throwaway8456

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   by throwaway8456 2y ago

   If you are going to quote Jonathan Haidt, I suggest you take a look at his latest book, the Anxious Generation published in 2024. My reading is that reducing face time is definitely NOT a positive factor for happiness.
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   by throwaway8456 3y ago

   Separating things orthogonally into different functions/silos sounds like how stable and large companies are run. Sounds like a recipe for disaster for a startup.
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   by throwaway8456 3y ago

   I started, boostrapped and sold a SaaS business. By most standards, this was a resounding success. I won't have to work again ever if I don't want to. This being my first company, I was obsessed with it. Towards the end, I burnt m
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   by throwaway8456 5y ago

   It depends on a lot of factors, my unscientific rule of thumb is that if the data doesn't fit in the RAM of the server, then that's when you may start worrying about how the data will be fetched from the disk when you query it (if
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   by throwaway8456 5y ago

   For all of its greatness and (mostly well deserved) praises, the lack of a reasonable cluster index capability (as in data order at storage layer) is Postgres' biggest limit IMHO. Unfortunately, The CLUSTER command not only "block