onion2k

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2401.
by onion2k 4y ago
Feels steep for a CBT app where I gotta do all the work! I think you feel that way because you don't need the app enough. $188 to fix sleep when you're not getting enough is a bargain .
2402.
by onion2k 4y ago
If you had an auto scaling kubernetes cluster with multiple redundancies using rust and 3 JS frameworks this wouldn't happen. ;)
2403.
by onion2k 4y ago
That isn't how it works unfortunately. If the shares vest during the blackout period they're only released to the employee, or former employee, once the blackout ends. The employees can't sell these until the blackout is lift
2404.
by onion2k 4y ago
Someone who earned 150k cash and 50k stock might be able to save, but they'd probably just keep their stock as their "emergency fund". Twitter are blocking them selling that stock. Effectively Twitter are laying people off a
2405.
by onion2k 4y ago
analysis Only if you have a very vague definition of 'analysis'. "Chatting about in an entertaining way" would be closer to reality.
2406.
by onion2k 4y ago
No, what most people mean when they say "in production" is "in a real project" in the sense that it is or will be published and used. Most companies have things that run "in dev", "in staging", &q
2407.
by onion2k 4y ago
That's not what anyone means when they say "in production" though. When people talk about things being "in production" they mean "on a production server".
2408.
by onion2k 4y ago
You don't use them in production though. Your code is built in a pipeline somewhere using those tools, typically CI/CD, and then the artifacts from that process are what gets deployed to production. If you're actually running
2409.
by onion2k 4y ago
Webpack, Babel, yarn, and PostCSS Something has done a bit wrong if you're running any of those tools in production.
2410.
by onion2k 4y ago
There are reasonable lengths to dive, of which zero should not be a default case. The fact you're even aware that there's an alternative to choose means you're already slightly informed[1]. Being a bit more informed so th
2411.
by onion2k 4y ago
It's definitely possible, but the limit is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 rows, or 281 terabytes, whichever the database hits first, so you probably could put the discussion off until year 2 or 3 if you really had to. Kind of like maybe
2412.
by onion2k 4y ago
When someone says, hey forget postgresql and just use SQLite, and someone else says good luck if you hit n rows, and someone says it can easily handle n+m rows with x memory … This is a good example of how devs get things wrong. The argum
2413.
by onion2k 4y ago
Or people walk instead, emitting no carbon and killing zero people... This is what's fascinating about the Trolley Problem, and philosophy in general, and how it applies outside of philosophy - most people struggle to answer questions
2414.
by onion2k 4y ago
And even on a small retainer you'd better hope they retained the knowledge of how all that stuff works if you're only calling on them every now and again. This is why we document things at the company I work for. If you're
2415.
by onion2k 4y ago
Lean into your network. Use the fact you have access to YC. Find a company that will give you a job doing what you can with the hours you're able to do. A killer network like the one that's open to you is something most people don
2416.
by onion2k 4y ago
In the past, HNers have mentioned that if you admit you're going to lay people off, then your best performers will leave. Is that true? Any kind of layoffs will cause your best performers to leave regardless of whether you tell peopl
2417.
by onion2k 4y ago
I'm trying my best to keep them going.
2418.
by onion2k 4y ago
As a project grows larger, it becomes difficult to keep track of all the build and compilation procedures that need to be followed. Anecdotally I've worked on projects that have thousands of scripts that could be built with a 5 line
2419.
by onion2k 4y ago
Obviously not. You don't pay someone to just set it up. You pay to help do what you'd do if you had a dedicated devOps teams. You pay someone to set up the system with your team so they understand it , train your team to use it
2420.
by onion2k 4y ago
You were able to do it, but what happens to them when you're not around? This is why you pay someone. Saving $950/month means it's well worth spending $500 for a day of someone's time occasionally. You don't have
2421.
by onion2k 4y ago
The problem was that the people in the audience all needed cars and couldn't afford them. They didn't have money. Finding $6000 to keep a gift when you're broke is a hard problem.
2422.
by onion2k 4y ago
You seem to be suggesting Rails memory usage scales with market cap, which would be incredible if true. "Why does the app keep crashing?" "Because the share price went up again!"
2423.
by onion2k 4y ago
the answers team members provide seldom respect the depth, severity, or nature of the queries which are posted This is a hiring problem. In short, the people you work with lack the ability to understand why it's important to respect
2424.
by onion2k 4y ago
Oprah's famous "You get a car! And you get a car! And everyone gets a car! " show landed each audience member who got a 'free' car with a $6000 tax bill. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history&#
2425.
by onion2k 4y ago
Progressive web apps suffer from an ergonomic issue where people have to read 2-3 tutorials to figure out how to put a site on their homescreen. I strongly believe that the overwhelming majority of users don't want apps on their home
2426.
by onion2k 4y ago
How about actual capitalism rather than the government-enforced pro-major-corporations environment we have now? When businesses can lobby government to change the rules in their favor any sort of free market is impossible...
2427.
by onion2k 4y ago
developers become reliant on CI and won't run the tests until merge-time I think there's a whole lot of truth in this particular statement. I've worked with lots of devs who complete a story, commit it, and then find the te
2428.
by onion2k 4y ago
But, obviously, the web hasn't gotten faster, because the increased bandwidth has been filled with increased nonsense, and browsers now download 2MB of nonsense to show a 200-character text post. A 10KB page at 14.4kbps takes 5 secon
2429.
by onion2k 4y ago
In Sweden it's not uncommon to have mortgage terms of 105 years. The maximum was reduced from 140 years in 2016. Obviously whether the descendants of the borrower can choose whether to keep paying or not when they inherit the load, but
2430.
by onion2k 4y ago
https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/ligature

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