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by skewart 11y ago
Sadly, there really is a lot of collaboration cargo culting these days. But it's interesting because in the large majority of fields the best outcomes really are in some ways collaborative efforts. The lone genius is actually extremely
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by skewart 11y ago
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with Rust the language in this context, but an API server doesn't really let Rust play to its relative strengths. Response times are more likely to be DB or I/O bound than
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by skewart 11y ago
As lots of comments have pointed out this is pretty useless in its current form. However, the general idea and direction is certainly worthwhile - a light and simple solution for the universal pain point that is CSS. A few ideas for where t
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by skewart 11y ago
I can see where this guy is coming from. Though he's obviously exaggerating things by a mile. SF is pretty ridiculous in a lot of ways. But I would take an SF as ridiculous as if everything he said were exactly true over one where ther
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by skewart 11y ago
Yup. It's still shockingly easy to find good beer at a reasonable price in the SFBA. Same for food if you know where to go. The only thing that's really hard to avoid spending way too much money on is housing.
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by skewart 11y ago
Interesting. But if, lets say, a data center in London where they have a lot of boxes goes down completely, then they spin up boxes in Frankfurt and Riga to take up the load and reroute traffic. Service is disrupted for some customers for
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by skewart 11y ago
Without knowing anything about your product or market it's really hard to say, but my gut reaction is to be skeptical that the incremental improvement strategy would work out better. Is there anything other than a "better" de
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by skewart 11y ago
Am I the only one who is a little shocked that a power outage could have such a huge effect and bring them down for so long? I'm not an infrastructure guy, and I don't know anything about Github's systems, but aren't da
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by skewart 11y ago
Perhaps. A VC portfolio full of unicorpses does look kinda like a bad neighborhood. Limited partners might get scared off. Or maybe a good VC firm that also has some huge hits would just explain that they're just swinging for the fence
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by skewart 11y ago
This is a good point. I think the need for new programs has actually decreased relative to the overall need for software solutions over the past, say, twenty years. Between the rise of open source and the fact that lots of software product
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by skewart 11y ago
I gather the author works for an agency. I wonder if this has colored their perception of startups. Maybe startups that hire agencies for various things are more likely to match the author's rather bleak description. A company that ac
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by skewart 11y ago
"frameworks are materialized expectations" I like that. It's a nice way to put it.
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by skewart 11y ago
I went down a similar path a few years ago when starting a new project. Instead of learning a new framework I wrote my own. It took less time overall, since the logic wasn't especially hard to write, and it was easier to debug - at fir
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by skewart 11y ago
Honestly, thanks for pointing out that what I said sounded inflammatory. The general civility and appreciation for thoughtful, measured posts is one of the best things about HN. I don't want to disturb that culture - it's all to r
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by skewart 11y ago
The only way for this to work for them is if the ad is controversial enough that people talk about it online after the game. Being incredibly condescending might work. It's definitely an obnoxious strategy, and it's kind of sad t
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by skewart 11y ago
Your parents aren't SoFi's target market. Their target market are the people most likely to be looking at their phones. I agree that it's probably easy for the HN crowd to think mass TV advertising is over, when it actually
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by skewart 11y ago
This could make for a really interesting data visualization. There are probably lots of things we do as programmers that are insignificant in the context of our own systems, but are so culturally ubiquitous that they add up to an enormous i
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by skewart 11y ago
Except that I doubt they'd want their entire output to end up in fleets. The margins are far lower. The whole trend away from personal ownership of cars is very bad for manufacturers because it changes the buying decision from an emoti
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by skewart 11y ago
Can someone explain a business use case for a blockchain-based data store? What is a situation where someone is going to say "let's use a blockchain solution instead of just replicating a traditional db across several data center
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by skewart 11y ago
I recently built a small service running on Lambda as part of a data pipeline. It doesn't get called very often, so it's well within the free tier. It's far from core functionality, and we wanted to just stick it somewhere w
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by skewart 11y ago
Goto method/variable definition would be really nice! I would definitely use it if you made that. Github's keyboard shortcuts are nice, but there is lots of room for improvement in how you navigate code.
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by skewart 11y ago
Actually, joining the NSA and pulling another Snowden would be great. In fact, if a handful of people did this it could get the ball rolling and encourage more people to speak up who have long felt uncomfortable, but aren't willing to
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by skewart 11y ago
I was about to jump on that bet too. Regardless of the technical hurdles, I would bet the regulatory hurdles alone are too big for 3 years. 5 year? Maybe not. 10 years? Hail no. But 3 years is a very short amount of time to get everyth
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by skewart 11y ago
The only difference between ideas and execution is scale. When people say execution is more important than ideas what they're really saying is that the small-scale ideas are more valuable than large-scale ideas. Having a bunch of reall
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by skewart 11y ago
Perhaps. Although, stealth mode isn't necessarily driven by a fear of copycats. In many cases it's about hiding the fact that a company doesn't entirely know what they're doing while they try to figure things out. This s
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by skewart 11y ago
Nice. I'm really curious to see how messaging emerges as a UI for more and more different things. I'm curious about the specific use cases for this bot. Is the idea that it could be the primary place that a person stores and shar
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by skewart 11y ago
Really nice and insightful post. Two thoughts came to mind when I was reading: 1) The temptation to write code because it will feel good to write it - maybe it's a really clever solution, or maybe you've been itching to try some n
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by skewart 11y ago
A couple of friends of mine got into polyphasic sleep a while back. They were huge fans of it, and basically said they felt more energized and well-rested as a result. I don't think they ever tried to radically reduce the total number
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by skewart 11y ago
FYI, the link you posted returns a 502. When I manually changed the URL to request http instead of https (the link is https) things worked just fine. Enki seems fantastic. I really like the idea of learning and building skills in small ch
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by skewart 11y ago
I really liked the post. I'd be curious to hear more about the process of finding work from people who have made the leap into consulting. The post mentions networking and just doing everything you can to increase your chances of meeti

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