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by papito 4y ago
He is definitely technical. Like, his engineers can explain stuff to him. That said, let's not extoll Musk as some super-brilliant mind. He is good, but not THAT good. He pissed off a lot of people at PayPal when he was aggressively pu
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by papito 4y ago
Oh, you mean the very pleasant "enjoy being poor" characters?
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by papito 4y ago
With all the wining about European socialism, this is what I pay with combined NYC, state, and federal taxes, plus all the deductions for the safety net that the government should provide anyway.
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by papito 4y ago
The characteristic is being able to see the talents of others and exploit them. Jobs was and Musk is great at that, although Musk is an actual [software] engineer. Those employees trapped on an island for months developing SpaceX rockets in
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by papito 4y ago
Smart doesn't mean wise. Yes, he has pushed electric car and space market forward, but he talked about e-cars and going to Mars back when he was 14. He is literally a rich kid living out his teenage phantasies. Albeit successfully. He
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by papito 4y ago
The crypto bros were telling everyone on Twitter to "enjoy being poor", when they were loaded up on Luna. How am I supposed to feel about that kind of attitude?
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by papito 4y ago
An anti-government guy shows why humanity settled on a regulated, stabilized financial system.
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by papito 4y ago
Ten years ago I worked on a monster that was half a gig on checkout. Assets, everything. It was an e-commerce site. And it was beautiful. Single set of dependencies, easily tested, one CI/CD pipeline. It was an egregious Spring/St
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by papito 4y ago
And microservices do NOT require an organized, cohesive team with good communication? If anything, there is MORE communication. And how many teams who do distributed systems really know what will happen if a critical service goes down? The
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by papito 4y ago
Fair enough. At that scale it's different. My point is that many major companies were a productive team working with a monolith until it simply was not feasible.
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by papito 4y ago
They don't have to be micro - they can just be services.
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by papito 4y ago
Dropbox - monolith Instagram - monolith StackOverflow - monolith (at least until SO Enterprise) There are many others. There is a reason why we avoided "distributed systems" in the past. It's insanely hard. Microsevices solve
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by papito 4y ago
I am not talking about the customers. Of course they are not supposed to understand it. I am talking about the system design. And microservices do not solve problems in most companies, just create new ones. Distributed systems did not magic
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by papito 4y ago
Hell yes. Good knowledge of SQL is a superpower and is becoming a rare art form. The new generation of devs thinks that frameworks and ORMs will do the magic for them at no cost, but they don't. There is no substitute for leveraging yo
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by papito 4y ago
It's an important point that Graph makes it easier for the user not the server. You still have to do the work, which is sometimes harder because you need to take care of edge cases and performance pot holes (in case you miss something
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by papito 4y ago
Farmers also grow rice in California, and alfalfa, which are two top water-hungry crops. It's so remarkable to which extent business and profits take precedence over the public good of tens of millions, in the United States. "We&#
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by papito 4y ago
I actually read Billion Dollar Loser this year, and the show is dead on. The book has more WTF moments in it, but the show's S-1 fiasco was juicer, if I remember correctly.
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by papito 4y ago
With all due respect, this is not some in-the-moment emotionally-colored thing. Months after America has almost lost its democracy for good, we are just now finding out that we were extremely lucky that it all worked out this time. So, no,
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by papito 4y ago
Your app is making money? That's very nice. But have you tried selling the PROMISE of more moneys sometime in the future? Lots and lots of moneys. Just say things like "We are trying to elevate the world's consciousness"
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by papito 4y ago
It's funny how the simplest of the questions about this "Web 3" throws off the evangelists. They don't have answers for anything. Good scammers can sort of BS for a bit. - Decentralized! No government control! 100% freed
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by papito 5y ago
Brown bears in Alaska scoop up the salmon roe and throw out the rest of the fish, toward the end of Summer, when they get all plumpy and satisfied.
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by papito 5y ago
Well, it's still there. Google's Deja probably did not help, "democratizing" Usenet. That said, here we go - another point in favor of strict moderation.
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by papito 5y ago
It's almost like this kind of thing does not exist. Just go to 8chan or whatever it is called now. You will want to pour Clorox in your eyes. Feel free - enjoy "free speech". The Internet was actually LESS free back in the da
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by papito 5y ago
It's not artificial. Different regions have different licensing. You could find Big Bang Theory in other regions, for example, which is only on HBO here in the US. It's not like Netflix can just post it.
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by papito 5y ago
WP is a never-ending source of security vulnerabilities. 30% of the internet runs on it. I found Jekyll and never looked back.
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by papito 5y ago
It's the equivalent of a politician blaming the press when things go south. Maybe stop wasting the military budget of a medium-sized country on poorly-curated content.
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by papito 5y ago
That takes years of building up until that happens.
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by papito 5y ago
I think claiming that "we are a family" is actually the toxic one. It's incredibly dishonest to claim that. No one gets fired from a family because the family is "right-sizing".
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by papito 5y ago
There is a new iteration of an old car (was it the Camaro?) and the engineers had to hack the motor to make it louder because customers were complaining the car was not as loud as it used to be.
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by papito 5y ago
In case some people confuse "freedom" with just being a douchebag. Living in the calm and quiet East Flushing, I now put my noise cancelling headphones on without anything playing, just to walk through the morning Manhattan. The m

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