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by rapind 4y ago
I hadn't heard of this before now. I will say though that Nortel had a lot of known issues, including fraudulent scheming by the executives, followed by completely screwing over the pensioners. Nortel leadership was rotten by the time
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by rapind 4y ago
Rocket scientists can be heard saying "It's not like it's cache invalidation!".
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by rapind 4y ago
> 90% of the cases are easy cases I'll second this. For example, I can usually get away with simple and short lived TTL caches in varnish (with grace) for high traffic read only APIs. Flushing (invalidation) is automated since it ju
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by rapind 4y ago
Admirable, but neither of these are light lifts. Most startups are potentially better off just gambling they won't be in the %0.1 that get shut down due to big company shenanigans.
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by rapind 4y ago
They're using connect, so they're a marketplace (accepting payments on behalf of customers for their customers, and taking a cut). Not sure if any of these support that model (pretty sure Paypal doesn't).
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by rapind 4y ago
Nope. You become an edge case which now has to be supported which likely costs more than you’re paying (except to a smaller efficient business). If you pay more and more you just become more and more of an outlier.
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by rapind 4y ago
I preferred Pandora ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project ) over last.fm, specifically because I thought they had better curation / recommendations. Spotify and Youtube Music are pretty crappy thoug
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by rapind 4y ago
Just wanted to acknowledge your response. Don’t really have anything to add though. Probably a whole bunch of contributing factors /shrug.
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Is it a worker shortage or a wage shortage though?
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> This isn't advanced age mental decline, this is just the consequence of a garbage-in-garbage-out information diet. I’m not goong to excuse crappy behaviour, but given that they both lost their job I think we can assume the economy
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by rapind 4y ago
Don't forget that users have been trained to be incredibly fault tolerant as a result of how flaky general software can be. Now that cars are having BSOD that tolerance may reach new levels or just evaporate.
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> It could be world-changing (at least for programmers). If you don’t mind, could you give an example for a programmer who isn’t building finance or crypto related applications? I think that would help me understand what we’re talking ab
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by rapind 4y ago
McMaster University teaches w/ Elm (only the runtime mutates), which is probably more aligned with your interests. http://outreach.mcmaster.ca/
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I don’t know if this has changed, but I remember most tech businesses were perpetually hiring, because part of the visa process to bring in workers was a requirement to prove that you tried to find local talent first. (source: I once worked
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by rapind 4y ago
Good advice? This is AMAZING advice! I can't remember the last time I received such great advice. This advice is like a gift from the heavens. Life changing stuff right here.
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by rapind 4y ago
Fair enough, I should have been clearer. I’m thinking about extending it to CRUD apps for example. I haven’t personally seen any do that, and it might get really involved due to dependencies, integrations, etc.
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by rapind 4y ago
> In this way, we can safely learn git via trial & errors. Thinking about this and I realize it could be beneficial in a lot of software. No one RTFMs anymore, and giving them the ability to trial and error makes sense. I know I appr
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> much more civil as well. Unfortunately that’s about to change.
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Apple has added no UI changes since Leopard that I prefer or even care about about. I'd be extremely happy if they froze UI changes / features and focused entirely on stability, compatibility, and security instead.
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I’ve had a non trivial number of issues with them over the years. Enough that I moved all of my infrastructure to other (more expensive) providers. That being said, it was probably value for money spent while it lasted.
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> It’s uncommon to meet an adult with such expectations I don’t think this is an accurate assumption. Many adults probably have a nagging feeling about this version of free, I doubt most of us can accurately describe the cost (and most w
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by rapind 4y ago
> But Google Maps is free. We need a new alternative word for "free" when it comes to advertising companies. Something short to say "the cost is too abstract and indirect to understand fully or describe, but does impact so
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I’m not so sure the advertising parasite hasn’t killed the host. At the very least, I’d say it’s winning, and that it evolves much faster.
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You should ask Reddit. They really really want you to use their app instead of your browser, so there’s obviously something (like tracking).
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It may seem magical, but conservatives have worked really hard to convince peasants that tax breaks for the wealthy is in their best interest.
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> tax collectors to go to every peasant and collect taxes there I suspect that this individual collection raised the risk of getting a beating if the peasantry was in dire straits. (drought, raiding, over taxation, etc.). Inefficiency is
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by rapind 4y ago
It’s not. You can achieve the same or better results with Varnish. You can even achieve edge caching with Fastly (cloud varnish). I think of it just as a different approach, where the focus is static (cache) with dynamic layered in as neces
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by rapind 4y ago
From https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github... --- > GitHub Pages sites have a soft bandwidth limit of 100 GB per month. > In order to provide consistent quality of service for all GitH
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This isn't easily actionable advice, and it depends on what caused the burnout. What worked for me was to really focus on functional typed languages and keeping systems architecture simple. Feels like I'm constantly making progres
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> if you need anything unusual or you make a mistake, the escape hatch is always to get a real human, so you've now wasted time. I’d argue that the majority of users can’t be bothered to RTFM (and the “M” here is usually one sentenc

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