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by schneems 3y ago
I’m curious if you looked at Heroku (I work there). You mention functions (which we don’t support), also servers (which we definitely support). I’m curious if that’s it or there was more to the decision.
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That’s why I’m asking for a retrospective. What went well? What could be better?
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> Operation Warp Speed I know you’re using this as as example. It has me curious though: I feel like this wasn’t a failure, but also could have been a lot more successful. This is just a gut feel, has there been any good quantitative ret
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Can you tell me how that changes the story for you?
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I’m curious what you use it for? Heroku (I work there) eco is $5 a month + $5 database ($120 a year). I understand that the use cases don’t perfectly overlap, so I’m curious about your use case.
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by schneems 3y ago
A thing I’ve considered: tying a Union mission to open source contribution. Remember when all those companies had free lunch and 20% contribution time? Then over the years those lunches got harder to find and slowly that 20% time got turned
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by schneems 3y ago
> Env vars cannot be changed at runtime You can specify env vars any time you boot up an image. I see this as a benefit. I use containers for production and don’t want wild ssh yolo modifications. I want to have very clear immutable inpu
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by schneems 3y ago
> Configuration needs to have cascading levels to make life easiest in dev, test and production without enormous setup time. The backdrop of when the 12factor app was written is that you can toggle modes like that with RAILS_ENV=test (an
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by schneems 3y ago
I did something like this at my last offsite. I also split the task into two sections, i think we traditionally use impact and cost/difficulty. Then we stack ranked ideas using a horizontal wall. Once for impact. Once for difficulty. T
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by schneems 3y ago
I would probably pay a thousand dollars if you could get NPG Van, Action Network, and Act Blue to never text or email me again. I’ve aggressively replied STOP and “delete and report spam” and unsubscribing from all communication for literal
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by schneems 3y ago
I think you’re basically saying that there are still no good known use cases for blockchain (/s but only a little)
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The reason we know that infants can die when they’re not held is because of a law that made both abortion and birth control illegal. A truly gruesome lesson learned in the most awful of ways. Romania Decree 770 Happened in 1967 and is the s
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by schneems 3y ago
I think you meant that question to be rhetorical and a hyperbole. However, I live in a deeply conservative state where education like “condoms exist, if you use them you will prevent pregnancy and disease” is somehow a very disturbing topic
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My two examples are intended to show the difficulty of optimizing for ease or joy in the force of a system with more influence. Capitalism is one such system, but it’s not the only system. What you’re describing is possible, and people do i
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by schneems 3y ago
I think about it while lifting. If I’m not struggling, I’m not growing (literally). I also feel it applies to my programming as well. I still get frustrated and annoyed and tripped up, but I can write more high quality code quicker now than
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by schneems 3y ago
I recommend the paper: Do Artifacts Have Politics. You can find it for free online if you search the title. It’s a classic HCI paper. Even if you disagree with everything I write, it’s worth reading. The paper asks the question (that you as
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by schneems 3y ago
There’s a different quote I also think about from bojack horseman when he is trying to get it in shape and is laying on a hill panting for breath. > Every day it gets a little easier… But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part.
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I looked it up and found this on Wikipedia: > Libertarian paternalism is similar to asymmetric paternalism, which refers to policies designed to help people who behave irrationally and so are not advancing their own interests, while inte
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That reminds me of another: the butter churn. For the first time many women produced a product that allowed them to leave the house and earn money that’s not associated with their partner. The butter churn was a huge step towards women’s li
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by schneems 3y ago
I mentioned in another comment about this. While it’s faster and more convenient, that convenience might not necessarily convert into more joy or ease in your life.
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Two posts about washing machines, one Greg LeMond quote. And my post about washing machines with a Greg LeMond quote.
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Ha, posted the same quote at the same time. Saw yours when the page refreshed.
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by schneems 3y ago
A quote I think about often in a variety of contexts: > It never gets easier you just get faster – Greg LeMond In my HCI class we read about a paper talking about the tech that was supposed to save everyone from so much toil: the washing
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by schneems 3y ago
So erowid recruiter?
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Surprised I don’t see any comments on “open” versus closed” games. A closed game is a puzzle with a definitive end and win condition. A closed game is a game of baseball. An open game is a career in baseball. In my book, How to Open Source,
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&mut Cow<Disease>
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I remember being upset about this and quite a few people saying some variation of “just use weather.app…it’s the same data. But it’s always been about the interface and the way you display that data. I mean heck, the weather channel uses pu
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A system is what it does. This system is extremely efficient at transferring wealth from Texans to corporations while killing them.
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For those who don’t know ENRON’s design still lives on in the Texas grid (serious). The Texas energy market was designed by ENRON. https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2021-07-23/heres-how-...
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Test test test. If that’s not enough, pick better tools. I’m rewriting bash scripts in rust at work because it gives me the ability to make many invalid states impossible to represent in code. Is it overkill? Maybe, but it is such a huge qu

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