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by rco8786 2y ago
> Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure? 99.99% of the time. No.
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by rco8786 2y ago
> the other 80% that use Windows instead of macOS https://www.statista.com/statistics/869211/worldwide-softwar... Even amongst those numbers, .NET itself is a pretty small fraction of the overall dev community.
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by rco8786 2y ago
I was taught this in school, as well as all of my classmates. And I, and many of them, have still had struggles.
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by rco8786 2y ago
> the fintech not being able to dedicate engineering resources to send data to an API endpoint of ours There's an extremely real chance that this fintech giving you direct DB access was breaking the law by doing so.
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by rco8786 2y ago
It's incredibly easy relative to Dvorak . Dvorak changes every single key across the whole keyboard and you have to relearn typing from scratch. This just changes a few keys, and when you "miss" you immediately know where th
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by rco8786 2y ago
Has anyone tried it without flipping the P and ;? I understand the reasoning, but having it be a symmetrical flip might be even that much easier to learn?
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by rco8786 2y ago
> they usually have little authority regarding business decisions. Sorry I didn't fully explain my thought. I agree with this. I don't think it's just developers that have a "developers vs business" mindset. The
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by rco8786 2y ago
I think "k8s is complicated" and "AWS is even more complicated" can both be true. Doing anything in AWS is like pulling teeth.
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by rco8786 2y ago
Or cost increase or decrease!
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by rco8786 2y ago
TBH, I think this way of thinking is part of the problem. It's not "developers vs the business". Developers are part of the business.
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by rco8786 2y ago
That's not a realistic option. Google is legally obligated in many, many different areas of its business to capture/store/retain confidential information.
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by rco8786 2y ago
Index per tenant but yes, if you have hundreds or thousands of tenants that becomes a more difficult problem to manage but not at all unmanageable.
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by rco8786 2y ago
> A system that passes it's integration test 100 times isn't necessarily particularly impressive in terms of reliability. So extending your own metaphor and using 100 as the number of missions, the integration test failed 2% of
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by rco8786 2y ago
100 missions. Not 100 code executions.
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by rco8786 2y ago
Buy put options with a long expiry. Same as always.
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by rco8786 2y ago
You’re right that it’s much, much more difficult to do client side SPAs! But also, that level of interactivity is pretty much expected now even from layman end users whether they realize it or not. Requiring a full page refresh is very limi
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by rco8786 2y ago
Hey thanks for your reply! Can I ask a candid question? What's the stability/runway of DronaHQ? It looks like your last round of funding was $500k in 2018. I'm optimistic that means you've just found PMF and are running
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by rco8786 2y ago
So much nostalgia reading that. I wish we could go back
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by rco8786 2y ago
> Why would you give credit card companies extra money to hold for you? "they had the cash on hand and mostly wanted to avoid declines on their cards"
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by rco8786 2y ago
Legacy codebases that are a joy to work with are few and far between, in any language.
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by rco8786 2y ago
> so much effort to optimize being a well-paid employee It seems like you are vastly underestimating the effort (and risk) it takes to start a successful SaaS that brings its founder $500k+ annually. You're right about everything i
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by rco8786 2y ago
Seriously?
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by rco8786 2y ago
I'm reading this as: anything short of providing everyone globally with enough money to quit their jobs and rent a nice apartment is not UBI. Which, of course, is never going to happen, nor should it. The term "basic" definit
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by rco8786 2y ago
What's the reasoning here? Extreme time sensitivity?
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by rco8786 2y ago
I’m not saying don’t update? I’m talking about rolling the update over the course of a short amount of time, like under an hour. With the ability to stop the rollout.
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by rco8786 2y ago
Number 4 continues to be the most surprising bit to me. I could not fathom having a process that involves deploying to 8.5 million remote machines simultaneously. Bugs in code I can almost always understand and forgive, even the ones that s
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Ask HN: What are you using for internal tooling platforms?
3 points by rco8786 2y ago|5 comments
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by rco8786 2y ago
> AI-assisted programming is able to deliver a realistic 10-20% overall productivity boost for developers (including the fact that developers don’t code all day). Dubious, at best, claim
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by rco8786 2y ago
I was hired at Twitter through HN a loonnng time ago, pre-IPO, when Twitter and Facebook were still "competing". I've also now hired several excellent engineers through the same means (not at Twitter). "Who's Hiring
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by rco8786 2y ago
Because there is no "reasoning" right? LLMs create output that appear to have been reasoned about, but this is not at all reality

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