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by sk5t 6y ago
The cap on SALT deductions is insane. More punishment for having to pay city and state taxes...
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by sk5t 6y ago
What are those two ops-focused folks doing with the other 95% of their time? Are we talking about two developers who are willing to spend 5-10% time on non-promotable server chores--while yet being on the hook in the event of a hardware di
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by sk5t 6y ago
What drew you to using S3 in the first place while also discounting the risk that it might get a lot of use, and thus a lot of cost? Like, if a 100MB file in a public bucket got a bazillion downloads, did you not want that to happen?
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by sk5t 6y ago
Well, was most of that $500 for storage costs, or for network? Surely you don't expect the monthly bill to include details about particular files or bucket sizes? Have you enabled CloudTrail logging and/or VPC flow logs? It&#x27
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by sk5t 6y ago
'z' should work well here - 'z D B'
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by sk5t 6y ago
I should have included the context that my notes pertain somewhat more to Postgres than other database systems; "USE" may work for MSSQL (and others) where the database is treated as more of a namespace concept, whereas Postgres r
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by sk5t 6y ago
If you make one database per tenant, then some issues to consider might nevertheless include maintaining many versions of the schema, separate backup scripts (other than backing up the entire cluster/instance), busting query cache, bus
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by sk5t 6y ago
AKA row-level security - my gut says this feature is not too frequently used in SaaS, to the extent it may bust connection pooling, requires synchronization of database accounts and application identities, etc.--or else pushing some kind of
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by sk5t 6y ago
> I think it is wrong for a huge store of grain to sit full behind a barb wire fence while people starve outside If only the world worked by such simplistic rules... take the grain, and thus steal from / starve the farmer or the peo
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by sk5t 6y ago
Perhaps LVM snapshots are an option for Linux rollback?
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by sk5t 6y ago
Any third-party antivirus or other corporate compliance-ware? Google FS and AV don't work so well together.
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by sk5t 6y ago
Heh. I mean only that HN'ers are too fussy to sell to. People do indeed love gadgets and other vehicles to try to fill the void. Why is why I intend to build a domed brick and clay bread/pizza oven in the backyard when time and
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by sk5t 6y ago
A business built to sell grill gadgets to the HN crowd sounds like a guaranteed recipe for failure. Anyhow, folks who are serious about preparing smoked brisket, ribs, etc., are very particular about the temperature of both the air/smo
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by sk5t 6y ago
The public wanting something does not mean it “should happen.” Moreover the public does not want premature reopening.
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by sk5t 6y ago
Is is too uncharitable of me to think of Tillable as a VC-funded vehicle to make sharecropping even worse than it already was?
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by sk5t 6y ago
> Coming from Java to JavaScript, I really, really yearn for the equivalent of ThreadLocals While I understand why you feel that way today, you may find yourself some point in the future deeply, deeply detesting ThreadLocal. Sure it see
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by sk5t 6y ago
> The problem is that your split-up async function ceases to be a normal function. It doesn't use the stack in a similar way Have you taken the CLR (a.k.a. .NET / C#) async await for a spin? Microsoft's done a great job o
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by sk5t 6y ago
I've done it with Apache POI, and while that 'worked' it doesn't wash away the fundamental problems with Excel datatype guessing. CSV is not great either (no fun explaining encoding or invisible control characters and u
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by sk5t 6y ago
That is a good occasion to curse Excel (how does it know the number isn't octal, too?) and also curse the person or group that designed a textual coding system consisting of digits with leading zeros. Looking at you, National Drug Cod
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by sk5t 6y ago
Excel, while amazing on its own, is horrible for exchanging data in so many ways. I've maintained a policy at my company (life sciences) not to accept Excel files in any automated process; while parsing csv/tsv is a pain, xlsx&#x
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by sk5t 6y ago
I entirely disagree with the notion that Windows is strongest in SMB. Active Directory + GPO + various third-party device management stuff, plus the depth of Office-related integrations, and Microsoft's absolutely massive track record
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by sk5t 6y ago
I also find this baffling, restaurants keep a very close eye on ingredient cost.
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by sk5t 6y ago
In the FROM clause -- although I understand future versions of pgsql will address this, the "WITH foo AS ... " approach can be horribly wasteful, materializing all the results, whereas "SELECT * FROM ( SELECT f(x) AS a FROM b
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by sk5t 6y ago
Security or ultimate convenience, choose up to one.
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by sk5t 6y ago
I'd ding the over-use of CTEs, when subselects are often more appropriate and better-performing. Kind of a "every problem a nail" thing going on here.
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by sk5t 6y ago
True for inflation, but what we're more accustomed to seeing lately is stagflation.
447.
by sk5t 6y ago
A fortune cookie is one possibility, or perhaps this particular fortune was written on blotter paper.
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by sk5t 7y ago
$250k is indeed not big money in DC / NYC / Boston. Consider that such a single income, after taxes, would be just about adequate to quality for a mortgage on a well-appointed toolshed in Nantucket.
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by sk5t 7y ago
Perhaps it's not something folks feel comfortable discussing--were these neutral or negative reactions from acquaintances and coworkers, or from close friends?
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by sk5t 7y ago
Many of the cases seemed to be focused on arrays, which in my non-exhaustive experience you'll see more of in postgres than in other platforms. Same for lateral join, hstore, jsonb...

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