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by rednafi 2y ago
Relational databases are indeed fun. There's no such thing as schemaless data; the schema either lives in your database or in your code. In the case of Dynamo, the schema lives in your code, determined by your access patterns. The prob
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by rednafi 2y ago
It's not rational at all. India and China are huge, and subjecting them to the same quota as a tiny island is irrational.
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by rednafi 2y ago
The quota is fixed per country. For India and China it gets filled immediately. So the sentiment is that they’re no longer considered minority as quotas from other countries are barely filled.
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by rednafi 2y ago
I saw it first hand. My Indian colleagues mentioned that their queue to transition from H1B to green card is impossibly long. It’s just how the numbers work. There are just too many Indians applicants and not enough seats.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Indeed. As you should. Indians and Chinese are no longer considered minorities in the US, so it makes sense to curb the influx. However, the problem is that the US tech market is volatile, with zero job security. Since H1B makes it difficul
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by rednafi 2y ago
H1B is a pain-in-the-ass, plain and simple. It’s designed to hoard a particularly talented and desperate group of people willing to do anything to get into the US and work in big tech. After the Twitter saga, two of my acquaintances had to
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by rednafi 2y ago
> Even in Berlin, which is often touted as a "tech hub", working at a startup is still this novel little thing and I'd bet half the people in them couldn't tell you who Paul Graham is. Oh, absolutely. There’s also ple
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by rednafi 2y ago
No, thank you. DynamoDB promotes a terrible dev workflow, and there’s no way around it. It’s like embedding S3 directly into your application code. The client libraries are gigantic, and the documentation is misleading at times. Plus, Dynam
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by rednafi 2y ago
Just like everything else, it depends. I moved from the US to Europe mostly because I didn’t have the patience to deal with the H1B visa nonsense. However, Europe feels kind of dead compared to the US. For instance, I had more job opportuni
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Forty Years of Programming(fabiensanglard.net)
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by rednafi 2y ago
Umm what? India has a lower per capita income and worse quality of life than Bangladesh. https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/bangladesh/indi...
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by rednafi 2y ago
You either deal with mass immigration or address your population decline—there’s no way around it. Historically, Nordic countries haven’t had much experience with immigration, and Sweden’s poorly managed policies make that painfully clear.
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by rednafi 2y ago
10x sound a bit wayward but I get your point.
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> there's no career path there That's because the wage is terrible. IDK if the R&D cost of the robots offsets the cost of paying people to take care of the elderly at all.
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by rednafi 2y ago
For a moment, I thought this was about the Dragonfly database—the Redis alternative—and my morning brain couldn't parse the title at all.
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by rednafi 2y ago
These countries will do anything but incentivize young people to have kids. Like, hello—affordable housing, sustainable work, and a good work-life balance could actually help with that too!
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Go 1.24 Interactive Tour(antonz.org)
1 points by rednafi 2y ago|0 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
I completely understand the need for protectionism. That said, Sweden's immigration policy ranks among the worst in Western countries. I'm not saying there shouldn't be any pushback; rather, my point is that these policies ar
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Go 1.24 Interactive Tour(twitter.com)
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by rednafi 2y ago
It depends. I write because I genuinely enjoy the process of sharing my thoughts and documenting what I’ve learned. Another reason I’ve kept my blog going for over the last half decade[1] is that I find myself constantly referring back to i
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by rednafi 2y ago
The issue is that countries expect foreigners to bring in money, earn a lot, and pay taxes at the 90th percentile, but they’re (the locals) reluctant to share resources in return. A 100% taxation model turns it into a one-way street. Sure,
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by rednafi 2y ago
I wouldn't be as harsh on LLMs as I was on blockchain. Blockchain didn't solve a single problem I had or understood. In contrast, LLMs already solve a few boring and annoying problems for me, which I find quite valuable.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Usability. The use case of GenAI is pretty clear at this point. With blockchain, the big question was, "Okay, we have this cool tech, but what do we do with it now?" If you have to think about what problem a tool solves, it's
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by rednafi 2y ago
Native dark mode is not worth the effort in most cases. There are extensions that you can use to do it yourself if you want.
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by rednafi 2y ago
"Weirdo technical shamans"—lmao, I’m borrowing this. The whole FP community is like that. It’s all fun and games until you ask, "But what did you build with it?"
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by rednafi 2y ago
Oh, I’m glad this Rust fad has died down. Rust is great, but it’s not replacing C or C++. The most annoying part of this fanaticism, though, was that people were legitimately proposing Rust as an alternative to Go or Python. Those two solve
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by rednafi 2y ago
This is the actual answer. The staged-up "we replaced 30% of our employees with AI" narrative is concocted for two reasons: - To garner VC money - To drive down wages and make employees more fungible It doesn’t matter if it’s tr
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by rednafi 2y ago
> Good point. To what extent do employers even see this as experience, though? In my experience, they don’t care at all. Maybe I’m looking at this wrong. I don’t know to what extent this is considered experience either. That said, the hi
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by rednafi 2y ago
The tech itself works, unlike blockchain, but the narratives are way overblown. I know a few small companies that have legitimately let people go without even having a proper replacement. The leadership then hyped up Devin or whatever, only
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by rednafi 2y ago
Oh, I like LLMs and use them all the time. But that doesn't change the fact that CEOs are lying to get more VC money. No one is replacing 30% of their workforce with AI. This whole narrative is spun to attract fad investments. I don’t

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