the same amount and gave it directly to people? the $6T/year could yield ~$40K to each of the ~150M working-age Am
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by noogle 5y ago
> Money doesnt just have some "value" you can share like a pie. The trillions of dollars printed by the Federal Reserve in the past two years beg to differ. Honestly, if the country is going into deficit, you might as well give
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by noogle 5y ago
Because often someone else is paying for it (organization/investor/government) or the money cannot be used for something else. Another common reason is as a way to circumvent internal politics. In my experience, whenever someone a
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by noogle 5y ago
How does the compensation compare? Aside from finance, does any other industry pay as well as SV and startups?
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by noogle 5y ago
But a dynamic language needs all the tests a compiled language needs AND type/syntax tests (that are handled by the compiler in a static language). There are reasons dynamic language (or specifically Python), but I haven't heard o
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by noogle 5y ago
This system creates a vicious cycle - cannot get a rental without history, and cannot accumulate history without rentals. It creates a gatekeeper that enables discriminative behaviors.
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by noogle 5y ago
Is it really necessary to index EVERYTHING? It's true that we have much more data today than 26 years ago, but not all of these websites qualify or provide value (duplicate results, promotional content, outdated content). The challenge
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by noogle 5y ago
But if someone chose DoorDash over a smaller delivery service because "DoorDash is big and reliable so the x5-10 cost is worth it", and then DoorDash fails repeatedly, it makes sense to ask "is DoorDash really better than usi
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by noogle 5y ago
Agree. I would add the Netflix/Spotify are more in the content business rather than software (a huge chunk of Spotify revenues actually goes to paying royalties, and Netflix spends substantial amounts on original productions). So indee
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by noogle 5y ago
Some of these things are new, but some have been around for years and decades. No one HAD to buy a server - co-location/bare-metal hosting has existed for years before AWS. The same for printing. Stripe perhaps made the biggest differe
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by noogle 5y ago
The logical conclusion is to move to the US, then. But seriously, the software industry concentrates in the US. The high salary represents (in part) this concentration rather than something about the US itself. Thus, it makes sense that c
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by noogle 5y ago
But isn't employment in the US largely at-will? Meaning that the employer can fire the employee for any reason except for protected classes discrimination? So it doesn't matter if it's fraud or the employer just doesn't
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by noogle 5y ago
Why is the comparison always between public cloud and building your own data center from scratch? There is a middle ground of bare-metal hosting. Abstract away the hardware and networking. Do the rest yourself.
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by noogle 5y ago
One thing that is missing is the unit economics and customer subsidization. If the company sells a product worth $5, for $1 (essentially subsidizing the customer), then it cannot become profitable just by a decision to stop growth. So in yo
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by noogle 5y ago
> So did you send your database logs to a centralized logging system? Not needed. > Did you set up roles and keys to access those systems? Yes. > Are your roles integrated with the rest of your permissions system? Not needed. Acces
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by noogle 5y ago
There it is - the hidden cost of AWS. For bare-metal the risk of hardware failure is so low that it's faster to just handle the interruption when it happens (e.g. just restart the process) than to implement interruption tolerance. The
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by noogle 5y ago
Spot instances for GPU are shutdown within hours. As frequently touted in favor of AWS, engineer time is the most important thing. The time to adapt the code to frequent failure, and the delays in getting the results, costs money as well,

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