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by rco8786 3y ago
> it's a weird habit on HN to refer to random rumours that have discouraged you from trying something, and then explicitly not link to even the source of the random thing you're thinking of. I don't know about you, but I d
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by rco8786 3y ago
I think both you and the author are kind of dancing around this point: It's fine to choose a large market, as long as you niche down your specific offering with a differentiating factor specific to that niche which, in effect, shrinks
903.
by rco8786 3y ago
Is there like a TLDR or something? This is an enormous amount of text.
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by rco8786 3y ago
I frequently refer to this as “It would be cool if” driven development. Crucial to fight against this kind of stuff.
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by rco8786 3y ago
This guy is so tone deaf it's astonishing
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by rco8786 3y ago
That was me specifically talking about Java. You can disagree with it, but it’s certainly not a straw man.
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by rco8786 3y ago
This doesn’t describe any language or framework I’ve worked in so hard not to conclude that it’s some sort of straw man
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by rco8786 3y ago
Kudos to you for trying this. Every time I open a Java project after spending time in literally any other language I get saddened by just how...cluttered? wordy? tedious? it is...hard to find the right word, but it's not good.
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by rco8786 3y ago
That has nothing to do with what we're talking about here, 200 miles is still an extreme distance from humans to hospitals in this country
910.
by rco8786 3y ago
We're done, we've done that. Global population is flatlining. What else do you want
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by rco8786 3y ago
Yes, more up front resources, way fewer over the lifetime of the vehicle. That's the trade.
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by rco8786 3y ago
Yea I see the same things, from an otherwise intelligent and thoughtful HN crowd too. One of the comments is "Less people are better for the environment, no matter their lifestyle.". Like wtf? What are we supposed to do with that
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by rco8786 3y ago
> I have heard in some places in the US, people need to travel close to 200 miles one-way to get to a hospital This seems like it would be the extreme end of rural living in the US, but certainly some people live in those places. And yes
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by rco8786 3y ago
Not mutually exclusive things, at all. Most (all?) metros in the US are currently on a "density" kick also and I hope it continues...it's also a multi-generational problem where electric cars will probably go from niche thing
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by rco8786 3y ago
That description of Meta sounds like a high level of disfunction that has nothing to do with remote or in person.
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by rco8786 3y ago
Because very few companies want to take that risk. Startups take the risk because they have little/nothing to lose.
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by rco8786 3y ago
Yea it’s not about short or long term, it’s just about shareholders and risk management. And honestly the system actually works pretty well. Incumbents do the thing that got them the incumbent spot, and new challengers try risky stuff to se
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by rco8786 3y ago
Right I'm just saying that's not correct. It's easy to view history through a very positive lens...nostalgia (even nostalgia for something you did not personally experience) is a powerful drug. I have a lot of nostalgia for w
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by rco8786 3y ago
You can always lower your price back to market. Pricing yourself out means you've spent the last N years getting paid top dollar. I'll take it.
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by rco8786 3y ago
It's totally inactionable though. "Build interesting things", "meet great people". It sounds nice but it's completely hollow. Not to mention "what looks good on a CV" is actually a really important th
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by rco8786 3y ago
None of that matters. If you can get into FAANG your best option is to cram leetcode and get into FAANG (or FAANG-lite...basically any reasonably well known public tech co with Silicon Valley roots). You can learn whatever you need while yo
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by rco8786 3y ago
> just a mirage of a better time Don't fall into the "good ol' days" trap. There were more than enough problems/challenges/frustrations to go around back then too.
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by rco8786 3y ago
> Oddly, while parallelism didn't turn out to matter much, concurrency did This is true, but I don't think for the reason the author may think. Basically, parallelism in a single process is hard as hell and nobody can do it rel
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by rco8786 3y ago
Man talking about starting with a conclusion and searching for the narrative.
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by rco8786 3y ago
> You're making a bold assumption, that someone wants to wear this headset when relaxing. Raises hand . I'm in for that. I'm a VR fan but my soapbox has always been that AR is the true future. > Also, a TV can be watch
926.
by rco8786 3y ago
There are plenty of genuinely good reasons to split up monoliths. I’m not attempting to say that all SOA is bad. What I am saying is that companies who break apart monoliths as a code organization tool are making a very bad decision. They
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by rco8786 3y ago
> splitting up tech isn't much more overhead. This is the fallacy. Splitting up tech has huge overhead. There’s lots of good reasons to do it. But “operational efficiency” is not one of them, even though it’s oft cited as one.
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by rco8786 3y ago
This is true when you have 1 microservice. When you have dozens of them waterfalling requests through each other it starts adding up really fast.
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by rco8786 3y ago
I don’t think most modern Rails deployments have this problem anymore. Puma does pretty well with parallelization
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by rco8786 3y ago
Yes! I call them “modular monoliths” and fight tooth and nail to get people to stop introducing network when it doesn’t need to be there. I want to make people do Bart Simpson style writing on the chalkboard “Microservices don’t make things

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