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by rewma 5y ago
> What? Your asserting against things that are plainly true today. Like I understand not believing that sharing equity is a good incentive, but literally denying the current day reality is just weird. Maybe some dissonance going on. I ma
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by rewma 5y ago
> Anything with user generated content. I'm sorry but that is meaningless. I was hoping for a concrete, tangible example, but this sounds an awful lot like handwaving and question marks preceding the inexplicable "profit"
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by rewma 5y ago
> Presumably the GP's data is external and therefore not checkable or inferrable by typescript. There is no such thing as external data that is not checkable or inferable by typescript. That's what type assertion functions and
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by rewma 5y ago
> Hard disagree - actually the usefulness is numerous, it’s the protocol(s) I think that either doom it or fracture it’s use. Ok I'll bite: in your opinion what is the absolute best application you associate with the web3 keyword, a
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by rewma 5y ago
> The problem is that I have perfectly valid collections of data (...) and static typing systems make this very powerful and legitimate task a nightmare. What leads you to believe that static typing turns a task that essencially boils do
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by rewma 5y ago
> We will work the kinks out of this protocol, as well. It's not a protocol problem, it's a purposefulness problem. You can have the most perfectly oiled and flawless Rube Goldberg machine, but that doesn't mean it manages
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by rewma 5y ago
>If there comes a real usecase that the average consumer cares about, it could happen. Right now it doesn't seem like it will, but I could be wrong ofc. Perhaps there is a concrete usecase that drives all this hype: come up with a c
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by rewma 5y ago
> You sound like someone in the 90s talking about web1 The web became popular because it solved a myriad of problems that people cared about, from text and voice communication to meeting new people. If you cannot come up with any real wo
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by rewma 5y ago
> While I agree that Qt is an excellent tool in itself, and I love using it for development, it remains a fact that people wanting to use it will need to first learn a not so excellent programming language, C++ [1]. I'd say the oppo
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by rewma 5y ago
> FWIW, I am personally shocked that anyone wants to buy small pieces of cardboard (...) I fail to see the relevance of your personal preferences to the discussion, as my point was that the cases I'm aware of sound an awful lot like
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by rewma 5y ago
> Whether the data representation is a piece of cardboard or a JSON string replicated on 10,000 Ethereum nodes or a tulip or a Venmo balance is arbitrary; it just matters whether a lot of humans are looking at the same thing. And for the
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by rewma 5y ago
> The moment anyone emails me about diversity and inclusion, I’m forwarding that to my boss to deal with. Professor was walking through a minefield. The professor's point is that no professor should have to walk through mine fields
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by rewma 5y ago
> He claims he lost his private contracts because he was suspended. No, not really. He claims that he lost the lion's share of his income because the Anderson administration not only suspended him but also started attacking his char
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by rewma 5y ago
> With Cloudflare Workers, it's dead simple. As long as your Worker runs in <50ms, it costs $0.0000005 per run. I'm not sure you're looking at the problem right. I mean, if you write your AWS Lambda code to do the same
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by rewma 5y ago
> No. The really are. By Cloudflare's ow docs, Cloudflare workers are just scripts that are designed to be executed before a request hits the cache. Quite the far cry from what AWS Lambda offers, which is a generic compute platform
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by rewma 5y ago
> Aren't Cloudflare Workers more comparable to AWS Lambda@Edge than regular Lambda? Yes that's my point. Unlike AWS Lambda, the usefulness of Cloudflare Workers is very specialized and narrow, like adding response headers or up
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by rewma 5y ago
> They eat serverless/lambda as in AWS/GCP lunch Aren't Cloudflare Workers a very specialized kind of lambda that's severely resource constrained and whose runtime is capped at 15ms? If anything Cloudflare Workers com
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by rewma 5y ago
> I agree, following a “best practice” without understanding the “bad practice” that it’s trying to prevent is silly. But just discarding best practices because no one understands the reasons behind is also silly. I would argue that ther
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by rewma 5y ago
> Ours are all python, none node. In many cases they replaced existing (non-Lambda) python code, though others were green. Why rewrite the code, or switch to node for greenfield stuff? We'd need a compelling reason to adopt node, no
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by rewma 5y ago
Well, call me surprised. Personally I never bothered using Python runtimes in a production environment, mainly because NodeJS is widely described as pretty much the ideal lambda runtime, and as far as I know there is absolutely no compellin
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by rewma 5y ago
> This is awesome, saving that much money can be great for startups. This doesn't sound very realistic. Cost-conscious organizations would hardly consider lambdas as a reasonable option unless you're well within the free tier l
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by rewma 5y ago
> A ~50% price/performance boost isn't negligible, but it's also not very compelling. My take is that a 50% discount in price/performance and a 20% discount in price per execution unit that's only a toggle flip a
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by rewma 5y ago
> Ideally on Serverless infrastructure the system would "move" jobs around so they run on the optimal platform for what they are doing continuously? (Based on price or based on raw compute etc) AWS Lambda supports about half a
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by rewma 5y ago
> This seems pretty huge ('19% better performance at 20% lower cost') I believe the performance boost will not be meaningful and the only important factor is cost per GB*s, given that most Lambda workloads are IO bound or simpl
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by rewma 5y ago
For those out of the loop, the Airbus A220 is actually the Bombardier C-Series, the plane that posed such a threat to Boeing and it's 737 that they outright tried to kill Bombardier with shady regulatory practices to avoid having to co
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by rewma 5y ago
> Many normal taxi drivers are now without jobs, and suddenly the risk seems bigger than just venture capital. I've lost count of how many times I call an Uber and I end up getting a taxi. I guess IMMV but from my vantage point I&#x
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by rewma 5y ago
> If only Hacker News crowd noticed when thousands of videos with interviews, medical lectures, news footage and even congressional testimonies were removed for political reasons within the last couple years. Do you happen to have any re
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by rewma 5y ago
> I don't have enough disk space to archive every video I've every watched. You don't need to. It would be enough to allow users to download all videos by default as a sort of local cache, have settings for max cache size
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by rewma 5y ago
> That’s the cynical approach, but most companies don’t actually want to lose valuable employees. By Amazon's measuring stick and internal policies, underperforming employees are to be discarded almost immediately, after undergoing
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by rewma 5y ago
> Would you expect to keep getting paid on paternity leave for 2 years? First of all, the article does not talk about leaving for 2 years. I feel you are intentionally trying to put a strawman to avoif debating the real problem. Secondly

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