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by smugworth 7y ago
The risk of counterfeits means I will rarely buy anything electronic from Amazon. On the other hand, take a category like pet toys. Cheap plastic things where I'm not concerned with getting the genuine article, like a collapsible dog b
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by smugworth 7y ago
If the tire had closed sidewalls, you'd never know someone had the new tires without obtrusive labelling. Open sidewalls market themselves, not only do you see it's a different tire, you see it's an entirely different tire de
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by smugworth 7y ago
I love F-strings, my only gripe is the chosen syntax for invoking them. For starters, F may or may not be capitalized, so these two lines are identical. F"My string with {interpolated_value}" f'My string with {interpol
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by smugworth 8y ago
Funny you should mention Kafka. Jay Kreps, Jun Rao, and Neha Narkhede, formerly of LinkedIn who worked on Kafka, left to form Confluent. They provide support, managed cloud, and licenses for their own flavors of Kafka and ecosystem add-ons,
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by smugworth 8y ago
It always seems to me like security solutions rarely take into account usability and user experience. Even something which should be simple like configuring a client to use SSL over plaintext can block productivity for a multitude of reason
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by smugworth 9y ago
> I love the concepts Kafka defines so clearly, but the software is too complex and have dozens of knobs you have to adjust. This is one of our biggest headaches, and it's not even that a Kafka server itself is so configurable. We h
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by smugworth 9y ago
I think the strategy of "monolith first" isn't a poor one, but it is a little humorous to see someone who makes part of their living helping companies break apart their monoliths advocate it.
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by smugworth 9y ago
I'm working on a team for a platform built on open-source software which actively replaced a previous IBM solution, and there are more services from other vendors being phased out in favor of internally developed tooling. Seems like a
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by smugworth 9y ago
C'mon man, I hadn't had my coffee yet that morning.