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by thr0w 2y ago
> How does seeing "generate image" on WordPress make you fume? HN crowd is increasingly threatened by new technology.
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by thr0w 2y ago
Try Gearspace.
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> Think about the L7+ who built EC2, DDB, EBS, S3, SQS, and etc. Does the average L7 person architect those services significantly, or just kinda maintain them? It's almost crazy to think about any old AWS employee (granted L7 is up
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by thr0w 2y ago
While it seems clear that general vibe is trending to the negative, it's interesting to me that everyone has their own slant on it. My personal issue with Graham is that his writings are all trite common sense-isms dressed up as compli
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by thr0w 2y ago
> I’ll continue using my SE 1st Gen with 4 inch screen for as long as I can. I held on for so long, but even with a healthy battery, modern apps just crush it. I'd open Uber and go from 100% to 60% by the time my ride arrived. Caved
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by thr0w 2y ago
> Have been doing contract work - currently doing AI engineering You're good, then. FTE is way worse than that.
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Means something if those doing the hiring think it means something.
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> It feels like perpetual money laundering of shareholder value into contractors (and employees, honestly, too). I've come to view the economics of tech this way too (although much more so true of contractors than employees). Worker
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by thr0w 2y ago
I don't know about this analysis and its conclusions. I'll just use this as a jumping point to selfishly spout my own human observations. For context, I'm someone who uses HN to search for topics I'm interested in, rathe
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by thr0w 2y ago
And you would've needed 4 engineers to build your in-house payment and fulfillment systems, except now you just pay Stripe and Shopify. Oh, and 1 of those engineers is a "React engineer", who operates purely at the level of t
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by thr0w 2y ago
I have a feeling the party's over for good for software engineers. The industry has had a lot of time to build up abstractions and deliver them via frameworks and SaaS products. Now the market is mature - everyone and their mom is glue
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My personal favorite article/thread title was "Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era". Remember that? Good times.
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> better location but lower CoL How does that work?
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> 80-90% of the products all cloud providers offer are same toys Yeah, but there are typical quirks, edge cases, gotchas, details where the devil hangs out. If you want, this is the surface area where you can specialize.
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> Everything is tied to a VPC bzt
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I'm imagining hordes of 20-something engineers living in the Mission with a 15 minute flat bicycle commute to the X office now having to grapple with getting to San Jose. Probably pretty rough news for a decent amount of people.
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by thr0w 2y ago
Yeah my immediate assumption was that it's a move to push to the Glue/Athena paradigm. S3 Select was so great in a pinch though.
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RIP S3 Select, you granted me wizard status in the eyes of many bumbling engineering teams.
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by thr0w 2y ago
You're spot on, but it's worse the closer you are to "scene" Valley/startup flavor companies, and much better in boring old profitable businesses. Unfortunately the former are more fun to work for (before they drive
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by thr0w 2y ago
Having guidelines that start with "Please" in itself reeks of Redditism, not to mention random users acting as guideline enforcers.
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CodeDeploy is kinda good for blue/green deployments to EC2. A little painful to set up, but works flawlessly once you get it going.
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by thr0w 2y ago
> Sure, Apple’s there selling popular laptops, but you could buy a different laptop or a different phone. > But the liberation didn’t last long. If you deploy software, you probably pay rent to AWS. There's no Azure? GCP? Hetzner
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by thr0w 2y ago
> ESM is supported in every LTS version of Node now. We can kill CJS, we have the power. I'd rather kill ESM. And it's not fully supported in Node. It doesn't work in the REPL.
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Interesting to compare this article and these comments to Fucked Company musings from the dot com era.
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> have many pans in the fire at any given time Yeah, this is key. The emotional equivalent of fuck-you money.
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> Setting it up was a hassle and so was hosting it. How is it possible that there are people active in this industry who think setting up Express is a hassle?
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by thr0w 2y ago
> but that usually requires having money or capital upfront. I have a mortgage. My lender wanted a year's worth of utility bill payments in lieu of me not having a credit score.
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> You can’t rent a car without a credit card. > Most hotels require one too. These are always the first things people say when I tell them I don't have a credit card. Far as I can tell they're both completely false, at least
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> couldn’t handle a reality where they couldn’t name all their systems with cute Dr Who hostnames Worked with so many of these guys. They really are the worst.
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You don't need any credit cards. I've never had a credit card, and it's caused me 0 friction in life.

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