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by solatic 3y ago
If it has two wheels ("bicycle") and a motor ("motorized bicycle") then it is a "motorcycle". Declining to call it a motorcycle because the motor is small relative to other motorcycles is little more than snobb
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by solatic 3y ago
IDEs: AWS offers Cloud9, the free option is VSCode, the premium option is Jetbrains. Version control: AWS offers CodeCommit, the free option is Gitea, the premium option is GitHub/GitLab. Security scanners: that's pretty broad, bu
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by solatic 3y ago
Sorry, all this piece did was illustrate how auth is turning into an undifferentiated commodity market, not why FusionAuth is better than the alternatives. In this market, there are three winners: BigCloud's Pareto offering giving you
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I don't think of impermanence as a tool for development setups, but rather a tool to improve production security. When a server gets compromised, it's common for an attacker to leverage their initial access to set up backdoor acce
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by solatic 3y ago
Hard agree with the YAGNI conclusion. There's a certain minimal amount of complexity needed to build your system, you need a good reason to build out another layer of indirection / abstraction here, something like needing web + mo
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by solatic 3y ago
This. People who disagree - why not write in Haskell?
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It's implied that it isn't easy to distinguish them during interviews . After they join your team, it's very easy to distinguish them.
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> it's very fucking challenging to run a group of people remotely. It's very fucking hard to take a relatively random group of people who are used to working together in person, throw them behind screens with little more suppor
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> A community. And the friends that come with it. You make it sound like a therapist doesn't do any work, they just get paid to sit there and socialize. There's a huge amount of emotional labor for therapists, like building t
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Bought HCP at the IPO, took a massive paper loss when the tech bubble in the market burst, but held onto the stock as a long-term hold because I believed in the core of the company. Fuck this, I'm selling just as soon as the market ope
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by solatic 3y ago
You limit builders by forcing anything they build to hold an alpha/beta/preview label, where it doesn't graduate to having the full backing of the company if maintainers can't fill in the rest of what's necessary fo
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by solatic 3y ago
> In the creative IC model, the designer and developer work to solve a problem based on their experience building product. This is great for helping to build products, not companies. Companies are larger than just their products; they al
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by solatic 3y ago
GCP and AWS both support sharing a single VPC across multiple GCP projects / AWS accounts. See e.g.: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery... It's not for the faint of heart though. You
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by solatic 3y ago
> your particular cloud provider Just this week, I wrote a Terraform module that uses the GCP, Kubernetes, and Cloudflare providers to allow us to bring up a single business-need (that will be needed, hopefully, many times in the future)
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by solatic 3y ago
To any HN reader who wants to read it - because it relies on the :visited CSS property, just open it in a private window in your browser.
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by solatic 3y ago
> Most internet apps are read-heavy, there are more reads than writes, so largely it makes sense to deal with the latency on writes. We can do this by forwarding the writes to some leader for that piece of data (e.g. the log for username
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by solatic 3y ago
Honestly? Start by hiring more therapists and social workers for the prison system, so that the ones in the prison system actually have a manageable caseload and truly focus on what individual prisoners need. You'd need to borrow from
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by solatic 3y ago
> well-run teams with tests and CI Well-run by what criteria? Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy points out that any large-enough organization (certainly F100's are large enough to count) will be run by people who take care of
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by solatic 3y ago
Doesn't sound like a refutation of the article to me. There's a difference between using communication to keep gang ties strong, and using communication to keep family ties strong. A difference between incarceration of people who
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by solatic 3y ago
And whether an online shop uses Shopify or WooCommerce also makes no difference from the point of view of that shop's customers ;) > your old links will stop working As long as your main website hostname is the same, you have 404s s
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by solatic 3y ago
I don't disagree that there are benefits to running your own servers, just that it's not worth the cost unless you need it. When I buy a car, I may own the car, but I'm at the mercy of whoever for parts and service, which
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by solatic 3y ago
Are you a developer for a Fortune 100? The only thing that matters in large + long-lived engineering organizations is organizational buy-in, and that's only remotely possible with LTS, because anything with shorter upgrade cycles takes
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> which powers their onlineshop or blog or whatever they run Why are small businesses like that running their own servers? Pay for the most managed service you can - if it's an online shop, then something like Shopify; if it's
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by solatic 3y ago
It's an emotional thing. When you spend formative years in a financial condition where food expenses were significant, and free food significantly eased financial pressure on you, that reaction to free food can stick with you long af
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> I honestly don't think that digital identity should be managed by governments or corporations, they already have too much leverage over individuals The reason why it needs to be managed by the government is because legal contracts
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Bear in mind as well, you need to be earning a ton for the tax savings to offset the price of flights + price differential of short-term housing compared to long-term housing. You may have moral reasons for not wanting to pay taxes to a p
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> Wouldn't be better to add more opportunities equality instead of hardening it? I couldn't agree more, but you gotta apply the right leverage to the right problem, put the round pegs in the round holes and the square pegs in t
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> there's a lot of trust in that model No, there isn't. It's basically an OAuth login flow. The spec is publicly documented, anyone can register applications and check if the government is responding as desired, both by co
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> Being a Russian passport holder who lives abroad for years, I don't want to be in touch with my gov in any way possible, and moreover depend on it. Real identity doesn't necessarily mean passport. It can mean, for example, a
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> or maybe your Electronic National ID card This is the actual missing key bit. The problem that Google is trying to solve here is not actually a hardware / computational problem, it's a Real Identity problem. Hardware / T

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