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by picardo 4y ago
I think Medium showed the world that you can't build a subscription business by commoditizing the content. I've read a lot of great content on Medium, but I don't remember who it was by, and that's why I never considered
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by picardo 4y ago
I mentioned that AppSync is a different service but VTL is tightly integrated to Amplify workflow because of AppSync. If you use `amplify-cli` to generate your project, you get a folder full of VTL templates. The only way to modify the defa
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by picardo 4y ago
Biggest drawback for me was having to use VTL to write my resolvers. Normally, I wouldn't mind using a template language for UIs, but not for business logic. This isn't Amplify's fault. They use AppSync, which made the design
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by picardo 4y ago
The creator of GIF file format spent years trying to get people to pronounce it JIF. You know, just saying... It didn't work. Besides, EEEY-vo is more fun to say than UH-vo.
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by picardo 4y ago
Why did you call it Avo? I'm curious because I know of at least 4 SaaS companies called Avo.
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by picardo 4y ago
I found TLA+ syntax unapproachable as a beginner. I did more digging and discovered Alloy[0], a "lightweight" formal verification system, which is much simpler, and has industry adoption as well. It's working nicely for me so
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by picardo 4y ago
Superb tool. I used Comby to create a massive (3000+ changes) PR in which I ported JS type annotations into TS typings.
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by picardo 4y ago
They make high quality explanatory videos, too! Their video on the Riemann hypothesis is a true gem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlm1aajH6gY
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by picardo 4y ago
Good luck. My family emigrated to US from Turkey in the 90s. Back then, the inflation was over a hundred percent. It costs millions of liras to buy a dollar. Now the history is repeating itself. The value of lira is tanking and inflation is
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by picardo 4y ago
By that definition, any software project that is driven by a BDFL wouldn't be open source, including Linux. The terminology hasn't drifted that much. I think there is a small and vocal group of people who are trying to take back &
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by picardo 5y ago
Being assigned an office doesn't mean that it's not remote. It entirely depends on the team. I worked for a team that wanted me in office for three days a week last year. My current team is entirely remote, but I'm still assi
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by picardo 5y ago
I've worked on dozens of large React codebases, and never once came across a performance problem that was caused by VDOM overhead. Performance lag was always caused by bad application design. In most cases, the performance lag was due
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by picardo 5y ago
What Rich Harris said sounds very nice and interesting, but I'd take issue with it being "not the best solution for a scalable UI." As long as the slowdown caused by the Virtual DOM remains below limits of human perception, i
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by picardo 5y ago
> VC backed companies have a tendency to focus way too much on vanity metrics. Well-run companies focus on the right metrics. Badly run companies focus on vanity metrics. There is some of both everywhere in the business world, not just a
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by picardo 5y ago
I agree with this. The emphasis of any product that wants to democratize ML should be on making it easy for lay people to train models, and to collaborate with ML experts.
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by picardo 5y ago
You can make Postgres scale, but there is an operational cost to it. DynamoDB does that for you out of the box. (So does Aurora, to be honest, but there is also an overhead to setting up an Aurora cluster to the needs of your business.) I&#
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by picardo 5y ago
It might be useful for sourcers and recruiters, but the interviewers never look at your Linkedin profile.
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by picardo 5y ago
Everyone wants to be multi-AZ, multi-cell, but it's a multi-year project, especially for services that have been around for a while. My last team had been working on it for a couple of years when I left.
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by picardo 5y ago
MuscleWiki is cool, but it's not very helpful during a workout. I like that Darebee builds a set of routines and includes a timer into each routine to keep you on track.
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by picardo 5y ago
NoSQL was overhyped. SQL is awesome.
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by picardo 5y ago
> For a start, you're going to have to define your schema. Does one tree have one row or is it one case has one row? It seems to me you're defining a schema regardless, but with event sourcing your schema is embedded in your ev
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by picardo 5y ago
> Synchronising data at row level when offline becomes online is extremely hard to get right and reliable. Why? Are the users in different time zones? If the time on their devices are synchronized, why is it hard to get right? I'm n
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by picardo 5y ago
> A good example would be a tree inspection application where jobs can be pushed out to mobile inspectors who might not have phone signal but can still collect the data. Once synchronised, views are simply additive. More data can be adde
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by picardo 5y ago
What are some interesting startups in Austin area?
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by picardo 5y ago
Some of these questions are a bit personal. Others are silly or irrelevant. I wouldn't use them on my team. They're like pajama party questions...
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by picardo 5y ago
package.json integration isn't mentioned, but that is probably my favorite feature. You can add a `volta` block to you package.json with all the versions of node and npm and volta automatically installs them for you.
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by picardo 5y ago
This is just a DOM manipulation library, with some animation support thrown in. It's doing the same stuff that you can do with a few D3 libraries: d3.selection + d3.transition.
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by picardo 5y ago
I see, thanks for your input. Most of the workflows I worked on involved provisioning one database per app, so I hadn't entertained this angle. Are there any risks to changing ACL rules on a production database server from a stability
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by picardo 5y ago
Good point. Phrasing it as a trade-off is the better approach. Agree with the downsides you listed, as well. Better security guarantees, for sure, but if an unauthorized user gains direct access to your database, you might have bigger probl
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by picardo 5y ago
I qualified it by saying "if you're building an OLTP app" though. I speak from personal experience. If you know a good usecase for ACL in database for OLTP workflows, I'm all ears.

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