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by remus 3y ago
I like fiddling with databases, but I totally agree with this. Unless you really need a big database and are going to save 100k+ per year by going self managed then RDS or similar just saves you so much stress. We've been using it for
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by remus 3y ago
I think this is a pretty interesting phenomenon, and I think it mostly comes down to team size and the need to make money. On a passion project you're not getting paid which means expectations are low, you're not obliged to do any
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by remus 3y ago
> Just that you can run a single command as admin? I mean, that's sudo's whole thing! [1] You can live your day to day terminal life without the risk of borking things too badly, then when you occasionally need to elevate to hi
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by remus 3y ago
Be careful about combining 2 pieces of information in to 1 column. From the above examples, you may want something to uniquely identify a record in your db and you may want something that tells you when the record was created. If you combin
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by remus 3y ago
I suspect the GP was being facetious, but the point that meta is massive is a good one imo. With billions of users your platform can become 'the largest market for x' for many niche use cases without it really saying much about th
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by remus 3y ago
> There's this idea that when you assess programmers in a job interview they should be assessed whilst stripped of their knowledge tools - absolute bunk. If your recruiting process trips candidates of knowledge tools then you'r
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by remus 3y ago
This is true, but as the parent mentioned you also need to understand the nature of the breach first. Giving people accurate information is as important as giving them timely information.
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by remus 3y ago
Optimisation isn't necessarily handwritten assembly, sometimes you just need to squeeze a little extra juice out of your current setup whether that happens to be a python application or some c code.
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by remus 3y ago
I also think apple's 30% cut is excessive, but I don't think this line of argument helps. We should discuss the points on their merits, not based on who's making them and how much money they have.
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by remus 3y ago
Yeah, I often wonder what threshold people use when they say they picked up a language in x hours/days/weeks. I guess it's largely a matter of opinion, but like you I consider a working understanding of the standard library,
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by remus 3y ago
I mean, I don't think that's unreasonable. You are being paid by your employer after all, and part of the deal is that you agree, to a large extent, to do things the way your employer wants. If you think it is a big issue you can
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by remus 3y ago
> what the hell did the 24% of the studies do wrong? Why aren't the people who made them expunged from the community for doing questionable research? I think 'expunging people from the community' is a pretty risky path to
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I don't think it is so black and white. The original authors made trade offs that made sense at the time, but in the intervening period the context has changed and those trade offs don't necessarily make sense. The parents point i
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by remus 3y ago
I assume it's just getting a lot of traffic from HN and github have some limits in place to stop it being abused for content hosting. I imagine it'll start working again once the traffic goes back to normal.
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by remus 3y ago
Video IDs are generated by hashing a a secret identifier, so they should be uniformly distributed.
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> you will screw this up if you roll your own. The only secure option is to push as much as possible outside of your infrastructure. In my experience the integration with outside infra (OAuth, OIDC etc.) carries significant complications
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by remus 3y ago
A round of funding in between major rounds of funding, often in the form of more cash from existing investors. https://learn.angellist.com/articles/bridge-round
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by remus 3y ago
> How in the world did it take fifteen months for regulators to reject this? Presumably regulators in a few countries were interested, each with their own processes, and presumably there's some fairly significant back and forth betw
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by remus 3y ago
> However, I've seen enough people babbling into a 720p web cam already having a 10k subscription base to assume it's possible to start something without spending whole days every week on the channel. Sure, but for every channe
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I hate the 'unlimited' marketing too, but as a user it pays to engage your brain in these situations. Selling a service for significantly less than it costs to run is a risky business strategy, so best case you keep getting great
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by remus 3y ago
> It's a common (and unfortunate) practice. It would be nice if third party clients were allowed to connect, but it's totally understandable if they don't want to allow it. Servers cost money, and misbehaving client apps t
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by remus 3y ago
I think this is a pretty sensible approach. Git feels like one of those tools where you are given a lot of power but it's your responsibility to use it in a sensible way. A bit like with Excel or spreadsheets. You can do a lot but you
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by remus 3y ago
Outside of major public figures it's not that unusual. Writing an obit. takes time, especially for lesser known figures where you may need to contact friends and family (who may be grieving) for information about the person's life
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by remus 3y ago
> How's that? Its algorithm is not exactly making the world a better place. It's filled with propaganda from all corners of the political spectrum with about zero responsibility. I think this is true, but youtube is also a plat
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In which case they'd be lying and selling you something under false pretences. Obviously it can happen, but it's a risky thing and something a lot of businesses would want to avoid.
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> Realistically no-one will tell you that the thing you want to buy is illegally harvested wood. They might tell you if it has been harvested legally though, as that is often a selling point. And if they don't know and can't fi
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There's also loads of crossover with the tooling they use to run all their own services.
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Personally I read it a little differently, more along the lines of "I didn't realise Nokia was that big! Are they involved in other sectors I don't know about?"
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An internal version has been used within Google since ~2012 and the GCP version has been available since 2017. It's used extensively within Google. It's not going to be deprecated any time soon.
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by remus 3y ago
I know the spanner marketing blurb says you can scale down etc. But I think in practice spanner is primarily aimed at use cases where you'd struggle to fit everything in a single postgres instance. Having said that I guess I broadly ag

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